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Chasmic Farces

Collin Van Uden — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 02:37:37 +0000

Ever more keenly carved were the paths our lives take by that to which we are ignorant, than that which we have come [...]

Kierkegaard

Collin Van Uden — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 00:37:45 +0000

Kierkegaard distanced himself from his texts by a variety of devices which served to problematize the authorial voice for the reader. He used pseudonyms in many of his works (both overtly aesthetic ones and overtly religious ones). He partitioned the texts into prefaces, forewords, interludes, postscripts, appendices. He assigned the “authorship” of parts of texts to different pseudonyms, and invented further pseudonyms [...]

And there’s that voice again…

Collin Van Uden — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 05:06:56 +0000

Anyone can give an answer, and of those, some well.

It is, however, in the formulation of their questions in which you’ll find the measure of a [...]

A Red Raw ethical dilemma

Collin Van Uden — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 16:21:04 +0000

We take red for granted. So how do you explain red to those who can't see it? The answer could have more importance than you first thought. [...]

Me vs Atheism

Collin Van Uden — Fri, 28 May 2010 15:38:39 +0000

Before I jump into this, a few quick points, and a disclaimer or two.

(Edit) 0: The title of this post is (deliberately, I’ll admit) misleading. I do not, by any stretch of the imagination ‘oppose’ atheism – but rather the attitude that (in my experience) is held by many who claim that (or any other) view, [...]

The truth of the matter..

Collin Van Uden — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 08:30:46 +0000

A brief insight into the conversations between the Prometheus Ink crew follows: by no means even scratching the surface of what turned out to be a debate about fernery. (Don’t ask me how we got to there.. )

Truth

Truth has always been a favourite subject of mine, particularly after a conversation with a friend gave me the [...]