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To: Sully- who wrote (44354)	5/14/2004 11:46:14 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793697

And what is your definition of a "true believer"? <<True-believer syndrome is an expression coined by M. Lamar Keene to describe an apparent cognitive disorder characterized by believing in the reality of paranormal or supernatural events after one has been presented overwhelming evidence that the event was fraudulently staged. >> skepdic.com <<true believer n. One who is deeply, sometimes fanatically devoted to a cause, organization, or person: “a band of true believers bonded together against all those who did not agree with them” (Theodore Draper).>> dictionary.reference.com Who is berating them? What I said was: "If he can't hold on to the defectors, the outcome might well be cut and run. I think the better strategy is to impress on them the risk of bailing rather than to try to bring them back fully into the fold of true believers or berating them for having abandoned that status." Each "them" in the second sentence refers to the folks in the first sentence, the defectors. Who are these "true believers" you keep talking about? In this case the true believers are those who remain fully committed to the war as originally framed.