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A Fictional First-Person Narrative by God, 3 ©2022 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com The fictional God says: “Hey, ‘Evangelical Christianity’! ‘Mene, mene, tekel, upharsin. You have been weighed in the balance and found wanting!’** “You’ve taken it upon yourselves to ‘do me one better’ by not allowing
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My Crystal Ball (c) 2022 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com #FirstCuppaJoe for Tue Oct 18 (thread) “Eeny, meeny, chili-beanie, the spirits are about to speak,” (from my favorite TV show, as a high school senior, Bullwinkle & Friends) And, SHAZZAYUM! — Here I am six decades later, at Bullwinkle’
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T H E R E W A S E V E R B L O O D (c) 2022 Vernon Miles Kerr When was there never blood? There was ever blood. From the moment of birth, We are slathered in Mother’s Blood. From the dawn of our carnivority We
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To Religious-Hell and Back (c) 2022 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com Our friend Destiney here, is like a lot of other people—myself included, before I was lured into a fundamentalist cult-like, so-called “christian” church. And, I’m still suffering from post-religious-organization-PTSD, 26 yrs later. 2 decades of
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#FirstCuppaJoe for Fri Oct 7 (c)2022 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com This is an apology to all sincere Christians who are happy in their faith and with whatever organized church they may be attending. My Twitter bio says, “Care-giver for those suffering PTSD due to a dip
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Sacrifice ©2022 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com #FirstCuppaJoe for Wed Oct 5 (thread) Today, my #MorningMeditations were rather wide-ranging — spanning from the vastness of this particular #Universe, to the logical negation of a “Satan,” to my paternal roots in Indigenous America, to its bloody history of constant warring,
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Past, Present, Future ©2022 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com October 3 #CancerOdyssey, #Insomnia & other #WeirdStuff (thread) I’m fasting for a PET scan later this morning. There have been two cycles of chemo now. So, this scan will give a picture of exactly how much the mass
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Questions ©2022 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com In human life, Oxymoron and cognitive-dissonance abound — Every mystery solved yields more. When did we awake from a contented existence of mere subsistence To a wondering annoyance of puzzlement over the overhead? Why didn't we stay focused on the
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What’s It All About? ©2022 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com #FirstCuppaJoe for Wed Sep 28 (thread) Faced with the continual bombardment of bad news — wars, people having their homes destroyed by weather and fire, rampant crime, occasional episodes of genocide — it’s common to think: “How could
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Books in Nightstands ©2022 by VernonMilesKerr and VernonMillesKerr.com #FirstCuppaJoe for Sep 25 (thread) My caffeinated meditations this morning were inspired by the nightstand in this Marriott-branded hotel, near the infusion center where I’m getting chemo-therapy. There is a Holy Bible, donated by the Gideons, and there is a
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Theology by Intuition (c) 2022 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com #FirstCuppaJoe for Mon Sep 19 (thread) Truth be told, I have a mere college freshman’s knowledge of the great #philosophers, attenuated by 60 years of living a mundane, working-life. But—I do have more than a nodding
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Individualism ©2022 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com #FirstCuppaJoe for Sun Sep 18 Individualism (thread) No one is really a “rugged individualist,” not even a narcissist (if Trump is any indication.) I mean, who do you know, that’s more worried about what people think about him? He’s
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What is “Real Life”? (c)2022 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com #FirstCuppaJoe for Sat Sep 17 (thread) When we humans say “Life,” to us, it encompasses a vast, complex, ages-long and unfathomably-deep, and unique, essence. But we are wrong. What the first paragraph describes is “Biological Life” — as
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The Gun Lap ©2022 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com #FirstCuppaJoe for Tue Sep 13 (thread) When you’re looking at the realistic possibility that you might be dead in a few months, you try to make the best of the short time that might be left. You PRIORITIZE…
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A New Genesis ©2022 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com Introduction Caveat: This speculative narrative assumes, merely from personal logic, that there is a supreme, over-arching, dynamic, intelligence powering the Universe. Tthis is not an anti-religious, anti-Christian, anti-Islam, nor anti-Anything book. As a matter of fact it is a
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Perspective ©2022 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com The deeper into space we look and listen, intelligent, extraterrestrial life is getting more, and more, improbable. Either that, or the true results of modern scientific-investigation is being withheld from the general public. Out of the thousands of stars being discovered