2013 Road Trip: Downtown Memphis

Posted May 18, 2013, 12:18 a.m.

We arrived in downtown Memphis, Tennessee, early Wednesday evening and spent some time walking around and seeing the sights. There was some sort of big festival happening on Beale Street with a lot of people and motorcycles. And of course, I had the obligatory ‘Walking in Memphis’ stuck in my head the whole time:

Melissa had an appointment at a local gallery/museum mid-day on Thursday, so we had a long drive Thursday afternoon all the way to Norman, Oklahoma, just south of Oklahoma City. Here are some of my photos from Memphis.

Scott Bradford has been putting his opinions on his website since 1995—before most people knew what a website was. He has been a professional web developer in the public- and private-sector for over twenty years. He is an independent constitutional conservative who believes in human rights and limited government, and a Catholic Christian whose beliefs are summarized in the Nicene Creed. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Public Administration from George Mason University. He loves Pink Floyd and can play the bass guitar . . . sort-of. He’s a husband, pet lover, amateur radio operator, and classic AMC/Jeep enthusiast.

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I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason why so few engage in it.

Conversion is a matter of a moment. Sanctification is the work of a lifetime.

He who feared that he would not succeed sat still.

If we knew how often we were wrong about our understanding of just about everything, it would be deeply demotivating.

You could compile . . . the worst book in the world entirely out of . . . passages from the best writers in the world.

Wait not until your hidden sins come out as psychoses and neuroses and compulsions. Get rid of them at their sources. Repent! Purge! Evil that can be put into statistics, or that can be locked in jails, is too late to remedy.

The ‘prudent’ have always called the works of God madness.

Human freedom is more than a capacity to choose between this and that. It is the God-given power to become who he created us to be and so to share eternal union with him.

The duty of the survivor is to bear testimony to what happened. . . . You have to warn people that these things can happen, that evil can be unleashed.

I know words. I have the best words.

In recent years a false compassion has developed among some who hold that suffering is incompatible with human dignity. Clearly this is at odds with the Christian faith, which sees in suffering a redemptive and transformative dimension.

Diplomacy is utterly useless when there is no force behind it; the diplomat is the servant, not the master of the soldier.

Many economic fallacies are due to conceiving of economic activity as a zero-sum contest, in which what is gained by one is lost by another.

The lesson of all this was, of course, that because we’re a great nation, our challenges seem complex. It will always be this way. But as long as we remember our first principles and believe in ourselves, the future will always be ours.

Christianity doesn’t begin by telling people what they must do, but what God has done for them. Gift comes before duty.

When you’re right, you don’t have to worry too much about stinging political defeats. All you have to do is sit back and let the winners enact their policies. If you’re really right, and they’re really wrong, their policies will fail.

Many highly schooled people are uneducated, and many highly ‘educated’ people are unschooled.

I know, without a special revelation, that the planets move in the orbits traced by the Creator’s finger.

I am the least racist person there is anywhere in the world.

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