‘Watch this,’ Jimmy said excitedly. ‘Da, mirror Ethan.

Immediately Da began to transform. Within seconds the robot looked exactly like Ethan. It even adjusted it’s size and height.

‘That’s next level shit right there,’ Jimmy laughed. ‘This is what my AI can do. It’s Eons ahead of rest’. He paused waiting for applause. When none was forthcoming, he continued.

‘It’s a robot’, he said, a little less enthusiastically.

‘What for?’ Ethan asked.

‘Just to cover our bases. What if Eldon comes in some day, and wants you to go upstairs with him. My robot can do that and Eldon will never be the wiser. I decided you needed a more real presence than an area restricted simulation.

‘I guess that can’t hurt.’ Ethan replied. ‘Alright,’ he said. ‘We’ve all had a week to think over all of what’s going on here, and I have to admit, one of my biggest questions is how did Chairman Zhang? It is Chairman Zhang is it not?’

‘I prefer the title,’ Jimmy replied, his chest swelling with self-perceived greatness.

‘Right,’ Ethan continued. ‘How did Chairman Zhang become Jimmy Wang?’

‘Well that’s a very interesting story, Ethan. Very interesting. Why don’t we leave Ethan here to do his work and I’ll tell you all about it, I have provided us with heated massage chairs in our new office.

The new office was nice. As promised there were three big black chairs. A bank of buttons were discretely placed on the right arm. The chairs looked like they could massage the crap out of you. They were placed concentrically around a table. There was a fridge and microwave along the back wall. Along a sidewall were three flat workstations.

Once seated and feeling pretty comfortable, Ethan continued with his question. ‘Alright Jimmy, what the hell’s going on with you?’ he asked, and then he thought. ‘Unless of course you have something more pressing to discuss Dawn?’

‘No, I’m kind of interested in Jimmy’s story too,’ she replied.

‘Well,’ they heard a voice from the back of Jimmy’s chair. Jimmy’s chair was facing away from them. Jimmy pressed a button, and the chair started to rotate in their direction. They waited for at least half a minute longer than it should take for Jimmy to appear and produce the dramatic effect he was hoping for, but undeterred he waited for the chair to be in position and shrouded in darkness. Once stopped, a bank of overhead LED lights came on and shone directly on his face. ‘This is the story of Zhang Wei; aka Jimmy Wang’, he said dramatically. ‘A great story about a great man. Jimmy obviously planned to enjoy his moment.

‘It all started with a humble peasant farmer. His name was Zhang Wei, and whenever people from the party came through his village, he would run to them and ask about the world outside, and how he could contribute. The party members were impressed by his enthusiasm. One day they offered him work as a party member. He would perform the daily accounting for the village.

‘Zhang excelled at this. He even came up with innovations and procedures that were adopted by other villages. Then came computers and Zhang really took off from there. They spoke his language, and he quickly became an authority on the world level. It wasn’t long before he became a top advisor in not just computer technology, but systems as well. At a young age, he had risen to become a very powerful force in the Communist Party.

‘Even back then, he recognized where computers were taking the future. Before anyone else had the slightest idea of what was coming, Zhang was already engineering his accent to power. A power so great, he would rule not just China, but the world. In a few years he was in position to become General Secretary, but he put it off and waited. He waited decades for the right moment, and through technology, he steered the world to his right moment. It took forty years, and his biggest challenge was not to be noticed. Fortunately, as an advisor in a country that focused on leaders he was able to do this. Not a single picture of him survived the 40 years.

‘When he did ascend to power, no-one even knew who he was. It was a perfect opportunity to create an alias. Zhang already had developed a very functional AI, and so he created a new Zhang, before people realized who he was. He already lived removed, but inside the Zhongnanhai complex, and had built a sizable office attached to his residence. Before he came to power, the office was justified as a top secret research facility. When he assumed power, the facility had been transformed into a formal, almost grand, meeting place where committee members came to receive directives. Personally he called it a simulation room, but in actuality, it was just a very controlled space with an AI created hologram. I gave Zhang a completely different look, than myself. He’s short and pudgy. Now I’m working on getting a robot in there similar to our Ethan in the other room. Once completed, Zhang will have a lot more freedom. He’ll even be able to go out into public if I want him to.

From Jimmy’s description of Zhang, Ethan was having a hard time differentiating from the two, but he chose to overlook it. ‘So, now we know how Zhang got here,’ Ethan said. ‘When did Jimmy show up?’

‘Well what happened there was, I started spouting off all these proverbs to my people to keep them in line. I couldn’t leave my office, so I had to come up with something that kept me relatable to the masses. Well, long story short, I drank the Kool-Aid. The proverbs provide a wonderful source of life lessons and guidance. They’re very precise and have a logic a lot like computers. I started to practice them. ‘An inch of time is an inch of gold, but you can’t buy that inch of time with an inch of gold’. Come on. That’s good stuff.

‘After awhile, I started running out of proverbs to feed to the people, and I started looking into prophecy. That’s when I found the ‘Tui Bei Tu’, and when I did, there I was right in Poem 57, a Son of God who appears and ends all conflict. This single poem dictates my life’.

‘So, you never were a despot?’ Dawn asked.

‘Not really,’ Jimmy answered. ‘I had ambitions. A few people got hurt when I became General Secretary, but I consider that an act of civil war, and for the better good. Something had to be done with the previous administration. They locked themselves into this zeitgeist of power and control. It wasn’t about the people anymore.

‘Aren’t you doing pretty much the same thing as the previous administration? It looks to me like your people are being controlled with violence if necessary, ’ Ethan pointed out.

‘My AI is,’ Jimmy said. ‘It’s trying to engineer a social revolution amongst the people, and there will pushback to their uprisings’.

‘Why?’

‘I don’t know why? It’s acting on probability, I guess’.

‘You’re sure it’s not trying to engineer an environment where the conditions are just right for a Son of God to appear?’ Ethan asked.

‘Would that be so bad?’ Jimmy replied haughtily.

‘So you’ve taken it upon yourself to bring the world to the brink of destruction, just so you can jump in and save the day, and that’s only if you’re successful. If you fail, civilization comes to an abrupt end. That’s the way I see things going here’.

‘It’ll work,’ Jimmy defended. ‘You even told us it works’.

‘Not for sure. Not this time round. I still might have to do something to make it all work, If that’s the case, nothings guaranteed’.

‘I tend to agree with Jimmy on this,’ Dawn interjected. ‘Civilization has to experience a tipping point, and we have yet to achieve it. That’s in spite of the fact that more than half our population now live in a destructive world beyond their influence. It’s going to take a lot for these people to take the leap of faith they require to take control over their destiny. Ethan, you tell us humanity experiences transcendence at the same time AI experiences a transcendence of it’s own. It makes perfect sense these two tipping points would arrive at the same time. They become a duality to propel themselves into their new reality’.

‘After thinking about this for the past week I have come to the conclusion the task before us, is not so much neutralizing Whitehead and Zhang, as providing the environment for a revolution in peoples thinking, ‘Dawn continued. ‘The transcendence. Providing people with the time and place, to transcend. We need to build them a platform to leap from. That’s our responsibility’.

Both Ethan and Jimmy stopped to think about this. Now that Jimmy was Zhang, they really only had Whitehead to contend with. They could probably put an end to him right now if they wanted to. So what was Dawn saying? We would have to manage everyone to the transcendence; even Whitehead?

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‘What does that mean?’ Ethan asked.

‘These last 3 years before the singularity, are dependent on tipping points coming at their right moment. Eldon getting reactors into space is a tipping point. The people gaining awareness is a tipping point, as is the singularity. For everything to work out as foretold, each tipping point must occur at it’s proper time. The imminent threat of Eldon’s reactors must be pushed back by a few years. The reactors can’t go up in the next year as Eldon is planning.

‘People are taking an awful long time to reach their boiling point. This is because they personally cannot see a way out of the situation, and so they live with it. We must change this thinking, with the time remaining between the singularity. Using retrocausality time, we must create the change. Previous to the new information you and Jimmy provided on our status in place and time, what we were doing on social media was on the mark. Our focus was on informing the people of the power of themselves when acting with the Crowd. I now believe we must place their focus on transcendence.’

‘And how do we do that?’ Ethan asked.

‘By telling them about the devil, and it’s defeat.’

‘Wait a second,’ Ethan interrupted. ‘Are you telling me one Son of God is not enough in this freak show you guys are running. Now you want to add the devil too?’

‘Spirituality is a fundamental component in the human experience. Science has found it to be real it’s just not accepted. Those who govern science see only the logic we apply to science; not the logic we find in science. We must make people aware, there is a preceding logic to humanity. A God if you will,’ Dawn answered. ‘We know it exists. There is precognition in the particle/wave duality. Whether a particle will present as matter or wave is dependent on the observer, yet something knows before we do, how the particle will present. That is a glaring example, but logic which precedes humanity is universal in it’s presentation. Civilization didn’t create math. Numbers have been with us always. We just had to figure out how to use them. Everything,’ Dawn stressed. Everything we know has been known and available to us since our time here began. It still is. We just have to keep finding it. There is preceding God logic in our world. Therefore there is also a devil. We must make the devil real to the people; not just to create fear as a motivator, but so they understand how to manage it’.

‘How are going to do this?’ Jimmy asked.

‘Your AI will have to be reconfigured. Shift the social algorithm to include fear response as well as the proactive response we were focused on previously. Then we have to tell them about the devil and back it up with science. First, we inform them they are indeed living during end-times. I found an interesting passage in the bible that defines end-times for the people. 2 Timothy 3:1-5, ‘But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people’.

‘Does that sound much different than what we have right now? This is the world we live in today. Our Gods dress in business suits.

‘We have to make people sense a change is about to come. This will place them in a state of readiness. Then we have to show them their enemy.

‘The bible describes the devil. In the story, 2 different beasts wear the mark. There is the one great leader who arose from the sea, and then there is another earthbound beast who converts souls into minions to do it’s bidding. They bring the great beast of the Sea human souls. They do it by getting them to wear the mark.

Revelation 13: ‘So that no one can buy or sell unless he has the mark, that is, the name of the beast, or the number of its name. This calls for wisdom: let the one who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man, and his number is 666’.

‘Yeah,’ Ethan replied. ‘Someone once told me how to recognize the number. It’s people who come together to satisfy their personal appetites. Just imagine 3 people standing there filling their bellies with greed’.

‘Of course,’ Dawn replied. It makes sense. The beast is the one who would have people buy and sell to the exclusion of all else. This represents the lose of their soul. You may remember Jesus saying during the Sermon on the Mount, you cannot serve God and Money. Minions leave no room in their lives for the characteristics that make us human, such as empathy, and love. The beast abandons it’s true nature to follow the insatiable path of self-desire. It lives in the animal world, and it wants us living down there with it’.

‘Self- desire to the exclusion of all else is what drives the beast. Uncontrolled desire cannot be fed. It’s a hunger and need caught in a vacuum of self. Nothing else matters when the only thing you can think about is yourself. It’s feeding your appetite without conscience, but the thing is, if we look at these people closely enough, we will see them for who and what they truly are. A life without a soul. Nothing more than an alpha predator. The animal nature. Mean and dangerous, but insurmountable to what humanity brings.

‘Now,’ Dawn continued. ‘We make them aware and wary of the animal they know lives inside them, as well as those who would lead them. Make them question if they are more minion than saint. We’ll give them a way out through science.

‘From a scientific perspective, our last evolution created two sides to our humanity. Prior to evolution we were animal. After our evolution, we continued to be animal, but we were something else too. Something new. We were abstract thinkers. We could conceptualize, and come up with some really good ideas beyond looking for our next meal. With abstract thinking we created a true society, where shared thinking has brought us all the things we’ve come to value. Cars, shelter, a stable food supply, computer phones. Abstract thinking has brought us everything, and it can bring order. We must make the people aware of this. They must become aware abstract thinking is what separates us from the animals, and if we use it, we will cage the animals.

‘From an evolutionary point of view, our last evolution moved us from an animal state to a hybrid state of animal/abstract. This is our human duality. We live in both states simultaneously. Some lean towards one end of the spectrum, while others to the other end. The whole should find balance in the centre.

‘Of course, this is not the case these days. There’s an imbalance where the animal state is domineering over the abstract. Everybody believes the old system, the animal mind, is the way to proceed, but it’s only because they’ve never taken the time to explore the potential of the abstract. Even when people see themselves losing everything around them, they still adhere to the idea it’s best to take what you can get in life. That’s the animal state. Individual and self-centred thinking.

‘We must change people from relying on their animal state. It’s either fight or flight, which is very toxic and creates chaos. The animal state is reactive. The abstract state is proactive and intentional. The abstract state will win every time. From the chaos we live in, the abstract state of a collective momentum must rise. Through science, we make them aware it is natural to embrace the animal state during times of uncertainty, but by giving up on the devil, we will rise to a greater glory. Once we get the people to agree on this, we will experience transcendence’.

‘So that’s our plan for the next 3 years?’ Ethan asked. ‘Change people’s minds?’

‘And prevent Eldon from acting too soon’. Dawn replied.