Da Truth: a Coming of Age Book for the World: Revised Edition 1 1/3

By Jacques Pages

Most habitable planets with sentient life(Mankind) on it have such a story at or around the year 2000. Inside is the story for your planet, Earth... Please read this book...

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Jul 21, 2009
• ISBN: 9781462822935

Jacques Pages

Born on September 28, 1964, Jacques went to Portsmouth Abbey School, an exceptional prep school, from '76-'82 in Portsmouth, R.I.. Following, he attended the University of Rhode Island, matriculated in the Computer Engineering School, when he acquired his Spinal Cord, and Traumatic Brain, injuries on his 19th birthday in '83. After a 3 month coma, and against doctors' wishes, he went back to college to get his Computer Science Bachelor's degree. Failing in that endeavor in 1992, he tried his hand at web development/consulting, when he finally called it quits in 1996, finally accepting he had no place in society. He now resides in Middletown, Rhode Island, writing...

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Contents

Foreword

Interview With The Cat

Interview I

Interview II

Interview III

Jacques’ Final Thoughts

Suggestions

Foreword

In 2002, I embarked on two journeys, equipped only with my mind and imagination, to both an ideal future, and our future. It took me like 4 weeks for the ideal trip, because I wanted to stay, and only a few days for the other. The only living thing I really had contact with was my cat, Zeus; named thus by my sister-in-law for Steve Martin in Zeus and Roxanne. Never saw the movie myself, though. Zeus is integral to the story that follows. He taught me a lot about what humanity should be, and, of course, being a cat. We’re capable of so much more than this, and I’m afraid if we continue on the course we’ve set, we’ll irrevocably change mankind into the machine. It saddens me to see us going around in circles, instead of growing. That’s because government has grown too big; bureaucracy is one of the most inefficient methods to govern with. We should see that. Music is integral to the recovery. Well, I’m getting way ahead of myself. Read the following document, I urge you to. I don’t give complete answers, that’s for you to figure out, together. In whole, you couldn’t handle the truth, trust me. If you got it all, at once, as I did, you’d probably end up committing suicide, like I tried. It’s not a competition, either, so help one another. It’s democracy we want, not the same old shit that’s keeps being shoveled to us. And, since the answer ain’t coming from the top->down, as it should, I’m gonna try from the bottom->up programming of society, before it’s too late. The intelligentsia, and the Church, sorta failed us. Just consider me the first Xman to out himself. Maybe some fellow Xmen will explain it in more detail, later. I detected a trail through history that will bear me out. I give clues below. I promise to make it short. Remember, though, the future is the proof. I’d like to thank you and the rest of the universe; for now, it all makes sense . . .

Interview With The Cat

7/31/07

begin imagining . . .

Welcome, children of all ages, to the interviews with Zeus, a cat with much to say about the planet Earth these days. Hey, Zeus!

Hey Jacques, Kiddies . . . How are you doing these days??? I’m doing great, hunting whenever I want . . . The prey is getting harder to find these days, though, with the advancement of Man sprawling over nature with shopping malls and other suburban developments . . . Sometimes, I have to go so far away from home, that I end up spending a night or two away from home, which freaked Jacques out . . . But I always return . . . Jacques knows that, now . . .

Well, Zeus, let’s start at our beginning, when you were assigned to teach me about how cats coexist together, especially how evolved they truly are. It took 6 years of trial and error before you finally opened my eyes; cured me of my traumatic brain injury.

Well, we had to make sure you were the one to out us cats, as it was . . . Yes, we have political systems too . . . globally, we’ve settled on a democratic system, while the American cats have a representative democracy, the European cats are a bit more socialistic, the Japanese cats are a bit more ritualistic, etc . . . But, we are getting ahead of ourselves, Jacques???

Yes, our beginning. I remember Zeus came to me as a 5 week old kitten. From the start, he was determined to be close to me; he managed to get in my lap from the floor in the first 5 minutes, constantly mewing. Ever since then, I let him do what he wanted to, including leaving a door open 24/7 so he could go in and out as he wished. Sometimes, I didn’t see him for days, which was nerve-wracking, but as my father did me; no rules. He let the environment dictate to me what was right or wrong in my teenage years, and I turned out pretty good. All 8 of my siblings did also, though they were all late bloomers, by society’s measurement. I, on the other hand, ended up not quite measuring up to those same standards; both failing college and in the work environment completely, because of an accident on my 19th birthday, which left me paralyzed from the nipples down along with a Traumatic Brain Injury(TBI). So I had an excuse for not succeeding in the world. So great! No expectations. It sucked, actually, until Zeus entered the picture. I was finally needed! Yes, by only a cat, but what a great cat he turned out to be.

And still am, thank you!!! Little did Jacques know, I was observing him to see if he should be the only human allowed in the Cat Collective. After several rigorous tests covering the 6 years, I decided he was the one to convey our message . . . One day, while writing political musings, he start writing laws about how cats were to be treated while they were in his house; like if I was touched in any way for sniffing anyone’s plate of food, there’s the exit!!! I was so proud of this human, so I cured him of his brain injury . . .

Yes, that was weird, going from having a 19 year fog on the brain to having none at all the millisecond I finished writing that Cat Declaration of Independence. I knew the power of pet therapy, but wow, this was totally cool. I thought of calling my doctor and telling him what had happened when something inside of me stopped me. I still sounded brain injured(slurring was still obvious), and there were no real tests to prove my assertion. I told some of my family and friends, but to no avail. So, after a few days, I reverted to imitating my old, brain injured self. It wasn’t that difficult to fake.

Then, one night, after he grew comfortable with his old self, I told him, by telepathy, to go outside naked into the night to the end of his driveway, which he did . . . This proved that the connection between us was a solid one, and that Jacques was ballsy enough to attempt something such as this document.

Besides that once, I might add, Zeus never told me, nor will, to do anything, ever. My actions are entirely my doing, my choice. Zeus acts just as an intimate friend and a devil’s advocate, constantly making sure that I am acting completely on my own alone. These are my quatrains.

TUNA BREAK

Interview I

Why exactly are you making yourself known to the world now, Zeus?

On behalf of the animal kingdom, to remind you why you are here, as well as possibly enlighten you about your possible future . . . your distant future . . . Let’s see, search back in your earlier readings for possible clues . . .

Well, there’s the Christian bible, which, if I’m not mistaken, says something to the effect about us taking care of this planet, and in return we get to play in this kingdom.

Yes, the Old Testament, I believe, says it . . . Specifically, the Book of Genesis . . . But, I was thinking even earlier . . .

That has to be the history of the Roman Empire, which was covered in my Latin classes at the Abbey school. Those classes covered the rise and fall of that empire. It covered their many conquests, daily life, democratic life, and the eventual demise at the hands of whom I forget now.

Yes, that was bloody, though glorious era for you humans . . . But, when you were even younger, Jacques???

Younger . . . I used to love Greek mythology, as a child. But, those were just a collection of fables about Zeus, Hera, Apollo, and the rest of the gods, that the early Greeks used to worship.

Bingo!!! And, what people do the Greek gods act like, today???

Well, Americans, I guess, except we don’t have flying horses(Pegasus), flying chariots, and such.

Yet, you mean . . . Geneticists and engineers of the future will, tomorrow, but that is provided there is a tomorrow . . . Which, sorta looks 50/50 now, as terrorism has become a worthy foe of the western civilization . . . They’re even willing to sacrifice their future(kids) in the name of Jihad . . . But, let’s back up a bit, shall we???

You mean back to your point about us being like the Greek Gods? It’s been so long since my childhood . . . Didn’t Jesus Christ(monotheism) replace the gods(polytheism) concept?

True, but not entirely . . . You see, the Christian god is split into 3 separate, yet equal, units; The father, the son, and the holy spirit . . . Now, what sort of union does that seem like???

Uh, a democratic one? It couldn’t be that easy?

Yes, it can!!! You, as a whole, were, and are, too caught up with the past, and those things old . . . It seems the older it is, the more truthful it is, which is weird, as we cannot examine the motivations of the authors, for they are merely kitty litter, by now . . .

Do you mean no matter how many times the Christian bible is revised and reinterpreted, it isn’t more truthful, or applicable to today, yesterday’s tomorrow? Are you saying that this applies to other documents, such as the Constitution?

Yes . . . The forefathers, though sacred to most, are dead and don’t live in today’s world, meaning they had little chance of talking to the business end of AK-47 . . . Sure, they provided ways of changing their document, but it has become so constipated in Washington by BUSINESS and other special interest lobbies to be incapable of doing much meaningful anymore . . .

Whoa, Zeus, are you implying that business, as it has evolved, has no right to be