Solomon's Private File #402
These stories about Stephen and Solomon take place starting in the
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 33 in this story, in the Winter of 2059-2060.
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I said to Mom, "Team actions involving ships." I showed her, and she
said, "Let's do it!" She ported, and I shifted to a ship in the South
China Sea, not within sight of land. It was packed to overloading with
people. I said so all could hear, "Who will speak for the passengers
here?" One said, "I see no one will but me. We are seeking to live in
another land." I said, "Australia?" He said, "That is our hoped for
destination." I said, "Do you expect them to take you in, and grant you
citizenship?" He said, "I do. We paid well for that." I said, "Who told
you this would happen?" He said, "The people who operate this ship." I
said, "Each country has a right to accept new people to live there, as
they choose. The problem here, is they know nothing of you, and did not
choose you. You will be entering their waters for illegal reasons. They
will not let you in, but take you to an island for such criminals, that
is worse than the homes you left."
There was a buzz of comment. He said above that, "Did those we paid
know this?" I said, "They did. They had stopped doing this when I did
my action in Burma, being that they are criminals from Thailand, where
I held a meeting. They just started again, thinking I wouldn't notice.
They were a little wrong about that. No, you may not harm them! We do
it better." Mom grinned, and so did some of the refugees. He said, "Why
do they do this?" I said, "You are Muslim. They think they are
Buddhists, and so they don't care about you. A true Buddhist would.
They're just criminals. Other countries don't want new people who don't
have jobs waiting for them, and who don't know their language. Who
would? They have their own people they have to take care of, and only
so much money to do that. I think you DID know this. You were trying to
evade the law, yourselves."
He said, "I have to admit it, we did." I said, "When you act with
dishonor, more of that comes from it. Criminals know they can prey on
other criminals in greater safety, than on rich and powerful people.
They just need to do it to more of them. I think you can see that here.
The number of people on this ship exceeds all laws about safety." He
said, "I think we were beginning to see that. What are we to do now?" I
said, "We will transport you to where you came from, and return your
money. Added to that will be all the money the operators of this
illegal service have." He said, "I know there is no other place for us,
so we must accept that. Thank you for the money. That will help! What
will happen to the ship people?" I said, "They are Thai citizens,
operating a ship registered to that country, who have already been
informed of this." Mom said, "But what we will do to them, well, I
would not like to encourage you to have pleasure over what will happen
to them." Grins. I said to her, "That did it." She said, "Oh.
Interesting." More grins. I said, "Make ready for transport." While
they were doing that, I ported all the crew to face us.
I said to them, "You have done some bad things. Of the two of us, who
do you wish to decide what will happen to you?" They all wanted me. I
said, "Good. Rose will decide." The refugees who heard that, grinned
and laughed. Mom said to me, "That was devious." I said, "Thank you."
More laughter. Mom said, "This ship will be destroyed." One of the crew
said, "What of us?" She said, "Can you swim?" Some said, "That's not
right! You can't kill us!" I said, "Wait a minute. We?" Mom said, "It
won't be us who would be doing the killing, even if we tell the sharks
where you are." I said to her, "Is that good for the sharks to eat such
bad people?" The crew all shouted, "That's so! We're too bad for the
sharks. They would die if they ate us. You wouldn't want to cause
that!" The refugees were almost howling with laughter. I said, "It's so
sad that you care more about sharks you haven't met, than you cared
about the fine people here. We still have to put you somewhere." Mom
said, "There are no sharks in prison." Crew said, "Yes, put us in
prison!" Mom said, "We can do that. But the consequence, something
interesting?" I said, "Did you hurt anybody?" They said they didn't. I
I said to Mom, "They sure do sound guilty." She said, "They do. I
think we should send the people home before we handle the crew." I
said, "Sorry to disappoint all you nice people, but your children
shouldn't see this. Oh, what interesting imaginations you have!"
Laughter. I ported them home. There, they noticed they were dressed in
fine clothes, and had a lot of money. Mom said to me, "What were they
thinking of?" I said, "Well, nakedness, to start." They said, "We
accept that. No more, please." I shared my idea with Mom, and she tried
not to grin. She said to them, "One lasting consequence. One hand must
always be on the top of your head. You remove it, the other will take
its place." They looked very odd. Then they were gone, naked in prison,
with the recording in the hands of the police there.
I said to Mom, "Two of the crew had some boats of their own. Stolen."
She said, "Past owners notified?" I said, "More surprised people."
Grins. We floated up into the air. The ship vanished. We did two more
actions like that. Then a real rescue. We said on the ship,
"Greetings." I said, "You have a little problem here." Captain said,
"We are taking on water. Can you help us?" Mom said, "We know what
you're doing. We will help your passengers." We did that, like before.
Then I said to the crew, "Rose didn't know you were planning on sending
your passengers to the sharks." He said, "We had to lighten the ship,
or all would die!" She said, "You lied to them. You cheated them in
charging them too much. You knew they wouldn't be accepted. And then
you were going to kill all of them!" I said to them, "She dislikes you.
A lot." They all asked me to save them from her. I said, "Are you
asking me to disobey my own mother?" They were very afraid. Terrified,
actually.
I said to Mom, "Please?" She said, "They disgust me. You do what you
think is best." I said to them, "Will you accept my judgment, or that
of Rose?" They shouted, "Yours!" I said, "You didn't cause them pain,
or actually kill them, so I can't make you feel that as a consequence.
What we have done that was for similar situations, we will do here.
Your police have been informed. You will be transported to prison. The
consequence will be that one of your hands must always be on the top of
your heads. You remove it, the other will replace it. For the planned
group murder, you will feel your greatest fear, constantly, all the
rest of your lives, and you will not harm yourselves, or ask another to
do it for you, and you may not lie or harm another person." I ported
them to jail. She said, "What was their greatest fear?" I said, "It was
what they caused, themselves. Fear of what the consequence would be."
She said, "Oddly appropriate. Do a show about this?" I said, "Yes." We
left.
The next morning, Eastern time, I said to CNN, "Got an Earth action.
Show with me and Rose about it, if you want." He read the crystal, and
said, "We want!"
That evening we were with Greg on CNN. He said, "We have some actions
to show, with Rose and Solomon operating as a team. You've seen them
before together. You won't want to miss this!" He showed the first one,
with one break in the middle. After the last break, he said, "Devious!"
I said, "It was nice of my mother to recognize my er, talent for that."
Grins and chuckles. He said to her, "What made you think of the
consequence?" She said, "I didn't. Solomon shared with me his idea of
that in mindtalk. I liked it." I said, "We couldn't give them an
experiential consequence because they didn't physically harm anybody. I
see some people don't think it was er, mean enough. You try that for a
while, you'll think differently." He said, "The lesson of acting with
dishonor causing more dishonor from it, really shows here. They were
breaking the law, and got cheated because of that." Mom said, "And
worse, they would have had suffered more when they arrived, than they
had at home."
I said, "We realize that laws are not perfect. Nothing is, in
reality. Some laws are unjust, viewed from different perspectives. Some
people are moved to disobey them for what they believe are good
reasons, and that may be so, but doing that causes natural
consequences. Doing it by choice, you must accept what happens because
of it, even though it may be unjust. You knew that before you did it,
so you bear some responsibility for the bad that happens from it. It
may not be fair, but life isn't. Most often, we learn more from bad
things that happen to us, than good things, which we also too often
take too much for granted. We are put on Earth to learn to be better
people. If it were easy, we wouldn't have to be doing it. Some are
saying that it's fine for me, I'm not the one who suffers. Wrong. I
SUFFER AS EACH ONE OF YOU SUFFERS, and more for causing it. I feel all
you feel, as if it's happening to me. That's MY consequence, for having
the ability to know all. I suffer for more than any person who ever
has, or will ever have, in all creation. That includes all dimensions.
I said we learn from the bad things we experience. I think I've proved
that very well. I know all. Can't have one without the other. All
things must balance." I forced a break.
Greg said, "Wow! Some people were making bad comments?" I said,
"Actually, no. Thinking it, yes. Convenient." He said, "Yes it is! Your
poles were a great help. Thank you!" I said, "Big eye opener. You're
welcome." Back on air, I said, "We did two other similar actions that
day. Then, this one." He showed that. When we came back, he said, "They
were going to kill all those people!" I said, "Yes. From their point of
view, they had to. The ship was sinking. Some people had to die, that
others could live. Who is able to operate the ship? Not the passengers.
Logic says what should happen. But it wouldn't have worked. The crew
were vastly outnumbered. They would have been killed in trying it, and
so ALL would have died. Remember, the sea is unforgiving. It never
plays favorites."
He said, "It was the right thing to do to kill the passengers?" I
said, "The sea doesn't know right or wrong. It's raw nature. I told you
how some could survive. They knew it. Sailors do. It would be a crime,
but for them, a live criminal is better than being a dead criminal. And
the sea conceals all crimes in its depths. But that didn't happen.
However, to us, their worst crime was knowing it could happen, and
taking that risk with passengers. They knew their ship needed repairs.
They needed to keep the pumps going all the time at full power. One
failed for that overuse, which they knew could happen." He said, "Oh! I
understand now. It wasn't so much the unwritten law of the sea that was
the crime, it was the known risk for the passengers. Seriously
irresponsible!" I said, "They did have one lifeboat for themselves. An
inflatable. They didn't know it had degraded, and would have sent them
to the bottom of the sea in a few minutes after they boarded it." Mom
said, "I didn't know that. Knowing all, is useful!" I said, "Sure is.
Price is worth it." We hugged.
He said, "The consequence of the fear. That was unusual." I said, "It
was the worst we could do, with justice. They were absolutely terrified
of Rose, which they caused themselves. That made it just. They are
REALLY not enjoying life." He said, "I believe that! Why the two of you
for these actions?" I said, "Do you really have to ask? We can do
things as a team, that we can't do alone, in how we manage the actions.
And we like each other's company." He said, "How is it different?" I
said, "Alone, we can't have much of a dialogue with somebody who isn't
in trouble, that can aid in the lessons in the action being understood
in an optimal way. Our different personalities help that er,
dramatically." He laughed, and said, "It does!" I said, "And our people
love to see us do it." He grinned, and said, "I'm sure they do." Mom
said, "And I like doing actions with Sol. We all do. Most of the
actions we do are NOT fun. They hurt. That's a little less, when
someone we love is with us, sharing it."
He said, "Do you think things like this will happen less, after
this?" I said, "Probably not. Sailors don't watch much TV, but they DO
know about Rose and ships. They knew that before, obviously." He
grinned, and said, "I noticed that, and they still did it. I see what
you mean." He said to Mom, "I don't know how to say this nicely, but do
you like your reputation in this area?" She said, "I do NOT. It's a
useful tool, so I use it, but I don't have to enjoy it. I'm
enlightened. It hurts." He said, "Did it hurt before you were
enlightened?" She said, "It did, but not as much. It hurts to do what
we do, but we think of those who are saved by this, and that's worth
all of our pain. We do it gladly, and consider it a supreme honor. We
live to serve." I signaled for the end of the show, and it happened.
I said, "Public liked it. Good show." Control room said, "Thank you!"
At home, Galya said, "I didn't know some of that, too. Good way you
managed that, holding back facts for the right time." I said, "It's a
habit now. Story teller in me is wide awake and rarin' to go." Grins
and hugs, with love.
I shifted back to talk with Greg. He said, "I should have asked
something." I nodded. He said, "Did you suffer in a past life, more
than other people have?" I said, "There are many ways to suffer. I've
probably experienced almost all of them. But in one life, I suffered
more than I think any person has ever had, in all the dimensions I know
of, and that was for years. No, I can't describe it to you so you would
understand. Adept wars are NOT for sissies. Yes, it made me insane, but
that didn't stop the suffering. One of the worst aspects of that, was I
expected it to last for all eternity. And the knowledge that while I
deserved to be punished, I didn't deserve it to be that severe, added
to it. Did I learn anything from that? No, but it did kind of clean out
my soul. I'm not evil now. So, the past is gone, and now I'm here,
alive and kicking. Just don't bend over in front of me." He grinned.
We stood and hugged. I said, "No others know of this meeting, not
even my monitors." He nodded, and said, "Under seal." I shifted out.
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