Solomon's Private File #429
1950's. Stephen wrote about his life in letters to a penpal, and then
in a secure blog, in case he lost his memory again, in the master
computer in his school for gifted students, which he started attending
in 2016 in a new incarnation, until his death. Now his son Solomon is
attending the same school, and is writing in his own secure blog for
his future incarnations.
All characters are fictitious, even if some of them might have names
that belong to some actual people, or act like people we know.
Solomon is 35 in this story, in the Spring of 2061.
Solomon's Private File #429 "Majority Rule"
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people there, listening to an Imam rant. Some of those grinned at my
appearing there. Most rose and bowed to me, which I returned. We sat on
the rugs together. I said, "We regard debate very highly in my family.
Here and now, some things that are being said that should be debated,
are not allowed to be. The loudest voice is not always the voice of the
greatest truth. So, let's begin by clearly establishing the positions
of the speakers." I said to the Imam, "You oppose there being
Christians in this country. Why?" He said, "They are not of us!" I
said, "How do you come to have that opinion?" He was confused. I said,
"Alright, this way then. You say they are not of us. Do you mean not
Egyptians? Not Arabs? Not human beings? Not men? Not chicken pluckers?"
Some chuckles.
He said, "Not Muslim." I said, "I see. You want only Muslims here, is
that it?" He said, "Yes." I said, "Why only Muslims?" He said, "Because
that's the religion of this land." I said, "What makes that so?" He
took a while to figure out how to answer that, and said, "Because there
are more of us." I said, "Like in majority rules?" He said, "Exactly."
I said, "And if the Christians were in the majority, you would agree to
leave, so they could be the only people here?" He said, "No! That
wouldn't be right!" I said, "So you disagree with the enforcement of
majority rule." He said, "You're twisting my words!" I said, "No, I'm
not. I'm trying to help you to be honest, which you obviously have a
problem with."
I said, "You have not given us an honest reason why you want there to
be no Christians here. Do you actually have any, but personal
preference that people shouldn't care about?" He said, "They are
corrupting our people!" I said, "I have to agree that corrupting people
is very bad. I think we should stop that. But we need to know how
they're doing it. So, please tell us." He couldn't, and then he thought
of, "They're trying to convert people!" I said, "So you think that
trying to convert people to a religion is a bad thing?" He said in
triumph, "Yes, if it causes people to turn away from Islam!" I said, "I
can accept that. If it happens. Has it? Do you know of even one Muslim
who has converted to Christianity?" He had to say he didn't. I said,
"Attempts to convert are a good thing. What could make you think of
your own religion more, than somebody trying to convince you to leave
it?" That made even him, thoughtful.
I said, "How many people think of their own religion in deeper ways
they would have to, in defending it's worth, UNLESS in that situation?"
Some nods of awareness. I said with a grin, "Or in an honest debate?"
Smiles. I said, "There is no real debate without truth. The Christians
aren't trying to convert Muslims. Not even they would be that stupid to
even think about trying to do it in this land." Chuckles and nods. I
said, "Do you even know the real reason why you want them to not be
here?" He said, "It's a feeling." I said, "That's not completely
honest. You have a personal dislike of them because they're different
from you in ways you dislike. A prejudice. It's not wrong to have those
feelings. We didn't choose to have them. We all have some similar
feelings about a lot of things. That's the nature of people, but it's
not the BEST of our natures. And REALLY not the best of us to act on
them, because it's unfair. And it's VERY WRONG to try to increase that
feeling in other people, and much more so for our own selfish purposes.
That is a serious violation of honor." A lot of them nodded.
One said, "Muslims were here first!" I said, "Anybody want to explain
the calendar to him?" Chuckles. One said, "Christians were here
hundreds of years before the birth of Muhammad." I said, "The oldest
surviving version of Christianity is here, not in Rome. History would
be sad were it to be made to leave such an important land." One said,
"But didn't Christianity start in Rome?" I said, "It started in a lot
of places, and they were all different. When Emperor Constantine made
it the official religion of the Roman Empire, he and the Council had to
decide which version to use. The vote went to the Greek version from
what is now Turkey, which they then made to fit the Roman holidays and
politics. The Coptic version that's here, dates from much before that.
History of religion can be very interesting, because of all the
attempts to change that history to meet the demands of politics over
the ages. You know that in Islam, where, more than any other religions
today, you still kill each over those long ago political issues. You
know Muhammed would condemn that, yet many of you still do it. Is that
REALLY what it means to be Muslim? Muhammad said that other religions
should be respected. Do you really think you should then act against
people for their religion? Are you truly Muslims, or are you not?"
Almost all of them bowed in submission to God. Then one said,
"Solomon, I have a question I am afraid to ask." I said with a smile,
"But you're not afraid to say that. I will say it. In the Koran, it is
said that Muhammad is the last Prophet. Then how could I be one? I'll
tell you. I didn't think it's possible for any people to more
interested in any thing, ever." Chuckles. I said, "Muhammad didn't know
there were other worlds, with different people on them. Shouldn't they
have Prophets, too? And of them, shouldn't there be one over them all?
Stephen was the first Prophet of this entire galaxy, the leader of all
other Prophets in it. His people were lessor prophets of the galaxy,
and now, of some other galaxies, too, and I am teaching more of them in
REALLY strange places." Grins. I said, "It's true Muhammad was the last
Prophet FOR Earth. But that wasn't the end, because there is much more
than just Earth who should have them. So, a Prophet of and for the
galaxy, because Earth is part of that, is also a Prophet of Earth, even
though that's not in his official title. Have I explained this to the
satisfaction of your understanding?" They agreed that I had.
One said, "Would you put this on the television?" I said, "I do that
when it would help the world. Would that be so for this er, action?"
They said it would. One said, "Would you ask God to speak to us?" I
said, "Don't you mean you want Him to embarrass me?" Chuckles. I said,
"Before that, this thing. No matter what a religion says, those in it
pray to the One True God. There is only One God, even though some
people think of Him as being of many parts. To act against any person
or religion because of their religion, is to act against God, for all
religions are His. Even if they do strange things in them. Well, who
doesn't think it's strange that men turn around and around for a long
time in a whirling dance, until you can't watch them without becoming
dizzy yourself, and consider that to be praying?" Chuckles. I said,
"There are churches in America where the people there handle poisonous
snakes. Yes, real deadly snakes. They hold them, even shake them in
their religious services, and with no protection. Yes, some of those
people are bitten and die. They say it's their belief in God that keeps
them safe. No it isn't. It's not safe. That some people survive is due
to the nature of the snakes, the skill of the handler, and biology.
Does anybody think God would protect people who intentionally do very
stupid things?" Smiles and shaking heads.
I said in the air, "George, want to help this time?" He ported in. I
said, "I guess that means you do." Chuckles. One asked him, "What is
your religion?" George that, "That's going to be a problem. Are you
sure you want to know?" I said, "You just made them more sure." He
said, "Can I go now?" Chuckles. He said to them, "My religion, which is
what most of us Guardians belong to, if we don't have one from birth,
is the religion of God. We know Him directly in ways that others can't.
We can feel His approval when we do what he wants, and when we don't do
it well enough, we feel that, too. This religion has no rituals, no
unique books, because we value all religious books. We live our lives
as we know God wants us to, because we work for Him directly. We follow
the LIVING will of God, not the will that is in old books that was for
those times. We who have been introduced to God in a healing broadcast,
so we can then do them ourselves, then belong to God for the rest of
our lives. We can only act as God approves, and we feel His love for
us, continuously. He knows we love Him with all our beings. And we love
it when He embarrasses Sol." Awe gave way to chuckles.
I said to him, "I was being nice to you, in inviting you here for
this, and this is how you repay me?" He grinned, and said, "Yes!"
Chuckles. I said, "Hugs first. George?" He hugged and kissed me. I said
to him, "Daring them to do that?" He grinned, and said, "I knew you
would understand. If it embarrasses them, it's only fair, for asking
you to possibly be embarrassed. We all know that God values fairness."
I said, "Oh, you're sneaky!" He laughed, and so did some others. They
lined up, and we hugged. Some of them actually did kiss me. After they
all recovered, one said, "It wasn't as I expected. It wasn't sexual,
but an addition to the love in the hug. Strange, but not bad at all."
Some agreed with him. I said to George, "George! What did you do? Am I
going to have worn down lips because of this change?" He grinned, and
said, "You can heal them."
I said, "Now for contact." I started the local love broadcast, and
God came in and said the usual introduction about me. Then he said,
"George, you are correct. You do very valuable work for Me. All of you
who are graduates of your school and are sealed to Me in a healing
broadcast, are Mine, and work for Me. You are unable to lie, or act
unjustly. All religions are Mine. To disrespect any of them, is to
disrespect Me. One does not need a named religion to know Me and be
Mine. This does not mean that religions have no value. They do have
great value in leading all people to become good, so they can join Me."
One said, "Is that Paradise?" There was a change, and then was heard,
"I was Stephen, now with God. Yes, it is Paradise, but not as you are
able to imagine it. You don't come here without a lot of effort through
many lives. Nothing valuable comes easily, and this is the most
valuable thing that can ever be, and so it requires the most work. One
last thing. Hi George!" He left, and I stopped the broadcast.
George looked VERY odd. My big grin really didn't help that. The
others were in shocked awe, but were starting to grin, too. I repeated
what was said, and said, "Do you all agree that was what was said in
the contact?" They did. I said to George, "You thought it would be ME
who would be embarrassed." He said, "Did you know?" I said, "Of course
not. Anything I expect, He's likely to do the opposite." Even he had to
grin with the others. I said, "But I suspected you would be mentioned,
after that great speech about God and religion. I would do that if I
were God." He said, thoughtfully, "I see that. So would I. You know God
more than anybody. The rest of us are still learning." I said, "So am
I. It's not a bad thing. Except when He doesn't tell me enough about
the missions He sends me on." We felt a touch. George grinned, and
said, "That was Him. He thinks that's funny." I said, "I know!"
Chuckles. We bowed, and left.
I said to him, "Going to be a show about it. I slightly request that
you be with me." He said, "Slightly?" I said, "If you don't want to,
fine." He said, "I will." I said, "They're going to ask personal
things." He said, "How far?" I pushed it at him. He said, "Wow! Going
to be interesting!" Grins.
Wendy introduced us on the CNN show, and then we ran the action, with
some breaks. Back, she said, "There are a lot of talking points in that
action. We've long wondered about the Last Prophet paradox. Now it's
settled, and well. You said we all have prejudices. Could you explain
that?" I said, "By the nature of the mind and brain, we are more
comfortable with what is most familiar to us. That makes the
unfamiliar, the new, the different, threatening and dangerous to us.
That's a primitive survival instinct, and it's kept our species from
becoming extinct. It's common to all intelligent beings. Animals, too.
But it's an instinct, not a thinking thing. We are thinking beings, who
can choose to override our primitive instincts. We need to, to become
good people. To have those feelings is not our fault. To act unfairly
because of them IS our fault, and so it's a sin. We can learn to reduce
those feelings, which are not rational, with some effort, with rational
thought, and we should, for better emotional and mental health.
Prejudice is stupid in intelligent people, because it causes false
assumptions. We really shouldn't want to be like that." She said, "I
have to agree with that!" We went to break.
Back, she said to George, "We know very little about you. Is that
your real name?" He said, "Before we get into that, I have to tell you
that's a forbidden question for us. But yes, that's my real name. The
only one I have. I don't actually have a last name. My birth isn't
recorded in a public document." She took a while to recover, and then
said, "Do you have, of course you have a mother! Doesn't she have a
last name?" He said, "She does. So did my father, but they weren't
married to each other." She said, "Would you tell us who they are?" He
said, "I'll tell you who my father was. Stephen." She said, "Wow!
Natural conception?" He said, "You mean with sex?" She said, "Yes." He
said, "I wasn't there then, but I do know Stephen donated to our
internal sperm bank, for future genetic diversity. My own genetic
makeup shows me he's my father." She said, "Can you do time research?"
He said, "I will not go back and watch my mother doing anything
private!"
She said, "Oh! I should have thought of that. I apologize." He said.
"I accept." She turned to me, and I shook my head. She said, "Right.
Privileged information." I said, "But I'll say this. Of humans, only
children of my father, and further descendants, are able to see into
the past, do earthquake predictions, and port to other dimensions." She
said, "Oh! Are there more?" I said, "Yes, there are more of my father's
unusual children. We needed them, and so many of our women, even
married women, with their husbands' consent, had and are still having
my father's children, in addition to their own. We need them. There's a
lot of work to do, and a lot of dimensions to do it in. And yes, God
approves. They even felt that directly when this program was started.
Psionics is usually genetically recessive. My father was the first to
have those genes dominant. It would be very stupid of us if we let any
of that be lost to us." She said, "Wow!" I said, "They might have said
that, too." Smiles.
She said to him, "You are the administrator of your school?" He said,
"One of them. I share those duties with a person of the prior
generation. We also handle mission assignments on Earth. I do the Corps
part of that. We have another intergenerational teem that handles
galactic and dimensional assignments. Some they discover and work on
their own, and some are given to them by Sol. The same with Earth
actions. Knowing all, Sol monitors everything. He doesn't have a choice
in that." She said, "Did the others of your group know your father was
Stephen?" He said, "Yes. It's obvious to them who we are. We all love
each other, so such differences don't actually matter in personal
things. We do keep careful track of who came from who, so we don't
cause any genetic problems in relationships. ALL our children are very
carefully intentional. But we do practice a lot." Grins. She said, "Are
you married?" He said, "I am, and I'm a father." She said, "Ah, married
to a man or a woman?" He said, "A very beautiful and nice woman. That's
all for personal things." I nodded. We went to break
Back from break, she said, "You're doing Corps assignments now as we
speak?" He said, "Yes, even when we're not speaking." She said,
"Inherited humor, too?" He said, "All in our group have an active sense
of humor. My work with the Corps is almost all mental, so I can do it
anywhere, and with different independent mind partitions. I can only
use one body, though, so in personal missions, I can just do one at a
time, unless I use projections. It's great doing actions with Sol."
Grins.
She said to me, "God made it official that all religions are his, and
that to disrespect them is to disrespect Him." I said, "Yes, but don't
expect that to change anything. People who will want to believe that,
are not the ones who most SHOULD believe that. They don't even believe
most of what their own religions already tell them, so why should it
change with something extra? While most religions don't say that
explicitly, it IS said in the Koran, and it IS the policy of the
Catholic Church. We know from visible actions, that many people in
those religions do NOT believe it. Violently so. Few of those people
are able to believe they are wrong about anything, much less about
this."
She said, "Your examples of strange religious practices. The Whirling
Dervishes of Islam, and the Christian snake handlers. I understand why
the Dervishes do it, but not the snakes." I said, "It's written in the
Bible that Jesus said people could take up serpents, and do other
dangerous things that won't harm true believers. It's in Mark's Gospel,
as the last words of Jesus. It's false. The original writer of that,
didn't write that, because Jesus never said it. It was put in later by
a very odd person." George laughed, and said, "I see that happening. I
have to agree. Odd, is so right." She smiled at him, and said, "So the
basis of what Pentecostals believe, is false?" I said, "It IS false,
and not just dangerously stupid. People have died because of that, and
George grinned, and said, "I'll say it. George Hensley in 1910. I don't
think I was named after him." I said, "That's good." Grins.
She said, "Much in the Gospels is contradictory. Some of the changes
in those documents are known, so we know the originals were changed,
but not fully how much. Would you help us with that?" I said, "Most of
what's written in the Bible isn't original, even if we assume perfect
translations, which were very imperfect. It was created as a political
document to help the Romans rule their people, and it's been modified
for political reasons ever since, still to rule people. One thing
people have a great urge to do, is to tell other people what to do, and
most so when THEY aren't doing it. Doing that with religion, is
practically impossible to resist, being it's almost a perfect platform
for that, because for believers, disobeying God, is much worse than
disobeying a person. That's a problem with what you're requesting;
believers. They won't accept any change in that, even when shown just
how false something is. What the Pentecostals practice as words of
Jesus, was put there specifically to see if people would be stupid
enough to take it literally, and actually do it. And as a means of
getting rid of those fanatics. Medicine and biology wasn't understood
much then, and he had no real knowledge of poisonous snakes. It was a
common belief that if you were bitten by one, you would die. In
reality, most healthy adults can recover from poisonous snake bites for
a number of reasons." She said, "He wrote that so it would kill
fanatics?" I said, "Yes, that was his reason. He didn't actually think
people would be that stupid, but if there were any, the world would be
better off without them." She said, "Wow!"
I said, "I agree." George said, "Proof that the Bible is a political
document. A tool created entirely by men to manipulate people for
political reasons." I said, "Knowing that, frees us from that
influence, so we can read it for its moral teaching. And some great
story telling those things come with. But I see you're still clinging
to your request. You're asking for the history of the creation of the
Gospels." She said, "Yes I am. Will you do that?" I said, "In my
opinion, the Roman Catholic Church created what is known today as the
Christian Bible. I should consult with them on what I might do that
would be in conflict with what they own, and depend on for their
religion. Causing harm to a religion to clear up some things that are
already not real, does seem a little pointless, compared to the
possible damage."
She said, "Not real?" I said, "None of the writers of the Gospels
were alive during the life of Jesus, and none witnessed what they wrote
about. It was all hearsay and fantasy, that they wrote. Just as it is
today, people just didn't care about accuracy, or even truth. They
prefer their own versions of reality, and practically insist that
others prefer it, too. Just look at what our own political parties do
and say. It sure hasn't changed! And organized religion is the most
political enterprise of them all. It has to be, because that's what
organization creates, and their goals are to order people to obey them,
just as governments want and need to do. Religions ruled kings and
emperors, and to some extent, they still do. Some political parties in
the world still have the names of religions in them. Here,
Conservatives actually push their religions into their politics, and
try to make laws based on their religions, that many of their own
religious leaders oppose, and most of their constituents disobey. You
didn't expect them to be reasonable or sane, did you?" Chuckles.
She said, "So you might not provide the history of the Gospels." I
said, "Not right at this moment, no. I'll ask around, and see what they
say, being mindful of their pain threshold, and then decide." Chuckles.
I said to George, "Good thought. Share it." He nodded, and said,
"People who want to rule others, should never be trusted." She said,
"Don't you rule?" I said, "We show them ways to do better, educate
people, stop and prevent some crimes, but we don't rule. I've made
rulings, but those are judgements on issues, and we enforce them when
all know we should. But we don't rule people. We are NOT government.
That alone should rule, and for the common good. And they often do a
better job of that than most selfish people want to believe. And
obviously worse, in some cases, usually caused by corruption. There is
a fine balance between what law enforcement wants, and what those who
desire liberty want. When that is out of balance, and one is more
powerful than the other, injustice happens. Usually, neither side
understands that, or wants to." Grins.
She said, "We're getting a lot of comments about extra children of
Stephen." I said, "Most of those could indicate some mental health
issues in the senders of them." She laughed. I said, "One I'll address
now; fear. If you didn't fear one, why fear more? Just one of us is
powerful enough to destroy entire galaxies. Having more of them doesn't
add to that. It's just redundant. We're all monitored. Anybody goes off
the beam, he get's zapped, and then the person who does that, dies. So,
there's no danger of harm, but one." She said, "One danger? What's
that?" I said, "If we all got together and combined our humor, well,
who could survive that?" She laughed.
I said, "But seriously, all of you who had that fear are missing
something we said. We are sealed to God. That works both ways. We ever
go bad, He WILL act. We work for Him. When HE fires people, that really
burns! And one more thing. I know all. You know I wouldn't let any of
my people do anything bad. I would know it, and before they acted. It
wouldn't then happen. What about me? I can't die by any means I know of
but God's will. I can't be stopped by my monitors. More so while
they're laughing." Chuckles. I said, "But God is my most strict
monitor. Any second he can take away my life, more easily than He can
any of your lives. He not only knows all, He knows the future. I would
not have been made to exist as I am now, if it would have been against
what he wanted of me. He's REALLY not stupid! So, you don't need to
fear that we will go bad. Unless YOU do something bad that will harm
somebody unjustly. Then you SHOULD fear us. If you need that to help
you to not do bad things, fine. Whatever works for you." Grins. I said,
"But that's a negative thing. Love is better. Be good, for the love of
it, and for your fellow people. If the love of or for us can help you
in that, we would love it, in spite of our embarrassment. Please try."
We ended the show.
I said, off air, "You didn't mention the lesson about majority rule."
She reviewed the action in her mind, and said, "Oh! If a rule desired
by the majority would not be accepted by them if they were the
minority, it's unjust." I said, "Well said." She said, "I feel stupid!
That was the whole point of the action, and I missed it!" I said, "The
journalist's trap. The sensational, over the deeper story. You weren't
alone in that. Most of the staff here fell into the same trap. Blame it
on George, if you want." Grins. We hugged around. She said to George,
"Your love is so like Solomon's!" He said, "Yes. We're all a lot like
he is in that. Sharing is good. Fun, actually." Grins. We left.
In an executive meeting, Daren said, "Good that you finally let that
out. They'll suspect more, with the usual rumors of a sperm bank for
regular people." Mom said, "And using George to do it, as a living
example of a good thing. Er, person." Grins. Ichi said, "You planned
that, when you first made him public." I said, "Yes, I did, and he
didn't know that." Big grins, and George poked me. I said, "Part of
that is to get people to see I'm not something unique in this. My
family is too close for them to see that well. George, being a little
apart of that, and being who he is, gives a good face to the others of
our group, more than Corps members can do in their swift actions."
Galya said, "And a hot body." I said, "That sure didn't hurt anything."
Grins and hugs.
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