Stephen's Secure Blog #433
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 23 in this story, in Winter of year 14 of his special school.
Stephen's Secure Blog #433 "CNN Library of Alexandria"
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The response to my Social Security conference was mostly positive.
Except that AARP was going back and forth on it, looking very confused.
I called them and said, "Stop making fools of yourselves. ALL your
CURRENT members won't have any reduction in benefits under any of our
plans. And all offer more to those who qualify. I suggest you try to
support something, rather than nitpick uselessly. If you feel I've
insulted you, good. At least you will have felt something of reality,
even though it wasn't what I was trying to move you to." They blasted
back, and in public, and received a big backlash from the media, and
even Congress. Then cooler heads took over, and apologized. Rose said
"I didn't expect all that." Chad said, "I did. Seniors are very
troubled, even deathly fearful, about any little change, even
ostensibly for the better. They know through experience that things can
always become worse through any change, even if it's not intentional.
Any change involves risk, and for seniors, that could be as serious as
life or death."
I said to Zander, "I want your strongest Senior Adepts of each
species. Not all at once, though. I want to see if I can hook them up
for love broadcasts with healing, without me in it, for their own
worlds. I asked my boss, and got approval. Yes, you can say it." He
said "Wow!" I said "First step is they join me in doing it on Earth, so
they can feel how it goes, and learn the process of energy augmentation
in practice. Then we find small test groups, such as in a single space
ship, for each of them to try it on their own. Your species first. Got
a candidate?" He said "Yes. The miner's daughter. She is more advanced
than I am, and is a full Senior Guardian." I said "Good. With her on
Earth this time, I want one each of Posintan and Tsuriss. They must be
informed about this, and the next steps, and agree to it, or we don't
do it. If this works, then we do it for all the major species of the GC
and the Confed, coordinating it with their own Guardians who know about
us." He said "I have to say wow again! A very ambitious plan, with
major benefits. Do you have a test group for Zichesshich in mind?" I
said "I do. The mining operation. Isolated, and will probably
cooperate." He said "Good. If you agree, I'll contact them about it." I
said "Fine. The next day after the next broadcast on Earth. Have the
candidates contact me before then." He said "I will, and hope this
succeeds." I said "One more thing. If it does, I don't want the Earth
to know about it. I don't want them to depend on it still happening
after I am gone, even if it does." He said "I understand and agree.
Thank you."
They ported to my house in Tibet, for the January 1st love broadcast.
I explained what we would be trying, and what might happen, and what
could be given to their worlds if it worked, if people agreed to do it.
There was a lot of emotion in the room. I said "I'm hoping that any
Senior Adept Guardian can do it, if they make the connection first
through somebody else doing it. Er, me, this time. Would you like to
see if we can make all that happen?" They really did. We all hugged and
kissed. I said "In a few minutes, we'll port to the Road to Sera. Those
who don't like the cold, STAY on that road. It will be warm, at least
for Earth people. In doing this, all of you will be disguised. News
crews watch us. No need to frighten them. Sorry, I know how
disappointing that is." They laughed. I had already asked Rose to do
the love broadcast to the space station crew, which I would NOT be
doing myself this time, a minute after my own broadcast was finished.
She was to try to have God's healing in it. It all went as planned, and
Rose WAS joined for the healing. Back at my house in Tibet, I told them
about Rose's success, and they were very happy, and more confident of
their own success, and were really looking forward to trying it
themselves.
First the astroid mining station. I asked, and the owner agreed,
after Zander had talked to him. His people were warned. His daughter
started the love broadcast, and God didn't join. Then she reached and
invited, and he did come and caused the healing. We were all very
happy. She told the other candidates what she did, and pushed her
memory of it to them. Then I arranged for after closing at the museums
on Posintan and Tsuriss. They had a lot of volunteers there and ready
at the appointed time. It worked. There were a lot of tears of
happiness. A lot of hugging, too., and for us, a partially violent pool
party, naturally. Exhausting!
While Zander is making arrangements to extend the tests to the other
worlds, I had the usual interview show on CNN. Don opened with,
"Another unusual broadcast." I said "More to come. While I'm not going
to discuss particulars, I'm still working toward finding somebody who
can replace me when that might be needed." He said "So we won't know
until you are gone?" I said "You will know then, one way or the other."
He said "After our last show, you told us you would have an
announcement. Still there?" I said "Yes it is. I finally did it.
Finished. What a scholar would want most from the past. The Museum and
Library complex of ancient Alexandra of Egypt, and ALL its contents,
including translated into many languages." Don obviously knew what it
was, and had some tears. He said "That's fantastic! What an
undertaking! It must have taken, even for you, years!"
I said "It did take a while. I recovered all the things that had
been gathered from all over the world, all the writings, the science,
the art, for almost 300 years before the first destruction. This is
where Science began, for our known history. And much was lost in one
day, burned down when Rome conquered Egypt in 48 BCE. What I have now
are clear digitized high resolution pictures of each page or portion of
scroll, detailed pictures of the architecture and how it was used, and
of the objects in the buildings. Then I translated everything. Some of
that required learning new languages, and learning about different
societies, to make sense of the languages. All that was lost, is lost
no longer, and when a host is found, it will be put on the internet."
He said "Wow! I just can't imagine the work involved in that recovery,
and its importance to the world!" I said "There were, depending on how
you identify and count them, a little over 500,000 documents. Now there
is proof that they had invented calculus long before Newton. There are
a lot of other surprises which I'm not going to tell you about, and
spoil all the fun for those who would want to start their research into
this very large archive. Would you like to see some images?" He said
"Absolutely!"
I projected against the usual wall, and narrated, "There wasn't just
one library. There were three major ones, and many minor ones, and
museums and zoos, too. All weren't destroyed at any one time, and some
existed for almost 600 years more. Here are the main buildings of one
of the libraries, considered to be the oldest university of Western
civilization, where geometry, as Western science knows it, was born,
all in a little fishing village that became a big city after Alexander
the Great made it the capital of his empire. Here, inside, are the
study areas. The stacks. Here are copy rooms. Yes, those are real
people. Well, at that time." Don said "You translated everything? That
means you know all that's in all those documents because you have total
recall." I said "Correct. But I've memorized other libraries as well,
and all the books that are used in the universities in Tibet. Actually,
all the books and scrolls in the entire country. Don't look at my head
like that. It will NOT explode." He had to laugh. Then he said, "Let's
go to break." Off air, I said, "Can still make jokes, though." He said
"Sure can. That is really some accomplishment. I don't know how much
our audience understands of it." I said "Enough that we've already had
lots of calls about it. Some are on the annoyed side, from people who
thought I would have told them first." He said "Such as National
Geographic?" I said "As if I haven't given them enough already."
Back on air, Don said, "Can we see more of what you found at
Alexandria?" I said "Sure. Here are some people copying works of Homer.
Sorry, not the cartoon character." He laughed, and said, "Right. No
donuts." I said, "Right. They never knew how deprived they were. They
didn't even have chocolate! And sprinkles! Here are some stonemasons,
adding to one of the buildings. Here are the docks where customs
inspectors are taking all the books and maps for the library to copy.
They were so fanatical about collecting books, and so good at copying
them, that they often kept the originals, and returned the copies, and
they ever noticed the switch. That was the rumor. I haven't bothered to
verify if the switch was ever discovered. Here is one of the
laboratories where they conducted scientific experiments. Here is one
of the zoos." Don said "I just had a thought." I said "Oh no!" He
laughed, and said, "The Pyramids. Do you have movies of them being
made?" I said "I'm still researching, studying, and organizing my time
investigations. I'll release the results for things like that when they
are ready. I'm doing other things, too, you know."
He said "I do know. I watched your Social Security conference. That
was well done. You have a lot of us here hoping you aren't interested
in our jobs. But I have to ask, anyway. Would you be available for
something like that again, with different topics?" I said "Probably
not. It would take a lot of work just to get people to show up and risk
what I might do to them. And then, what good would it do? I don't see
much so far, from what we did. If those in government and the rest of
the country want to know what my opinions are on topics, and what
SHOULD be done, they could look at my past CNN shows. I've said a lot
of things. A little too much, maybe. Oh. I'm being told that Chad, my
manager, is saying, not enough. He positively loves it when I say
something outrageous." He said "Do you have something like that for us
now?" I said "I say what I think I should say. To questions, usually."
He said "Then here's one. We've met some people from other worlds. Some
of them, while they don't look like us, look very similar to animals
that exist today on Earth, or existed in the past. Do you know why that
is?"
I said "I'm not sure I should answer that. Could be controversial.
You should eat before these shows, so you wouldn't have to look so
hungry." He had to laugh. He said "Please tell us!" I said "You know
about the Nagindra." He said "Yes. Some aliens kidnapped them for
slaves." I said "Before that, well, I'm not the only one who's ever
worked directly for my boss. Some other planets were seeded with Earth
animals and plants, before humans evolved here. You remember Zander?
Well, his DNA is very similar to some dinosaurs. Oh, and I'm not
guessing about the collecting and seeding. Here is a collection
happening." I projected it. I said "It's a robot. I haven't been able
to trace it back or forward, to see who was doing it, and where they
all went. That little dino, sure does look surprised, though. No, I
haven't told them. So, we are distant cousins, but thank goodness not
He said "How do you know they worked for, er, well, God?" I said "I
was told by the only being who could tell me, who knew I was going to
keep going after the answer until I found it. Those people are not in
this galaxy anymore. In others, now, probably." He said "Do you know
why they left?" I said "I'll tell you part of why they were ordered
out. Not needed. They did what they were supposed to." He said "When
did they leave?" I said "I don't know exactly, when they left, and how
long that took." He said "Did they leave some evidence of their er,
equipment behind?" I said "Probably. No sense in looking for it.
Wouldn't do us any good, being a billion years beyond us. I haven't
found anything on Earth, though, that I could recognize as being their
things. Tin cans of ancient aliens. Might be interesting. Anyway, they
stopped doing anything here when Man started to evolve." He said "Did
they watch us?" I said "They might have watched us off and on, but I
don't know. Would have been very boring. Like watching a tree growing.
You really don't want to keep your eyes on it the whole time." He said
"I see. Let's go to break."
Off air, he said, "There are things you aren't telling us." I said
"Absolutely. I could talk for a thousand years, and not tell you all I
could about any one subject. Might need some refreshments at times,
though." He said "You can be very frustrating. Oh, I know. Good." He
had noticed my grin. I said "Hawk is extra loud today." They both
laughed.
Back from break, Don said, "Who discovered America?" I said "Who
discovered America, was the first person who set foot on it, after it
was named America." He said, "That's not what I meant! Who were the
first humans to come to what is now North America?" I said "Better. The
first here, were a little early. They should have waited. The people
who became the Nagindra started coming over from Asia, about 40,000
years ago. They descended from the first modern humans who populated
Asia, who are NOT the Asians of today. They are from the second and
later waves from Africa. The second wave into Asia, interbred with some
the first wave, after killing most of them, and they then came into
North America, too. Then the third wave, who then killed off the
remaining people in America who were of the first wave, after the
aliens took and killed most of them. Then two more waves came into
America. That is the North. In the South, it happened in much the same
way, with different mixes, across both oceans, and some from the north
as well. I've given all this in detail to some universities and
museums, who are working on it for the public. I've been showing you
images, but they will have a lot more to show, after they study them. I
don't know how much of that they will make public in this country. A
lot of people then didn't care much about being clothed, and having
idle hands, if you know what I mean. I'll leave it to you to explain
about that, so I can sit back and watch you become VERY embarrassed."
He had to laugh.
Don said "You have said that you were Raphael, an artist contemporary
of Da Vinci and Michelangelo. Can you show us some things of that
life?" I said "Here's what I looked like when I was around 31. I know.
I looked younger. My active social life was quite a distraction from my
work, but I needed patrons, and working for the Church, while a great
honor, was very difficult, with Priests pestering me all the time, and
often not paying what they promised. Like every government, they wanted
more than they could afford." He said "They pestered you? What was that
about?" I said "They were the worst kind of kibitzers. They didn't like
this, they didn't like that, they didn't like what each other said
about this and that, and even almost before I even wet the brush!
Argh!" He laughed. I said "But the worst were the silent ones. It
wasn't the art they were interested in." He said "In you?" I said "Yes,
they were interested in me. VERY interested. I could actually talk
about something other than Church things. They were desperate to hear
of the outside world, but they were mostly too shy to be seen asking
for that kind of conversation."
I said "I bet you were thinking about sexual reasons." He said "I
have to admit I was." I said "That was there, too, but so common, it
was almost expected. I was flattered, and gentle about it, but tried to
discourage them." He said "You weren't interested?" I said "They were
not dressed to impress, and such desperation was something of a
turnoff. But the biggest turnoff was if it became common knowledge it
was happening. The Priest would be punished with hard labor, but
somebody like me, a commoner artist, would have his testicles crushed."
He said "Ouch!" I said "Well, when it happened, we heard a lot more
than that." He said "I can believe it. You talk about it like you were
gay." I said "I actually wasn't gay, but the line dividing gay and
straight to us here and now, was very blurred then. I did have some fun
with some male friends, but that was mostly social. I was hot for the
girls. Not that I ever had much time for that."
I said "Here's Leonardo. I never saw him smile. He was courteous, but
distant, keeping his feelings to himself, at least in public, except
once. Michelangelo taunted him one too many times, and got a bashed in
nose for it. Leo was incredibly strong, and lightening fast when he
wanted to be." He said "They didn't get along?" I said "They SERIOUSLY
didn't get along. Major competitors. Completely different
personalities." He said "Were they gay?" I said "Yes. Why the salacious
interest?" He said "I don't know, but there is public interest, judging
from the speculation about it over the years." I said "Yes, they were
gay. It wasn't a big deal then, if you weren't too open about it. There
was a rumor that Leo was arrested for something sexual when he was a
teen, but his father paid a lot to have it removed from the records."
He said "As you are now, did you go back and look?" I said "No, I
haven't looked. Not interested. I'm not a pervert. I don't actually
like to violate people's sexual privacy." He said in a rush, "I didn't
mean look at them in action, I mean look at the record before it was
removed." I said "Same thing to me. I haven't looked. How would YOU
feel if people of the future could and would do that kind of thing to
YOU?" He said "I'm sorry. I see what you mean. I didn't think of that,
but I should have known that YOU would have. Let's go to break."
Don said off air, "You've talked more about this before." I said
"Right. Boring now." He laughed. Then he was thoughtful, and said, "I
think I'm beginning see something. ALL this is actually boring to you.
You are doing so much else, of galaxy shattering importance that we
don't even know about, this must be almost not worth your notice." I
said "I'm not exactly like that, in how I organize my mind, but you are
not all that wrong. I do think you should make better use of this time,
though, than with sexual things, and pictures of past lives. But I
understand you have to keep the public interested." He nodded. Back on
air, he said, "Another politician sought your approval, a Democrat from
a mostly Republican State." I said "I noticed." He said "You approved
him, and he actually won the election. Do you think that was because of
your approval?" I said "I don't know if my approval helped him in any
way. If anything, it could be because his opponent didn't seek it. The
way I see it, people might be overrating my approval. All I really say
with it is the person is capable of doing the job to something
approaching my non partisan standard of acceptability, not if he
actually will, which nobody can predict with any degree of accuracy. I
don't say people should vote for him just for that. There are always
other things the voter might want to consider. On the other side of it,
for those who I disapprove, I implore people to not even consider
letting that disaster near any government office. For those who don't
ask for approval, they remain an unknown quantity, and there will
always be the question of why they didn't ask, what big flaws they
didn't want me to see, and other things of vital interest. Oh, I think
some people might be a little annoyed about what I just said." He
laughed, and said, "Probably."
Don said, "What do you think of our immigration policies?" I said "I
can't really give opinions on most of the immigration policies, because
most of them aren't enforced properly in either direction, and some are
in direct opposition to the major interests of this country." He said
"Can you give an example of one of the worst of those?" I said "H-1B.
Abolish it." He said "That's the specialty occupation worker visa." I
said "Yes. It allows companies to hire foreign workers for special
qualification positions, if they can't find them here in America. There
are two things wrong with that. Employers are firing qualified
Americans, to hire cheaper foreign professionals, and the law actually
supports that! Yes, it does, specifically! I can't say that whoever
ever motivate our people to become engineers, if we allow companies to
do that? Make them invest in training their own employees. Help
motivate students to work in those occupations. Stop literally INVITING
disaster! When they say they can't find qualified people, they are
either lazy or lying. Or they mean by qualified, they work cheaper.
It's a disgrace! Abolish H-1B. If you want case by case specifics, I'll
provide it. Some major companies won't be happy with that at all, and
nor will their bought front men in Congress. If they want to avoid all
that exposure, they know what to do, and FAST. Who wants to bet they
won't?" Don said "Wow!" I said "I think you should space your wows a
little further apart, for better effect." He had to laugh. He said
"We're out of time. Thank you, Stephen for being here, and for the
Library of Alexandria." I said, "And I wasn't a foreign worker,
either." He laughed. Len announced, "Off air and closed."
Len came into the studio, and said, "I wish we could light more fires
like that." I said "Nah, global warming." He grinned, and said, "When
do we get the info on this?" I said "I'll give it a month. If I haven't
seen or heard anything positive, I'll do it. Good thing Bill isn't in
his company any more. One of the worst offenders. Didn't happen on his
watch, either." He said "We'll wait. Our problem is we are running out
of important questions." I said "Not really. Just imagination. You
might consider asking around. Journalists aren't the only people who
might have some important questions. No, kick your own selves." They
laughed. We hugged, and I ported home.
Rose said "The love and healing broadcast tests are going well. You
were right. We don't need you to start them now. The students you did,
are starting the others. So we all have a new job for Senior Adepts." I
said "And with planetary Guardians setting it up, our students can keep
private." Hawk said "And we have extra duty for species which have
extra broadcasters. Those planets that don't have active Guardians." I
said "Somebody will have to set them up. I propose Hassan. One more if
needed; Grace." Rose said "I agree. The right personalities for this.
Nagindran alien Adepts have got wind of this, and want it for their
people, too." I said "If they want the Nagindra to improve as they
should for best results, they should let me manage it. If I have to do
more screwing, I'll just have to force myself." They laughed really
hard, and then we decided to practice for that.
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