Posted by Meg Oliver on June 20, 2004 at 23:09:03:
In Reply to: Re: Strasser Method Question?/ Navicular posted by Tree on June 15, 2004 at 08:08:15:
: Quoting from Strasser's Blue book: In section XIII, page 3 Strasser writes, "The material presented in this text will be seen by some as irrelevant and insignificant, by some as self-evident, by others as heretical and dangerous, and by others still as a godsend and the dawn of a new era in equine health care."
: Tree
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: : TE in a futile attempt to defend the indefensible writes:
: : : "There can be no absolutes." Dr Strasser - Big Blue Book, cannot remember the page - thought you had read it and understood it completely though Rick.
: : : TE
: : I read it alright. What it shows is that even she can't agree with her protocol.
: : "There can be no absolutes" F. Strasser. Elsewhere in her less than historic tome she sets her parameters for all horses: 30 degree hair lines, ground parallel coffin bones, heel height, no shoes, etc. etc. etc.
: : Thus we have F. Strasser working both sides of the street.
: : Pandering to those who are too willing or desperate or stupid enough to buy into her franchise.
: : "No absolutes"? What a joke. Sadly, the joke is on both those who have failed to see the contradictions, illogical thinking, junk science and hyperbole she speaks and writes, and on the horses who must endure the efforts of the acolytes.
: : Rick
Is this Tree Taylor, the southern Gentleman?
Meg