#I think in general we culturally put too much value into the idea of coming into a situation and making a big splash by making a bunch of#improvements right away. And that encourages a lot of talking out of your ass waaay too soon to try and Make A Mark#I think it's actually a fairly uncommon confluence of prior skills and how the new situation is shaped to be able to do that#but I love sitting my ass down and listening and learning and making Zero Moves until I understand the totality of things#which is also incorrect and employers do hate

The twelve publishers that rejected JK Rowling are the most vindicated people in history

"i love the fly, it's so kafkaesque" <-guy who got lucky this time

Syncretism is the process of two traditions being combined. For example, many religious traditions in Latin America are a combination of Christianity and native religious beliefs. African diasporic religions are often highly syncretic, as African slaves adapted the traditions and trappings of their new cultures.

Heterodoxy is "weird opinions about religious doctrine". For example, believing that Christ was the inventor of baseball. This isn't necessarily *heresy* it's just something not everyone believes. This can go further. Believing that Christ was an energy ghost who never had a body is heterodoxy, but this belief is also so contrary to the church's doctrine that it is heresy.

My point is, that a lot of things that are called "syncretism" are actually just people doing their religion in a strange but ultimately acceptable way. People love to point to some oddball thing Christians are doing, and claim that it's actually a syncretic practice that harkens back to some poorly-defined paganism, when in reality it's just Christians with a strange local tradition.

Your religions normal beliefs are orthodoxy!

There is a less common term I really enjoy: a religions normal practices are orthopraxy. Doing strange "unorthodox" practices is called heteropraxy.

Meanwhile this was what various medical professionals in that reddit thread had to say about it.

They do not, in fact, love it.

The proof that chiropractic is an utterly failed medical profession is not that adjustments can cause harm, but that the profession has responded by ignoring and denying the harm, rather than studying it.

All medical treatments (other than complete placebos) have some risk of harm, but for real treatments given by real professionals, the harms are tracked, measured and warned about. If the harms are too severe, the treatment is no longer used.

One of my colleagues was a chiropractor. After a while he began to suspect that a lot of his patients actually just had muscle tears, not spinal issues. He bought an ultrasound machine, learned how to use it and how to read ultrasound, and found that to be the case. Between that and the constant pressure from management to get customers (because lbr, they're not patients, they're customers), he got sick and tired of it and bailed to become a sonographer full time.

And before people pipe up with "but my chiro is good, they have me do exercises and so on!" that's just regular ass physiotherapy. See a physiotherapist. A lot of people who sing the praises of chiros because they saved them from chronic pain would have gotten the same benefits from seeing an actual licensed physio, who can prescribe the same or even better exercises because they have an actual fucking education.

The amount of fucking charts I've seen where a patient went to a chiropractor and now needs a surgery is fucking insane.

All I do is medical charts, day in and day out doing medical code. I've gone over hundreds of patients whole year of appointments. Unless the chiropractor is also a physical therapist, that patient is going to get worse and need surgery with very few exceptions. It doesn't matter when they mention seeing a chiropractor, by the end of the year they need surgery for issues that started after *shock and awe* a chiropractor appointment! I've seen patients needing multiple surgeries to be functional after chiropractors. I've seen patients lose their ability to walk because of chiropractors. And all the way up till they need surgery, through the issues piling up and needing more pain meds, the patients insist it's helping because the want so badly for it to be helping. I wish it did

Not enough people seem to know that chiropractic started in spiritualism, from a dude who said he was gifted the information from a dude that died half a decade prior. It's been pseudoscience from the jump, and barely escapes being a religion.

It's not evidence-based medicine. It's not even medicine. Don't pay non-doctors to touch your spine.

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quick do you actually admit that you have no interest in this guy and only had sex with him out of pity and a weird sense of obligation or do you cover yourself by lying and saying the reveal of his lie was what made you decide not to pursue a relationship with him. decide quickly