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Arlen Vare

Arlen Vare

Arlen Vare is a writer and independent thinker, and the author of Alive or Merely Living: Ultimate Finitude, Practical-Life Traction, and Existential Absurdity. His work explores reality, consciousness, freedom, suffering, and the human condition.

“Peace, Peace,” When There Is No Peace

“Peace, Peace,” When There Is No Peace

Jeremiah’s warning against false peace exposes a recurring human weakness: in crisis, people often prefer comforting illusions to painful truth. False prophets sound hopeful because they protect identity and security. True peace, however, cannot bypass truth, repentance, and return to God.

Human Unworthiness and True Hope

Human Unworthiness and True Hope

True hope does not arise from human goodness, worthiness, or self-repair. It comes from God’s mercy and salvation for the unworthy: human beings are unworthy, yet still called; sinful, yet still sought; unable to save themselves, yet still saved.

Failure and the Disclosure of Boundaries

Failure and the Disclosure of Boundaries

Failure, as understood here, is not an evaluation of the subject, but the condition in which a function, mechanism, or process fails to perform its relevant role. Its theoretical value lies in making functional conditions, structural limits, and internal discontinuities available for analysis.

The Sense of Reality and the Fragility of Reality-Judgment

The Sense of Reality and the Fragility of Reality-Judgment

This essay distinguishes the sense of reality from reality-status and argues that experiential coherence cannot by itself guarantee that what is experienced genuinely obtains. Dreams serve as a case for the fragility of reality-judgment.

Do Not Weep for Me

Do Not Weep for Me

The cross does not merely reveal the suffering of Jesus. It exposes human arrogance, blindness, and sin: man thinks he is judging God, yet it is man himself who is being judged.

How the Past Shapes the Future

How the Past Shapes the Future

The past does not return in its original form, yet it continues to shape the future through interpretation, expectation, and action. What governs a life is often not simply what happened, but what those experiences came to mean and how they continue to live within us.

Returning from the Moon——Courage, Awe, and Existential Reflection in the Wake of Artemis II

Returning from the Moon——Courage, Awe, and Existential Reflection in the Wake of Artemis II

Artemis II’s return is more than a technological achievement. It is a confrontation with scale, silence, and meaning: a reminder that the farther humanity travels into the cold vastness of space, the more urgently we must reconsider Earth, our lives, and the question of how we ought to exist.