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From 2011 through 2017, after 28 years of publishing The Pivot Review, Dr. Strauss  instead began blogging thoughts and articles. We hope you are stimulated, challenged, and inspired by this collection of of over 1000 thoughts and articles.

Q&A. #97

How do we indict?judge/condemn the wrongness of certain practices without indicting/judging those who practice them?
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Is Universal Intelligence Theistic Evolution?

Theistic evolution is really another form of deism
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Should We Question Authority? Q&A #98

The question really is whether the authority of chiropractic is the 33 principles, what BJ said, what the CCE says, what the national association says, or the state law.
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Chiropractic's Ultimate Fatal Flaw

Societies since the beginning of time have acknowledged a fatal flaw. The Greeks from their pantheistic approach interpreted it one way. Christianity describes it another way and explains it’s alternative. Hinduisms another way, (reincarnation) and atheists by absence of existence (their religion) which has no logical, rational or scientific basis (probably why very few chiropractors ... Read more
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Principles…

…are necessary for stability in any endeavor in life, including the practice of a profession.
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Q&A #96

Des a red blood cell, without the ability to reproduce, have innate intelligence? Why or Why not?
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Hardness of Heart

Why do some chiropractors continually reject our philosophy, constantly having negative volition (TSC) or outright animus despite our efforts? It is usually a result of or due to locked in arrogance, thinking of themselves as superior to, greater than, the innate intelligence of the body.
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A Human Being-Part 2: the being part.

While human is the material part of man, the being part is the non material part. It cannot be demonstrated empirically and must be determined by another form of perception (reason or faith/belief).Chiropractic uses (deductive) reasoning although most people use faith/belief.Although to use deduction, you must step out of chiropractic philosophy and into theology, just ... Read more
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"Chiropractic Leaven…

…leaveneth the whole lump” Leaven is not bad but it represents something that must be kneaded (mixed) in with something else, and alters that something else and, changes it. If you want bread/dough to rise, or make beer, it is necessary. In the O.T. it represented something that was not desired and that the Jews,during ... Read more
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Methods or Objective

Clearly, DD was focused on restoration/curing of hearing/deafness (getting a “sick” person ‘well” with his original adjustment. Every “getting sick people well approach is based on putting method over objective.That pretty much describes the difference between TSC and OSC and the practice of medicine and chiropractic..
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