Current Events > people who believe in what they call "mandela effect" are such morons.

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You know how sometimes there is a common misconception about something like
-the way a word is spelled
-the lyrics to a song/quote from a movie
-when a person did something
-other banal things

Some people are convinced that these misconceptions (which are always very minor, easy-to-forget details) are not the result of their faulty memories, but rather the literal result of parallel universes fusing together.

They share their ideas online and talk about how "in my universe it was spelled like this but now everybody spells it like *this*"

Jesus christ, people. This is kind of mean of me to say but you're not from a parallel universe where a restaurant was spelled slightly differently. You're just easily confused, and gullible
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Jesus christ, people. This is kind of mean of me to say but you're not from a parallel universe where a restaurant was spelled slightly differently. You're just easily confused, and gullible

Don't ever feel bad for speaking the truth.

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There was a dude who posted pages upon pages of these on a social board here. He must have been either very committed to the troll job or sadly disturbed.

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You are confusing the mandela effect with one of the, most absurd, "explanations" for it.

It's a joke goober.
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JE19426 posted...

You are confusing the mandela effect with one of the, most absurd, "explanations" for it.

No, even the origin of the name points to how stupid the "phenomenon" is.

A whole room of people were convinced that Nelson Mandela died in captivity instead of becoming the leader of South Africa. Despite the fact that he was a notable public figure well into the 2000's, appearing on the news and acting on behalf of his nation for decades.

A room full of ignorant people became convinced that they had lived in a world where Nelson Mandela actually died before achieving the pinnacle of his success, and instead of acknowledging it as a giant blind spot, they spun it off into this fantasy of having lived in an alternate dimension where they witnessed their version of reality.

Everything about that story is fucking stupid.
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broke: mandela effect
woke: memory holes
bespoke: memetic orchestration
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90% of Mandela effects are people griping about spelling. People just need to accept that they are bad at spelling

If there is one thing people are really good at, it's fully believing in something despite having zero evidence.
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Luke, I am your father.
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Imagine being so jaded and boring that you have to dismiss how fucking weird this world and universe are just because you can't fathom things being more than they appear to be.

Just imagine being that much of a wet blanket.
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Vyrulisse posted...

Imagine being so jaded and boring that you have to dismiss how fucking weird this world and universe are just because you can't fathom things being more than they appear to be.

Just imagine being that much of a wet blanket.

Which Walgreens did you get that tinfoil hat from? It looks stylish.

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I find it interesting because it is indeed the case that a lot of people can remember things incorrectly so it can be neat to see what it is or which ones youre guilty of and why that could be

the problem is when people try to make it into some kind of sci fi thing

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ultimate reaver posted...

I find it interesting because it is indeed the case that a lot of people can remember things incorrectly so it can be neat to see what it is or which ones youre guilty of and why that could be

the problem is when people try to make it into some kind of sci fi thing

Yeah, it's just a silly little joke to me and a neat look at how large swathes of people can misremember something in a similar way.

Fun one: how do you complete the following lyric in the Drake and Josh theme song?

"It's gonna take some time to..."

I have had friendly arguments over this. Not "I come from a parallel universe and this is how it was there" arguments, but "No, it sounds like this" arguments.

We're not that unique as individuals and we're shaped by similar environments and have similar brain structures and so it's no surprise people would end up with similar false memories. It's like being surprised you meet someone else who likes the same obscure movie/game/whatever you do. You're just not that unique.
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Vyrulisse posted...

Imagine being so jaded and boring that you have to dismiss how fucking weird this world and universe are just because you can't fathom things being more than they appear to be.

Just imagine being that much of a wet blanket.

Instead of imagining what you said, I'll imagine what it must be like to think you're obligated to treat such unsubstantiated pseudoscientific mumbo jumbo like it has any believability.

Or to think that the universe is only weird and interesting if parallel universes are the real reason you can't remember how chick fil a is spelled. And to think that none of the stuff we've ACTUALLY verified could be interesting or strange.

Or to think that an idea is likelier to be true because in your opinion it's more interesting and fun than the alternative explanation
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_Rinku_ posted...

ultimate reaver posted...

I find it interesting because it is indeed the case that a lot of people can remember things incorrectly so it can be neat to see what it is or which ones youre guilty of and why that could be

the problem is when people try to make it into some kind of sci fi thing

Yeah, it's just a silly little joke to me and a neat look at how large swathes of people can misremember something in a similar way.

Fun one: how do you complete the following lyric in the Drake and Josh theme song?

"It's gonna take some time to..."

I have had friendly arguments over this. Not "I come from a parallel universe and this is how it was there" arguments, but "No, it sounds like this" arguments.

From that perspective I could agree.

For example I think it's pretty obvious why so many people think darth vader says "luke I am your father"

-The real line is obviously a reply denying a previous line: "no, I am your father"
-The line is iconic and therefore gets quoted a lot in pop culture, removed from context.
-It wouldn't make sense to say "no, I am your father" when quoting it out of context, so people quoted it as "luke I am your father" instead, and it stuck.

There are obvious explanations like this for some common misconceptions, and others are probably just because we tend to make similar mistakes and have similarly faulty memories. Many people misspell "tomorrow" as "tommorow" but there isn't necessarily a dramatic reason why
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ssjevot posted...

If there is one thing people are really good at, it's fully believing in something despite having zero evidence.

QFT
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Yeah ok, but what about that Sinbad movie?
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Then explain how everyone recalls having sexual relations with your mom.

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I'm down with people palling around and having a laugh - a meme's a meme. But to people who push the meme too far, who are in favor of the Mandela effect with "proof" whenever it pops up - that shit is stupid.

Quinton Reviews did a video about the Simpsons "predicting" the future, and how the Mandela effect and all that crap factored into it. He then made a follow-up video when either Funny Or Die or CollegeHumor released an April fools video depicting a bunch of popular Mandela Effect "theories" come true, which people took at face value.

The thing that gets me the most was that "The Simpsons predicted Donald Trump" with those side by side pictures of Simpsons Trump and IRL Trump. No-one stopped to say "oh wait, when did the Simpsons clip air again?" - which would have been helpful, since the Simpsons clip came out after all of the IRL stuff and was actively lampooning it. You know, the most reasonable outcome.

Folks can meme and joke, but there's a subset of maladjusts who push this shit hard, and dress it up in stupid terms like "predictive programming". People are serious about this alternate universe shit because they had a different idea about how to spell a children's multimedia franchise than the creators of that franchise. The legitimate lunacy that stems from this "concept" is dogshit.
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MrMallard posted...

No, even the origin of the name points to how stupid the "phenomenon" is.

A whole room of people were convinced that Nelson Mandela died in captivity instead of becoming the leader of South Africa. Despite the fact that he was a notable public figure well into the 2000's, appearing on the news and acting on behalf of his nation for decades.

A room full of ignorant people became convinced that they had lived in a world where Nelson Mandela actually died before achieving the pinnacle of his success, and instead of acknowledging it as a giant blind spot, they spun it off into this fantasy of having lived in an alternate dimension where they witnessed their version of reality.

Everything about that story is fucking stupid.

I'm not sure what your post has to do with mine, so I'm going to assume you quoted the wrong post.

The funny thing about the those who claim alternative universe are behind it is that the Mandela effect only happens with very small confusions. And only with items that the person is vaguely familiar with. Like how Froot loops or whatever is spelled.
There are no cases of mass numbers of surgeons who "could have swore the appendix was on the left side when they were in college" or "No, that used to be called something else, I swear!"

If the switching universes claim had any weight, it wouldn't only be the little things that we barely pay attention to that change. Important and consequential things would sometimes change too and the results would, at times, be catastrophic.
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Zaltera posted...

Luke, I am your father.

Someone literally brought this up at work yesterday and that was one of them. And also some field of dreams quote I cant remember, until now which I just remembered as I typed this and still am.

If you build it they will come.

and apparently its he.

Never seen the movie.

I thought it was the Mandala effect?

I am also from the mandala dimension.
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Okay, but it was the fucking Berenstein Bears
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"You'll see, Peter. People... need to believe. And nowadays, they'll believe anything."

_Rinku_ posted...

Yeah, it's just a silly little joke to me and a neat look at how large swathes of people can misremember something in a similar way.

Fun one: how do you complete the following lyric in the Drake and Josh theme song?

"It's gonna take some time to..."

I have had friendly arguments over this. Not "I come from a parallel universe and this is how it was there" arguments, but "No, it sounds like this" arguments.

I totally heard "realize" but I looked it up and yeah its "realign" lol

i honestly think 99% of mandela effect stuff is just collective mishearings and misreadings

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mandela effect? wtf??

you mean the mendala effect?

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Wetterdew posted...

_Rinku_ posted...

ultimate reaver posted...

I find it interesting because it is indeed the case that a lot of people can remember things incorrectly so it can be neat to see what it is or which ones youre guilty of and why that could be

the problem is when people try to make it into some kind of sci fi thing

Yeah, it's just a silly little joke to me and a neat look at how large swathes of people can misremember something in a similar way.

Fun one: how do you complete the following lyric in the Drake and Josh theme song?

"It's gonna take some time to..."

I have had friendly arguments over this. Not "I come from a parallel universe and this is how it was there" arguments, but "No, it sounds like this" arguments.

From that perspective I could agree.

For example I think it's pretty obvious why so many people think darth vader says "luke I am your father"

-The real line is obviously a reply denying a previous line: "no, I am your father"
-The line is iconic and therefore gets quoted a lot in pop culture, removed from context.
-It wouldn't make sense to say "no, I am your father" when quoting it out of context, so people quoted it as "luke I am your father" instead, and it stuck.

There are obvious explanations like this for some common misconceptions, and others are probably just because we tend to make similar mistakes and have similarly faulty memories. Many people misspell "tomorrow" as "tommorow" but there isn't necessarily a dramatic reason why

There is also the fact that we didnt always have YouTube, so a movie from 1980 wasnt always easy to reference. So a movie quote gets changed to add context, and people get more familiar with the pop culture references than line in the actual movie.

"My memory can't be wrong so reality must be wrong." Yeah no.
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*Mingle effect
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MrMallard posted...

JE19426 posted...

You are confusing the mandela effect with one of the, most absurd, "explanations" for it.

No, even the origin of the name points to how stupid the "phenomenon" is.

A whole room of people were convinced that Nelson Mandela died in captivity instead of becoming the leader of South Africa. Despite the fact that he was a notable public figure well into the 2000's, appearing on the news and acting on behalf of his nation for decades.

A room full of ignorant people became convinced that they had lived in a world where Nelson Mandela actually died before achieving the pinnacle of his success, and instead of acknowledging it as a giant blind spot, they spun it off into this fantasy of having lived in an alternate dimension where they witnessed their version of reality.

Everything about that story is fucking stupid.

Ok but "the Mandela effect" actually refers to the mass misrecollection rather than the associated multiverse nonsense.
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DevsBro posted...

Ok but "the Mandela effect" actually refers to the mass misrecollection rather than the associated multiverse nonsense.

I can dig that, I guess.
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Agnostic420 posted...

And also some field of dreams quote I cant remember, until now which I just remembered as I typed this and still am.

If you build it they will come.

and apparently its he.

I've never heard it with "they". It doesn't even make sense in context with the movie, lol. Kevin Costner takes from the quote that he needs to build a baseball field so Shoeless Joe Jackson will come back.

Although, I did think this line was commonly misquoted for a different reason. I could have sworn the actual line was "build it and he will come" until I just now looked it up, lol.
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Vyrulisse posted...

Imagine being so jaded and boring that you have to dismiss how fucking weird this world and universe are just because you can't fathom things being more than they appear to be.

Just imagine being that much of a wet blanket.

in my previous universe, my Vyrulisse also tells it like it is.
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All Im saying is that it is strange that Ive never heard about how some German terrorists caused one of the largest artificial non-nuclear explosions to have ever occurred, on US soil in WWI and that it damaged the Statue of Liberty so much so they closed the access to the Torch section until people started to talk about the Mandela Effect.
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looked posted...

90% of Mandela effects are people griping about spelling. People just need to accept that they are bad at spelling

BuT iTs ThE BeRnStEeN BeArS iN mY UnIVeRsE!

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The only question I have is, what is earth's position in the Milky Way galaxy?

That is something I have been interested in for a long time, and I swear it is something else now.

I don't remember any new reports coming out to correct it, but it is of course possible I missed it...
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TC doesnt know how to use the three seashells lmao
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Alteres posted...

The only question I have is, what is earth's position in the Milky Way galaxy?

That is something I have been interested in for a long time, and I swear it is something else now.

I don't remember any new reports coming out to correct it, but it is of course possible I missed it...

It's always been between two of the spiral arms. Older reports say it was within the latter arm.

Newer information is more like the size of the Milky Way is actually 200k ly compared to the original 100k ly number.
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Perhaps that is why.

I distinctly remember it as being near the end of one of the arms, almost as far from the galactic center as it is possible to get.
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GregShmedley posted...

"Luke, I am your father" can be blamed on Tommy Boy. "Hell Clarice" can be blamed on The Cable Giy.

I'll never understand the Bernstein Bears one. I remember it clear is as day and I've only met one person who remembers it as Berenstain. My mind was a bit blown when I learned the "right" way.

Even tho I mocked it above, yea when you first realize its berenstein it is a huh? Moment.

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Maybe you're just from a parallel universe where it isn't a thing?
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