The ultimate intention of Catholicism is the restoration of the Holy Roman Empire. That has always been the ambition, at least covertly, but now it is being promoted overtly and openly.

The purpose of this article is only to make that intention clear. It is not a criticism of Catholics or Catholicism (unless you happen to think a Catholic dictatorship is not a good thing).

Spec. Bradley Manning has been charged with providing the website WikiLeaks.org with a video of a US helicopter shooting unarmed civilians in Iraq and releasing thousands of secret US documents exposing corruption and incompetence in the Afghan War, and the US government is now at war with Wikileaks, and its founder and editor Julian Assange.

During a recent exchange of comments to one of my columns, I was reminded of a point I've intended to document for a long time. That point has to do with the concept of universals and a much neglected twelfth century philosopher, Peter Abelard. Peter Abelard demolished the concept of Aristotelian, "forms," but rescued the nature of concepts from what would become in, lesser minds, "nominalism," of which most commentators falsely accuse Abelard.

Used to be, cops were the good guys, and the robbers were the bad guys; now the cops and robbers are the same people. They both steal people's property--when a crook does it, it's still called robbery; when the cops do it, it's called asset forfeiture.

The violation of principles is like poison. You cannot violate a principle a little bit, and you cannot take a little bit of poison.

Dennis Avery's good article, Making Good Science Decisions is a good expose of the media-fed paranoia that has terrified the public into fearing anything that comes from science or technology. There is one paragraph in that article, however, which is not true.

This question actually comes from a response to one of my articles. I'm using it because it is an example of a common misunderstanding about Rand. Here is the question:

Like a petulant child, Obama commands, "Plug the damn hole." It's his solution to the British Petroleum (BP) oil spill. He's given the order, why hasn't it happened?

"Barack Obama, President of the United States of America," has committed the most despicable of abominations. As official U.S. policy, the month of June has been designated a month to "celebrate" lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender mental ailments as something to be proud of. I suspect the next proclamation will be the designation of a month to celebrate pica, self-cutting, BIID, and bulimia as things to be proud of.

President Obama wants the U.S. to ratify the U.N.'s Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), which will essentially give the government total control of our children, not only during school hours, but 24 hours a day in our homes.

First some good news...ah...well not so bad news, unless you consider what it means about that state of what is called science these days, and the fact that such nonsense can be published with a "straight face," so to speak.

I am certainly not opposed to the so-called Tea-Party Movement, and if wishes would work, I would wish them success. Unfortunately, wishes do not work, and neither will the Tea-Pary Movement. There is one real danger in the Tea Parties, which I'm afraid are giving too many people a false hope of changing things in American politics, and of course giving those participating a false sense of "doing something."

My intention here is not convince anyone or convert them to my views, but, for those who get worked up over my views, and feel they just have show me the errors of my way, I wish to save them some trouble, by showing there is hardly an argument for the pseudo-concept "intellectual property," I have not already encountered, considered, and addressed. For those who have their own suspicions about the validity of the intellectual property concept, but have not been able to put those doubts into a concrete form, these notes may help them do that.

In one sense, the questions of ethnicity can probably never be answered with any technical precision. It is like asking, what is a Moor? What is a Jew? Who knows? The Sephardic Jews may very well be Spanish, and the Ashkenazi Jews Slavic, (at least mixtures), although they go to a lot of trouble to demonstrate they are "genetically" Jewish.

Most people assume there is little distinction between Arabs and Muslims. It is the reason educators, politicians, media news people and commentators all repeat ignorant expressions like "Arab Terrorism."

Will someone please tell these lying leftists to please SHUT UP!!! Nobody believes them anymore, and everyone knows the entire environmental movement is about nothing but power, and money.

This is a follow up to the first "Ask Regi" article. That question was essentially about the availability of homeschooling curricula and material other than that which is mostly Christian or Biblically oriented.

In my article, "Education and Children," I wrote: "Unfortunately, to some extent, almost everyone has bought the ideas of the Prussian model of education, and even homeschoolers frequently implement many of those same wrong principles in their efforts to educate their children."

When there is a problem of any kind, the problem must first be identified, the cause of the problem discovered, and a solution applied which eliminates that cause. Too often a problem is identified, and assumed to be it's own cause, and like a mouse in the pantry, the solution used is to blow it away with a 12 gauge short gun, never mind the damage it does to the pantry. The problem is gone, but so is all the food. Wrong solution.

I have my first "Ask Regi" question, and it is a bit of a surprise. As the writer mentions, it is "non-philosophical,"--or is it?

If you want to learn who is standing up for the principles on which this country was founded, the principles of individual liberty and freedom to pursue one's life without the interference of the government, then go to the ADL (Anti-defamation League), and the SPCL (Southern Poverty Law Center).

The freedom of religion and speech means that every individual is free to express what they believe in any terms they choose, and it does not matter where they are or when it is (except on someone else's private property), whether in a government school or the chambers of government assemblies, they have that freedom of religion and speech.

What we think of as physical pleasure and pain are indicators of the state of various parts of our bodies. Normally, pain indicates that there is something wrong, and pleasure is the reward for doing something right, that is, beneficial and required by our physiological nature, such as the pleasure of eating or sleeping.

Speaking of countries, what about the United States. When someone says, "I love my country," or as J.D. Longstreet puts it: "Understand - I grew up in an America where 'American Exceptionalism' was not only understood, even taught in our public schools, but was simply a way of life! We were unashamedly, unapologetically, AMERICANS!"

Philosophers frequently refer to the human mind, but what is meant by the mind is seldom made explicit, and when it is made explicit, it is confused, or simply wrong. My purpose here is to make explicit exactly what the mind is, and ultimately to make the important distinction between the mind and what is frequently and mistakenly included in that concept, the feelings and emotions.

I've mentioned before that I publish Chuck Baldwin's articles on the Autonomist because it is a free market of ideas, and in this country, that market consists of many Christian spokesman. I do not believe in God, but find many who do to be good neighbors, and we agree on many principles, particularly those of individual liberty and the importance of values and absolutes.

Perhaps because I am an individualist others find me difficult to understand, or perhaps it is because most people have preconceived ideas about everyone else, but whatever the reason, people constantly make assumptions about me, and my views, which are just not correct. I don't really care that they do, but some of the assumptions are rather amusing.

The following are the words of anarchist, Emma Goldman. They are a description of America and the American government, and the society resulting from it. Though published in 1934, the description would require little change to make it an up-to-date description of America today.

If you expect this to be organized, you'll be disappointed. I have a lot of material, bits and pieces that I cannot bring myself to throw away, so here I am dumping them on you.

Not exactly earth-shattering, but perhaps useful, I've added a new feature to the Independent Individualist/Autonomist. In the left column, following the Alphabetical List of all Independent Individualist articles, there is now a list of Latest Comments.

First, some basics. Everything that exists must in some way be different from everything else that exists. If two things were identical in every possible way, they would not be two things, but the same thing. What makes things different are their attributes (or qualities, or characteristics).

I wrote in the introduction to the article on life that the physical relative qualities account for all the characteristics of material existence called physical. "What they cannot account for is that aspect of material existence called life."

Paleo Ideal

Like this: Get NeanderThin on the Cave Man Diet. But it's a lot more than diet, it's a whole way of life.

Perhaps nothing more clearly illustrates American decadence than the fact those who claim to be followers of that philosophy which most clearly enunciates the principles America was founded on, have become advocates of so many things that philosophy rightly condemns. That philosophy is Objectivism, and the philosopher who named it is Ayn Rand.

Western philosophy begins with the Greeks of Miletus, in Asia Minor--Anaximander, Thales, and Anaximenes.

I know everyone has dismissed my conspiracy theory about the water supplies of the world being infected with prions, but I defy anyone to come up with a better explanation for this. You don't have to believe it if you don't want to, but if you find yourself mumbling things like, "La ilaha illa Allah, Muhammadur rasoolu Allah," and have an urge to fall on your knees five times a day, you better lay off the water.

In philosophy, the study of the nature of knowledge is perhaps the most important branch of philosophy, though not the fundamental one. (Metaphysics is the fundamental one.) In that study there are two very important concepts: abstraction and symbols. Almost all of philosophy is mistaken about the nature of both abstraction and symbols as they relate to knowledge.

Here's my conspiracy theory. I do not have any facts that anyone else doesn't have, but those facts don't seem to mean the same thing to everyone else. When I look at today's world all I see is madness, insanity, absurdity and evil. Everyone else seems to think everything is just ducky. I'm sure someone, some power, some evil genius has found a way to infect most of the world's water with prions, which have turned everyone's brains into sponges.

Do any of these mean anything to you? - critical theory, deconstruction, critical thinking, postmodernism, semiotics, dialectics, or hermeneutics? These are some of the words and phrases used by those in academia, literature, psychology, education, and the MSM to complete the destruction of the American mind.

In my article, Critical Thinking About Critical Thinking," I gave some examples of anti-reason anti-mind ideas that are being foisted on every aspect of culture and society by the cultural Marxists and postmodernists. Some of those ideas are so evil, it is easy to dismiss them as mistakes, or unintentional. I assure you they are quite intentional, and every bit is dangerous as they seem. Here is the postmodernist side of this assault on knowledge and reason, in all it's glory.

They ought to be in jail, perhaps on death row. Frankly, I don't care how it's done, but someone has to shut these lying scam artists up. I'm delighted that others are finally waking up to what these climate-change fakes really are, like Australia's Bob Carter, but none of them really get it.

Most people will never study philosophy, and most would be unable to identify any particular idea as being the teaching of any particular philosopher. Nevertheless, most of the ideas people accept today were originally cooked up in the minds of philosophers, and propagated throughout society through the work of the MSM and our educators.

I was asked recently if there were a good source providing a brief overview of the major philosophers and philosophy. I am not sure there is anything, especially online, exactly like that, but can certainly see that something like that could be very useful. This will be an ongoing project along with the others I'm currently engaged in.

We're waiting for relief. The natives are threatening riots. No water, no electricity, no heat, no Internet, no TV. Zimbabwe has better infrastructure. Think I'll move there. At least it won't be cold.

In my February 6 "Regi Says" I explained that even though I am not a theist, or religious, I publish articles regardless of the beliefs of the authors, because that is what a "Free Market of Ideas," is. I mentioned conservative pastor Chuck Baldwin as an example.

There is a problem in America, and there is no solution to it, I'm afraid. American society is now dominated by people so ignorant and stupid, they are incapable of understanding truth, any truth at all.

I no longer use the word "capitalism" to mean a "free market." A free market is an economic or business environment unfettered by any government intrusion, regulation, or interference.

He's not the first to be pestered to death, and surely won't be the last. There is only so much an individual can bear, especially if they are creative, self-sufficient, and want nothing more in this life but enjoy the product of their efforts and to be left alone.

If you're reading this, you're no doubt asking yourself, "Why did this have to happen?" The simple truth is that it is complicated and has been coming for a long time. The writing process, started many months ago, was intended to be therapy in the face of the looming realization that there isn't enough therapy in the world that can fix what is really broken.

Environmentalists have announced their fifth conference concerning endangered species--this year's conference will address the alarmism concerning the Egyptian Phoenix. "We strongly suspect the Phoenix is hoax. Not one has been spotted in the wild for some time now," leading environmental peer-reviewed scientist and chief bottle washer, Dr. Imani Diot said.

One of the changes in education that has been most disastrous is the change in emphasis from principles and concepts to an emphasis on content and results. The former emphasis was based on the essential nature of humans as volitional beings who are required by their natures to live by conscious choice. The purpose of that education was to provide students with the tools needed to make proper choices in life. It was based on the belief the most important social values are individual integrity, competence, and responsibility.

I was right, of course, but am not happy about it. Being an American and part of Western Civilization was once a thing to be proud of. Both are now totally corrupt and so gullible, they are taken in by any fraud or huckster, or any second-rate thug who threatens them. It is pitiful.

Ayn Rand once wrote: "In any conflict between two men (or two groups) who hold the same basic principles, it is the more consistent one who wins." In fact, however, even when two groups hold opposite principles, it is the more consistent that will win, because the inconsistent have surrendered some principles to the other side.

Well this article starts out wrong form the beginning:

"Khamenei, whose public statements should be taken seriously ..."

In 1945 and again in 1948, my adventurous parents made two long trips exploring the United States, each time starting from a very old city in New England named Peabody. It was originally named Danvers, and included what is now Salem, the one famous for witches.

It is unfortunate that these days almost no one, and no organization, that has assumed the name Objectivist or Objectivism for themselves, either understands or properly represents that philosophy, which was named "Objectivism" by its author, Ayn Rand, whom they also largely misunderstand and misrepresent.

It Won't Happen--Regi Sticks His neck Out

Perhaps you've seen the latest dire doomsday predictions: Senators Warned of Terror Attack on U.S. by July, "And one by one, Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair, CIA Director Leon Panetta and FBI Director Robert Mueller all agreed an attack was "certain."

Most have probably given up waiting, but I am at long last seriously attacking the job of moving lost files to a permanent home on the Independent Individualist.

Some are beginning to see what I and others have been saying for 25 years, that the entire AGW fraud is just that, a huge scam and a lie. (This scam began to develop in the 1970s.) It is not just global warming that is a lie, the entire environmentalist movement is a lie, and even some of those who understand that still repeat such meaningless bromides as, "I believe in being environmentally responsible," and, "we are stewards of the earth." If you believe any of those things, be a good steward of whatever portion of the earth you have earned the money to buy. You have no claim on or responsibility for any other part of it.

The controversial nationally syndicated radio broadcaster, Alex Jones, has made his blockbuster video, Fall Of The Republic available free to the public. Regardless of what you think of Alex Jones, this is a "must see" video for everyone.

While some are advocating some kind of armed resistance, and others think a second civil war may be inevitable, even necessary, (having forgotten, perhaps, the horrors of the first, from which the South has never totally recovered), a revolution of striking producers has advantages over force that may not be immediately apparent.

I am not a pacifist, but there is a common view that if you do not agree with that class of people who always see as the first solution to any problem, killing people and destroying things, you are classified as a pacifist anyway.

Is there a second American Revolution brewing? Perhaps there should be. The following by Jim Robinson, founder and owner of Free Republic is an example of the growing mood and attitude of people in America.

A strike. It is your productive effort that is feeding the monster whom you serve. This parasitic beast called government depends on your continued productive effort. The monster will never take all you produce, even a monster knows the slaves have to eat. This monster only wants to take your "surplus," to confiscate what your productive skills and business ability make it possible for you to produce over and above what the monster decides you need.