Thanks for the Ride © 2020, 2022 by Vernon Miles Kerr, VernonMilesKerr.com Introduction August 2022 In 2020, faced by the likelihood that someone my age wouldn’t be around much longer, I started this autobiography—but was soon distracted. Now that my impending exit has been made even more likely, by a recent diagnosis of neuroendocrine carcinoma… Read More Autobiography | Thanks for the Ride
If there is a supreme intelligence, over-arching this and all other conceivable universes, and that intelligence is aware of us little primates, even designed our own evolution, for its own purposes, would it want physical sacrifice — any kind of physical sacrifice? … Read More Re-Tweets | Sacrifice
Past, Present, Future ©2022 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com October 3 #CancerOdyssey, #Insomnia & other #WeirdStuff (thread) I’m fasting for a PET scan later this morning. There have been two cycles of chemo now. So, this scan will give a picture of exactly how much the mass has shrunken. I awoke at 1:30 with… Read More Re-Tweets | Past, Present, Future
Stupid Humans (Doing the Same Stupid Trick, Over-and-over Again) ©2022 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com The Old Kerrmudgeon is in the room. It’s zero-six-fifty-four, STUPID Daylight Saving Time, on the Left Coast of North America. The Weather is boringly great, as usual. There’s been a Weather-High stalled over NorCal for days. Temps are… Read More Opinion | Stupid Humans
Questions ©2022 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com In human life, Oxymoron and cognitive-dissonance abound — Every mystery solved yields more. When did we awake from a contented existence of mere subsistence To a wondering annoyance of puzzlement over the overhead? Why didn’t we stay focused on the immediate and simply ignore the… Read More Poetry | Questions
November 24th will mark 163 years since the publication of Darwin’s Origin of the Species. Ever since, the battle has raged between science and fundamentalist Christianity as to which account of creation should be accepted: The Bible or Darwin?… Read More Re-Tweets | What’s It All About?
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