Stop Making Cents
8th January 2017, 04:46 PM
Your thoughts on the mandela effect?:
http://mandelaeffect.com/
Many of us share unorthodox memories.
Something odd (and fascinating) might be happening.
From my side of the dashboard, some of these “alternate memories” are eerily consistent, even when I didn’t publish the earliest reports. That’s intriguing.
Most of us don’t think this is a conspiracy.
It’s just something we can’t explain, yet. Sort of like how gravity works. And some aspects of lightning. And whatever Einstein meant by his incomplete time-space theories. Or even why, in some countries, cars stop at green traffic lights.
(But, hey, it might be a conspiracy. Or there may be some media manipulation involved. I haven’t a clue.)
The Mandela Effect is quirky. It’s weird. It’s fun, if you step away from the topic and look at it intellectually. (I’m trying not to seem insensitive to those who feel traumatized by this subject. I’m also mindful of the anxieties of those convinced this is a conspiracy.)
This site has been based in, “Okay, what if alternate memories are mostly accurate? What if alternate realities exist, and we can interact with them? Then what…?”
As I see it, Mandela Effect is poised at a cool, kind-of-unsettling seesaw fulcrum, between sci-fi/fantasy and physics.
I’m not saying that anyone is making this up. Those who have those memories — including me — we’re relieved to find others with the exact same memories, or at least memories that match on too many points to be “coincidence.”
But, I’ll admit that anything we might deliberately do with what we’ve learned from our conversations… that takes us into speculative areas that aren’t as well-grounded as the memories we share. I want to make that distinction clear.
At this point:
The Mandela Effect is recognized as something real, independent of how the individual explains it. (That includes everything from snarky skepticism to fervent belief.)
The topic of parallel realities — and their possible interactions — is becoming more credible. And, that data has been provided by people who (mostly) don’t care one way or the other about the Mandela Effect.
It’s time for me to have fun with this topic, instead of defending it or trying to moderate conversations best held at Reddit. (Reddit provides a far better home for active conversations about individual memories, and for correlation of them.)
So, I wish you a very happy holiday season… whichever of the 50+ seasonal holidays you celebrate. (Or none of them, if that’s your choice.)
In 2017, let’s take this topic beyond individual Mandela Effect incidents.
Let’s look at the bigger picture. Let’s examine more of the speculative, “what if…?” sides of this topic.
And, let’s see where this takes us.
Happy new year!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confabulation#Mandela_effect
Mandela effect[edit]
An internet meme related to confabulation is known as the "Mandela Effect". This is a situation where a number of people claim to share memories of events which differ from the available evidence of those events. The term was coined[64] by paranormal enthusiast Fiona Broome, who said she and other people remembered Nelson Mandela dying in the 1980s in prison, well before his actual death in 2013 from an illness.[63][65] Proponents of the "Mandela Effect" cite this, and some of the other confabulations above, as being parts of a single phenomenon which they relate to multiverse theories such as the many-worlds interpretation rather than to individual failures of reading or memory.[63]
A similar example of confabulation appeared in December 2016 when people recalled a movie titled "Shazaam" where comedian Sinbad portrayed a genie. This source of this false memory is likely the film Kazaam starring Shaquille O'Neal. Even though there is no evidence for the existence of the Sinbad movie, some people still insist it existed and have attributed this to the "Mandela effect".[66][67][68][69]
This is the one that really got me:
http://mandelaeffect.com/berenstein-or-berenstain-bears/
Many people who visit the Mandela Effect website have fond memories of the Berenstein Bears books. They read them as children, or family members read them aloud. It’s a cherished childhood memory.
However, the books in this timestream are Berenstain Bears. A, not E, in last syllable.
That’s not what most visitors seem to remember. The following are among the many memories people have shared, sometimes as part of longer comments.* The vast majority recall the books as Berenstein Bears.
http://mandelaeffect.com/
Many of us share unorthodox memories.
Something odd (and fascinating) might be happening.
From my side of the dashboard, some of these “alternate memories” are eerily consistent, even when I didn’t publish the earliest reports. That’s intriguing.
Most of us don’t think this is a conspiracy.
It’s just something we can’t explain, yet. Sort of like how gravity works. And some aspects of lightning. And whatever Einstein meant by his incomplete time-space theories. Or even why, in some countries, cars stop at green traffic lights.
(But, hey, it might be a conspiracy. Or there may be some media manipulation involved. I haven’t a clue.)
The Mandela Effect is quirky. It’s weird. It’s fun, if you step away from the topic and look at it intellectually. (I’m trying not to seem insensitive to those who feel traumatized by this subject. I’m also mindful of the anxieties of those convinced this is a conspiracy.)
This site has been based in, “Okay, what if alternate memories are mostly accurate? What if alternate realities exist, and we can interact with them? Then what…?”
As I see it, Mandela Effect is poised at a cool, kind-of-unsettling seesaw fulcrum, between sci-fi/fantasy and physics.
I’m not saying that anyone is making this up. Those who have those memories — including me — we’re relieved to find others with the exact same memories, or at least memories that match on too many points to be “coincidence.”
But, I’ll admit that anything we might deliberately do with what we’ve learned from our conversations… that takes us into speculative areas that aren’t as well-grounded as the memories we share. I want to make that distinction clear.
At this point:
The Mandela Effect is recognized as something real, independent of how the individual explains it. (That includes everything from snarky skepticism to fervent belief.)
The topic of parallel realities — and their possible interactions — is becoming more credible. And, that data has been provided by people who (mostly) don’t care one way or the other about the Mandela Effect.
It’s time for me to have fun with this topic, instead of defending it or trying to moderate conversations best held at Reddit. (Reddit provides a far better home for active conversations about individual memories, and for correlation of them.)
So, I wish you a very happy holiday season… whichever of the 50+ seasonal holidays you celebrate. (Or none of them, if that’s your choice.)
In 2017, let’s take this topic beyond individual Mandela Effect incidents.
Let’s look at the bigger picture. Let’s examine more of the speculative, “what if…?” sides of this topic.
And, let’s see where this takes us.
Happy new year!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confabulation#Mandela_effect
Mandela effect[edit]
An internet meme related to confabulation is known as the "Mandela Effect". This is a situation where a number of people claim to share memories of events which differ from the available evidence of those events. The term was coined[64] by paranormal enthusiast Fiona Broome, who said she and other people remembered Nelson Mandela dying in the 1980s in prison, well before his actual death in 2013 from an illness.[63][65] Proponents of the "Mandela Effect" cite this, and some of the other confabulations above, as being parts of a single phenomenon which they relate to multiverse theories such as the many-worlds interpretation rather than to individual failures of reading or memory.[63]
A similar example of confabulation appeared in December 2016 when people recalled a movie titled "Shazaam" where comedian Sinbad portrayed a genie. This source of this false memory is likely the film Kazaam starring Shaquille O'Neal. Even though there is no evidence for the existence of the Sinbad movie, some people still insist it existed and have attributed this to the "Mandela effect".[66][67][68][69]
This is the one that really got me:
http://mandelaeffect.com/berenstein-or-berenstain-bears/
Many people who visit the Mandela Effect website have fond memories of the Berenstein Bears books. They read them as children, or family members read them aloud. It’s a cherished childhood memory.
However, the books in this timestream are Berenstain Bears. A, not E, in last syllable.
That’s not what most visitors seem to remember. The following are among the many memories people have shared, sometimes as part of longer comments.* The vast majority recall the books as Berenstein Bears.