Alexander Pyles's Blog, page 23

Immortalizing Our Experiences…In Stories

Stories are for joining the past to the future. Stories are for those late hours in the night when you can’t remember how you got from where you were to where you are. Stories are for eternity, when memory is erased, when there is nothing to remember except the story. -Tim O’Brien (The Things They […]

Blowing Up The Ivory Tower Of (Academic) Philosophy

The title may seem to be ironical on the basis that I am a philosophy graduate student. The point here that I am going to try and make is the flaws in studying philosophy and the (flawed) imbalances that can occur among students that I have observed. Okay, yeah I know I’m just some wet-behind-the-ears […]

Starting Anew (Well Sorta)

Last night, I decided it was time for a change. I’ve needed to change up the blog up for a bit. I wanted something that had a slightly different layout from what I’ve been using for over a year now and something more professional. I wanted something seemingly more clean and more compact as well […]

Wanna Go To Heaven? Ya Gotta Die First

Everybody wants to go to Heaven But nobody wants to die -Hospital of Souls (by Bring Me The Horizon) So, whenever death comes up amongst Christians at times, well more specifically Catholics, we are consistently focused upon what comes after our earthly lives. We talk a lot on Christ and His death, especially with Easter […]

House of Cards And The Truth Of Power

Last fall I started watching the Netflix original series House of Cards, based off the U.K. series. After the first two episodes I was hooked. We follow Frank and Claire Underwood(played by Kevin Spacy and Robin Wright) and how they strive to attain more power an influence in the United States government. We meet an […]

The USA: The Land of No Middle-Ground

Yeah, I said it. It’s either you are with us or against us. You’re either blue or red. Democrat or Republican. Liberal or conservative. I could keep going and list a near infinite number of false binaries and false relations that have been created thanks to our media, culture, and interests. America may be the […]

Wholesome-ness: Softly Killing Christanity

So what do I even mean by this title? Obviously, you’re curious considering you came here to see what I’m even talking about. Well, let’s start with the word ‘wholesome’, which defined by Webster is either: conducive to or suggestive of good health and physical well-being conducive to or promoting moral well-being For my […]

Manufactured Romance. Tailored Love. Industrious Lust.

Valentine’s Day is such a seemingly superficial day, yet it strikes at the core of what the majority of people believe in, which is Love. It is also a day that disturbs many people(namely single) out of being comfortable with their lives. There’s this sudden inadequacy of being single/or not being in a relationship that […]

Things Were Easier When I Was An Anarchist…

So, regrettably I was an anarchist a couple years ago. I officially adopted the political ideology the summer before my freshmen year of college, which was unfortunate timing I soon discovered, since I found out how zealously conservative most of my peers were/are at my university. I spent most of my first few months clarifying/defending/debating […]

My Worth? Don’t Tell Me, Let Me Tell You

Okay, so I know talking about your worth or value can seem sorta campy. It may even seem sorta patronizing. It comes up a lot in Christian circles, because they care about that sorta stuff and personally I’ve hated the question before. Yet, when it was asked of me last week it was asked so […]