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Let's Talk About The M Word

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Hi! Happy Saturday! Louis CK just may be ruining the M word and I would like to take a moment to rush to M's defense. Masturbation may be a word with even more social stigma than just telling someone to "Go Fuck Yourself." I fuck myself when needed. You should too if needed. Even when you are married. No, especially when you are married.  Masturbation is just one of a bezillion things where it is easy to prove you can lump all religions into the same bucket and stereotype them all as evil. All religions get the morality of masturbation wrong. Every. Single. One. Therefore,  all religions are evil. See how easy that is? In fact the basis for stereotyping all religions as the same is that they simply pre-date science and therefore get things wrong from just making crap up. One could make the argument that monkeys flinging poo and doing M in public may just be onto something. :P I need to explain my definition of atheist  just to make clear here about what I

Loving Gun Debate

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Hi! Happy Tuesday! Just a reminder that "I want ____" or "I don't want _____" is sufficient justification to vote. In addition, couple this notion with the fact that the only requirement for amending the U.S. Constitution is a set of majority votes of no justification then it is possible to have a loving gun debate. Just a reminder that Irreni World Scale is about solutions, not punditry and today's solution is about having a loving gun debate. I don't like guns. For me this is enough justification to amend the US constitution to  repeal and replace the 2nd Amendment. For me I want an amendment to ban private ownership of guns and then to dump all the privately owned guns into either the Atlantic or Pacific Ocean. This is my gun position. If you feel differently that's great, see you at the voting booth. And this works as a loving gun debate. There is nothing in the US Constitution that says a priest, preacher or otherwise holy person has t

The Amercian Anthem: Drawing Cartoons of Muhammed

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Hi! Happy Thursday! Irreni World Scale is about solutions, not political punditry. This solution presented is how to think about the current national turmoil about NFL players taking the knee during the playing of the national anthem. No one can disrespect anyone unless someone lets them. That's worth repeating: No one can disrespect anyone unless someone lets them. What is the correct morality with respect to this national outrage? What is good? The Good: No one can disrespect anyone unless someone lets them. The Evil: Anything else. When I was but a wee young lad I read a couple of books that brought this point home to me. One is a book by Piers Anthony, "Xanth",  Worthless people's opinions are worthless. -Piers Anthony, "Xanth" Another book with a positive spin on the same message is, "Dorsai!", by Gordon Dickinson. I respect those people's opinion whose opinion I respect. -Gordon Dickinson, "Dorsai!

How To: Women in Science

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Hi! Happy Sunday! Okay, I'd like to provide a handy reference for discussing human nature and public policy. Yesterday the white nationalists were protesting the removal of Confederate statues in Charlottesville, North Carolina. Then there is the internal Google memo about the human nature differences between women and men when it comes to science. How does one think about these things? I want to compare these two events for a specific reason: in one case differences in human nature are considered, in the other they are not. Most of us find the moral arguments of white nationalists morally repugnant without any need for a scientific debate on the superiority of white people. Even if white people are naturally superior that fact is irrelevant morally. Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness is human nature blind, everyone should treated as equals independent of human nature advantages. And yet with the internal Google memo the biological differences between men and women

Evidenced versus Atheist

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Hi! Happy Thursday! This is an open letter to David Silverman, President of American Atheists. First, a couple of atheist videos of a 2016 David Ruben, Ruben Report  and a 2012 Cara Santa Maria, The Point. Both hour-long videos are well met discussions about atheism today. If you are not an atheist and are curious about atheism today then these two, one-hour-long interview videos are a good start in understanding atheism today. The videos are not debates with religious folk and do not include religious folk. The videos are interviews of atheists talking about atheism in the modern era. In this letter I argue the campaign for labelling the non-religious should be for the term "evidenced" and not "atheist". The two videos are included because I'm going to reference each. The title of the Rubin Report episode is "Atheism Deconstructed" which is my topic here as well. First off I do not believe anyone can reverse the pejorative

MakeLoveNotPorn

Hi! Happy Monday! This post is a response to a podcast that I just listened to over at TechCruch. https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/21/makelovenotporns-cindy-gallop-talks-about-the-future-of-love/ Hi! Cindy! Below I argue: For SexTech to thrive then women need to have full education world-wide. To whit, your ambitions are not large enough. I believe your ambitions should include nothing less than the full and complete education of every single woman on the planet. This is an open letter to Cindy, or rather extended comments regarding the podcast on TechCrunch. Well done! and Well met! Bravo on the SexTech cause and the energy. Your enthusiasm is a warm welcome.  My comments here are a response to a couple of points made in the podcast: Sex funding as a taboo in Silicon Valley is the only taboo. "All The Sky" fund name for a SexTech fund.  Silicon Valley Taboos I briefly perused the MakeLoveNotPorn web site and verified what was seemingly apparent in t

The Innovation Will Be Typewritten

Hi! Happy Friday! This is a fun post. The title of the song is "The Revolution Will Be Typewritten." Of course we here at Irreni World Scale don't advocate revolution, but innovation. The Revolution Will Be Typewritten by The Boston Typewriter Orchestra

We The People Are Accountable

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Hi! Happy Sunday! Today's topic is we the people are accountable. To this end we need modern communication tools, tools provided by Irreni World Scale. Irreni World Scale is about solutions and not punditry. Today's solution is about communication actually. Irreni World Scale is founded on the principle of practiced communication to resolve moral relativity differences in order create effective public policy. Specifically the communication tool solutions are the Device of Loving Life (DoLL) and the Vote Bank. Donald Trump is not the problem. We are. We the people are accountable in a free country. How do we exercise and communicate our accountability? Traditionally the answer to that question was the media. From its inception the Fourth Estate has always been suspect. Thomas Jefferson had his own newspaper that had an unfair advantage as it was published in multiple languages. The publisher was a Frenchman and a linguist who spoke seven languages. Boom! Our for

Not Agreeing Better!

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Hi! Happy Wednesday! Irreni World Scale is about solutions, not punditry. Today's solution is how to "not agree" better by use of "I don't know." We are all only human. We are all each others keeper. We are all humans sharing in the experience of denial, cognitive dissonance and group  think. Therefore we depend on each other to pull back the emotional curtains so we can accept reality as it is and not how we wish it to be. By accepting our shared human nature we can "not agree" better. Q: "Did Russia hack purposely influence the Presidential election?" A: "I don't know." You might be asking, "But what about the stories being reported in the news?" What about them? When I read the news the first question that I use to evaluate the news is this: Does the information rise to the level of decision making? If the answer to this question is "no" then I form no opinion which means

Thinking Smarter

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Hi! Happy New Year! First blog post of the year 2017 is a simple tip: think human nature. Remember, Irreni World Scale is about bringing you solutions, not punditry. Tip: Think human nature not free will. It is human nature that corruption is politics. Plato in his book "The Republic" describes this nature. Good people won't compromise their ethics and because of this good people will not enter politics. This was true in 60 BC and 2,000 years later is still true today. Good people in politics is an anomaly that has to be promoted. Cicero wrote about it, John Adams adopted it, this philosophy, and created a system of checks and balances that allows corruption and enables good people. This system, however, has finally been overwhelmed and is failed. It is human nature that the US government has been overwhelmed with corruption. Financial success breeds greed which breeds corruption.  The middle class in the US is on the decline. There has been a massive shift