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:: you can just write the article yourself, or start a stub and see if others will expand on it. [[User:Hamster|Hamster]] ([[User talk:Hamster|talk]]) 00:27, 5 October 2013 (UTC)
 
:: you can just write the article yourself, or start a stub and see if others will expand on it. [[User:Hamster|Hamster]] ([[User talk:Hamster|talk]]) 00:27, 5 October 2013 (UTC)
 
::: I have created a stub. remember to support allegations with references [[User:Hamster|Hamster]] ([[User talk:Hamster|talk]]) 01:54, 5 October 2013 (UTC)
 
::: I have created a stub. remember to support allegations with references [[User:Hamster|Hamster]] ([[User talk:Hamster|talk]]) 01:54, 5 October 2013 (UTC)
 
== How is Rationalism Contrary to Theism? ==
 
 
Hello 'Rationalists', I like to proceed from an experiential view of being.
 
I experience and within that experience I have identified forms which I describe as sensible.
 
That is within my experience there are consistent conditions of varying character which it has been possible to 'sense'.
 
 
At a radical level the separations may have included things like sameness/differentness or self/other and all the sense data deriving from what I now describe as a body: However, they've gone on to rather shaky distinctions like Atheistic/Theistic or Rational/Irrational.
 
Rationalism, it seems to me, at least as a name, has come to us from the Pythagoreans who were, by all accounts Theists.
 
They tried to describe the world in terms of ratios of pairs of whole numbers and Mathematics has, for some time now, departed from that view - embracing the irrational.
 
 
It seems to me that some of the people offering theistic interpretations of phenomenal nature have been among the greatest thinkers of their time, consequently the glib and poorly considered treatment given to ''ALL'' non-mechanistic ideas that is fashionable among people calling themselves 'rational' and 'scientific' is likely to blind such people to possibilities and cripple their ability to receive valid data that conforms to their prejudice of the irrational.
 
It seems to me that some self styled defenders of the 'scientific view' are prepared to take absurd positions to avoid admitting inconvenient presences, such as their own consciousness, in order to forestall arguments they imagine some religious protagonist may bring to bear.
 
Science has proved itself, ''this is the age of miracle and wonder'' and the wonders are the product of science.
 
 
It is time science allowed itself to think about mind and being without being afraid the church will take advantage. The battles of the enlightenment have been won, perhaps you can stop punching corpses now. {{unsigned|Radical Theist}}
 

Latest revision as of 02:48, 13 October 2013

Hellow RW,

I would like to submit an idea for an article but I am not sure how to use your “to do list page”.

It's in regard to pseudoscience and quackery related to a specific Christian based Chiropractic organization. They are offenders of science, logic and reason in every conceivable way across the whole spectrum from religion to quackery and alternative medicine (and I would add to that list lack of business morals).

They are called "Maximized Living". http://www.maximizedliving.com/

They are a heavily Christian influenced organization at the management level, and all though their individual subordinates of Chiropractors and employees may not be as individuals by necessity, if you ever witnessed one of their seminars (I have I’ll explain) you would think it was led by a Tony Robins Chiropractor Hybrid Televangelist Joel Osteen (Scary I know).

They are 100% straight by the book Subluxation based Boppers that preach the miracles of D.D Palmer like he was Christ (whom also comes up in their rhetoric). One of their earlier books "Body by God: The Owners Manual for Maximized Living" by one of their head gurus Dr.Ben Lerner (who is very creepy). >> http://www.amazon.ca/Body-God-Owners-Manual-Maximized/dp/078528835X

Some dirty details:

Their offices are LOADED with scare tactics throwing "risks of cancer from poor lifestyle" all over the place. Anti-vaccination posters against flu shots saying "don't poison your body" line their walls. They promote the anti “Big Pharma conspiracy” in full swing and don’t pull punches claiming that pills and medicine will kill you, it’s all toxins and doctors only want to make money and prescribe you medicine, the whole "Keep you medicated for life" conspiracy. They actually play animations in the waiting room explaining "how the corrupt medical system works". Thy display pictures of celebrities who died of cancer with their before and after chemotherapy pictures. Even posters about Angelina Jolie how she was lied to by the medical system. They seem really focused on Cancer Woo and have a whole seperate initiative called “Cancer Killers” http://www.beacancerkiller.com/ and even have a documentry film of the same/similar title coming soon (I’m sure it will be an amazing peice of cinema). They even criticize the “The pink ribbon of breast cancer awareness” (in their waiting room videos) They run organiztion like a fast food franchise, if a chiropractor wants to brand his practice as maximized living he has to follow their model to the letter and all dr./patient interactions are scripted. Scripts are written in a way to of course use scare tactics and push the notion of lifetime adjustments is needed to ensure lasting health (never get cancer disease) They pretty much only diagnose subluxation, it’s included in the scripts to demonstrate the “best way to break the news to the patient” that they have a subluxation and how serious it is. Even office assistants and front desk elp are scripted when attempting to recruit would be patients and maintain retention and get them to bring in family (you know if you don't get your family in here, its as much as a death sentence for cancer. They are very costly and always prescribe life time programs and run a human assembly line of patients with a meticulous system to be able to crack as many backs in a day with very little time with each patient. They constantly train the staff on ways to process the patients faster to get them virtually through a revolving door. They actually speak at their seminars of “great examples of ML Chiropractors who can “see the most patients in a day” and encourage the other doctors in attendance to look them as an example.

I could go on but you get the picture…

The reason I know all this is my girlfriend worked at one of their offices and got all wrapped up in it telling me all the crazy health revelations she was learning at this office and was attending their seminars. Then she took me to one… and tadda heres where I am.

I have scoured the internet looking for them and they are virtually non existent except their own websites, no blogs about them. No wikipedia articles or wiki website articles anywhere.

None of their most prominent leaders or doctors have any wikipedia articles its weird because most prominent names of significant scientists, doctors, heads of major companies or corporations have some trace on wikipedia, but nothing.

I think this organisation should be a major concern that requires “outing” and attention drawn to it not unlike the Discovery Institute and their deceptive ways.

I would love to see vloggers like thundefoot and concordance and other skeptic websites like skeptoid or skeptic society exposing them as the frauds they are. It almost seems they have flown under the skeptic movement radar.

Ok…. I am ranting now… perhaps this is more than a request how to suggest an article and more of looking for advice to see if this a cause worth drawing attention to and a subject worth pursuing.

Here is their founders. http://www.maximizedliving.com/AboutMaximizedLiving/Founders.aspx


Trevor

you can just write the article yourself, or start a stub and see if others will expand on it. Hamster (talk) 00:27, 5 October 2013 (UTC)
I have created a stub. remember to support allegations with references Hamster (talk) 01:54, 5 October 2013 (UTC)
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