Blog

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.

Guilt and Mixing

Is the failure of and the mixing that occurs from “getting sick people well’ the result of a guilt complex?
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Whatever happened to Joy Loban, D.C?

I know what history records (THE X-RAY ISSUE) but if he was ENOUGH a devotee to be addressed in the Green Books, what caused his change in philosophy and subsequent departure from PSC and BJ?
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Creation

Creation by natural means involves, is accomplished by, the application of one of the natural laws or principles which may be part of our chiropractic philosophy. The creation of those laws or principles out of nothing is not natural but requires a supernatural action. “Natural creation” is not out of nothing but from something, natural ... Read more
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Can research and chiropractic philosophy co-exist/

No! Not if the “philosophy” is traditional chiropractic (getting sick people well). They represent different objectives and make it an either/or situation.
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Universal Intelligence and God

I can understand how BJ and many chiropractors (incorrectly) understood (and still do) the concept of universal intelligence as God. They understand as he did that there are principles derived from the Major Premise that are greater than the educated intelligence of a human being. However, BJ like the rest of us mortals, could deduce ... Read more
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The Major Premise

If we think that a principle (No. 1) holds the universe together, you are not even close to understanding chiropractic.
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Faith

You cannot understand chiropractic by deductive reasoning unless you first accept the Major Premise and you cannot do that except by faith. Granted, it is a small leap based upon the plethora of empirical evidence but a leap nevertheless, even if one uses inductive reasoning.
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Chiropractic Apologetics

Definition:systematic argumentative discourse in defense ( of a body of principles in a body of knowledge or belief). The systematic body of principles includes the concepts of darkness and light, heat and cold, sound and silence. They demonstrate an entity and the absence of that entity which is created by removing the measurable effects of ... Read more
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Kicking Crocodiles.

Kicking a dead crocodile is like adding a therapy to the chiropractic adjustment. Giving a therapy instead of an adjustment is like kicking a live one.
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Scientific Research

The role of science is in increasing the materialistic philosophy and destroying the chiropractic/vitalistic/philosophical one.
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