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The Mandela Effect
« on: November 01, 2016, 09:48:42 AM »
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-mandela-effect
Original article - http://mandelaeffect.com/nelson-mandela-died-in-prison/

Anybody hear about this? It's pretty interesting. I wasn't born until '85 so I couldn't tell you about that part, but I distinctly remember it as BerenstEin Bears.

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Re: The Mandela Effect
« Reply #1 on: November 01, 2016, 10:35:21 AM »
Sometimes you're just wrong.
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Re: The Mandela Effect
« Reply #2 on: November 01, 2016, 10:38:36 AM »
I've wondered sometimes.
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Re: The Mandela Effect
« Reply #3 on: November 01, 2016, 10:44:14 AM »


I remember people pronouncing it "Berenstein", but my guess is people just mispronounced it. Here are some actual books from the time period.
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Re: The Mandela Effect
« Reply #4 on: November 01, 2016, 10:45:04 AM »
I also distinctly remember Trump and Hillary were in a debate together and a meteor came and took them both out. That happened to right? Right!?
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Re: The Mandela Effect
« Reply #5 on: November 01, 2016, 10:47:19 AM »
Quote from: makattak on November 01, 2016, 10:44:14 AM


I remember people pronouncing it "Berenstein", but my guess is people just mispronounced it. Here are some actual books from the time period.

Well of course the book has it with an "a" in this universe/reality.
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Re: The Mandela Effect
« Reply #6 on: November 01, 2016, 10:54:42 AM »
Look, whichever universe the lizard people put you in; that's the one you're in. What are you gonna do about it? Why worry about it?
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Re: The Mandela Effect
« Reply #7 on: November 01, 2016, 11:01:59 AM »
Oh I think we know who we can blame for this...
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Re: The Mandela Effect
« Reply #8 on: November 01, 2016, 12:07:26 PM »
I have always said that liberals live in an alternate universe, that they have constructed out of whole cloth.   :)
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Re: The Mandela Effect
« Reply #9 on: November 01, 2016, 12:22:11 PM »
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Re: The Mandela Effect
« Reply #10 on: November 01, 2016, 02:13:18 PM »
Sounds like people getting all of their news about the world from internet memes or comedy central.

I've never heard of mandela 'dying in prison'- I remember him being in prison in the 1980s for being the head of a terrorist organization- the reasons why he was in prison has been largely whitewashed and history rewritten by the political left.

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Re: The Mandela Effect
« Reply #11 on: November 01, 2016, 02:25:18 PM »
Yeah. I remember him dying in prison too. The big funeral processions through the shanty townships that were miles long. With some of that Zulu-style jumping dance and chanting.  Then the riots and the tear gas etc. on the news.

Although I don’t worry about it too much. My family etc. all seems to be the same as the ones in the Berenstein and Berenstain continuities.
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Re: The Mandela Effect
« Reply #12 on: November 01, 2016, 03:26:08 PM »
Quote from: brimic on November 01, 2016, 02:13:18 PM
Sounds like people getting all of their news about the world from internet memes or comedy central.

I've never heard of mandela 'dying in prison'- I remember him being in prison in the 1980s for being the head of a terrorist organization- the reasons why he was in prison has been largely whitewashed and history rewritten by the political left.


I never heard of the dying in prison thing either.  Sounds like people's memories connecting unrelated events.  Or just confusing two news stories that were reported at the same time, but not connected themselves. 
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Re: The Mandela Effect
« Reply #13 on: November 01, 2016, 07:15:56 PM »
Mandela died in prison?  Mandela didn't die in prison?  Who cares?
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Re: The Mandela Effect
« Reply #14 on: November 01, 2016, 08:41:47 PM »
Quote from: RocketMan on November 01, 2016, 07:15:56 PM
Mandela died in prison?  Mandela didn't die in prison?  Who cares?

WHAT DIFFERENCE, AT THIS POINT, DOES IT MAKE?
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Re: The Mandela Effect
« Reply #15 on: November 01, 2016, 08:52:25 PM »
This is some crazy Rick and Morty stuff going down. lol
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Re: The Mandela Effect
« Reply #16 on: November 02, 2016, 08:00:02 AM »
An acquaintance told me about the Mandela Effect and seemed to put a lot of faith in it, but he couldn't explain it coherently (a clue right there).  I looked it up, and my impression is it's a way for some people to think of alternate universes as a better explanation for their memories not aligning with the reality of actual facts.
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Re: The Mandela Effect
« Reply #17 on: November 02, 2016, 08:03:45 AM »
Quote from: griz on November 02, 2016, 08:00:02 AM
An acquaintance told me about the Mandela Effect and seemed to put a lot of faith in it, but he couldn't explain it coherently (a clue right there).  I looked it up, and my impression is it's a way for some people to think of alternate universes as a better explanation for their memories not aligning with the reality of actual facts.

Good a explanation as any as to why the tool I've been looking for is right where it's supposed to be when I go to put the replacement I just bought away.
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Re: The Mandela Effect
« Reply #18 on: November 02, 2016, 09:54:30 AM »
Nelson who?

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Broome described an experience at a convention called Dragon Con, where she discovered that others had a false memory similar to hers, which was that Nelson Mandela had died during his imprisonment in the 1980s.[1]

    See, I thought Nelson Mandela died in prison. I thought I remembered it clearly, complete with news clips of his funeral, the mourning in South Africa, some rioting in cities, and the heartfelt speech by his widow.

    Then, I found out he was still alive.

This sounds to me very much like a pseudo-intellectual who was so shocked at being wrong about something that she had to concoct an elaborate [pseudo-]scientific theory to "explain" it, rather than just admit she was wrong about something.
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Re: The Mandela Effect
« Reply #19 on: November 02, 2016, 09:57:37 AM »
Quote from: brimic on November 01, 2016, 02:13:18 PM
I remember him being in prison in the 1980s for being the head of a terrorist organization- the reasons why he was in prison has been largely completely whitewashed and history rewritten by the political left.

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Re: The Mandela Effect
« Reply #20 on: November 02, 2016, 10:48:51 AM »
There were a lot of political prisoners with Mandela on Robben Island. It was an iconic, memorable place, and Mandela's name would have been mentioned extensively. If it was someone in the ANC or IFP cadre, there would have been funeral processions and toyi-toyi.

I did a cursory google to figure out who it might have been and didn't get any hits, but need to try again later. It might be in Mandela's biography.
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Re: The Mandela Effect
« Reply #21 on: November 02, 2016, 11:12:51 AM »
It's just a glitch in the matrix.
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