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
Agnosticism
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
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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
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
Politics
The Forbidden Sagas ©2022 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com #FirstCuppaJoe for Sat Sep 24 (thread) We are taught the myths and sagas, of ancient Greece, ancient Rome, ancient China, ancient India, ancient Scandinavia (and all else Teutonic) NOT just in Universities—but in High Schools. In modern rhetoric,
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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
Humanity
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
Agnosticism
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
Ecology
The Heavenly Vintner ©2022 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com Old Mother Earth is a Prime Vintage Having aged in the black dark cellar of space For billions of years, undisturbed, Except for ocasional riddling by asteroids and comets. At some long-planned moment the Vintner opened the bung And
Agnosticism
An Atheist’s Queries ©2022 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com My good buddy on Twitter, Dan Hogg, is a confirmend atheiist, me, I’m a confirmed agnostic. We get into it on Twitter quite a bit, but it’s always in a spirit of good humor and mutual
Humanity
A Writer Writes, But… ©2022 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com A writer writes, but a writer has to have something helpful to say. And, even then, people won’t listen unless they’re entertained in the process. Most people won’t. A writer’s body of work must
Misguided Patriotism
Cultural Mitosis © 2022 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com #FirstCuppaJoe for May 26 (thread) I’ve been on this old planet four-score years, I’ve had five years of University education. I’ve had three relatively successfull careers in unrelated fields. I’ve gone from atheism to religion to
Citizens United
The Messy Business of Politics ©2022 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com #FirstCuppaJoe for MAY 21 (thread) Even if every politician in America had complete integrity and were a paragon of honesty, politics would be messy — because human life is messy. The bigger and more populated a society, the