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re: Mandela Effect Revisited

Posted on 3/11/19 at 11:45 am to
Posted by Jake88
Member since Apr 2005
79965 posts
Posted on 3/11/19 at 11:45 am to
Chick-FIL-a has always been spelled that way, at least the one in the Plaza in new Orleans East was in 1980 or so.

Barbie girl just may be a misheard lyric. It's not like "the" pronounced "thuh" sounds much different than "a" pronounced "uh."

And, accepting your theory, why would anyone care to readjust this silliness? How about getting us to forget Vietnam, Korea, or the catastrophes of leftist politics in Eastern Europe and the Soviets?
Posted by TigerCoon
Member since Nov 2005
22475 posts
Posted on 3/11/19 at 11:50 am to
Nope. Ed McMahon shilled American Family Publishers, a Publishers Clearinghouse competitor.

They also did a knockoff giveaway.
Posted by jchamil
Member since Nov 2009
19485 posts
Posted on 3/11/19 at 11:58 am to
quote:

The thing about Mandela effect and the Bernstein bears specifically people don't get, is that when it changes, it retcons all old existing books, etc. So if you find an old book with the "correct" spelling, it's bc they were all changed retroactively, likely from CERN Old books dug up will have the new alternation


Posted by carlsoda
B Rah
Member since Dec 2009
5776 posts
Posted on 3/11/19 at 12:37 pm to
My job requires a lot of travel. One day a couple months back I visited an area for the first time and met with a couple prospects. When I was sitting in the office listening to my prospect. I had had that very conversation with the same outcome previously. This was my first visit to the area and I left remembering having that conversation with that man before. Maybe it’s my brain playing tricks but I had been there before. We had talked before. It has happened since so my thoughts are my future changed/delayed, something changed but I know I had met that man and had a conversation about his business before I ever went to meet him...

Posted by mikelbr
Baton Rouge
Member since Apr 2008
49071 posts
Posted on 3/11/19 at 12:53 pm to
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Barbie girl song now says "I'm a barbie girl, in THE barbie world" No way, it was always "A"


WTF


ETA: Ahhh that's not Mandela effect, it's her stupid accent. I just rewatched the video the way she says "THE Barbie World" it easily sounds like "A Barbie World". We didn't have lyrics in front of us on every device and computer back then nor did we care about that song.
Carry on.
This post was edited on 3/11/19 at 1:22 pm
Posted by AlonsoWDC
Memphis, where it ain't Ten-a-Key
Member since Aug 2014
9311 posts
Posted on 3/11/19 at 1:40 pm to
Mandela Effect is groupthink clickbait paranoia porn.

You can see how easy it is to spread in just this thread's four pages.

Ed McMahon shilled for a rival giveaway company. That simple.
This post was edited on 3/11/19 at 1:41 pm
Posted by Darth Aranda
Naboo
Member since Dec 2016
3122 posts
Posted on 3/11/19 at 1:45 pm to
Nothing will top the famous line from Empire Strikes back:

“No, I am your father.”

Instead of, “Luke, I am your father.”
Posted by geauxjuice
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Member since Jan 2007
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Posted on 3/11/19 at 2:15 pm to
This post was edited on 3/11/19 at 2:16 pm
Posted by tigahbruh
Louisiana
Member since Jun 2014
2863 posts
Posted on 3/11/19 at 4:40 pm to
quote:

Mandela Effect is groupthink clickbait paranoia porn

Glitches in the matrix happen. If you experience it, you know.

The above is simply a way of describing the experience. Is it an actual matrix? no idea.

People will make fun of you or call you naive, stupid, etc. So definitely not groupthink.


Some of the world's most intelligent scientists and thinkers have speculated on our reality as a simulacrum.

Hell, in religion, Hinduism and Buddhism are largely based on that premise.

In the literary world, some of the most notorious independent thinkers theorized and created stories based on the premise.

Noticing things, analyzing them, and considering the possibilities is not paranoid.

The Ed McMahon one is easily written off as not knowing the difference between the two sweepstake companies, true. Many examples given are easily explainable. Some are not.








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