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'''IBGYBG''' (or '''I.B.G.-Y.B.G.'''), an acronym for '''"I'll be gone, you'll be gone"''', became a [[code word|popular saying]] among the hedge-fund managers who perpetrated the [[banking crisis]] of 2007-08.  It refers to the many shitty deals and scams perpetrated by {{wpl|Wall Street}} on unsuspecting [[capitalist | investor]]s.  Specifically, it means that the wheeler-dealers involved in a fraud plan to be on their yachts anchored off some private tropical island sipping cocktails before the shit hits the fan.  That, or they'll be dead.

Of course, many of the fraudsters were not ''gone'' when the shit hit the fan.  Some obvious drawbacks to the IBGYBG mindset include:

* lack of timing
* the rampant [[greed]] that makes investors stay in the market "one more day" because [[Gambler's fallacy|they know it'll turn around]]
* the rampant [[narcissistic personality disorder | narcissism]] that makes investors think that [[Dunning-Kruger effect|they are smarter than the system]]
* the fact that nobody has yet invented a working [[fortune-telling|crystal ball]]

IBGYBG is still a fairly new saying, used mostly within the [[United States | American]] financial sector.  However, as more people become aware of this saying, don't be surprised if it gets applied to other [[sociopath]]s.

==External links==
* [http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2009/09/market-ibg-ybg-and-fed-mbs-and-treasury.html Market, “I.B.G. - Y.B.G.” and Fed MBS and Treasury Purchases], ''Calculated Risk'', 18 September 2009
* [http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=IBGYBG ''Urban Dictionary'' website entry for "IBGYBG"]
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYdTnNzttxk Its use at a Senate hearing.]

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IRenew

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[[File:Irenew-bracelet.gif|thumb|left|Why not get a spare one for your cactus?]]
'''iRenew''' is an infomercially prescribed piece of [[medical woo|junk]] "energy balancing bracelet that helps bring new, fresh energy into your life"<ref>[https://archive.fo/0kYzO A promotional site]</ref> sold mostly through the internet and television.

==How does it work?==
Allegedly, "As you wear the bracelet, it will harness natural frequencies that occur in your immediate environment to help tune and rebalance your biofield to a more natural state. iRenew is a leading-edge new solution which dispels negative energy so that consumers can simply bring back stability in their life."<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20100806184959/http://www.squidoo.com/irenew-bracelet Another promotional site]</ref> Naturally, this is based almost completely on [[Anecdote|anecdotal evidence]] rather than scientific research, but it has led to a series of unintentionally hilarious promotional videos showing people too weak to so much as stand up until they wore the bracelet. These are typical examples of the [[applied kinesiology scam]].

{{cquote|iRenew™’s proprietary, nano based BioField Technology™ not only improves the biofields of people but also can positively impact anything biological which includes the biofields of plants and animals as well.<ref name="aboutus">[https://web.archive.org/web/20110131160458/http://www.irenewdeal.com/Irenew-About-Us.cgi iRenew™ About Us]</ref>}}

===Quantum!===
{{cquote|iRenew™’s quantum physicist has over 20 years of human energy research yielding a highly effective, 100% safe, holistic energy balancing technology called BioField Technology™.<ref name="aboutus"/>}}

===Does it really work, though?===
[[File:May irenew.gif|left|thumb|So it definitely works then?]]Of course, like all [[crank]] products, it's never been tested, nor proven in a laboratory setting, to do anything that it claims to do.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20101110061924/http://www.scam.com/showthread.php?t=130325 Scam Thread]</ref> Also, it has a long, vast history of complaints from consumers; not only are they complaining that it doesn't work, but that the product is such a scam, that they have to put up with overbilling, slow delivery, etc.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20110101205050/http://www.walletpop.com/2010/10/01/irenew-balance-bracelet-stumbles-again According to ''The Consumer Ally]''</ref>

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ISIS beheading conspiracy theories

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'''ISIS beheading conspiracy theories''' are a series of [[War on Terror]] [[Conspiracy theory|conspiracy theories]] that question the authenticity of [[DAESH]]'s (ISIS) execution videos. The purpose is to argue that DAESH's white victims are all [[crisis actor]]s hired to disprove allegations that DAESH is actually an [[American]]-led organization. As with other crisis actor 'theories', proponents see executions not being as bloody as in movies as proof, or that the victims are not behaving as the proponent would expect.

In 2014, [[feminist]] author and political adviser {{wpl|Naomi Wolf}} repeatedly claimed on [[Facebook]] that DAESH execution videos were faked with crisis actors, including the execution of well-known [[journalist]] {{wpl|James Foley (journalist)|James Foley.}}<ref>[https://www.vox.com/2014/10/5/6909837/naomi-wolf-isis-ebola-scotland-conspiracy-theories The insane conspiracy theories of Naomi Wolf] by Max (Oct 5, 2014, 10:50am EDT) ''Vox''.</ref>

Complicating matters, a particular beheading video was known to have been faked. It was created by Benjamin Vanderford who faked his own beheading at the time that he was running for San Francisco's Board of Supervisors.<ref>[https://www.theage.com.au/national/man-fakes-own-decapitation-in-video-20040808-gdyf20.html Man fakes own decapitation in video] (August 8, 2004 — 8.58pm) ''The Age''.</ref>

==External links==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scD3oYQuigk Video footage of fake ISIS beheading? Video courtesy of Cyberberkut]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUePdRb8QLk EXPLAINED: Why the Isis Beheading Videos are Fake]

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Ian

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* Ian Miles Cheong, alt-right–adjacent figure who has written for ''[[The Post Millennial]]'' and ''[[Rebel Media]]''
* [[Ian R. Crane]], [[conspiracy theorist]]
* [[Ian Fairlie]], [[anti-nuclear]] activist
* [[Ian Juby]], [[young earth creationist]]
* Ian Kochinski, aka [[Vaush]], leftist [[YouTube]] streamer
* [[Ian Paisley]], founder of the [[Democratic Unionist Party]]
* [[Ian Plimer]], [[climate change denial]]ist
* Ian Smith, prime minister of [[Rhodesia]]
* [[Ian Stevenson]], [[parapsychologist]]
* [[Ian Stuart Donaldson]], [[neo-Nazi]] musician
Ian Juby

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'''"Professor" Ian Juby''' is a [[young earth creationist]] who hails from Ontario, [[Canada]]. Juby is the director of the Creation Science Museum of Canada, as well as a member of [[Mensa]] &mdash; Juby is known for using his "high [[IQ]]" as an [[argument from authority]] when promoting [[creation science]] under his [[YouTube]] alias ''Wazooloo''. He also allows himself to be presented as a "professor" and a "paleontologist" in his videos &mdash; despite having [[Professor of nothing|no known doctoral degrees (or indeed any degree at all) in any science-related field, or having taught at any university]]. Juby's repeated [[crank]] misrepresentations of the evidence can be found throughout his video series, including claims like "[[dinosaurs]] were vegetarians"<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaCZcCZNnfg Ian Juby Lying About Dinosaur Bones, Teeth And Miocene Man], November 8<sup>th</sup>, 2012 by YouTuber Baud2Bits</ref> while presenting an incomplete dinosaur tooth fossil, and "reptiles laid eggs while running from the flood"<ref>[http://blog.theleagueofreason.co.uk/reason/rebuttal-to-ian-jubys-in-7-days-crash-course-in-creation-day-5/ Rebuttal to Ian Juby’s “’In 7 Days’ Crash Course in Creation” Day 5], May 27<sup>th</sup>, 2013, by he_who_is_nobody on the ''League of Reason'' blog</ref> referring to a 6 egg fossil laid in 2 rows of 3 (showing the animal was so scared it went back to lay another row…).

==See also==
*[[Creation Museum]]
*[[Carl Baugh]]

==External links==
*[http://ianjuby.org/ Personal website]
*[http://icssig.org/members.html Juby's bio on International Creation Science Special Interest Group for Mensans]
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzoI0_IBpS4 Ian Juby] (featured on [[Potholer54]]'s [[YouTube]] channel)

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Ibadi

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The '''Ibadi''' movement or '''Ibadiyya''' is the dominant school of [[Islam]] in [[Oman]] and, owing to historical Omani influence, in Zanzibar. Outsiders typically classify Ibadism as an offshoot of the [[Kharijite]] school, though Ibadi [[Muslim]]s claim to be related to Kharijites only in sharing a common precursor.

==History==
The name ''Ibadi'' derives from the name of Abdullah ibn Ibad al-Tamimi<ref>{{wpa | Abd-Allah ibn Ibadh}} </ref> (died 708), who differed with the Kharijites, though the origins of the rift can be traced back further to disagreements over the doctrine of ''takfir''<ref>{{wpa | takfir}}</ref>  and over the assassination of Uthman, the third caliph, in 656. Ibadis ranked as the more moderate group opposing Ali,<ref>{{wpa | Ali Ibn Abi-Talib}}</ref> the next caliph (in office 656-661). During the reign of Caliph Marwan II (in office 744-750), Ibadis staged a large-scale rebellion in the Hijaz (now western [[Saudi Arabia]]), and actually managed some success there before eventually being kicked out to Oman, where they remain the dominant branch of Islam even today. 

==Differences from other branches of Islam==
* Unlike [[Sunni]]s, they believe [[Allah]] will not show himself on [[Judgement Day]].
* Unlike both Sunnis and [[Shia|Shi'ites]], they do not believe it necessary for all Muslims to have a single leader, and additionally do not believe that such a leader must be descended from [[Muhammad]]'s tribe.
* They accept a much smaller body of [[hadith]] than Sunnis, which includes some hadith that Sunni Muslims do not accept.
* They view the first two caliphs as rightly guided, and think the next two had it right until partway through their respective lives.
* They do not accept reasoning by analogy as a valid source of law, relying only on the [[Quran]] and on hadith.

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Ichthyostega

[[File:Fishapod evolution.jpg|thumb|right|165px|A cladogram of the evolution of tetrapods showing the best-known transitional fossils. From bottom to top: Eusthenopteron, Panderichthys, [[Tiktaalik]], Acanthostega, Ichthyostega, Pederpes.]]
'''Ichthyostega''' was a [[Paleozoic]] stem-tetrapod, about 4 to 5 feet long, that lived during the Devonian epoch and had adaptations for living in water as well as on land. ''Ichthyostega'' had seven digits on its hind limb instead of five, and its limb bones included a humerus and a femur as with later tetrapods. ''Ichtyostega'' had a strong rib cage that could support the animal's lungs, thereby enabling it to breathe on land but probably restricting the animal's side to side movement. Its ear also was apparently adapted to hear both on land and in the water.  ''Ichthyostega'' also had gill arches as well as lungs.<ref>[http://www.devoniantimes.org/Order/re-ichthyostega.html Ichthyostega]</ref><ref>[http://tolweb.org/Ichthyostega Ichthyostega]</ref>

==Speculation==
The fused rib cage almost certainly restricted the movements of ''Ichthyostega'' on land and it is impossible to reconstruct what the animal did there.  
#It may be that ''Ichthyostega'' lumbered safely across land feasting on large invertebrates that had evolved no defenses against vertebrate types of predation.  Further invertebrate predators may not have been triggered to attack a vertebrate moving differently from their typical invertebrate prey. 
#It may be that ''Ichthyostega'' was in danger from invertebrate predators whenever it ventured far from water.  ''Ichthyostega'' may have stayed near water except when desperately hungry or desperately in need to escape problems in the water where it had lived.  Such problems may have included a pool or waterway drying up or perhaps a watery area becoming overpopulated, thus when ''Ichtyostega'' needed to move it could cross land and find a new waterway in which to live.
#''Ichthyostega'' may have left the water mainly to bask, staying near water and able to return fast if needed.

==See also==
*''[[Tiktaalik]]''

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Iconoclasm

[[File:Egenberger-Iconoclasm.jpg|thumb|right|165px|"Iconoclasm" by Johannes Hinderikus Egenberger ]]
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'''Iconoclasm''' is the destruction of icons that are part of a certain set, such as [[religious]] symbols. A person who performs this is an '''iconoclast'''.

==Origin==
The original meaning refers to those who destroyed religious iconography which they believed to be [[Idolatry|idolatrous]]. There were some examples of this in [[medieval]] Byzantine [[Christianity]] and [[Islam]], but some of the most notable bouts of iconoclasm took place during the [[Protestant]] [[Reformation]] of the 16<sup>th</sup> and 17<sup>th</sup> centuries, when [[Puritans]] removed or destroyed religious statues, paintings, stained glass windows and other ornamentation which they believed to be a violation of the [[Ten Commandments#Second Commandment|Second Commandment]]. Some iconoclasm was done peacefully by reforming ministers and congregations, but much of it was committed by rioting [[crowd psychology|crowds]] or soldiers. This was particularly the case during the [[English Civil War]]s and the Commonwealth era (1642 to 1660).

==Modern usage==
Some sects of [[Islam]] continue to be aniconist, particularly some [[Salafi]]s and [[Wahhabi]]s.<ref>{{wpa|Aniconism in Islam}}</ref> In 1965, one of King Faisal's nephews was killed while leading an assault on [[Saudi Arabia]]'s first television station.<ref>[https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/saudi/etc/cron.html Saudi Arabia: A Chronology…] ''Frontline''.</ref>

In the early part of the 20<sup>th</sup> century in the Papuan Gulf region of [[Papua New Guinea]], {{wpl|Vailala Madness}} was a [[cargo cult]] that destroyed all of the traditional religious paraphernalia.<ref>''The Vailala Madness and Other Essays'' by F. E. Williams, edited by Erik Schwimmer (1977) University Press of Hawaii. ISBN 0824805194.</ref>

In modern usage, the term "iconoclasm" is rarely used for physical destruction or vandalism. Instead an iconoclast is anybody who challenges, rejects or redefines a popular image or perception, particularly one held to be "[[sacred]]" in some way, although this is often in a [[secular]] rather than religious sense. Sometimes this can be a visual defacement of a picture, such as the Sex Pistols' modified portraits of [[Queen Elizabeth II]] on their record sleeve artwork. More often iconoclastic behaviour takes the form of criticising accepted heroes or concepts. However, this also means that 'iconoclast' is a popular self-description among [[crank]]s and their [[cult|fans]] accompanied by claims that, for instance, the [[scientific consensus]] they don't like amounts to a religious [[dogma]].

==See also==
*[[New Atheism]]
*[[Antitheism]]

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Identification abuse

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'''Identification abuse''' is a form of abuse where guardians of a child refuse to help them gain identification, effectively rendering them illegal immigrants in their own country, if the child tries to leave their parents or their parents' religion. Often, this occurs when guardians simply don't file a birth certificate when their child is born or when guardians deny their now-adult child [[autonomy]] by withholding their records.<ref>https://homeschoolersanonymous.wordpress.com/2015/02/10/when-your-very-identity-is-held-hostage-alecia-pennington-and-identification-abuse/</ref> The abuse severely debilitates the kids by making it hard for them to get a job, enter most hospitals and schools, or even prove citizenship or legal work status.

Identification abuse is typically seen among [[homeschooling|homeschoolers]] and [[survivalist]]s. This is not necessarily because the form of abuse is more appealing to them, but likely because it would be much more difficult to accomplish for anyone whose children have greater access to the outside world.

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Ignatius L. Donnelly

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[[File:Ignatius-Donnelly.jpg|thumb|200px|Doesn't look like a hippie, does he?]]
'''Ignatius Loyola Donnelly''' {{lived|1831|1901}} was an [[American]] [[Congress]]man and [[fringe]] scholar. He wrote about [[Atlantis]], [[Catastrophism]] (a [[comet]] impact affecting ancient civilizations) and the [[Shakespeare authorship]] question (he believed it was [[Francis Bacon]]). His writings influenced [[Helena Blavatsky]], [[Rudolf Steiner]], [[Edgar Cayce]], [[Immanuel Velikovsky]] and many other purveyors of [[woo]].

Ironically, he's named after the founder of the [[Jesuit]]s.

==Books==
*''Atlantis: The Antediluvian World'' (1882), full text [http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4032 available at Project Gutenberg] and elsewhere
*''Ragnarok : the Age of Fire and Gravel'' (1883), full text [http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5109 available at Project Gutenberg] and elsewhere. It deals with a purported ancient comet impact.
*''The Shakespeare Myth'' (1887)
*''Caesar's Column'' (1890), full text [http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5155 available at Project Gutenberg]. A science-fiction/dystopian novel, published under a pseudonym.

==External links==
*{{see-wp|Ignatius L. Donnelly}}
*[http://www.mnhs.org/library/findaids/00782.xml IGNATIUS DONNELLY: An Inventory of His Family Papers] at the [[Minnesota]] Historical Society (currently the access is restricted)
*[http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=D000417 Official US Congress biography blurb]

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Igor Panarin

[[image:Panarin_photo.jpg|thumb|right|225px|Igor]]
'''Igor Panarin''' is a [[Russia]]n analyst and professor. In 1998 he forecast that the [[United States]] would collapse economically and politically within the following decade.<ref>[http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2008/11/24/Russian_expert_US_headed_for_collapse/UPI-19401227574728/ Russian expert: U.S. headed for collapse], ''United Press International''</ref> Panarin supports [[Russia]]n [[nationalism]] and the pan-Eurasian ideology of {{wpl|Nikolai Trubetzkoy}}.<ref>{{Archived}}[http://web.archive.org/web/20101128192356/http://panarin.com/comment/1184/ Pan-Eurasian nationalism], Panarin's own website. In Russian.</ref>

===Prediction for 2010===
Beginning in 1998, Panarin predicted the break-up of the [[United States]] into six parts in 2010. He specified the time of the disintegration to the end of June or the beginning of July in December 2008,<ref>{{Archived}}[http://web.archive.org/web/20090207205341/http://panarin.com/comment/1068 The prediction]. In Russian.</ref> following a civil war caused by mass immigration, economic decline and moral degradation. He forecast financial and demographic changes provoking a political crisis leading to social unrest, civil war, national division and intervention of foreign powers.<ref>[http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123051100709638419.html As if Things Weren't Bad Enough, Russian Professor Predicts End of U.S.], ''[[Wall Street Journal]]''</ref> It obviously didn't happen.{{fact|joke}}

====The Breakup of the US====
Panarin outlined the breakup of the [[US]] into six regions, each under the control or influence of other countries:

[[image:Panarin.svg|thumb|Whoops]]
#Atlantic America: comprising the eastern seaboard and under the influence of the [[EU]]
#Central North American Republic:the great plains, from [[Ohio]] to [[Idaho]]. Part of [[Canada]]
#California Republic: [[California]] and the rest of the Southwest, under [[China|Chinese]] influence
#Texas Republic: comprising [[Texas]] and other southern states, goes to Mexico
#[[Alaska]]: taken back by [[Russia]]
#[[Hawaii]]: either goes to [[Japan]] or China

==See also==
*[[John Titor]]

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Imaginary friend

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An '''imaginary friend''' is a child's companion with complex personalities and interactions with the child, although the child realises that the friend is a pretence. Most children discard these figments by adolescence.

==Adults' imaginary friends==
{{cquote|Many young children have an imaginary friend. Christopher Robin had [[The God Delusion#Binker|Binker]]. A little girl who wrote to me had a little purple man. And the girl with the little purple man actually saw him. She seemed to hallucinate him. He appeared with a little tinkling bell. And, he was very, very real to her, although in a sense she knew he wasn’t real. I suspect that something like that is going on with people who claim to have heard God or seen God or hear the voice of God.|||[[Richard Dawkins]], ''The Ryan Turbidy Show''<ref>[https://zenit.org/articles/are-believers-delusional-part-1/ Are Believers Delusional? (Part 1); Richard Dawkins vs. David Quinn.] zenit.org, 23 October 2006.</ref><ref>See also [[The God Delusion]], pp. 389ff.</ref>}}

Many adults, however, have a different type of [[God|imaginary friend]] that they believe to be ''real''. This friend is normally invested with [[supernatural]] powers, often to the level of [[omnipotence]]. This friend can have varying degrees of influence on the life of the adult. Most commonly the moral code of the person is dictated by the friend, either through fear of retribution or respect for alleged past deeds of the friend, or of course a combination of the two. Some take the amount of control the friend has in their life to the extreme, allowing it to control the whole of their life and even usurp their reason.

==Diagnosis==
The difference from [[schizophrenia]] appears to be getting away with it. Also, thorazine doesn't do much for it.

==See also==
*[[Delusion]]
*[[Faith]]
*[[God]]
*[[Otherkin#Multiple systems|Multiplicity]]
*[[Spirit guide]]
*[[Tulpa]]
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5qcXfVE7gI Dolly Parton - "What A Friend We Have In Jesus"]
*[http://www.cartoonnetwork.com/tv_shows/fosters/ An excellent series of documentaries on the topic]

==External Links==
*''[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101775/ Drop Dead Fred]'' on IMDb
*[http://www.jesusneverexisted.com/imagine.html Jesus – The Imaginary Friend]

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