Philosophy
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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’
California
The Plains of California ©2022 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com Big gash on North America's face, Fully visible from space. Ohio with palm trees— Winter's Bowl of Foggy Frost Summer's scorchy slab of yellow grass And heat-shimmering vista of parallel rows of
Humanity
Humanity, the Gamut ©2022 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com Good-hearted nurturing people abound, As do parasitic thieving scoundrels. While mothers caress and coo, Whores flaunt their wares downtown. A caring physician, strokes a fevered brow While a Drug Lord in a storied mansion On a storied estate Shouts
emancipation
Emancipation ©2022 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com Before long, all over the globe, Jewish people (and even a few Christian sects) will begin the monumental spring-cleaning (de-leavening) that precedes Passover — an annual event which memorializes the greatest act of emancipation in history — well, if not in history, then
Anti-Gravity Propulsion
Where are those damned UFOs when ya need ’em? According to current UFO folklore, ever since Roswell, the “Deep State” has been negotiating with those “Grays” for stuff like anti-gravity propulsion in exchage for I-dunno-what, along with a human-promise to “Disclose” to Earth’s billions that those “Aliens” exist. The
Moving Forward This is the first attempt to enter a blog post after finally giving in and letting WordPress have access to my Twitter account (@kerr_vernon) If it’s working, there should be an automatic “tweet” as soon as I’ve hit the “Publish” button. So, here goes… (More