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 that of others was so temporary.… Read More Life | The Big Picture
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 of God was said to be.… Read More Theology | Questioning the Bible is Not Blasphemy
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 “somethings” in other obscure little corners of this… Read More Re-Tweets | Humanity on the Precipice
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 cancer at only 70. I… Read More Life | Dealing with Impending Death
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 and examine how they fit together. Beyond that,… Read More Opinion | Human History’s Singular Kernel of Causation
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