Agnosticism
(c) 2022 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com MyCancerOdyssey Well, now I have received the full measure of chemotherapy and radiation therapy. This is calculated as being the maximum that a human body can endure. I’ve been home, letting my body try to heal itself from the onslaught,
Humanity
Happy Everything! ©2022 by Vernon Miles Kerr, and VernonMilesKerr.com #FirstCuppaJoe for Dec 25 (thread) Happy Everything everybody, whatever your celebration, here at the Winter Solstice. Take heart, the Earth-mother is hurtling at 69,000 mph toward that “sweet spot” in her orbit where the North Pole is pointing toward
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
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Can a Narcissist Be Healed? ©2022 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com Can a narcissist be healed? Could Donald J. Trump ever become normal, in this life? It doesn’t seem like it. But, I can tell you, from my own life, that it is possible. Like Trump, my
Philosophy
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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____________________________________________________ A Fictional First-Person Narrative by God (c) 2022 by Vernon Miles Kerr, VernonMilesKerr.com and UnorganizedTaxpayingChurchOfGod.com INTRODUCTION The author credits the idea for this (humorously intended) piece, primarily to his Twitter-pal, in the United Kingdom, novelist Nicky Shearsby, and secondarily to inspiration, while engaged in today’s morning prayers.
Agnosticism
Is The Bible a Crock? ©2022 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com The fundamentalist “Christian” church I attended for 25 years held that the Bible (both old and new testaments) was dictated, word-for-word, by God Himself and miraculously preserved intact all down through the centuries. When asked, “What about
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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’
Agnosticism
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
Humanity
#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,
Agnosticism
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
Agnosticism
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
Agnosticism
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