Can a crocus bloom in desert’s searing sand;
Or Altruism spring from our primate-surly band?
Could Love, that agape of old, that outward-flowing care
For others, arise from merely wishing it so?
Or was it a gift, bestowed by the loving hands,
Of some gardener, long ago;
A seed, planted in unlikely soil,
So that when it flourished
It would confound–
And astonish?
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©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
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
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