Tani says: You want to trash me and what I say because I challenge YOU and I challenge ALL YOUR POPES. That's IT in a nutshell. Don't think you know what I'm "aware" of because I don't put it in a post that is designed to CHALLENGE and NOT blather forth the as-givens as if one has to say "dictatorship of the MIM3 replies: This is more subjectivist trash, indicative of a problem with solipsism, lapsed into repeatedly. Can you imagine anyone studying physics saying don't read and refute Einstein? Would Tani get away with saying not to study and refute Darwin? No, but she is all set to dump MELSM (Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin and Mao), especially Lenin on empirio-criticism and solipsism. She calls them "Popes," thus adopting Jesuit tactics against materialism. That's her EXCUSE for not being able to LEAD these COS circles of hers or others toward genuine materialism. One has to wonder if she has that INTENTION even or if the WHOLE POINT is to get on board with the militant materialists to set them against their own teachings with subjectivism. That's certainly what the Jesuits did to the Protestants. Then Tani says in the same post no less: "What the hell kind of PURITAN, ETHNICAL, DOGMATIC almost like xian fundies that won't side with other xians because of some QUIBBLE over one line of scripture ---- you won't side with other leftists on TRADITIONALLY LEFT ISSUES?" MIM3 replies: See, when you DUMP science and take up subjectivism and solipsism, you are going back to "TRADITION" in capital letters no less. That is ALL you have to go on, that and ignorance, which ends up being tradition. Tani says: imperialist but do you want something WORSE than that? Do you want fascism instead of clinton? Go ahead. BE PURISTS on this issue. I know you will. Have fun calling other Reds "white nationalists" while the REAL white nationalists are half way to total power here. MIM3 replies: but can you rebut mystic Nazis and reborn Christians with MORE subjectivism and solipsism? No, I think not. It's not as easy as allying with Clinton as the tail on the dog. Tani says: I do not understand you. Or I was mistaken about you all. I thought you were THINKERS, able to handle challenges, MIM3 replies: No, MIM is not just "THINKERS." We belong to a scientific COMMUNITY. We are not interested in having people INVENT new religions and new POPES the way COS does. That's where we get off the boat with the Hobbesians at COS; your own god stuff as we have gotten into already in this discussion group-- it's no good. Here is Tani resuscitating this idea, when I thought this group was BETTER than that. Before you come and criticize us, maybe you better finish with COS! Adam Smith, Hobbes, libertarianism, eugenics, each persyn a god-- you have a lot of work to do! We don't give a shit about being "new" or "thinkers" the way Tani means. We don't give a shit about being intellectuals. They invent things for their OWN interests. We will give credit to people in the past --- Marx, Darwin, Stalin, Einstein, Mao, etc. We don't have to be "new." We are happy to be UNITED.