Evolution of Historucal Knowledge
History: Written in, But Not Set in Stone. ©2021 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com – Originally posted to Twitter in rough-draft 11/29/2021 Today’s “#FirstCuppaJoe” column on Twitter, spell-checked and spiffed up: #FirstCuppaJoe for 11/29 (thread) This morning’s meditations are inspired by my current reading
Poetry
It Ain’t Poetry © 2021 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com – Posted to Twitter in rough-draft on 11/28/2021 I write a daily “column” on twitter under the hashtag “#FirstCuppaJoe”. These are a report on my caffein-aided meditations each morning. What you might find each day is kind
Agnosticism
More on The God-shaped Hole © 2021 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com – Originally posted as a rough-draft to Twitter on 11/22/2021 The little two-paragraph blog post, below, has gotten a bit of response. In it, I propose a possible “earthly” explanation for people’s longing for contact
The World Through Blinders © 2021 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com – originally posted to Twitter as rough-draft on 11/20/2021 Judging by the news that we are “allowed” to see by Mainstream Media and the Internet-feeds, like Apple & Google, the world seems to be slipping into an
Agnosticism
That God-shaped Hole © 2021 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com – Originally posted to Twitter as a rough draft on 11/18/2021 During my 20-year journey, from atheism to #Religiosity, with a jail-break to agnosticism, the church said, “There’s a God-shaped hole in everyone that’s yearning to
Humanity
American Police Racism © 2021 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMileKerr.com – Posted as a rough-draft to Twitter on 11/17/2021 I seriously doubt that “racism” in America is REALLY about skin pigmentation. I’ve worked with people from India who are every bit as dark-complected as any American Black
The Zen of the Commute Or How to Survive the Commute, and Life’s Frustrations Too ©2021 by Vernon Miles Kerr, VernonMilesKerr.com I live in Modesto, California, a decent community of 200,000 with a hell-acious hot summer, a gloomy, moldy, London-like winter and a pretty nice spring and
Absentee Parenting
More on Juvenile Gangs © 2021 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com – Originally posted as a rough-draft to Twitter on 11/15/21 #JuvenileGangs (thread) I think maybe the tweet, below. garnered the highest number of likes and re-tweets of any so far. But my followers comments about it got
Bacchanalia
The Air Up There © 2021 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com Origianlly posted as a first draft to Twitter (@kerr_vernon) on 11/12/2021 Until this morning, I hadn’t read the “About” blurb on my blog in years. In it, I tell about my favorite subject matter,
Good vs. Evil
Good vs. Evil ©2021 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com Are Good and Evil relative? Liberal scholars would have you think so. So much “liberal” thinking down through the ages has amounted to persons who have been accorded some level of scholarly authority justifying their own moral shortcomings by
Humanity
Pride ©2021 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com In today’s society, at least in America, we are cajoled, urged and lambasted to have “pride.” Pride for our race, pride for our gender (or lack of same) and pride for our school, are only a few examples. We’ve
Celebrity Worship
Celebrity Worship ©2021 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com — Originally posted to Twitter as a rough-draft on October 31, 2021 I spent some time on the “Barbara Streisand” trend on Twitter this morning. I came away puzzled. I agree, she has one of the most beautiful singing voices in
Democracy
Three Modern Miracles, Ruined ©2021 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com Are most people kind and unselfish? One really begins to question that, after seeing three, totally miraculous, and potentially positive forces for humanity’s advancement be ruined — almost to the point of being unusable. Alexander Graham Bell might
Ecology
Ecology as AI ©2021 by Vernon Miles Kerr, VernonMilesKerr.com Originally posted to Twitter on 10/27/2021 #FirstCuppaJoe for 10/27/21 (thread) My incaffeinated reverie this morning yielded this: The Earth, for billions of years has been running an Artificial Intelligence (AI) program. Like a little mouse, negotiating
Stuff ©2021 by Vernon Miles Kerr, VernonMilesKerr.com What is the Universe, but just, stuff? Can you imagine no stuff? Was there ever, no stuff? If so, where did stuff come from? Energy? What is "energy" without stuff? Isn't heat just stuff, doing some kind of
Agnosticism
A Secular Prayer ©2021 by Vernon Miles Kerr, VernonMilesKerr.com Dear God, I’ll call You “God,” not from Faith, but from mere belief. Maybe someday it will be from pure faith. But now I only believe that You are there, reigning over this universe and the multitude of possible