‘Off on a Tangent’

Updated May 15, 2024

Off on a Tangent is the online repository for all things related to Scott Bradford: fiction and nonfiction writing, photos, videos, software, jokes, and more. It started in 1995 and is now at version 26.0. It is built with WordPress.

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Uh oh, the boss is coming.
I learned on DOS.
Tuberculosis comes in threes.

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Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.

Quotes

Regulate the mind, and then the body will spontaneously go right.

What happened with slavery is now happening with embryo killing: the people who used to defend it as a ‘necessary evil’ to be resisted or lessened by means other than legal prohibition now promote it as a social good—something that law and government should not only tolerate but embrace and even promote.

If one doesn’t respect oneself one can have neither love nor respect for others.

A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.

Each woman virtually summons every man to show cause why he doth not love her.

In a stupid nation the man of genius becomes a god: everybody worships him and nobody does his will.

If you ‘don’t get anything out of church,’ you don’t understand the reason for going to church in the first place. We go to church to worship. Worship is not like entertainment: worship is not getting something but giving something.

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.

As a nation, our first duty must be those who are already our inhabitants, whether native or immigrants.

Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.

One of the most basic elements of western-style democracies is freedom of conscience, which is necessary for achieving true consent of the governed.

It is loserthink to attack an opponent by acting as dumb as they act. It might feel good, but it isn’t a winning strategy.

A methodology that can scarcely do other than confirm the hypothesis that it was designed to test is not valid social science.

In truth, mankind cannot be saved from without, by schoolmasters or any other sort of masters: it can only be lamed and enslaved by them.

Believers can have a lot to do with the rise of atheism. If we are careless about our instruction in the faith, or present its teaching falsely, or fail in our religious, moral, or social life, we often conceal and distort the faith rather than reveal [its] true nature. . . .

Perhaps everything has external and internal aspects. The external properties are those that science can capture and describe—through interactions, in terms of relationships. The internal aspect is the intrinsic essence; it is the reality that is not expressible in the language of interactions and relations.

Science adapts its theory to reality, whereas ideology adapts reality to theory.

An act of love always tends towards two things; to the good that one wills, and to the person for whom one wills it.

Almighty God would in no wise permit evil to exist in His works, unless He were so almighty and so good as to produce good even from evil.

Love the sinner and hate the sin.

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