Stephen's Secure Blog #255
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 #255 "Chinese President and Zander"
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Music practice has been going well. Srinoy is satisfied with the
orchestra's ability with the Grieg. I'm not, but I don't expect they
can improve much more. We will see about that at the final rehearsal.
I sent an image to the President of China and said, "Greetings. Just
checking if another group meeting is desired, and if so, when." He said
"Greetings. Yes it is desired. Would tomorrow be available?" I said
"All my days and times are in use, and much of that with clothes on."
He laughed. I said "But this has priority. And I'm curious what foolish
thing they will try to do next, to kill me." He said with interest,
"Can they possibly succeed in that?" I said "I can walk on the moon,
naked, and not be harmed. I actually did that. I can swim in the sun. I
can stand next to an exploding thermonuclear bomb, and decline to
notice it. I eat nothing I do not create myself, even though it might
not look like it. Nothing can touch any part of me, if I do not will
it. If I were ever injured, I could heal myself almost instantly, even
to the extent of creating a completely new body. So, they can't kill
me. My body will die when I chose to leave it, and not before." He said
"An unusually complete answer." I said "I try. Do you think THEY will
keep trying?" He said "I hope not. As you said, that would be dangerous
to all around you, which would include me at that time." I grinned and
said, "Self preservation is a strong motive for the wise." He bowed,
hiding his smile. We settled on a time, and I did the farewell things,
and dropped a memory card on his desk.
I sent my image to the President's office at the agreed on time. I
said "Greetings. Have you considered that I would want to watch what
you would do to yourselves and the room, before I visit?" The President
said, "I thought that would be obvious. Do you think I should have
mentioned it to my associates?" I said "Would they have listened?" He
said, "Probably not, but we could ask them." I said to the others,
"Have you considered the lesson of the bullet? I see I only confused
you. Those lasers. Have you considered WHERE they would go when they
bounce off my shield? Are you really that eager to kill yourselves?"
One of them spoke into a mic, and ordered them not to fire. I grinned
and said, "Do you think they will obey you when I appear and make a
sudden movement?" He said some more things in the mic. I said "My
ethics does not require that I prevent stupid people from killing
themselves when they are trying to commit murder. I gave you the gift
of life today. Make good use of it while you can." I ported in.
Standing, I said "Your chairs look much less comfortable than the one I
brought here the first time. I'll sit my own way." I floated up in the
air, and assumed the lotus position.
I said "So, what would you like to talk about?" One asked, "Are you
really here?" I said "Yes. I did something like this in the first
Monastery I visited in Tibet. I had a Lama pull the chair out from
under me, and I ignored it, and continued to sit in the air. They were
a little surprised. One understood the lesson in it." He said "What was
the lesson?" I said "He said, correctly, when his superiors were unable
to, 'What you think you need, and what you think others need, isn't
always a true need'. I am The Master Teacher. I teach with almost
everything I do. Those in Tibet understand my lessons much better than
you do." I waited, and one said, "You are not angry that we try to kill
you?" I said "Should one be angry that the wolf kills to eat? Should
one be angry that the baby cries when it needs something? I am not
angry that you act as your natures demand. IF you do not actually harm
anybody. Should I tell you what happened to one who did?" The President
said, "I think we need to know that. Please."
I said "I was asked to investigate a crime. A family had been
murdered in their beds. The murderer was found. He killed himself as
soon as he could. The others around him were relieved not to hear his
constant agonized screaming anymore." He said, "What did you do?" 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
did, every hour, every day, for as long as he lived. The first time was
on live television to the entire community. Here is that as it
happened." I projected it. I said to the shocked silence, "There have
been no murders there since then. For your information, what was done
to him would equally apply to those who order such crimes to be
committed. I learned something from that. The next time, I will insert
a command that would prevent the criminal from killing himself. There
are always consequences. Who I am will not allow that natural process
to be avoided. If I am the agent of them, so be it. Everything must
balance."
I said "Do you think what you did and are doing in Tibet would have
no consequences? The natural order of things will not permit that. I
will not permit that. But, I am not cruel. I am trying to right your
wrongs as gently as possible, but you seem to be doing all you can to
make it the worst way possible for you. Is that because of some kind of
mental illness you have? I'll try to explain this as simply as
possible. You and your country have two options. Cooperate with me, and
you 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 its very reluctant and shivering weaponless
military. 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. I care
about you. I would not like to see bad things happen to you, but I must
support Tibet in this, for the benefit of the entire world. And
something else even greater. Would you like to know what that is?"
Silence.
Then the President said, "Yes, please tell us." I said "Of the three
star empires I know about, totaling over 300 planets we are compatible
with, not one has anything like Tibet, and the knowledge they have been
holding for the world, which helped me to become who I am, the most
powerful being in the known galaxy. I have schools out there, with
hundreds of students who are becoming like me. They love me and each
other in a way, and with an intensity, you cannot imagine. If you ever
did harm me, or any of my students, or anybody at all because of me, I
don't know what they would do to you before I could stop them. There is
another side to this. I am the source for their new knowledge and
abilities. I am from Earth. WE of Earth, are the most respected and
loved people in the entire galaxy! That is because they only know me
and my students. I do not dare let them know YOU. Disgust and horror
are not the feelings of friendship. Earth is considered to be so
backward and disgusting, those of other actually civilized planets are
not allowed to visit us. So, only the criminals of the few rogue worlds
want anything to do with us, and that is definitely NOT in our
interest. I and my people are the only thing this world has between
life and liberty, and domination and death from space from people who
have given that to other worlds."
I said "These people you know about. You have some of their ships and
bodies. So do other countries. They used us as experimental animals, so
they could make us into hosts for their own spirits and memories. They
did that to many other worlds, too, until I stopped them and blockaded
their world. They will never leave it again. Nor are they able to
reproduce. These people, centaurs, had conquered two other star
systems, before they sent gigantic ships to do that to us. Yes I know,
their boots do look kind of silly to us, but they were murderous
egomaniacs who KNEW they were the best in the universe, and were
destined to rule all. In short, four legged versions of YOU. We stopped
their ships and sent them back, with peace and love comments written
all over the inside and outside of their ships. They were VERY
confused, and to this day, they don't know how that happened, or who
did it."
I said "These people sent a ship to explore our world in the open,
against their own orders. They would have caused total panic and mass
destruction with their uncaring attitude and arrogant behavior. At
their empire's President's request, I cleaned up their military, and
they know much better now. I should mention, they are very prejudiced
against other peoples. We are working to correct that. These people who
look a lot like us, are really cousins, I could tell you why, at a
different time. But you will NOT want to meet them. For one, they are
the most advanced technologically, of all we know about, and the most
murderous and prejudiced. They love to kill aliens, and keep slaves of
some, and WE are aliens to them. They don't know about us. Yet. We are
working to prevent that, while training some of their children, who
will someday help their people improve themselves."
I said "This is Zander. He used to be the Galactic Council's
supervisor of their observation station on this world. He runs one of
my schools, the biggest one, on the most important world, where I am a
citizen. Would you like to meet him? He's actually a nice person, who
laughs like a hissing steam engine. Well?" After a big gulp, the
President said, "Here?" I said "Yes. You wouldn't be comfortable on his
planet. Hot and dry." He said "There would be no danger?" I said "None.
Those teeth are mostly for er, sexual attraction. He thinks they're
beautiful. I don't tell him what I actually think about that. Well?" He
said "His presence would be some kind of proof of what you say. Does he
know our language?" I said "It was his job to know most of the
languages on Earth. And I can always give one to him in a second." He
said "Please." Zander ported in, and bowed, and said, "Greetings" in
Chinese. I said to him, "They want to know if you are dangerous." He
said "I am, very much so. I'm a teacher and historian, the two most
dangerous occupations in the universe, to others who don't want to
learn from the past, and prepare for the future." I said "I like that!
Can I use it, giving you credit?" He said "Teaching the teacher,
absolutely!" I said "Psst, how do you think I got this way?" He
laughed, his usual hissing way. I said to the room, "Any questions for
Zander?"
One said "Do you know what Stephen has been doing here on Earth?" He
said "Just now, yes. He gave me his memories of all of that as soon as
I came. It was very difficult for me to politely control my amusement
at some of what happened. He would ignore an official properly, was
VERY funny. So was 'would choke any decent bird'." I said "Not you,
too! Don't make me regret inviting you here." He said to all, with a
big grin, "We students consider it a duty and a privilege to embarrass
him as much and as often as we can." I said in mock despair, "And,
unfortunately, they are very good at it." The President said, "You have
his actual memories?" He said "Yes. Fastest way to share knowledge. It
does take a lot of training to accept the amount of information he gave
me all at once. Even a year ago, I would have been harmed by that."
One said "Has he told you what to say?" We both grinned. He said "He
didn't and doesn't do that. He trusts our knowledge and intelligence,
which is much above average for all of us, to know what is best to say
and do. He is our Master Teacher, but not our leader. We all lead
ourselves in doing the right thing, truthfully and with justice. I will
offer an opinion, if you don't object. You want to kill the best of
you. That is very unwise, in any way to look at it." One said "Is it
true what he said about the Van?" He said "Stephen is incapable of
lying. It is not physically compatible with our training. We had an
office of the Van on our world. When he removed the people, and gave us
the language, we discovered some horrible things in the records we
found. We did not know they were experimenting on people, and on MY
people, too. Now they are all gone. We don't have to even think about
them now." I said "We left their stations in place. I could take them
to one, but they wouldn't believe it was real, and where it was. You
can't open a window on the moon, and expect to feel the wind, and so
prove it is real. You die knowing it is, but you are not able to report
that fact."
Zander said "Does anybody put windows that open, in things were there
is no air outside of them?" I said "Not that I know of, but I could do
that now if you want to try to prove me wrong." He grinned and said, "I
should have known better." I grinned and said, "Maybe. It's not totally
a bad idea for my friends to work to keep me sharp. Good for all of us,
actually." I showed them pictures of the Van base on the moon. Some
recognized the shuttles in the hanger. I said "We keep them as a kind
of museum exhibit. No use to us." One said "Can you operate them?" I
said "They are in working order, but I'm too big to fit in the pilot's
area. And you need the code to give it to recognize you, and the right
way to send it to it, or you can't even get the door open. And if you
do it wrong, they are set to self destruct. Happened once over a
hundred years ago in Siberia."
One shouted "Tanguska!" I said "Yes. Strange explosion. Zander, did
you know of it?" He said "Yes, and you are correct. That was the cause.
You would be best served to remove all of those which are still on
Earth." I said "I agree, but I can't. I'm not going to expose myself
and tell them all that, and doing it without telling them would cause a
very dangerous panic." He said "I see. Well, you know best." I grinned
and said, "I know you. You disagree." He said "That is possible, but
this is your world, not mine." I said, while looking around, "Sometimes
I feel ashamed by that." He said "I understand, but your world produced
you, and your friends and students, who are the best of all the galaxy.
There must be something good here to do that." We hugged. I said "Maybe
it's the water. Oh, I know! We have the best sex here, of all the
planets. That has to be it, because we sure do it more often than
anybody else does." He said "Do you mean you and your students, or your
entire species? I said "Yes." He laughed.
I said to the room, "Any more questions for Zander?" One asked,
"Would you give us advanced technology?" He said "I would not. Your
world is Restricted. That is forbidden. It would destroy you. I should
not even be here with you, but it is permissible to reveal ourselves to
heads of governments when there is a serious reason to." One said "How
does Stephen's technology rate, compared to the rest of the Galaxy?" He
said "Far in advance, and using an entirely different science. He
couldn't share that with you if he wanted to, and that hurts him, being
a teacher. You have to have special talents and high intelligence to
understand and use even a little of it. I started late in the learning
of it, and my talents are not as strong as most of his students. Almost
all of my students will progress beyond me. That is the absolute best
that any teacher can hope for." One said, "Do you love him?" He said
"Yes. All his students do." That one continued with, "So you would lie
for him?" He said "If I could, I wouldn't, because he wouldn't want me
to. He opposes ALL lies. But I can't lie. Our minds have to be clear of
the defects that lying causes, or what we would do with our abilities
would not be controllable, and we could die, or worse, harm others." I
said to Zander, "For them, it's in inverse rule in psychology. People
who lie the most, are the least able to believe the truth in others." I
said to them, "Lies are the destroyers of sanity. Say enough of them,
and you come to believe your own false reality you have created for
their support, more than what is actual." Zander said, "Very well
expressed. May I use it?" I said "Absolutely!"
Zander said to me, "Splidnt has discovered a difficulty for which he
is asking my assistance." I said "He IS a difficulty. Did he port to my
pool in his sleep again?" He laughed, and said, "No. He has learned
from that. May I be excused?" We bowed to each other, and he bowed to
the group, who did not return it, and he ported away. One asked me,
"Did he do that himself?" I said "Yes. We did not expect he would be
able to achieve the level where he could learn to do that, because he
started so late in life with his training. It was a great day when he
passed the test. We both cried with happiness. Why did you not return
his bow? Can you not even extend that amount of politeness to my friend
and student, who wants only the best for you and all people? He did not
have to take the time he did, to come here to be with you on this, to
him, a very cold planet. Sometimes I question if any of you are worth
saving. Or even worth one second of my time. I could be having sex
right now! Or ice cream. Hmm, or both. Give me a reason why I should
not bend you all to my will right now, and make you do what I want,
while removing all weapons from this country. I have more than enough
justification for that, and much more. Give me a reason not to."
Silence.
I said "Not one word in your own defense?" Nothing. I said "Then I
begin!" I started to glow. The President said "Wait! Please wait?" I
said "Just a minute." I put my finger to the floor and discharged a
spark. I said "Half a second more, and I couldn't have stopped it. So,
what is it I should wait for?" He hesitated. I laughed, and said, "You
don't know!" He had to smile a little, and said, "But it did work." I
said "For a minute only. I'm waiting." He said "Will you give us a few
days to think over what we have experienced today?" I said "To give you
more time to try to create more things to oppose me with, foolishly
bringing your own destruction ever closer? Why should I? Do you think I
don't know what you would do, before you think it? Do you think I don't
plan for that? I will give you a week, but I will take something away."
I said "Your war submarines are now packed into that big Square. I
had to move some people out of the way, and make stands for the subs so
they wouldn't tip over. Oh, and on top of them, are army tanks, as a
reminder of what happened before in that place. All weapons and nuclear
devices there are not operational. I did this! Not America. They don't
rule me, and they know that very well. No country rules me. They have a
recording of you people trying to kill me, and they will release that
if you make any more trouble for them about me. One week, same time and
place, hopefully with wiser people. I will give you a recording of this
meeting for you to study. Have a nice day." I bowed and ported away.
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