"filename: Michael L. Brown" by GrandaddyBonegrinder
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File name: Michael L. Brown Monday June 6th, 2022, was the first time I'd ever heard about the United-World Moon Weather Project (I don't keep up much on current events since I broke my glasses and my hearing went to hell). Anyway, I was in the Social Security office trying to straighten out a problem with the ID codes on my pension checks and this Moon thing was all anyone could talk about. "Those stupid sons-a-bitches (I immediately assumed they were talking about the scientists who had worked on the project, but they may have meant the government)", had done something to the Moon, in an attempt to improve the Earth's weather patterns, and whatever the hell they'd done had caused the Moon to begin to wobble slightly. "Who cares?" seemed to be the general consensus around the Social Security office, but some of the folks got scared. In fact, those few who truly understood the effects of this "moon-wobble" in the terms of gravitational stability, got mighty scared. For the Moon, it would be a mere inconvenience for a few years until it flew out of the Earth's mothering orbit into the waiting maw of the merciless sun. But on the Earth, it was the beginning of a gravitational nightmare, a primeval baptism of a planet by her own children. Earthquake, Typhoon, and Volcano were their names, and early in the second millennia B.C. they began to scourge the third planet from the sun with relentless fury. The clergy called these years "The Great Cleansing." I was just returning home from a leisurely walk with my old and senseless dog "Newt", when the first of the "big ones" hit the east coast of the United States. The building beside me shook, then crumbled, its massiveness crashing toward me like a mountain of concrete and steel. Then suddenly, during those brief milliseconds before I was buried under tons of stone, a door burst open in my mind and a long-repressed memory synapsed slowly into my consciousness, allowing me a brief glimpse of reality before my death. A day I'd not experienced in this "life". "Welcome Seeker," purred the sweet mechanical voice. "When you are ready for your morning briefing, plug yourself in, enter your eight digit security code, your six digit personal code, and press enter." As I hypnotically punched in the access codes, I unconsciously began to recall the days when I'd first become involved in the Histree Project, and the eighteen months I'd spent interfaced with the Crinnin DL5 Virtual Reality computer. The DL5 wasn't the first computer that used living cells to store and process information, but Crinnin Electronics was the first to perfect the "Direct Link Virtual Reality Living Interface". Now you could sit down, plug in and "live" any life imaginable, eighty to ninety years, a full life-time, in about four hours. My assignment is to live out hundreds of different computer generated lives during the time period leading up to "The Great Cleansing," and to establish an interrelating data base for each of these lives. With the correlation of this information available on Instant Access for all future generations, we may be able to avoid some of the past mistakes that nearly put mankind on the extinction list. I pushed "enter" and the sweet mechanical voice began again: "We at Crinnin Enterprises value all our Seeker's belief systems equally, so, if at any time during this briefing you find some aspect in the computer generated Life-Profile unacceptable, simply push F1 and the program will regenerate and continue from that point. Accident and disease pro-files are set at 21%." As per standard creation procedure 15: section 1.5, Life-Profile is as follows: File name: Michael L. Brown. Sex: Male Race: Caucasian Parental profile: American, Caucasian, middle-class Protestants. The "natural" Father will desert the Seeker's Mother before the Seeker is "born", allowing for single positive input while young. Mother will remarry (white, protestant) to allow for sibling rivalry and bonding. Parents will have none of the common vices of the time period except for religious superstition." The ideal birth date is calculated at Julian day 18023 or May sixth 1949. The effect of this Numerological influence (5 and 6) will create a personality of inner harmony and balance, well liked by most. The Astrological chosen place of arrival is 95 degrees West 33 minutes and 33 degrees North 40 minutes, Paris, Texas, USA., 16:30 universal time, in the house of Taurus with Cancer rising. This aspect will help in creating a patient, sensuous, somewhat stubborn personality with a deep, emotional, intuitive nature. An abundance of fixed signs will insure that emotional inner balance will evolve with time and knowledge, thus complementing the Numerological aspects of the Five and Six. Venus and Mars are both in conjunct with the Sun at the moment of this creation. Venus in this position will ensure a charming disposition, loving relationships and help the Seeker lead what some may call a charmed life. Mars will provide self-assertiveness, willpower, drive, and assure strong leadership abilities. Mercury conjunct Jupiter will impart above average intelligence, allow the Seeker to think big and be insatiably curious. This powerful conjunct also helps create a personalty that is kind and optimistic. Neptune sextile Pluto completes the major aspects of this natal chart adding artistic creativity, and the positive use of mystical or occult talents, but most importantly this aspect creates the need to fight against human injustice. The only true square or challenge in this chart is Mercury at 90.10012% to Saturn. "Learn to accept the things you can not change and compromise". The chart contains no oppositions. All other aspects have been charted and saved as per standard creation procedure 15: section 1.13, and can be read at any time during this program by pushing F2. This is a very crucial period in the Earth's early history, and the events unfolding around the time of this creation will change the world forever. The Marshall Plan and the Berlin airlift begin to set the tone for world wide human rights. This creation date also coincides with the establishment of the People's Republic of China, the forming of NATO, the first nuclear tests in the Soviet Union and the beginning of the Cold War. McCarthy paranoia of "un-American activities" spreads like poison and within two years there will be open warfare between Democracy and Communism. This same year the United States will test the first Hydrogen bomb in the Marshall Islands. It is the beginning of the electronic age, and soon communication advancements will allow the world to become an interrelating, interacting community. The computer will prove to be the most important invention of this century and it will be the Seeker's specialty. His high school graduation will coincide with the opening of the first computer programming schools. This Life-Profile will allow the Seeker to observe and to be a part of this country's social ills in their infancy, and to "live" through (and record) the height of the cold war, as well as the end, the struggle for civil and human rights, the counterculture of the sixties, the apathy of the seventies, the rape of personal freedoms in the eighties, and the brainwashing "big brother"programs of the nineties and beyond. The Seeker will be of draft age during the Vietnam conflict, but no course of action is predetermined. All decisions of this type are based on accumulated data during the Life-Profile program. This completes the standard briefing, for the entire profile or ---------" Suddenly, the door that had opened and allowed this memory to come crashing through slammed shut, returning me to a world gone mad and a hundred tons of bone crushing concrete and steel........ SPLAT!! "Seeker", began the sweet mechanical voice, "you have one hour for lunch before we start the afternoon session." Grandaddy |
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On Monday May 1st, 2006, flying_fox (764) writes:
wow... what a trip! Exquisite writing from a mondblowing imagination... gripping all the way through. bravo.
On Thursday September 9th, 2004, sexually_sadistic (488) writes:
this was mind blowing. very interesting piece! great job!!! ~sex~
On Wednesday January 21st, 2004, Daemonicus (636) writes:
absolutely phenomenal! i was glued! i mean it this is just outstanding!
On Thursday June 12th, 2003, An Expired Member (10) writes:
this is so sic...I mean in a good way...i wish i could write like this
On Saturday March 15th, 2003, liquid_emotion (417) writes:
I'm not into si-fi, but this I like. You are using your brain...
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