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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Treat your inferiors as you would be treated by your betters.

The difference between faith and superstition is that the first uses reason to go as far as it can, and then makes the jump; the second shuns reason entirely.

Let him admonish, let him teach, let him forbid what is improper!—he will be beloved of the good, by the bad he will be hated.

Whosoever, therefore, comes and teaches you all these things that have been said before, receive him. But if the teacher himself turns and teaches another doctrine to the destruction of this, hear him not.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such there is no law. And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

If you do not know how great marriage is, you cannot know how terrible divorce is.

Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.

I believe more in the goodness of bad people than I do in the badness of good people.

There is something very unnatural and odious in a government a thousand leagues off.

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self sustained.

When ‘the two become one’ in the covenant of marriage, the ‘one’ they become is so real that nine months later they might have to give it a name! The child embodies their covenant oneness.

Humans see the comprehensibility of the world as evidence of a comprehending creator.

If you are what you ought to be, you will set fire to all Italy, and not only yonder.

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

The capital resources of the nation are not increased by using the tax collector rather than the stock market to mobilize them.

There are some people who seem to want to ask favors from God as a right. A pretty kind of humility that is! He who knows us all does well in seldom giving things to such persons, He sees clearly that they are unable to drink of His chalice.

How do we bring about conversion of those living in blindness? By love. By truth in charity. By offering forgiveness. By offering mercy. With prayer.

Therefore do not seek to understand in order to believe, but believe that thou mayest understand.

Men must change with the times or die.

There are three important things to know about human beings. . . . Humans use pattern recognition to understand their world. Humans are very bad at pattern recognition. And they don’t know it.

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