Stephen's Secure Blog #393
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 20 in this story, in Spring of year 10 of his special school.
Stephen's Secure Blog #393 "CNN About Allguard"
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Len's boss at CNN wanted to see me. I ported to his office. He said
"I want to apologize to you. I should have known you would handle
things safely. Poor Don, though." We grinned at each other. I said
"Accepted. As for poor Don, well, you heard that I wanted them there to
teach my students something?" He nodded. I said "I'll tell you what it
was, if you keep it to yourself until I tell Don on air." He said "You
keep using him because of his visible reactions?" I said "Absolutely!"
We laughed. I said "But seriously, that's useful to gage how the
average American will react to what I do and say." He said "I agree.
And to keeping quiet. You want to, and for the audience to, see his
reaction." I said "Right I'll play it for you." I did, and he said, "I
don't know how to thank you enough for that, and for ALL you do on
behalf of humanity. I just couldn't make myself believe that before." I
said "Understandable. WAY out of your usual experience." He said "And
as a gay man, I have to thank you for all you do in that area, too." I
said "In my last life, two of my foster brothers were gay, and they're
still alive. I had a lot of fun sharing a bedroom with them. Well, to
put it this way, I hardly ever needed to jack off." He laughed really
well. I said "Among my students and associates, including those from
offworld, we don't discriminate in sex play between genders,
orientation, and compatible species. Geniuses work from logic, not
irrational social customs. We all love each other too much, to restrict
sharing that in any way." He nodded, and said, "I suspected that."
He said "What you did with that Pastor was amazing. We had some
psychologists analyze that, and their report, well, I suspect you can
guess what they said." I said "No, I can't. Depends on how much of an
ego they had." He laughed, and said, "Right. You DO know. I think
they're actually afraid of you." I said "Good. Then maybe they might
get off their spread butts and do some actual learning. By the time
they become recognized experts, the rapidly evolving field has already
made them outdated." He said "I had gathered that. They hadn't even
read your books, which are required reading in progressive universities
now. I checked. You have plans for us. The way you are revealing
things, and I don't mean just with us, you're building up to something
big." I said "From regular human perspective, it's all big. But some
things need to be worked in gently, or there could be bad consequences.
Can I trust you not to reveal an example I would give you now?" He said
"I think so." I said "I'll risk it." I told him about the vampire
issue. He said "I see. I have to agree with holding it back. The big
things are about aliens?" I said "Yes. Unfortunately, it's very bad,
but it will NOT happen any more. But could they believe that, if I just
dumped it all on them at once?" He said "I see what you mean, Master
Psychologist. Our whole population is your patient." I said "Lucky for
them I don't bill them all by the hour." He laughed.
I said "But I will tell you something more. I'm preparing the world
for the information I would give them, in more than one way. Right. CNN
isn't the only way I'm doing it. Might be the most fun, though." He
laughed. He said "I suspect you're working with world governments." I
said with a big grin, "And for how long?" He thought a while, and said,
"In your last life you took over Project Bluebook. You had to have
government support." I said "Actually, the other way around. Still is,
too." He grinned, and said, "Good! But speaking about government, I
thought maybe one or two politicians might, but none of them have asked
for your approval." I said "I'm not surprised. For example, do you have
any idea how many staunch conservatives who want to oppress gays, are
gay?" He said "A lot. Some have been outed, but just deny and then
ignore it. We can't push it, because we don't want our own people
outed, even though it's an open secret." I said "I understand. In my
last life, I convinced Hoover to do what I wanted, by bringing Chad
with me. Yes, my current great grandfather and manager. He was my best
friend then, and VERY cute and affectionate. He actually liked him, but
they never really did anything." He said "The director of the FBI?
Wow!" I said "I think he almost said that a few times, after kissing
Chad." He laughed.
I said "Ah, government. From my point of view, they exist to assist
me, and otherwise stay out of my way. They know that, too." He laughed
again. He said, "Is that why China released that they had a UFO first?"
I said "Partly. The president wanted the prestige of being first, and
because he thought that was what I wanted. I didn't ask any government
to do that. He's learned the hard way that it's usually best to do what
I want, because it's for the good of all." He said "I don't doubt that
in the least! Subs in the square. Wow!" I said "Now that we are
friends, I've been helping them with their internal relations and
reforms. That was another reason why they let Tibet go free. All are
benefiting, which they wouldn't have before."
He said "Big surprise, what happened with the Nobel." I said "I don't
really care, except they are demeaning the other people by that. Gave
me a good joke, though. At my last gallery event, well, we had usually
been ringing a bell to get their attention. I changed it to chimes, and
then said, 'I see you've noticed our no bell surprise.' Got some loud
reactions." He laughed. He said "That's one of the reasons you are such
an enigma to people. People with your power and intelligence, and with
the deadly serious work you do, don't draw an association with humor."
I said "True, but they are wrong. Dr. Einstein was a very funny man,
and starred in four Hollywood movies, creating the role of the
absentminded professor. Talented violinist, too." He said "I didn't
know he did movies!" I said "That's because the negatives were
destroyed, and most copies were found and burned. The government did
it, because they didn't want him to lose prestige during the war." He
said "Wow! That's news!"
I said "If you want, I can recreate the movies, and write and send
you an article on the situation. I liked him, and not just because I
owe my life to him." He said "Please do it. But why do you owe your
life to him?" I said "I was four, and my father took me to meet him.
said "Oh my God!" I said "You aren't the first who's had that reaction,
by far. Anyway, we discussed it, and he agreed with me. By the way,
that was proved in the first H-bomb test in the Pacific. It was twice
as powerful as they had calculated it would be. People almost died. He
advised me to hide my intelligence, or I might not survive for long. I
did, and he was right, but not as much as he knew. The Van would have
killed me if they had found out I had an IQ of about 600, and was
highly psychic." He nodded.
I said "He was looking for the holy grail of physics, the theory that
explained everything. He didn't find it, because he needed to add
dimensional physics to that pile. Not even string theory is good
enough." He said "So, you've solved it?" I said "In a way, but it
doesn't help. Not even my best student can understand the math. Needs
an IQ of 300, just to understand it. More, to do work in it. Doesn't
stop her from using the science to port, though." He said "Rose?" I
said "You didn't hear me say that you are correct, did you?" He
laughed. I said "She did that, too." He said "You said she monitors
you." I said "For years. We are never really apart." He said "I
wouldn't have expected somebody of your power and situation to be
monogamous." I said "For all of us, sexplay is almost a constant part
of who we are. But it's just mutual masturbation. Rose was my first
going all the way, and I told her it would happen when SHE said, and
that's what happened." He said "Will you have more children?" I said "I
don't know, and yes. Rose and I, well, we don't plan to stop trying.
But I've been contributing to a sperm bank. Some of my unusual
abilities might be genetically dominant. I think more of me could be
useful for the world."
He said "I have to agree, but only if they go to your school." I said
"We have a firm lock on all the possible genius psychics. Any of them
who go out of line, get zapped. No more psionics. We will even kill if
we have to, so the public will never have any reason to fear us." He
said "Can you actually kill?" I said "Me, no. Some of my students? In
the heat of battle, probably, but they will die then, too, from the
backlash. We know and accept that. Well, we know reincarnation is
real." He said "Do you know who does, and who doesn't?" I said "Not
before the fact. When I get to the other side, I probably will, because
it is suspected I'll be one of the managers of that process." He said
"Er, wow?" I said "Right."
I said "Am I being stupidly foolish in telling all this to an
executive of a news organization?" He said "In principle, yes. In
specific, no. I think you knew that." I said "Well, after I massaged
your brain with our first meeting." He laughed. He said "We want more
of you." I said "Hawk says that everybody says that, but he means
sexually, to make people laugh. I don't think I should do much more
than I'm doing now. I need to space this out slowly, so the final big
stuff comes out just before I er, sign off, so they can't come after me
with a ton of unanswerable questions. Can I give you something to
anticipate?" He said "Absolutely!" I said "I knew you would say that."
He laughed. I said "I've got some patents in the works. When they go
through, it will be er, noticed that taken together, they will
revolutionize private transportation, and a lot of other things." He
said "Alien technology?" I said "None of it. In fact, most I invented
in my last life, but never made public. For instance, I invented the
laser before anybody else did, and could shoot them from the energy
centers in my palms. Helped me to defeat a Dark Adept then, literally.
He didn't have a leg to stand on. Er, literally. Alright, you can say
it." He said "Wow!" I nodded, and he laughed.
I said "I've been missing my turns with the diapers. I should be
getting home Please tell Len about our conversation, so he will know he
can trust and count on you more, regarding me." He said "I will, but
can you come to us next week to explain what we saw on your trip? It
went by so fast!" I said "Oh, alright. Not often, though. And no, I'm
not going to give you star locations." He nodded, and said, "Can we go
there again?" I said "Not much use for that. Nothing more available or
I want to show." He accepted that. We said our farewells.
The next week, I ported early to the studio. Len said "I heard about
your talk." I said "And?" He said "You really impressed him." I said
"Well, that could be taken in more than one way. I've impressed people
so much, they fled in terror, and others wanted to jump into the sack
with me, and all things in between." He said with a grin, "It wasn't on
the terror side of things." I said "Well, that's nice." He chuckled.
Don said on air, "We are back with Stephen, or he is back with us, to
discuss the trip we took to the other planet last week. Stephen, you
said you used us to teach your students there something. I have to ask,
what was that?" I said "At the end of the show, ask again, and I'll
tell you. There is a good reason for that." He looked very reluctant.
Then he said, "I noticed the city layout didn't have provisions for
cars." I said "Correct. Those who wear the city directory and com,
which looks like a wristwatch, can ask the central computer to teleport
them to anywhere in the city. But that's just a limited experiment, and
it requires psionic ability to fully interface with it. The city is
built for people who can port on their own, and port their children if
they need to. But the whole thing was intended as just an experiment
and art project." He said "Could you build such a city on Earth?" I
said "Sure, and I have, or something like it. It's all over Tibet." He
said "Oh. I can't believe I almost forgot about that."
I said "Nobody is perfect. When I meet the person with that name,
I'll ask him how he got that way, and get back to you on that." He
chuckled. He said "Can you give us more samples of the life from that
world?" I said "I can, but I think I shouldn't." He said "Why?" I said
"We aren't finished exploring the world we are living on. That should
have priority. And there isn't much to be learned with what I could
give you that wouldn't upset our own ecology if it escaped into the
wild. Do you want another kudzu?" He said "I see what you mean." I said
"It's an important rule in space travel. Don't transport living things
without very strict controls." He said "Good to know. Thanks. What are
your buildings made of?" I said "My buildings there are made of
whatever buildings are usually made of. My house there is new, and
because of what I did in Tibet, I favor jade now, so it's made mostly
of that. But if you like, I can give you a recording of the museum I
made in Beijing, in regular construction, so they wouldn't be motivated
to tear it down to learn secrets that can't be discovered." He said
"Please." I gave him the memory card. He passed it to another, who went
to give it to Len in the control booth.
I said "You still don't understand about the art project concept. I
could have built that city entirely of forcefields, using no matter at
all. I could even make it look like any kind of matter, and it would be
impervious to all of nature. But that wasn't the project. I like real
things for my art. A purist, I suppose." He said "Wow!" I said "I make
those, too." He chuckled." He said "Your students we met. Do they go to
school on Earth?" I said "My other species students go to school on the
planet which hosts the Galactic Council. Their laws say they can't live
in the open on a Restricted World. Actually, they are some of the first
students there, and now teach in the school." He said "How many
students does that school have?" I said "I can't give you an exact
number, because the line between students and teachers is often
flexible, but it's around 400 now." He said "That's a lot!" I said
"Actually, considering only one in a billion can qualify, that's very
little, with how many planets they come from. Also, consider that all
who ever go there are considered students of the school for the rest of
their lives, because they are always learning and improving, and
sharing that. The Head Master of that school is still my student, the
first offworlder to be so." He said "How did you meet him?" I said "I
KNEW you would ask that. In this half hour show, we won't have time to
go into that. And I would have to ask his permission if I can show it.
Actually, it might be more interesting if he told you himself. I
suppose I should build a studio in my house on Allguard." He grinned,
and said, "Yes, I think you should." I said "No big surprise there."
We went to commercial. I said "Not for today, which is just about the
trip, but I wonder why you haven't asked me about psychic things, such
as ghosts and such." He looked so stricken, I had to laugh. So did Len.
Back on air, he said, "You said you had meetings with the Adepts of
other planets. Do all planets with intelligent people have them?" I
said "Almost all the intelligent species we are compatible with, have
people with psionic abilities just like we of Earth. And just like
here, they don't advertise it, because it causes resentment and
jealousy. Without exception, they are, or were, at a level my own
students would call basic, or below. They didn't have geniuses and
super geniuses like we have and trained, so they didn't know psionics
as a science like we do. We are teaching those who are able to learn,
how to improve themselves."
He said "Are you afraid you will make them too powerful, and they
might turn on you?" I said "In the beginning, actually, and I'm not
proud of this, yes, we were concerned they would become too powerful,
and might misuse what we would teach them. But we soon discovered that
they couldn't advance without something we had, and that was our kind
of love. And with that, you can't be bad. The time when our first
offworld student passed the test to begin porting training, we cried
with happiness, where in the beginning, we would have been afraid and
horrified. Now we know we must have love, and that's not a bad thing at
ALL. It's proved all the time. When we find new Adept organizations,
and they discover they have to have love, they are the ones who are
horrified. A little amusing to us now. Well, except one species. They
are born with so much love, it's almost impossible." He said "You must
get along with them very well." I said "Absolutely! And hugging them
with their fur, is just out of this world. Well, literally, actually.
They volunteer as foster parents for the offworld school, if they don't
themselves qualify to attend. They look something like green rabbits.
Have to watch out for their furry prehensile tails, though. They like
to er, surprise you with them, in a playful way." He laughed very well,
and said, "I can just imagine!" I said "I'm not surprised."
He said "We are almost out of time. Could you tell us now what you
wanted to use us to teach your students?" I said "Yes. I'll project the
conversation we had after I ported back there." I did. Don was very
embarrassed, more so by my big toothy grin. He said "Part of your
preparing the way." I said "Yes, and you did well, not knowing, and
being in such a surprising situation in public. Thank you very much,
for all of Earth!" I looked at the camera, and said, "I made him
speechless again. Don't you love it? We're out of time. I'll see you
again in the future." Len said "Off air!" He rushed into the room, and
said, "Well done!" I said "I think he's still roasting." They laughed.
Len got a call, and then said, "Our boss liked it very much, too.
Embarrass Don all you want." Don said "Not really! He said that?" Len
said "He sure did!" I said "I don't need to be told to do that. I owe
him more of it, anyway." Len said, "That you do." I said "But some
other time. It's home for me." We hugged all around, and I ported home,
to see and hear Hawk still laughing.
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