The Boring from Within spoken of by BJ

It has been said that no country can be destroyed until it first destroys itself. Similarly, no profession can be destroyed by another profession until it first destroys itself. If we are worrying aboutwhat medicine will do to us perhaps we need to look within.

Wish I'd Said That

There are many angles at which you can fall but only one at which you can stand straight.
G.K. Chesterton

If you do not stand for straight chiropractic you'll fall for anything.

Purposeful Action

The dog eats in order to satisfy hunger. When a man eats, he has an implicit, conceptual awareness of what he is doing and the end it serves. He understands the concept of digestion, metabolism and nourishment. He also understands eating for pleasure, to sample new food, experiment in nutrition, or to please a host. The dog's is based on perceptual association of memory rather than conceptualization.

Historical Straight Chiropractic

Vertebral Subluxation

It is important to understand that nerve interference is not necessarily a reduction of mental impulse but a distortion of them. That distortion could be from a lack of or an increase in the action of the nerve fiber.

On the subject of deduction....

Perhaps it is time the leadership in the straight chiropractic movement step back and take a long critical look at its approach. The approach(es)has been a Power Politics/Pacifist Politics cycle for the past 40-50 years rather than deduction/logic approach. For a time the straights would fight against the mixing element in the profession. Then a group would rise to position of power and advocate working together with the mixers but retaining our seperate identity. The working together or Pacifist part of the cycle always lasted a much shorter time than did the fighting or Power phase. Eventually, toward the end of the passive cycle a group of "idealistic" straights would come to the realization that the chiropractic principle was being sold down the river and "war" would once again break out. Unfortunately, the casualties would weaken the movement. We are now moving toward the Pacifist phase. (eg. getting rid of hostile, descriptive terms like "straight"). Apart from a major split into two professions, we must do a better job of communicating our philosophy and the difference to the profession and the public.

Thinking Deductively

Reggie once said that if only the governments of the world would think deductively. They can not because they have no Major Premise. Not only don't they but they do not believe that one exists because they reject absolutes.