Vernon Kerr
Conservatism
#FirstCuppaJoe | Conservatism's Secret Source
Conservatism’s Secret Source ©2022 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com #FirstCuppaJoe for Apr 25 (thread) Today’s “meditational revelation” is that the world’s “right-wing” is living in a #FascistDreamWorld, so much so, that they cannot accept the scientific realities of the human species. For example, the silly
Pariah Russia
#FirstCuppaJoe | Pariah Russia
Pariah Russia ©2022 by Vernon Miles Kerr #FirstCuppaJoe for Apr. 24 (thread) It took a massive “world alliance” to stop the Third Reich, and about 50 years of “Allied Occupation” in Germany to remove the taint of what the Nazis had done. Given the fact that no effective alliance exists
American Heroes
Life | American Heroes in the Poker Game of Life
American Heroes in the Poker Game of Life ©2022 by Vernon Miles Kerr, and VernonMilesKerr.com There’s a common saying, here in America, often said when faced with a challenge which carries some unfortunate negative baggage, “Ya hafta play the cards that y’er dealt” We Americans love a
Humanity
Philosophy | And, More Time
And, More Time ©2022 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com I wrote yesterday, “Time is a construct of the human mind.” That’s not exactly accurate. Well, maybe it’s accurate as far as our mundane perspective goes, because, in our minds, the present doesn’t seem to exist
Philosophy
Philosophy | Time
Time ©2022 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com Time is a construct of the human mind. The present does not really exist: it is merely the impossibly thin, hurtling cursor that creates revealed reality. There is no future, except in human imagination: what is out beyond the cursor’s
#FirstCuppaJoe | Putin's "Noble Cause"
Putin’s “Noble Cause” ©2022 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com #FirstCuppaJoe for Apr 14 (thread) Didn’t it give you pause, when #Putin said his atrocity in Ukraine was for a #NobleCause? How could any “cause” justify the wanton targeting of innocent civilians? How about a #NewCrusade? Articles
Culture
#FirstCuppaJoe | What is Culture?
What is Culture? ©2022 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com #FirstCuppaJoe for Apr 13 (thread) What is #culture? What does it mean when people say, “I have to honor my culture?” What are they “honoring”? Culture can be so many things to so many people. It can be simply
Manufatured Heroes
#FirstCuppaJoe | Let's Lose the Divine Right of Kings ... Again!
Let’s Lose the Divine Right of Kings … Again! © 2022 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com – Originally posted to Twitter in rough draft on 4-5-2022 This horrific #PutinsFolly, following so close behind that unconscionable four years of #TrumpCatastrophe, has awakened me to another cancer that’ll somehow need to
Culture Clash
#FirstCuppaJoe | The Games People Play
The Games People Play © 2022 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com Games and Gaming are a huge deal nowadays. Computer games are probably now one of the Earth’s major industries, financially speaking. There are championship tourneys with attendance — and player “salaries” — akin to Major League Baseball. Tourney attendees,
Atheism
#FirstCuppaJoe | Humility
Humility ©2022 by Vernonn Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com What is man, that thou art mindful of him? Psalm 8:4 KJV For the past two or three years, I’ve written a daily “column” on Twitter, posted as a multi-part thread, under the hashtag, “#FirstCuppaJoe.” Previously it was entitled
Economis
ReTweets | The Galactic Corral
The Galactic Corral ©2022 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com …Polaris. I’m reminded of something from that old book of ancient wisdom, “What is man, that thou art mindful of him?” Indeed, how puny we are. We can’t even be seen from an altitude as small as
Agnosticism
Theology | The God of Nature
The God of Nature ©2022 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com “…to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them…” The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, 1776 There
Economics
Philosophy | Single Points of Failure
Single Points of Failure ©2022 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com – Posted as a rough draft to Twitter on 2/26/2022 How many of you are feeling how temporary things are, this morning? Modern technology can be used to get you, no matter how comfortable you are. Paratroopers
Humanity
Quickies | Where, or When was Eden?
The moment we humans gained Introspection, self-contemplation, soul-searching, was really our Eden. Did it happen all at once, or did it—like the rest of our bodies–evolve? If introspection evolved, why can’t we see it evolving in other animals? Koko the gorilla was our one emissary from the
Astronomy
Quickies | The James Webb's First Target
I just read an interesting NASA post about a fascinating little “solar” system only 41 light-years distant. It’s a tiny red-dwarf star, only a tenth the size of our Sun, called Trappist-1. And, it’s surrounded by seven Earth-sized, rocky planets. The star and all of seven of it’