Blind Faith ©2021 by Vernon Miles Kerr, VernonMilesKerr.com Originally posted to Twitter in rough draft on 09/10/2021 One doesn’t need Religiosity or Organized Religion to have #Faith and #Belief. I think we ALL need faith in order to makes sense of our brief existence. All religions,
Cause v. Effect
Cause vs Effect ©2021 by Vernon Miles Kerr, VernonMilesKerr.com Orignally posted to Twtter as a rough draft on 9/9/2021 By making a show of at least attempting to deal with the effects of an evil, our Politicians and Press fool us into letting them off the hook.
Humanity
But What Kind of Culture is Coalescing? ©2021 by Vernon Miles Kerr, VernonMilesKerr.com Orignally posted to Twtter as a rough draft on 9/5/2021 This is a follow up to the blog post of Sept. 3, 2021. For the reader’s convenience, that post is included in its
Humanity
A World Culture Coalescing ©2021 by Vernon Miles Kerr, VernonMilesKerr.com Orignally posted to Twtter as a rough draft on 9/3/2021 A few millennia ago, Earth was a like a planet of virtual human-habituated islands, separated by vast distances, sprinkled across a great global ocean. We humans had
Biblial Woes
A New Paradigm ©2021 by Vernon Miles Kerr, VernonMilesKerr.com Originally posted to Twitter as a rouigh draft on 8/20/2021 One’s mind can’t help but be inundated by the tsunami of news coming in daily. The Internet consumer’s view of the world is shaped by
Depression
More on Gratitude ©2021 by Vernon Miles Kerr, VernonMilesKerr.com Orignally posted as a rough draft to Twitter on 8/18/2021 FirstCuppaJoe for 8/18/21 A Tweeter asked, “the key to happiness is__ , no restriction on word count.” I answered in one word. #gratitude It even propelled me
Econo-Social Theories
Marxism by Any Other Name ©2021 by Vernon Miles Kerr, VernonMilesKerr.com Originally posted to Twitter as a rough draft August 9, 2021 A couple of our family members are big FoxNews fans so I have to sit through a lot of Fox’s bovine excrement. Today I had to
Conflict Resolution
Canaries and Other Critters ©2021 by Vernon Miles Kerr, VernonMilesKerr.com Originally posted as a rough draft to Twitter, August 8, 2021 Today’s #MorningMeditations were again rather negative. “Why was I placed on this Earth so ill-equipped to do much but just observe?” I spurn joining “groups,” maybe because
Co-Exist
Good News/Bad News ©2021 by Vernon Miles Kerr, VernonMilesKerr.com Originally posted as a rough draft to Twitter, August 7, 2021 #FirstCuppaJoe #MorningMeditations This a.m., out of habit, I started praying the “Our father…” Then my conversation turned to complaining about how confusing the Judaeo-Christian tradition is: “Modern
Bible Patriarchs
The Pendulum ©2021 by Vernon Miles Kerr, VernonMilesKerr.com Originally posted as a rough draft to Twitter on August 6, 2021 Humans are interesting because, instead of progressing from not-so-good to better in a straight-line, orderly fashion, we seem to swing like a pendulum from one unsavory extreme to another.
Citizens United
The Exercise Wheel ©2021 by Vernon Miles Kerr, VernonMilesKerr.com Posted as a rough draft to Twitter August 5, 2021 I wonder if people in the real world, the one beyond Twitter, waste as much time as we do debating politics. Are we in some kind of rodent exercise wheel,
Language: A Curse and a blessing
©2021 by Vernon Miles Kerr, VernonMilesKerr.com The Word In OUR beginning was the Word As without it, nothing in our Reality-of-Words could exist. What is real is what we say. We communicate our thoughts with Words And because our thoughts are chaotic, So are the Words, And the disease
America's Sorry Agenda
The Cuban Protests (c) 2021 by Vernon Miles Kerr, VernonMilesKerr.com We — ALL of us — Libs AND Conservatives, need to take a good, long, hard, introspective look at America’s history with Cuba. We supported a fascistic dictator because it advanced OUR business interests. How much grief did it cause
Humanity
(c) 2021 by Vernon Miles Kerr, VernonMilesKerr.com We are ALL lucky in one respect: As upsetting and hopeless as it seems, we have been “blessed” to be present to witness the greatest upheaval of social, religious, economic and political strife in the history of Humanity. No previous age compares
Ag Economy
DIY Art ©2021 by Vernon Miles Kerr, VernonMilesKerr.com Recently Tweeted: #FirstCuppaJoe My “quiet time” this morning was on the subject of DIY. No, not home-improvement projects, but #Art. Before humans enslaved each other in the Agriculture Industry, Art was collaborative. We sat around the fire after our hunting and
Autocracies ©2021 bt Vernon Miles Kerr, VernonMilesKerr.com From Twitter: #FistCuppaJoe My talk with the Universe this morning was all about Autocracy. It seems like humans would have learned by now, putting someone in as the one-and-only chief decision-maker of a nation is a bad idea. What with the fallibility