Monday, April 11, 2022
Today is 04/11/2022, Post #4
And the world becomes a much better place without ridiculous fairy-tale
Also, what I don't describe is so much of the stuff that forms in my conscious mind, as that scene makes me want to think about it. Except for the creepy mirrors
Childhood's End
"The Overlords"
(from internet transcript)
Ricky Stormgren: Look, you scare the hell out of us, and you knock my door down, and then you ask me to be your ambassador. Buddy, you're not even in the right zip code. I mean, you need - you need the President, the Pope, the Dalai Lama, somebody.
Karellen: Problem is, they have baggage. You don't. You are hardworking, brave, kind.
Childhood's End
"The Overlords"
(from internet transcript)
Secret Service Agent: Maybe they'll just find another farmer.
Ricky Stormgren: Actually, the backup was an old lady in Seoul.
Secret Service Agent: Hell, cards on the table, Ricky, you're a decent man, and decent men can be manipulated.
Ricky Stormgren: Hey, look, he said that they're here to teach us, all right?
Childhood's End
"The Overlords"
(from internet transcript)
Ricky Stormgren: What the hell is going on?
Karellen: There's no need to be afraid. My name is Karellen.
Ricky Stormgren: Why are you here?
Karellen: You were on the verge of discovering interstellar travel, but the stars are not for man, Ricky. We need a messenger they can trust, a conduit between the Overlords and Earth.
From 3/16/1991 ( from the thoughts in my conscious mind, coinciding with United States of America Veterans Affairs hospital psychiatric doctor medical drugs: my first successful major test of my ultraspace matter transportation device as Kerry Wayne Burgess the successful Ph.D. graduate and possibly - or something - the date of the secret, doctorate-degree credential from Princeton University, I can only theorize, struggling to understand ) To 12/14/2015 ( ) is 9039 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 8/2/1990 ( premiere US TV movie "Hometown Boy Makes Good" ) is 9039 days
From 3/16/1991 ( from the thoughts in my conscious mind, coinciding with United States of America Veterans Affairs hospital psychiatric doctor medical drugs: my first successful major test of my ultraspace matter transportation device as Kerry Wayne Burgess the successful Ph.D. graduate and possibly - or something - the date of the secret, doctorate-degree credential from Princeton University, I can only theorize, struggling to understand ) To 12/14/2015 ( ) is 9039 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 8/2/1990 ( Iraq invades Kuwait ) is 9039 days
From 1/17/1991 ( from the thoughts in my conscious mind, coinciding with United States of America Veterans Affairs hospital psychiatric doctor medical drugs: the date of record of my United States Navy Medal of Honor as Kerry Wayne Burgess chief warrant officer United States Marine Corps circa 1991 officially the United States Apache attack helicopter pilot ) To 12/14/2015 ( ) is 9097 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/29/1990 ( premiere US TV series episode "Star Trek: The Next Generation"::"Family" ) is 9097 days
From 10/26/1993 ( premiere US TV series episode "Nova"::"Dying to Breathe" ) To 12/14/2015 ( ) is 8084 days
8084 = 4042 + 4042
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/26/1976 ( my biological brother Thomas Reagan the civilian and privately financed astronaut in solar system deep space in his privately financed atom-pulse propulsion spaceship this day makes his first landing the Jupiter moon Callisto ) is 4042 days
From 11/26/1976 ( my biological brother Thomas Reagan the civilian and privately financed astronaut in solar system deep space in his privately financed atom-pulse propulsion spaceship this day makes his first landing the Jupiter moon Callisto ) To 12/14/2015 ( ) is 14262 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/19/2004 ( premiere US TV series episode "$40 a Day"::"Asheville, NC" ) is 14262 days
From 1/19/1993 ( from the thoughts in my conscious mind, coinciding with United States of America Veterans Affairs hospital psychiatric doctor medical drugs: in Asheville North Carolina as United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess I was seriously wounded by gunfire when I returned fatal gunfire to a fugitive from United States federal justice who was another criminal sent in another attempt to kill me the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 12/14/2015 ( ) is 8364 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/26/1988 ( Los Angeles Time reporting establishes national-news event for this day: Navy to End Tanker Convoy Duty in Persian Gulf ) is 8364 days
From 7/19/1989 ( the United Airlines Flight 232 crash in Sioux City Iowa and from the thoughts in my conscious mind, coinciding with United States of America Veterans Affairs hospital psychiatric doctor medical drugs: the end of Kerry Burgess - *me* - the natural human being cloned from another human being {Thomas Reagan} ) To 12/14/2015 ( ) is 9644 days
9644 = 4822 + 4822
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/15/1979 ( premiere US TV movie "Charleston" ) is 4822 days
http://www.tv.com/shows/the-expanse/dulcinea-3303288/
The Expanse
Season 1 Episode 1
Dulcinea
Aired Dec 14, 2015
Episode Summary
A hardened detective begins an off-the-book investigation of a missing heiress in the series premiere of this futuristic thriller; at the same time, the captain of the ice-freighter Canterbury inquires into a distress call from a mysterious derelict ship.
AIRED: 12/14/15
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4171822/
IMDb
Childhood's End
The Overlords
Episode aired Dec 14, 2015
S1 E1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childhood%27s_End
Childhood's End
From Wikipedia
Childhood's End is a 1953 science fiction novel by the British author Arthur C. Clarke. The story follows the peaceful alien invasion of Earth by the mysterious Overlords, whose arrival begins decades of apparent utopia under indirect alien rule, at the cost of human identity and culture.
The Overlord Karellen, the "Supervisor for Earth," who speaks directly (behind a one-way glass viewscreen) only to Rikki Stormgren, the Secretary-General of the United Nations
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childhood%27s_End_(miniseries)
Childhood's End (miniseries)
From Wikipedia
Childhood's End is an American-Australian television miniseries based on the 1953 novel of the same name, by Arthur C. Clarke
premiered on Syfy on December 14, 2015.
Dubbed 'the Overlords', the alien 'Supervisor for Earth' Karellen speaks to humanity claiming they have come to usher in an age of utopia. Karellen speaks to a farmer named Ricky Stormgren
Childhood's End
"The Overlords"
(from internet transcript)
[ on mobile-phone about his tractor in his cornfield: ]
Ricky Stormgren: Hey, it's Ricky Stormgren. I got to ask you, have you been - you been drinking again? I think you must have been drunk when you worked on that thing.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078955/releaseinfo
IMDb
Charleston (1979 TV Movie)
Release Info
USA 15 January 1979
"Childhood's End" by Arthur C. Clarke
I. EARTH AND THE OVERLORDS
“In three days I will be meeting the Supervisor again. I will explain your objections to him, since it is my duty to represent the views of the world. But it will alter nothing—I can assure you of that.”
“There is one other point,” said Wainwright slowly. “We have many objections to the Overlords—but above all we detest their secretiveness. You are the only human being who has ever spoken with Karellen, and even you have never seen him! Is it surprising that we doubt his motives?”
“Despite all that he has done for humanity?”
“Yes—despite that. I do not know which we resent more—Karellen's omnipotence, or his secrecy. If he has nothing to hide, why will he never reveal himself? Next time you speak with the Supervisor, Mr. Stormgren, ask him that!”
Stormgren was silent. There was nothing he could say to this—nothing, at any rate, that would convince the other. He sometimes wondered if he had really convinced himself.
It was, of course, only a very small operation from their point of view, but to Earth it was the biggest thing that had ever happened. There had been no warning when the great ships came pouring out of the unknown depths of space. Countless times this day had been described in fiction, but no one had really believed that it would ever come. Now it had dawned at last; the gleaming, silent shapes hanging over every land were the symbol of a science Man could not hope to match for centuries. For six days they floated motionless above his cities, giving no hint they knew of his existence. But none was needed; not by chance alone could those mighty ships have come to rest so precisely over New York, London, Paris, Moscow, Rome, Cape Town, Tokyo, Canberra….
Even before the ending of those heart-freezing days, some men had guessed the truth. This was not the first tentative contact by a race which knew nothing of man. Within those silent, unmoving ships, master psychologists were studying humanity's reactions. When the curve of tension had reached its peak, they would act.
And on the sixth day Karellen, Supervisor for Earth, made himself known to the world in a broadcast that blanketed every radio frequency. He spoke in English so perfect that the controversy it began was to rage across the Atlantic for a generation. But the context of the speech was more staggering even than its delivery. By any standards, it was a work of superlative genius, showing a complete and absolute mastery of human affairs. There could be no doubt that its scholarship and virtuosity, its tantalizing glimpses of knowledge still untapped were deliberately designed to convince mankind that it was in the presence of overwhelming intellectual power. When Karellen had finished, the nations of Earth knew that their days of precarious sovereignty had ended. Local, internal governments would still retain their powers, but in the wider field of international affairs the supreme decisions had passed from human hands. Arguments—protests—all were futile.
It was hardly to be expected that all the nations of the world would submit tamely to such a limitation of their powers.
Childhood's End
"The Overlords"
(from internet transcript)
They think they're God.
I'm glad you mentioned the big, silent guy. Let's bring Miss Peretta Jones into the discussion. Peretta, you're part of the Junior Faith Initiative, which aims to remind young people of the importance of remembering God in these unique times.
Oh, yes, I guess we have to.
Peretta: The Overlords have destroyed God. [ superstition ] My mother was a devout Christian. [ superstition ] We lived in the poorest part of Brazil. When the Overlords came, she lost her faith. [ superstition ] My mother decided that she couldn't live in a world without God, [ superstition ] so she killed herself. My fear is that the next generation won't remember there was ever talk of God. [ superstition ]
It's clear they control our political process, our law enforcement, and though I'm not a religious man, Miss Peretta makes a very good point. They're controlling the way we think.
Childhood's End
"The Overlords"
(from internet transcript)
[ episode ends ]
Karellen: Hello. There is no need to be afraid.
- posted by me, Kerry Burgess 07:41 AM Pacific-time USA Monday 04/11/2022
