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2 unusual facts about True-believer syndrome


True-believer syndrome

True-believer syndrome is an informal or rhetorical term used by M. Lamar Keene in his 1976 book The Psychic Mafia.

The term True Believer was used earlier by Eric Hoffer in his 1951 book The True Believer to describe the psychological roots of fanatical groups.


A More Perfect Union: Advancing New American Rights

At one stop on the book tour associated with the publication and release of the book at the David A. Clarke School of Law of the University of the District of Columbia, Jackson's message was perceived as saying that American history can be studied as an analysis of race, but that economics and the tension between states’ rights and federal rights are the true basis of a domestic history revolving around pursuit of economic development, political power, and personal freedom.

Allan Jackson

Jackson was handed a slip of paper reading "JFK DEAD" and immediately went on air with the announcement, reporting Kennedy's death as a fact (which had not yet been confirmed, although it was true that Kennedy was already dead), and playing the U.S. national anthem, The Star-Spangled Banner.

Arawn Death-Lord

In The High King Queen Achren (then sorceress) said that if Arawn were to go into Prydain unprotected and in his true form, he would be killed on sight so Arawn always employed his shape-shifting powers when in Prydain.

Beddoe Rees

He was unable to support Asquith’s position of allowing Labour to take office, although he told his electors in Bristol that there was no Liberal principle involved it was merely a matter of being true to the position on which he had fought the last election.

Birkarls

This claim is at least partly true, since men from Pirkkala appear as witnesses in a document from 1374 about local borders in northern Pohjanmaa.

Candid photography

This is certainly true for most celebrity photographers, such as René Burri, or Raeburn Flerlage.

Canonical normal form

Most gate circuits accept more than 2 input variables; for example, the spaceborne Apollo Guidance Computer, which pioneered the application of integrated circuits in the 1960s, was built with only one type of gate, a 3-input NOR, whose output is true only when all 3 inputs are false.

Cherd Songsri

Among his other works are Puen Pang (1987), about two sisters in love with the same man; Muen and Rid (1994), a true story from Rama IV-era Siam about a woman who petitioned King Mongkut to make equal rights for women; and Tawipob (1990), the first film adaptation of a novel by Thommayanti, about a modern-day socialite who time travels back to Rama V-era Siam and becomes involved in the political and diplomatic intrigue of the day.

Claudio Naranjo

Naranjo set off on a six month pilgrimage under the guidance of Oscar Ichazo and a spiritual retreat in the desert near Arica, Chile, which he considers the true beginning of his spiritual experience, contemplative life and inner guidance.

Donald Winnicott

Winnicott rose to prominence just as the followers of Anna Freud were battling those of Melanie Klein for the right to be called Sigmund Freud's true intellectual heirs.

Ducal Palace of Colorno

It belonged to the Correggio and Terzi families, and in the 16th-17th centuries it was restored by countess Barbara Sanseverino, who desired a true palace for her court, and to house her prestigious collection of works by painters such as Raphael, Titian, Mantegna and Correggio.

Elegiac comedy

Denying their true comedic nature, Edmond Faral called them Latin fabliaux, after the later Old French fabliaux, and Ian Thompson labelled them Latin comic tales.

Ethical monotheism

Other gods are considered to be false or demonic, and it is believed that any other gods cannot be compared to the one true God.

Fabel

The play itself might be by Farquhar or Gerhart Hauptmann, Lenz or Molière, but ‘the writer’s words are only sacred insofar as they are true’.

Honghu

The scenic Lake Honghu was the centerpiece of a revolutionary opera: "The Red Guards on Honghu Lake" (洪湖赤卫队) which was based on a true story about the Red Army and its struggle with the Kuomintang (KMT) in the Chinese Civil War.

Horten Ho 229

In early 2008, Northrop-Grumman paired up television documentary producer Michael Jorgensen, and the National Geographic Channel to produce a documentary to determine whether the Ho 229 was, in fact, the world's first true "stealth" fighter-bomber.

Ipswich, Massachusetts

True enough, in 1928 a new 59-room mansion designed by Chicago architect David Adler in the English Stuart style stood in its place, called the Great House.

Jacob's Rescue

Jacob's Rescue is a 1994 children's book by Malka Drucker and Michael Halperin based on a true story that takes place in Warsaw, Poland during the holocaust.

Jean Louis Barthélemy O'Donnell

He was a career military man, and later Mâitre des Requêtes in the Conseil d’État, and a conseiller (counselor) in the Cour des Comptes, where he brought democratic constitutional principles inculcated under Lameth, and true to which he remained throughout his life.

Joshua Caldwell

In addition to winning the MTV Movie Award for Best Film on Campus in 2006, The Beautiful Lie, starring Michaela McManus, was also an official selection at the Los Angeles International Short Film Festival, the One Reel Film Festival and the Seattle True Independent Film Festival (where it won the Classic Beauty Prize).

Juhan Viiding

It is not known whether Viiding intended to develop a second poetic voice in addition to that of Jüri Üdi, or that he simply realized that the Soviet era of ideological symbols—as described in his "Jüri’s Yarn"—was coming to an end and the actor Jüri Üdi could drop the mask to reveal Juhan Viiding’s true literary face.

Khaled: A Tale of Arabia

From the cover blurb of the Ballantine edition: "Khaled is a hardworking, conscientious djinn, a true believer working industriously in the service of Allah.

KPSR-LP

KPSR-LP is Modesto's only true Urban formatted radio station playing Hip Hop, R&B, Old School, Classic soul and Gospel music, catering to the mainstream and adult audiences in the relatively demographically small African American community.

Lady Franklin's Revenge

Lady Franklin's Revenge: A True Story of Ambition, Obsession and the Remaking of Arctic History is a non-fiction book by Canadian historian and writer Ken McGoogan.

Larry Dippel

Though Amarillo had been a true dynasty under Blair Cherry in 1930s, the Sandies had not make the playoffs since 1959.

Lizbeth Benacquisto

Rader accused Benacquisto of committing 105 election law violations in a television advertisement, a claim which Politifact rated as a true statement.

Loud Guitars, Big Suspicions

Two singles were taken from it: "True Friends" and "Playing with Fire," both of which charted in the U.S. Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, the former peaking at #27, in 1999, and the latter only reaching #37, in 2000.

Matt McGloin

After playing behind Daryll Clark and Kevin Newsome in 2009, he ended up third on the depth chart in early 2010 behind Rob Bolden, a true freshman from Detroit.

Mazahua language

Along with Sindhi and Tukang Besi, Mazahua is a rare case of a language with true implosives far isolated from regions where implosives are commonly encountered.

Murder of Glenn Kopitske

Lawyers suggested that DNA evidence suggested the theory that Hirte killed Kopitske just to see if he could get away with it was not true.

My Best Friend, General Vasili, Son of Joseph Stalin

Biopic film, based on a true story of friendship between Vasili Stalin, the son of the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, and the famous Russian sports star Vsevolod Bobrov.

Pallana

The special remark of pallana is, here is the eternal resting place of great poet Mahakavi Kumaran Asan the true representative of cultural renaissance in Kerala who is introduced the new form of poetry called’Khandakavia’ to Malayalam.

Pope Pius XIII

Lucian Pulvermacher, leader of the "true Catholic Church", a small conclavist group

Race Life of the Aryan Peoples

So of the Aryan folk; not the Vedas, not the Avestas, not the Iliad, or the Nibelungenlied, or Beowulf, but the marvelous tale of what the Aryan man has lived—how he has subdued the wild and waste lands—how he has made the desert to blossom as the rose—how he has built up empire with ax and plow, and has sailed the unknown paths of the seas—these are his true race epic.

Ray Graydon

In a true sign of the gentleman Graydon had become known as, instead of celebrating immediately, he embraced with Reading manager Alan Pardew, and shook the hand of each Reading player, including former Walsall captain, Adrian Viveash.

Regress argument

The argument can be seen as a response to the suggestion in Plato's Theaetetus that knowledge is justified true belief.

Sings the Ballads of the True West

Sings the Ballads of the True West was re-issued in 2002 (see 2002 in music) through Legacy Recordings, with two bonus tracks, one of which is an instrumental version of a track available on the album.

Stealing Heaven

Stealing Heaven is a 1988 film, a costume drama based on the French 12th century medieval romance (a true story) of Peter Abelard and Héloïse and on a historical novel by Marion Meade.

Sterling Fox

He has since worked on a number of collaborations, including cowriting and adding vocals to the song "Shame on Me" from Avicii's album True.

The Passing Parade

In both media, the series usually focused on strange-but-true historical events, both little-known and famous, as well as figures such as Catherine de' Medici and Nostradamus.

The Phenomenology of Spirit

Regardless of (ongoing) academic controversy regarding the significance of a unique dialectical method in Hegel's writings, it is true, as Professor Howard Kainz (1996) affirms, that there are "thousands of triads" in Hegel's writings.

The Tibetan Dog

In this film, a young boy named Tenzing leaves for Tibet after his mother passes away to live with his Father in the prairies and encounters a true friend in form of a golden Tibetan Mastiff.

Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut

Her true love is Walt, a member of the Glass family, for whom she pines in the wake of his death during his service in the army.

Viva Belarus!

Based on a true story of Franak Viacorka, activist of the Belarusian opposition, co-author of the screenplay for the film.

W. C. Heinz

He was a regular contributor to magazines such as SPORT magazine, Life, The Saturday Evening Post, Esquire, “True", "Collier's", and Look. The best of his magazine and newspaper pieces are published in his books "American Mirror" and "What A Time It Was: The Best of W.C. Heinz on Sports.

War of the Twins

Crysania flees when Raistlin rejects her love and makes plans to bring word of the true gods to the people, 200 years before Goldmoon would during the War of the Lance.

William Greaves

Since then, Greaves has produced numerous works, including From These Roots, Nationtime: Gary, Where Dreams Come True, Booker T.Washington: Life and Legacy, Frederick Douglass: An American Life, Black Power in America: Myth or Reality?, The Deep North, and Ida B. Wells: An American Odyssey, which was narrated by Nobel Prize in Literature and Pulitzer Prize winning author Toni Morrison.

William Willcocks

He was serving as director general of reservoirs for Egypt when he completed his studies and plans in 1896 to construct the Aswan Low Dam, the first true storage reservoir on the river.

World of Darkness

One of the earliest collectible card games (CCG) Vampire: The Eternal Struggle (formerly called Jyhad) is also based on the original World of Darkness, staying very true to the setting.

Yigal Carmon

The same is true of the Christians with regard to the Inquisition: First they believed that it was God's will, but later dropped it.


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