Stephen's Secure Blog #253
These stories about Stephen began was when he was 10 years old, and
moving to a new part of the country to attend a special school for
gifted students, in the 1950's. This was from a time before computers
would fit on a desk, and when people communicated with friends in other
countries by actual letters sent through the postal service. He wrote
225 of them to a friend. He stopped writing to his penpal, but found he
still wanted to record his life, in case he lost his memory again, and
wrote 30 entries in his first logbook. Then he wrote to an artificial
intelligence called Geenee, in the master computer in his school for
gifted students, which he started attending in 2016. Now it's after
2018, and he's continuing to save his memories in a secure blog.
All characters are fictitious, even if some of them might have names
that belong to some actual people, or act like people we know.
The stories may not be posted in chronological order.
Stephen is 16 in this story, after the Winter holidays of year 7 of his
special school.
Stephen's Secure Blog #253 "State Department"
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I had a meeting in the Secretary of State's office. There were some
assistants there, including the one who approached me at the gallery
event. I nodded and smiled at her as soon as I walked in, and she
looked embarrassed, and couldn't quite look me in the eye. Some of the
other people did well in hiding their amusement. Introductions were
made, and we sat. Silence. Finally, the boss said, "We've had a
complaint from the Chinese." I nodded. He said "Er, they don't like
what you're doing, interfering in their country." I said "Did they tell
you that I was invited to meet with a bunch of their top people in the
President's office, where they tried to kill me?" That got all their
attention. He said "That does put a new slant on things." I said "And
more. They know I always record the meetings I've been having with the
President, because I give them copies of them. Here is a copy of that
meeting. You could tell them you have it, with the attempted murder in
it. If you want to. You could tell them I will give you more copies of
the meetings, which you might make public, if they complain to you
again, or blame the US for what I on my own am doing, which you don't
actually approve of."
He grinned his face almost in half, and said, "I love that! And here
we were all set to ask you to stop." I said "You can still do that, and
I can give that recording to them. Take some wind out of their flapping
sails." He laughed, and said, "Pete told us what he calls you when you
do that, a sneaky suspicious devious devil." I said "He talks too much.
But then, he learned that from me, or so he says." Some laughter. We
made that recording.
I said "I do have a little problem, though. I haven't committed a
serious crime in China so far, that can be proved. The worst I've done
is remove the radioactive waste storage and bomb making facilities in
Tibet. They might react irrationally to some of my future activities."
He said with interest, "Such as?" I said "Well, such as packing
Tiananmen Square full with their submarines." One said "Better than
tanks." I said "I could add some of them, too. On top of the subs?"
Some chuckles. I said "I should meet with you more often. Some good
ideas here." He said "You're not recording this?" I said "That's a
problem. Everything any of us is involved in is recorded, to our
memories, and we can copy those to other media. So I can't say this
isn't being recorded, but I can and will say we are sure not going to
let any of this go anywhere!" He said "Thanks."
One said, "What if they threaten to kill other people if you don't
stop?" I said "Anybody want to answer that?" One said "His ethics needs
justification to act against individuals, more than just political
arguments. While he might not actually want that threat to happen, he
would leap at the opportunity that presents, to take some real action
they would regret." I said "Correct. Well done." One said "What would
you do?" I said "I have many options, but I won't know in advance which
ones to use, and in which order, until I see under what circumstances
that situation happens. Most often, and most likely for that issue, I
would first compel the issuer of the threat to never lie again, and to
answer my questions. The ensuing answers would influence what would
happen next. If any of them give a direct order to have somebody
murdered, and that actually happened, they would suffer that death,
from the viewpoint of the victim, every hour of every day for the rest
of their lives, and unlike in the past, will be ordered not to commit
suicide." Stunned silence.
My previous acquaintance from the gallery, said, "Good!" Then she
covered her mouth in embarrassment. I said to her, "I think there is
some agreement with you here." Some nods. I said "To me, who has died
more than a thousand times, death isn't a bad thing. It's how you die,
which is important. Nobody should make that decision for another. And
to cause a painful death, is the worst thing. I wish I didn't have to
remember those. Very often, life is worse than death. There is no Hell,
but what we ourselves make." Silence. Then she said, "Is there Heaven?"
I said "The answer to that is complicated. The spirit, or soul, does
not end. When the body dies, the spirit, which was existing half in
this dimension, and half in another, nonphysical dimension, goes to
something like a holding area, a special part of that dimension. What
happens to the spirit after that, is influenced in part by the strong
feelings of it for what should happen. If you need to go to Hell, you
will go to a place where you will experience what you believed would
happen there. The same for Heaven. Sometimes your beliefs are
overruled, and you go where you didn't want to go, which most often is
to be reincarnated. We really do create our own Heaven and Hell. Some
spirits who have evolved beyond such things, some call enlightened,
become the managers of that system, under what some would call God. If
you use different words to describe this, you will see it doesn't
really conflict much with the what the major religions say about this.
My knowledge of this process is based on my own experiences,
communications from people who had passed away, and were in that
holding place, and from the managers, and my very careful exploration
of different parts of that dimension, for which I have developed some
math to describe. It's those managers who told me to free Tibet, before
I join them, which others around me at the time when I gave my love to
the world, also felt." Dead shocked silence.
I said "I bet you didn't expect all THAT!" The Secretary was the
first to recover, and said, "I don't think any of us did. I for one,
don't know if I should thank you or curse you for that answer." I said
"If there are any here who want me to remove the memory of my answer, I
will do it." Silence. I said "No takers, as I expected. Anything more
to discuss about my messing with the Chinese?" He said "I don't think
so." I said "As a parting comment, I'll tell you this. An Abbot in a
Tibetan Monastery said, after I had made a ruby bridge, 'It's beautiful
in itself, and in what it will do to the Chinese dogs!' I said 'Please!
Insults are unbecoming of you. Dogs don't deserve that'." Some
laughter. I stood and glowed, and said, "Please accept my love." I
wrapped them with all my love, and then ported away.
The President of China asked for a private conference. I sent my
projection there, and said, "We are secure. But I won't say if I'm
dressed or not." He laughed, and said "Is it night were, oh, I don't
know even which planet you are on." I just grinned. He laughed again.
He said "I just learned our people sent a complaint to your government
about you." I said "They told me. What did your people hope to
accomplish by that, more than playing right into my hands?" He said
when I told them about the attempted murder in your office, and gave
them a recording of that. If your government tries to make any more
trouble for the US, they might make that public." He looked really
funny. That's what a mix of admiration and fear can cause. I said "They
know more about me than you do, and know they can't make me do or not
do anything. But they did ask me to stop, acknowledging that they have
no legal power to enforce that for a private citizen, and I have a
recording of that. We discussed a lot of other things, too." He said
very cautiously, "What were those things?" I said "Oh, some of the
things I might do, to er, enhance my requests. Things involving some
military equipment. There was some amusement expressed." He said "You
won't tell me specifics?" I said "Some might not happen, so that might
be a little premature. But you might consider my creativity, and odd
sense of humor." He said with a slight smile, "I'd rather not."
I said "Anything else?" He said "There has been talk of trying other
ways to kill you. None of them are practical, with what we know about
you." I said "Even a thermonuclear bomb wouldn't harm me, but I would
not allow it to explode. Too dangerous to other people." He said "They
also discussed threatening hostages." I said "That issue was raised at
the meeting. I told them what I might do about that, and they were
horrified when I told them that I would have to prevent the people who
ordered that, from killing themselves, to avoid what would have
happened to them. I didn't do that the last time, and the criminal
killed himself as soon as he could. The others around him were relieved
not to hear his constant agonized screaming anymore." He was shocked,
and said, "I didn't think you would do that, with your ethics." I said
"It was fair for the criminal to feel what his victims felt while he
was stabbing them to death in their beds with a kitchen knife." He said
a lot of surprised noises. Then he said, "Does that apply to those who
order that?" I said "Absolutely." He said "You need to make that clear
in the next meeting." I said with a wolfish grin, "I planned to, and
with a sample."
He said "They have to understand the more they do against you, the
more you will do against them, multiplied many times over." I said
"Will they?" He said with some heat, "Not those idiots!" I said "They
have two options. Cooperate with me, and they can still claim a free
Tibet as part of China. Oppose me, and Tibet will not be part of a
ruined China, which will lose Outer Mongolia, and Hong Kong, if not
more parts, and will have no way to defend itself but with the naked
bodies of it's very reluctant and shivering weaponless military." He
said "I know. I am only one man in this. I don't have the power to make
a difference with them." I said "When I said before, that you were
trying to make the Tibetans into your image, and that was the worst
image possible, you were shocked. The leaders of China represent the
best of what and who the people of China think they should be. With
what you know about those who will not see what is ahead, do you think
I was that far from the truth?"
He said "I am corrected. We are a failure, and a real danger to the
world. What is happening now, would have happened some other time in
the future. We could not sustain our system for long in the digital
age. I see that now. Without you, how long would we have had?" I said
"If Tibet didn't rebel successfully on their own, the civilized world
would not exist in fifteen years. If they did rebel, the world would be
very different, without an inhabitable China, probably in ten years.
All that is why I was commanded to free Tibet. I will not be allowed to
fail. In a year or less, Tibet will be free. In ten years, it will be
the center for all learning for the whole world. As part of China,
think what that could do for you. You could point to Tibet with pride,
and say, 'WE helped them become great, and they are still a welcome
part of us, who are great with them.' Or you can be in ruins." He said
"Please tell them that. PLEASE!" I said "I can't tell them about the
real danger in Tibet, but I can and will tell them about the rest. Till
our next meeting?" He nodded. I gave him my love, and stopped the
projection. Then I updated my team.
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