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	Britain.tv Wikipedia - Faith
		This is true because one simply does not have the time or resources to evaluate all of his/her knowledge empirically and exhaustively.
		Some religious believers â“ and many of their critics â“ often use the term "faith"?title=as the affirmation of belief without an ongoing test of evidence, and even despite evidence apparently to the contrary.
		Another form of this kind of faith is fideism: one ought to believe that God exists, but one should not base that belief on any other beliefs; one should, instead, accept it without any reasons at all.
	www.britain.tv /wikipedia.php?title=Faith (2742 words)

	true believer syndrome
		Keene believes that "the true-believer syndrome is the greatest thing phony mediums have going for them" because "no amount of logic can shatter a faith consciously based on a lie." That those suffering from true-believer syndrome are consciously lying to themselves hardly seems likely, however.
		It is possible that those suffering from true-believer syndrome simply do not believe that the weight of the evidence before them revealing fraud is sufficient to overpower the weight of all those many cases of supportive evidence from the past.
		Some true believers may well be mad, but some may be deceiving themselves by assuming that it is possible that a person can have psychic powers without knowing it.
	skepdic.com /truebeliever.html (2082 words)

	The 'True Church' Syndrome
		I believe this kind of reasoning forms the basic foundation of pure institutionalism, and institutionalism is the excuse that men of a certain temperament use to practice totalitarianism.
		ONE: It is impossible to conceive that a person in the apostolic age could be a true believer in Christ and not also be a living part of the ekklesia of Christ in his area.
		I believe that whenever possible every believer should be a faithful member of a local congregation in his or her area.
	www.soundofgrace.com /v6n9/syndrome-jgr.htm (6132 words)

	True-believer syndrome - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The true believer syndrome is the greatest thing phony mediums have going for them.
		I believe that we go on to higher and better expressions of ourselves than those which we are now expressing.
		I believe that evolution, growth, is the whole thing: mankind evolves, it doesn't regress.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/True-believer_syndrome (1187 words)

	The True Believer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The True Believer: Thoughts On The Nature Of Mass Movements ISBN 0-06-050591-5 was Eric Hoffer's first and most successful book, published in 1951.
		This phase is dominated by the true believer- the man of fanatical faith who is ready to sacrifice his life for a holy cause- and an attempt is made to trace his genesis and outline his nature.
		The true believer is everywhere on the march, and both by converting and antagonizing he is shaping the world in his own image.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_True_Believer (979 words)

	The Cult Test, Questions 71 to 80 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		It's simply waking up to the true nature of life, realising that all things are connected, and that there is such a close relationship between each of us and our surroundings that when we change ourselves, we change the world.
		The committed members of a cult are true believers, as described by Eric Hoffer in his priceless little book, The True Believer, where he described the psychology of mass movements, which is what successful popular cults are.
		Such true believers are characterized by an intense desire to believe in some great cause or some grandiose dogma, often with little or no rational or logical reason to believe such things.
	www.orange-papers.org /orange-cult_q7.html (4419 words)

	Scientific skepticism - The Black Vault Encyclopedia Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In practice, a scientific skeptic generally focuses on debunking theories which they believe to be far beyond the mainstream of science, as opposed to a professional scientist, who focuses on extending scientific knowledge.
		Some people believe that skepticism is rejection of new ideas, or worse, they confuse skeptic with cynic and think that skeptics are a bunch of grumpy curmudgeons unwilling to accept any claim that challenges the status quo.
		Actually, the best debunkers are those that don't even know their true identity, having such poor critical thinking skills that they truly believe that that they are exhibiting all the open-mindedness and mental sharpness of the true skeptic or scientist.
	www.blackvault.com /wiki/index.php/Scientific_skepticism (2140 words)

	The World's Greatest Spirit Medium
		The believers are not victims of the miracle workers: they are willing, eager, happy participants in their own betrayal (usually in the form of cash money, real estate, jewels, and expensive works of art).
		That they can believe that which cannot be believed is a mark of how well so-called "psychics," palmists, spoon benders., etc., know the business of deception.
		The real universe is amazing enough without believing it is a magical place where gurus leviated, ascended masters talk to people through mediums via spirit guides, the diseased and the dying get healed by prayer, and spoons get bent by merely willing them to bend.
	www.holysmoke.org /keene.htm (900 words)

	Reason and faith
		The Egyptians believed that the death of a giant named Pangu created the features of the Earth and the sky, and that the first humans were parasites on his body.
		The Heaven's Gate suicide cult believed that Heaven was a true physical place, that its neotenic alien inhabitants could help us get to a new "evolutionary level", and that other space aliens called Luciferians brainwash people into accepting evil into their lives.
		You get biblical inerrantists who praise divine orders to slaughter innocent infants and children as the greatest good, believers in doomsday prophets long after their predictions of armageddon have failed, henchmen at the pay of a paranormal trickster who help for all the tricks and yet still believe in their boss' mystical powers, and such.
	www.objectivethought.com /articles/sciencevsreligion.html (8628 words)

	AMERICAN FUTURE - Trying to make sense of a world in turmoil » Fact vs. Faith: Follow-Up
		Obviously, someone who believes that we exist in a world devoid of facts can do so without being prone to violence or incenting others to be violent.
		The fanatical believer is not conscious of his envy, malice, pettiness and dishonesty.
		As suggested by Johnson, the prevalent manifestation, in the West and elsewhere, of the True Believer Syndrome is the rejection of a message because of the identity of the messenger.
	americanfuture.net /?p=1522 (2843 words)

	X-Project: Faith - A Psychological Disorder?
		Millions around the world profess a faith in religion or believe in mystical forces, realms, and beings beyond our comprehension.
		Despite outlandish claims such as eternal life from a plastic ring, or the exposure of fraudulent mediums and faith healers, many believers have been found to reject obvious explanations in favour of enticing mystical ones.
		M. Lamar Keene, who coined the term, discovered that many believers uphold their beliefs despite having them thoroughly and clearly exposed.
	www.xprojectmagazine.com /archives/paranormal/faith.html (859 words)

	The True Believer Syndrome
		He describes in very convincing detail the confusion and denial that worked in him and which is operative on so many levels in the mind of a devotee, and not least of course of those who are approached sexually and/or frequently sexually molested and abused by Sai.
		I believe this is a major source of both intentional and unintentional brainwashing in the Sathya Sai Baba organization.
		This type of brainwashing is unintentional because my professor believed the things she was telling me and had no ulterior motives such as power, money, and fame.
	home.hetnet.nl /~ex_baba/engels/witnesses/gerson.html (3785 words)

	The CEO Refresher - Why Change Efforts Fail (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		But I believe, as hard is it was, it was in the long term best interest of the employee body as a whole." The "hardest thing" suggests that Cadwell doesn't have the "heart of stone" that tends to be assumed by rational problem solving.
		True believers may also destroy rather than create community.
		The true believers proceeded to engage in a holy war on the other group.
	www.refresher.com /!holder7.html (3074 words)

	Mysterious Beings or Mere Accidents? (Skeptical Briefs June 2004)
		Some experts believe that there are multiple types of ghosts, which would fall into different categories depending on the ghost's characteristics.
		The true believers will therefore base their beliefs on a foundation that upholds that orbs could be ectoplasm left behind by traveling spirits.
		True believers often exercise what philosophers call an ad hoc hypothesis (Blackburn 6), which often runs arguments in circles.
	www.csicop.org /sb/2004-06/mysteries.html (1317 words)

	Excerpts from: Joseph Smith: The Making of a Prophet
		I believe that during his early career as a treasure seer, he was a charlatan but came to believe that he was, in fact, called of God and thereafter occasionally used deceit to bolster his religious message.
		If the historian believes that divination is possible or that magic is real, he or she may make false assumptions about the nature of Smith's activities as a treasure seeker that will lead to misinterpretations of Smith's work as translator.
		I believe that the physical universe follows natural law, that it does not behave in supernatural or contradictory ways, that it functions without supernatural forces, and that it is unnecessary to go outside nature to explain what takes place within it.
	www.signaturebooks.com /excerpts/making-prophet.html (13294 words)

	AR.net >> Discussion Forum >> RE: LETS DEAL WITH FACT. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Might be that the "True Believer" has internalized that rhetoric to the point that they are unable to be mentally/psychologically whole without it.
		Expecting a True Believer to give up their flawed philosophy is like expecting a person to stop breathing air; They can't do it, unless you give them an alternative (in the case of air, Perfluoro-carbons, or simmilar).
		I believe that this now starts to get into the area of "Are ARAs sociopaths?", but I am not a sociologist, a Psychologist, nor a Psychotherapist, and am not qualified to make a professional opinion on that question.
	www.animalrights.net /77821 (591 words)

	Cattle Mutilations - Crystalinks
		All organ removal and incisions are done with surgical precision, and in some cases the evidence of cauterization along the incision lines has led investigators to believe the use of some sort of high heat cutting device has been administered, suggesting the strong possibility of a laser.
		As with alien abductions, conclusions are in the eye of the experiencer, and may never be substantiated one way or another unless a cow or other animal is filmed being taken or mutilated.
		Somehow there seems to be a mehtod to this madness that leads one to believe that humans and some animals are part of an ongoing biogenetic experiment.
	www.crystalinks.com /animal_mutilation.html (2995 words)

	The Psychic Mafia - Part 1 of 6
		It is precisely because I believe so deeply in the psychic dimension that I detest those who pervert and misuse it to their own advantage: namely, phony mediums.
		Ectoplasm has been variously described by true believers as having the consistency of chewing gum, of appearing as a shimmering white haze, or of feeling as solid as metal.
		It's true in the sense that some amazing events and phenomena aren't as well-investigated as others (for example, rains of frogs); but it's also true that an extensive body of research on strange occurences exists in William Corliss's fascinating Sourcebook project.
	members.fortunecity.com /misteryo/pm1.html (6011 words)

	George Adamski - The Black Vault Encyclopedia Project
		Adamski said he believed that the ship was looking for him so he went away from the main road.
		Some UFO true believers continue to believe that the letter is genuine, despite Moseley's confession of the hoax in January 1985.
		The letter was the most successful hoaxed UFO document until the Majestic 12 documents were produced in 1987 (Moseley and Pflock, 2002:124-127).
	www.blackvault.com /wiki/index.php/George_Adamski (884 words)

	FLYING SAUCER : Encyclopedia Entry
		The so-called Fátima incident or “The Miracle of the Sun,” witnessed by tens of thousands in Fátima, Portugal on October 13, 1917, is believed by some researchers to actually be a UFO event.
		For example, researcher David Jacobs believes we are undergoing a form of stealth invasion through genetic assimilation.
		These time machines are used to explain the otherwise unexplainable (or believed to be unexplainable) phenomina of human development, people disappearing with no trace or reason, and the disappearances of aircraft in the Bermuda Triangle.
	bibleocean.com /OmniDefinition/Flying_saucer (3447 words)

	Reaching Out to Fundamentalists
		As we move into a period of seemingly endless war, I believe that we need to both conduct a systemic analysis of the roots of this situation and reach out to those who disagree with us and engage in real dialogue with them.
		State leaders who adhere to a pessimistic perspective typically do not believe that there is a law higher than the law of the state.
		It supports the "true believer" syndrome, wherein fundamentalists steadfastly maintain a position, even in the face of contrary evidence, because they believe that they, as believers, have unique access to the truth.
	www.earthlight.org /2003/essay48_burnett.html (2390 words)

	AMERICAN FUTURE - Trying to make sense of a world in turmoil » European Left (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Opposing them are those who advocate free discussion with a view to distinguishing between true and false, those for whom political and scientific matters – or simple judgement – can be settled on the basis of worldly facts, independently of arbitrary pre-established opinions.
		It's a long existential struggle between those who believe western values – or, to be more precise, the values of the English-speaking world – are one of the great blessings of this world and those "counter-tribalists" (in John O'Sullivan's phrase) who believe those values are the source of most of the world's ills.
		The latter are a relatively small group but their numbers are bolstered by legions so immersed in the sappy therapeutic culture of the age that they've been persuaded that the best way to "celebrate diversity" is to abase oneself before moral relativism and non-judgmentalism.
	americanfuture.net /?cat=16 (7062 words)

	True-believer syndrome (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.cs.virginia.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The true-believer syndrome is a term coined by the reformed psychic fraud M. Lamar Keene to refer to an irrational belief in the paranormal.
		Skeptics see this as a form of self-deception caused by wishful thinking in which a believer continues to accept paranormal explanations for phenomena or events, or denies the relevance of scientific findings, even after the believer has been confronted with abundant evidence that the phenomena or events have natural causes.
		The term is mainly used by skeptics in the debate over the existence of certain sorts of paranormal phenomena and the persistence of belief in these phenomena.
	true-believer-syndrome.iqnaut.net.cob-web.org:8888 (299 words)

	CurEvents.com - A Global Current Events Discussion Forum - Why We Are In Iraq
		David has always suffered from True Believer Syndrome He was an effective propagandist when he was a Marxist, civil-rights marching, anti-war activist in the 60's.
		Hoffer argued that if a True Believer changes stripes, he/she will be just as extreme in the new venue as in the last.
		They believe they are in the mainstream, but in fact are in a leftist bubble and do not even know it.
	www.curevents.com /vb/showthread.php?t=306 (11034 words)

	Perceptions And Deceptions
		Although these true believers may not verbalize their conviction of their teacher's superiority (in fact their opinions are usually expressed through innuendo), their words and manner leave little doubt as to their certainty in this regard.
		Moreover, one who holds an absolute belief in the greatness of his teacher is on precarious psychological footing since the eventual discovery or exposure of human weaknesses in the teacher may be totally denied by the believer, or if accepted, lead to severe emotional shock as the figure of adulation tumbles from his pedestal.
		I have seen several cases, which I regard as sadly ironic, where true believers float from dojo to dojo, each time expounding the superiority of their current teacher.
	www.aikidojournal.com /article.php?articleID=605 (1017 words)

	Marks of a Cult?
		For all true Christians the war is over the truth of the word of God, all of it (Matthew 4:4; 2 Timothy 4:7).
		Moreover, when the cult leader announces himself as the true "Messiah," all others are declared to be dishonest, deceitful, and deluded, and must be put down; alternative views are denounced as being satanic and corrupt.
		Because Scripture tells all those who are in "The Only True Church" that the persecution they receive from their adversaries is "proof" of their enemies lost condition ("perdition") and, at the same time, it proves that they themselves are saved (Philippians 1:28).
	www.atruechurch.info /marksofacult.html (3978 words)

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