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Merged The MANDELA Effect.

I think I just ducked under the Mandela effect somehow. Like, every specific example anyone comes up with doesn't apply to me--I had one Berenstain Bears book on tape, so I've always known the proper pronunciation, and I'd never heard anyone say Mandela was dead. The closest thing is a handful of mondegreens that I've mostly worked through.
 
I truly do not want to sound like an A-hole, but when someone says in my presence, "Didn't Nelson Mandela die in prison LOL?" I have an unspeakable urge to just scream "STUDY SOME CURRENT EVENTS ALONG THE WAY! FOR ****'S SAKE." It actually offends me a little. I'm an American. I'm (technically still) under 30. I'm also female. By all demographic inclinations, I shouldn't even necessarily know who Mandela is. The fact that my sensibilities are offended by this ignorance has to be a clear sign that people propagating this nonsense need to get out of the basement more.

Or, you know, maybe I'm a shill for the alien parallel universe. :rolleyes:
 
Veliki George said:
Did South America move far east? Im not sure anymore

https://www.reddit.com/r/MandelaEffect/comments/3pm6vs/south_america_has_shifted_too_far_right/
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The person who started that Reddit thread, simply put, has smoked too much pot and simultaneously not looked at maps enough. The latter is forgivable. The former is also forgivable, until one starts running one's stoned mouth in a stunning display of egotistical Dunning-Krueger.

VG, do you have any friends PROVABLY in South America? Do they think their continent has moved?
 
The number of people on the various conspiracy forums that think the continents have changed is staggering...

NZ too far south/north/east, PNG has moved closer/further away from oz, Korea has moved north/south- seems all countries have been wandering around lol
 
The mental hoops some people will go to simply to avoid the crushing realisation that they are fallible is utterly mental.
 
Dabop said:
The number of people on the various conspiracy forums that think the continents have changed is staggering...

NZ too far south/north/east, PNG has moved closer/further away from oz, Korea has moved north/south- seems all countries have been wandering around lol
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I'm trying to imagine a scenario wherein I notice that a country is in a different place on the map than I'd previously believed that ends in anything other than, "Wow, I feel like a dumbass! Guess I should brush up on my geography :o."

The more wandering countries one notices, the more imperative putting down one's bong and picking up an actual textbook becomes.

I'm really sick of all this post-truth bollocks. Daily life has become rather annoying. The earth is flat, countries move around, weenie spellings change slightly but no one can prove it, and millions of illegals voted in the 2016 election. Okie-dokie! That's nice, dear.

The internet can be a great support resource for the mentally ill, but for delusional folk in denial, it's basically just been a cancer. Posting all day with masses of other people who reinforce one's delusions is actually worse, in my opinion, than having no outlet at all. Just look at how deep the rabbit holes go. One day, someone on Reddit says "huh, I could have sworn those bears were called Berenstein - weird, wild stuff." And then the next thing you know, aliens have changed the color of the sun and the globe has become a veritable etch-a-sketch. If these individuals didn't have armies of internet friends assuring them that it's all true, they might be more inclined to seek help from a doctor when they realize their perceptions aren't lining up with others' reality. Or, in the less extreme cases, they might just dismiss the errors as the memory glitches they are and move on.

Say, can I get in on this post-truth thing? If it's not going away, maybe I can spin it to my advantage. "I'm 5'11 and have very big knockers. It's true because I said it is."
 
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3point14 said:
The mental hoops some people will go to simply to avoid the crushing realisation that they are fallible is utterly mental.
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Yes. Since we so much pin our identities to our memories, that our memories could be flawed, chips away at our desired reality. We'd rather everyone else had it wrong than there be something wrong or in the slightest way unreal about ourselves.
 
Apathia said:
Yes. Since we so much pin our identities to our memories, that our memories could be flawed, chips away at our desired reality. We'd rather everyone else had it wrong than there be something wrong or in the slightest way unreal about ourselves.
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I could totally see having that sort of reaction if a personal, dear-to-my-heart memory were challenged. But I forget small things all day long. I just shrug it off, or slap my forehead and call myself an idiot. It's difficult for me to imagine holding random detail memories to the same emotional standards. But everyone is different.

Maybe absentminded people like myself are more willing to accept our own errors, since we're so accustomed to experiencing them. A person who is a bit more of a perfectionist in general might have trouble with same.
 
By the way, I distinctly remember watching "Shazam" with my cousin when we were young kids. I swear I recall a scene where the Sinbad genie helps a little boy deal with bullies or something. Looking back, I assume my memory is conflating Kazam and First Kid, or something similar. But it's still weird.

Not parallel-universe weird, but yeah, unsettling.
 
isissxn said:
By the way, I distinctly remember watching "Shazam" with my cousin when we were young kids. I swear I recall a scene where the Sinbad genie helps a little boy deal with bullies or something. Looking back, I assume my memory is conflating Kazam and First Kid, or something similar. But it's still weird.

Not parallel-universe weird, but yeah, unsettling.
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What was spooky for me is that I was sure I hadn't seen it, but saw a coming attraction poster for it and thought 'oh, they're playing off the name Sinbad as a genie'.
 
isissxn said:
I could totally see having that sort of reaction if a personal, dear-to-my-heart memory were challenged. But I forget small things all day long. I just shrug it off, or slap my forehead and call myself an idiot. It's difficult for me to imagine holding random detail memories to the same emotional standards. But everyone is different.

Maybe absentminded people like myself are more willing to accept our own errors, since we're so accustomed to experiencing them. A person who is a bit more of a perfectionist in general might have trouble with same.
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As an absentminded perfectionist, I can attest that the former part usually wins out.
 
isissxn said:
I could totally see having that sort of reaction if a personal, dear-to-my-heart memory were challenged. But I forget small things all day long. I just shrug it off, or slap my forehead and call myself an idiot. It's difficult for me to imagine holding random detail memories to the same emotional standards. But everyone is different.

Maybe absentminded people like myself are more willing to accept our own errors, since we're so accustomed to experiencing them. A person who is a bit more of a perfectionist in general might have trouble with same.
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I agree. healthy minds don't sweat the small stuff.
It is disconcerting to find that memories of which we've fleshed out with details over years of telling the stories aren't really what we remember.
 
isissxn said:
By the way, I distinctly remember watching "Shazam" with my cousin when we were young kids. I swear I recall a scene where the Sinbad genie helps a little boy deal with bullies or something. Looking back, I assume my memory is conflating Kazam and First Kid, or something similar. But it's still weird.

Not parallel-universe weird, but yeah, unsettling.
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I still feel this is the prime candidate for the Shazam misremembering.
 
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