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Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 17:47:59 -0400
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Stephen's Secure Blog #360
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 18 in this story, in Fall of year 9 of his special school.
Stephen's Secure Blog #360 "Education Additions"
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Bill Maher called, and said, "I don't believe it! You called religion
a fantasy!" I said "I sure did, a little. My gift to you." He said
"Wow!" I said "Right. And the texting and sexting comment was a gift
for Hawk, which made him hysterical, as usual." He laughed. I said "And
I fed the question on evolution to Don, and he had no idea what he was
getting into when he asked it." More loud laughter. He said "Do you
have more feeding questions?" I said "Yes. Is one race better than
another? Is there any real evidence that aliens from space ever visited
the Earth and helped people build things like the pyramids?" He said
"So what are the answers?" I said "Sorry, you'll have to find out when
everybody else does, and nobody is going to expect what I'll say. One
reason for that is, I haven't decided yet." He said "Ouch! Soon you
won't need to be on my show to stir things up, but to calm them down. I
can't believe you're becoming more outrageous than I am." I said "You
would, if you had heard me in private, with Hawk, Chad, and others.
Total honesty can be shocking." He laughed, and said, "Good!"
We didn't see as much backlash from my comments on CNN as some people
had expected. I had a lot of defenders among the educated, who said,
among other things, that what I said wasn't new, that respected
scholars had been saying it for years, even centuries. They applauded
my courage in expressing it. I said to Chad, "I'm sorry you didn't get
the controversy you wanted." He made himself look sad, which didn't
work, and made me laugh. I said "Don't worry. You'll have some. I'll
keep trying." We hugged, kissed, and laughed together.
We had been advertising in Tibet for college students. We had more
applicants than we could accept. Those we did accept, we divided by
ability, and kept those sections mostly apart. All the foreign to Tibet
students were in the high ability group. We already had the crystal
sets prepared, and the various curricula, and the computers with remote
headsets and phantom screens, and all the lab and support equipment.
It's going well, and they are all amazed by practically everything. The
music departments are practically in heaven with the instruments I made
for them, which are for sale at different prices. I told the music
department heads, that for a truly gifted student in need, I might make
something special for them. It made them very happy. A lot of gifted
musicians are held back by not being able to afford the instruments
they could do their best with.
Chad sometimes conducts master classes in music, in our universities
in Tibet. We are all happy for him, because he's very happy to be doing
it, which he never thought he would be able to, in the open. Sometimes
he invites me to join him, and I love it, which makes my family happy
for me, too. Sometimes I'm asked to get involved in something in math
and physics, and I do more than I should, but I like it. Our martial
arts classes are popular. Most of our school graduates teach in them,
at one time or another. We like to share. The archeology departments
are expanding. Not because they really need to, but because of
interest. They really like that I can find for them things to dig up,
and even give them site diagrams.
Some Monastery students are enrolling in our Universities, which we
are encouraging. They have become popular people among the other
students, due to their politeness and wisdom. So much so, we were asked
to establish courses in Tibetan Buddhism. Where there were enough
students, we did, but they are entirely voluntary, and are not a
required part of the curriculum, but do earn course credit. Some
Christian students and staff objected that it was unfair that they
couldn't have courses for their religion. We told them that we started
the academic classes on Buddhism because there was a lot of demand for
them, and we had teachers, for people who wanted to learn more about
Tibet, and there wasn't much demand from the students for courses on
Christianity, who were already Christians. We didn't want to waste
teachers and space on empty classrooms. We had to stress that education
is the goal for university courses, not conversion. Some still
complained. I asked them to a meeting. I explained it more clearly.
Some still objected. I said "Do you object that we don't offer courses
on Christianity, because you want people to convert?" They said no.
I said "Did you notice that red light that went on when you said
that? It's a lie detector. You want to convert people to a religion
that values the Ten Commandments very highly, by breaking one of those
very Commandments? Is it then, that you want to turn other people into
hypocrites like yourselves?" They objected strongly that they didn't
lie. I said "More lies. All my advanced students are able to detect
lies without using any devices, myself included, and we are not able to
lie, ourselves. All here who wear the brown uniforms can detect lies,
and so can many in Monk's robes. I made this device so you could see
that for yourself. Test it any way you want to, to see how accurate it
is. If anybody in its range says something they don't believe is true,
it will glow red. So, included in that, you should see that I don't
lie." Some tested it, and knew it worked. I said "Here is something you
should think about. How good and wise is your religion, if you have to
sin and lie to people to attract them?"
One said "It's not about the quality of the teacher, but the quality
of the message." I said "In general, in theory, that has some truth in
it. In practice, not so when it involves religion. Religion is about
sharing a truth as believed in that religion, different from other
religions, sometimes actually forcing it on people. And there is no way
to prove that belief. Using lies to promote it, invalidates its worth
by making the teacher, and therefore the belief, unbelievable. If who
you are, is in opposition to what you teach, you are a false teacher.
We educators here, can't allow that, and be true to our objectivity,
and to our students. I say this with finality; we will not allow
anything in our schools that are promoted with deliberate lies, or that
teaches deliberate lies, and asks other people to make them. If any of
you continue to object to this in public, you students will be
expelled, and staff will be required to leave, and this meeting, and
all subsequent actions regarding this issue will be made public, at my
discretion."
I said "If you want a Chapel on school grounds for your worship, I
will make one for you, which I told the school administrators before
they ever came here. If you want to conduct your own classes in it,
fine, but you may not post more than one regular sized paper notice on
an established and approved bulletin board at a time about it, and none
anywhere else, and you may not discriminate against any person who
chooses to not attend, who must not be subjected to any kind of
persuasion. You and/or your families signed a contract, that in it
specifically prohibits the evangelism and proselytizing of any
religion, on or off campus by staff or students. You violate that, you
go. If I hear that you have lied about anything regarding this subject
in the future, I will probably cause you to never be able to lie again
for the rest of your lives, which is how I and my students live. A
personal note from me. I suggest you look to your own religious values,
AND your ethics, before you would share them with another. You are
dismissed." They went. A few were angry, but most were thoughtful. I
made a file of that meeting, and gave it to the university
administrators.
After making an appointment, I ported to the office of the Abbot of
Shaolin Monastery. After polite things, he said, "Thank you very much
for introducing me to my friends at Sera! I'm learning a lot of
exciting new things!" I said "So I noticed." He laughed. I said "How
are the display posts working?" He said "They are very popular, and we
have learned a lot from what they show." I said "I have a new and
improved ability, which is to be kept mostly a secret. I can see and
record anything of the past I want to, and that includes real martial
arts fights. Oh, that expression! You could eat a tiger!" He laughed
loudly. I said "Shall we proceed to where the posts are, to add some
interesting things to them?" We went there in a hurry. There were
instructors who were playing some of the videos, and some students were
trying to emulate the moves. They all stopped and bowed to us. The
Abbot announced, "The Master Teacher has new images to give us. I mean,
old images." He saw me trying not to laugh, and laughed, himself. He
said "I mean images of the past that will be new to us. Language does
not know how to express what he does." I said "I agree. I often have
much more problems explaining what I do, than actually doing it. Oh,
and in trying to help people recover from their shock at seeing it."
There were a lot of smiles. More smiles, when the Abbot said, "We know
that very well, ourselves, by what happened at your first visit to us!"
I said "So, ready to begin?" He bowed to me. I ported some new posts
into place. I said "Each new post has one complete martial art style,
starting at the beginning of it, and that includes all the styles that
were ever seen at Shaolin, including all the training exercises, making
of weapons, and some real fights. This post has in it, the history of
Shaolin, including when it was destroyed. None of these movies are made
up. They are all real, from real life as it actually happened. This is
for you to know, and not for others. I can see and record anything of
the past I want to. When I discovered I could do that, I had to make
and give you this gift." I said to the Abbot, "They are proving me
correct. Shock!" We bowed to each other, and I gave them all my
blessing of love and farewell, and ported home.
Hawk said "Precious gift! One we can use, too." Rose said, "Right,
but you know they aren't going to keep your ability a secret." I said
"Right, but you know that's what I wanted. They will spread it slowly,
so it probably won't hit the mainstream until after I am gone." Chad
said "Those university people were on to something. You HAVE to be
related to Machiavelli." I said "Not a bit. But concurrent evolution?"
Rose said "But very intelligently directed." I said "I can't argue with
that." I got poked, and we wrestled, and we worked toward a fine bunch
of orgasms. Rose said, indicating her abdomen, "I can feel his response
to love!" I said "Yes." Chad said "What will his name be?" I said "He
will have two. One of the Navajo, and one for the rest of the world."
Rose said "I know you. What is the world name?"
I said "I know what will fit him. I'll tell you only if you never ask
why, and you are free to forbid it, which I won't oppose. So, do you
still want to know?" She said "With that buildup, I have to say yes." I
said "Solomon." They thought for a while. Chad said, "Sol is also the
name for the sun, the center of us." Rose said, "Wisdom. Not a bad
association. I have a confession to make. I've been trying to think of
names, and couldn't decide on one which meant what I liked. None of
them seemed right. Solomon comes close, but I don't know yet." Chad
said, "Very respected historical character in Islam, more than even in
the other religions. Could help get their support." Rose looked at me
in speculation. She couldn't quite hide her emotions which told me
something of what she was thinking, but the others couldn't sense it.
She signaled to me so only I would know, agreement. She said "His name
really hard.
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