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
History
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,
Life
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
Humanity
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
Humanity
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
Agnosticism
Must Spiritual Belief be an Either/Or? (c) 2023 by VernonMilesKerr and VernonMilesKerr.com Is spiritual-belief an either/or situation? Must we either, carefully purge our minds of any primal remnant of curiosity about unseen, non-physical forces which might be affecting us and the universe — or, must we succumb to
Religion
KNOCK, KNOCK, KNOCK (c) 2023 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com KNOCK... KNOCK... KNOCK... DOC-trine... DOC-trine... DOC-trine... The sound of the lid Being nailed on the box Where God is kept, Safely managed, Bound and packaged, Simplified, Demystified, Proprietized, And monetized.
Theology
Is There a God of Hate? (c) 2023 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com FirstCuppaJoe for Tue Mar. 21 (thread) Today’s #MorningMeditations yielded these topics: #Visions #TheGodOfHate V I S I O N S Once, I read an article saying that there’s a state between sleep and
MAGA
The Cognitive Dissonance of Putin’s “Anti- Nazi” Stance (c)2023 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com FirstCuppaJoe for Mon. Mar. 20 (thread) During my #MorningMeditations it suddenly dawned on me why the Nazis in Germany murdered 6 Million Jews. Just like our fascistic version of Nazis: the MAGA-Republicans,
Humanity
“psi,” Science or Pseudo-science? (c)2023 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com FirstCuppaJoe for Sun Mar. 19 (thread) I keep thinking and meditating about the article that @LisaChristiePhD shared on the subject of “psi.” **(link below) Is this “science” or is it “pseudo-science”? Is the Universe (or Multi-verse, or
Humanity
Religion Boxed-in (c) 2023 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com In my FirstCuppaJoe on Twitter, today I started with these hashtags: #FromTheEther #Darwin was an #AngelOfGod Yes, Angel of God. All those ages of dinosaurs, when they came and went, were for a purpose. Those hundreds of eons and
Democrats
ThePlanet We’ve Inherited (c) 2023 by Vernnon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com FirstCuppaJoe for Tue Mar. 14 (thread) Brethren, (brothers and sisters) our mothers plopped us into a totally unique moment in world history, when a largely agricultural world, was developing into a vast, worldwide technological one which is
C H R O N O S (c) 2023 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com Time seems a river, An eternal, fluid flow, Toward the edge of all that is, Where it plunges into depths beyond human ken. Time seems infinitely divisive: We film nanoscopic slices of it — But
Humanity
What is Sin? (2023) by Vernon Miles Kerr, and VernonMilesKerr.com That old Catholic mantra for the confessional booth, “Forgive me Father, for I have sinned,” has a good side and a bad side, a yin and a yang. The good-side is that, as averse as humans are at protecting
Agnosticism
Beyond Armageddon (c)2013, 2023 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com Intro to the 2023 Version Yesterday, I remembered a line from this unfinished novel when posting a Tweet on Twitter . I found the Word doc on my Google Drive. Amazingly, ten years had elapsed since I started it,