This is the first post of many, taking advantage of the special features in the Ghost Application. Hopefully, the power of "Ghost" will open up countless resources for the reader/subscriber. For the writer, (myself being one) it eases the writing and organizing tasks, allowing rapid development and
©2023 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com FirstCuppaJoe for Mon Jul 3 (thread) Who said “Religion is the opiate of the people”? I googled it. It was Karl Marx. This is from PoliticalDictionary.com Writing in 1843, in a relatively obscure work about the philosophy of Hegel, Marx argued
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Time Is Not a Stream ©2023 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com Time is not a stream But many streams, Eternally branching rivulets of lava On the volcano of History. Time is not a dimension, It cannot be used for measuring. It is too flakey — changing with Velocity or
Agnosticism
A re-dux. Since the short time that’s elapsed from when I posted this article, I’ve been convicted to change my focus in addressing the “religious” taint, that humans have suffered from, not only the Judeo-Christian, but from all it’s derivations and even separate “religious” threads that humans
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The Big Picture ©2023 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com Is Human Life Futile? During my furious writing activity, especially after retirement, my thinking on the “big picture” has evolved. I wrote the following poem in 2009 as a despondent cry, when I realized that my own life and
Agnosticism
Questioning the Bible is Not Blasphemy ©2023 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com Organized Religion builds barriers and charges a “toll” to go through. The ancient Temple in Jerusalem had a section for worship and, behind an impossibly multi-layered and heavy veil, a “holy of holies” where the presence
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“I Don’t Know” © 2023 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com Religion #Faith #Agnosticism So called, “Christianity” rejected Science in the 19th and 20th Centuries. The truth coming out of the layers of Earth’s rocky crust belied the Bible’s story of Earth’s “creation.” “How could God
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Humanity on the Precipice FirstCuppaJoe for Tue 5/23 (thread) If there’s a Supreme Being, do you think it’s interested in what a race of evolved apes in an obscure little corner of the Universe is doing to destroy itself? Mathematically, there must be other races of evolved
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Dealing with Impending Death © 2023 Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com I just now, read a well-written (but, sadly, posthumous) article in the Atlantic, “Growing My Faith in the Face of Death,” by TIMOTHY KELLER, a prominent Presbyterian Pastor, about his coming to terms with a diagnosis of terminal pancreatic
My Cancer Odyssey: Update Hi Everyone, I had my post PET-Scan visit with my oncologist yesterday. The results were “not the best,” in her words. The formulation of chemo ingredients (Carboplatin and Etopocide) seems no longer effective. The number of metastases in the lungs have slightly increased and some slightly
Humanity
Human History’s Singular Kernel of Causation ©2023 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com To understand anything, my “attention-challenged” brain must analyze — break the subject-matter down to its component parts. If it’s a very conplicated “anything,” in order to understand it further, I have to prioritze those parts
California Travel
©2023 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com The infusion center where I get my chemotherapy sessions is only a mile from the hotel where I stay in Roseville, California. These pictures document that little walk, taken on, a very rare, nice day, during the harsh Spring of 2023. You
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C a l i f o r n i a ! ©2023 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com Once a Wilderness Cherished and groomed By Indigenous, Later stomping-ground of The Spanish. Who with Cowboy help, Stompped-down The indigenous. Immigration magnet, World economic power. World purveyor of progressive thought, Whose problems,
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You, Fickle Elixir of Hope © 2023 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com Bitterly delicious blower-away of morning groggy, Elixir, layering hope upon hopeless thoughts, Possiblities upon a sea of doubts: Why do you not stay longer? Would that medical science Create a timed-release version of you So that my
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Yin and Yang ©2014, 2018, 2023 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com As do the Yin and Yang, The black and white, Of that ancient Asian dichotomy, So, also the antipodes of Human Nature Revolve in nauseating monotony: Sumos exchanging brooding glares before the lunge. The meth-addicted darkness Rolls
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There’s Bucket-lists … and, Then, There’s Bucket-lists (c) 2023 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com I have been shouting into this deep, dark cave, called “Twitter,” for 8 years now—ever since the Trump-Clinton campaign in 2015. Looking back, my subject-matter hasn’t changed much. At 72, I