When I clicked on your first Mandela Effect link, I think I might have had a 'check in my spirit'-- as some Christians say-- which I now think was kind of a warning not to do it. When I started the video, I felt a demonic presence. Eventually, I realized I needed to stop filling my mind with the garbage.
So I was suspicious that this stuff was demonic. I know a man who got into it, and he looked up a Bible verse and he thought it was different from what he remember-- first and great commandment instead of first and greatest commandment in the KJV. Then he looked and saw it the way he remembered one time, then it said the opposite on the next search. He'd just read about reality changing and being editted online on this forum about Mandela Effect just before this and thought it was happening.
But then he thought about it for a minute. What is more likely, all of reality being editted, or the problem is either with me or this screen. He was feeling confused, looking at maps, wondering if they had changed, paranoid. He realized this was a demonic attack. My thoughts on it were that if the dark arts can turn sticks into snakes in Egypt, then they might be able to change the monitor screen. That made sense to this man. He prayed and stopped watching Mandela Effect videos and the paranoia went away.
I saw this picture of the woman who came up with this Mandela Effect theory. The had the wildest craziest eyes. They said she was some kind of medium. There are 'doctrines of demons'-- teachings that demons promote to confuse people and lead them astray. The idea that all of reality is changing because of some superconductor or AI or whatever can really mess with people's minds. If you think about it, it can mess with people's faith, too.
I'm trying to reverse engineer a possible strategy based on the video. So they pick 200 things that people tend to remember wrong. What we see, our eyes don't even actually see, not all of it. I've heard a bit about the psychology. Our eyes focus narrowly and what we think we see, part of it is reconstructed from memory in our brain. Perception is not as cut and dry as we might think. Our brains oversimplify to handle all the information. I am sitting at a computer typing, listening to a Latin Gregorian chant so I have some music going that does not interfere with my language processing. I'm typing. I'm seeing. It's very complicated.
So we do remember wrong, and out of 200 things or 50 things or whatever it is, we remember wrong. We hear Johnny boy say 'Luke I am your father then think we remember hearing those words in the movie theater. Or who knows? His lips weren't moving and George Lucas likes to change stuff. Before people had VCRs, they could have changed that without telling anyone. It could be a hoaxed, or some embarrassed employee said.... "uh-oh....I damaged the reel for Star Wars. I've got this clip from the old cutting room floor. Here. That'll do. Let's send it to the VHS company! No one will ever know I did it." That's far fetched, but funny to think about.
I believe it has just been Jiff all along. 'Choosy mothers choose Jiff.' But I might have seen a Jiff and Jiffy Pop Popcorn commercial during the same show once. I don't remember every hearing of a Jiffy peanut butter. But if you did not see the Jiff commercial, Jiff isn't even a word. It's supposed to make you think of Jiffy, probably. Those marketing or ad people who sat in a room and threw around names probably thought--- yeah, Jiff, like JIffy, because you can put it on bread with or without jelly or on a cracker and boom, your kid has a basic meal or snack. But if you did not see the commercial, your mind categorizes it with other stuff and it might go in there with 'Jiffy.' Who sits around memorizing exactly how labels look if we don't do it for a living?
This isn't my area, but I have studied a bit of psychology. And the oversimplifying thing is a reason there are stereotypes. So black people act like this, eat this, might wear this, have an accent like this. It's our minds simplifying. I have heard a research lecture on the this simplifying and categorizing function of our brains and how it relates to stereotypes (or it touched on the topic and others. You can look at Google Scholar if you want to see what kind of social science research has been done on false memories. I think Google scholar can include some non-peer-reviewed stuff, too.
Why don't basic words change? Why doesn't 'banana' become 'zimbau' in English. It's always something obscure, some brand that your mind could recategorized? Or some map of a country you do not live in? Why don't you get up in the morning and see a a more obvious brand you know called 'Tiyiti' instead of Toyota. That's a big change. Not Jiff, or Febreeze or Fruit Loops ('Froot'?) being spelled some way. (I don't know the real spelling. Most people of the age to eat fruit loops aren't the best at recognizing spelling errors. You get used to seeing the box of cereal or the bottle of deoderant spray and don't realize the spelling is odd and your mind assumes it is spelled the right way.
I've seen a few videos on this. There was one woman, and I think I could feel something demonic on what she was saying.
Winston wrote: ↑February 25th, 2022, 2:31 pm
Some other new Mandela Effects I heard about:
1. The Holy Grail cup in the DaVinci painting of the Last Supper is gone. Look at the painting and you will see there's no cup there in front of Jesus now. Did someone go back in time and tell DaVinci not to paint that cup?
I could not tell if there was one or wasn't when I read your post. I looked it up. There is stuff on the table. This was a painting by an Italian where the grail is probably not as big deal like it is in the English King Arthur legends.
From the Gospels, it seems pretty clear to me the painting is about the moment when Jesus said one of them was going to betray Him so they trying to figure it out. You see the look of shock on their faces.
2. The famous Bible verse "Judge not lest ye be judged" has changed to something else with the word "not" in it. Look it up.
My memory is fuzzy on if that is in two of the gospels or not, but I think it is in Matthew. And in the 1990's, there was this campus preacher who travelled the country who preached on our campus. I'd memorized that verse, Judge not, that ye be not judged. And then a lot of people quoted it differently. There is a popular way of saying it that might be from an old song or poem or old translation. I think I looked it up once. Anyway, the KJV had it one way and people were quoting it differently in the early 1990's before this Mandela Effect business.
I memorized a lot of Bible when I was young. I really thought this one verse (out of a whole book I had memorized said) 'any man' instead of 'any of you'. So I looked in the book I memorized and I was wrong. Then I remembered when I was quoting it to the Bible Quiz coach (yes I was a Bible quizzer), that I had quoted that wrong... this hazy memory-- amazing that I could retain it. I had been quoting it wrong for years. It stuck in my brain, and I did not see it on the page.
I can tell you that about memory. You memorize it and look at it, quoting scripture back, and it can be on the page if you look at it and you do not catch your mistake. English teachers with writing learn that, too. If you write it and edit it right away, you may not be able to edit it because your mind does not recognize the grammatical error. You read it back and you say what you think you wrote. That can happen. Someone else can catch it, or you might catch it if you give it some time and come back after you have been doing something else.
3. The monocle on the Monopoly Game character is gone. He no longer has it. He used to have a monocle over his left eye. If this were a case of misremembering, then why would so many remember the same thing?
That sounds right that he had a monocle... but I don't know. So I'll look it up. No he didn't. I think I know what it was. The peanut has a monocle and he also is wearing a top-hat. So top hat and monocle goes together, and the Planter's peanut had one.
It could be they made one with a Monocle one time and you bought that copy and it tore up and your mom threw it out. That game is from 1904. Do you think they still have the managers there from when they first made the game? Even from the '70's or '80's? People retire. And these companies are trying to make money by selling us junk, not trained historians trying to keep track of their gameboards.
4. The Rodan statue of the thinking man has many residuals of people taking photos in front of the statue with the original pose of putting their fist on their forehead, not their mouth. Yet the statue behind them still has its fist on its mouth. That's an inconsistency. It's odd that the Mandela Effect would change the statue but not the people posing in front of it. Even George Bernard Shaw, who knew Rodan personally, has a photo of himself standing in front of that statue with his fist on his forehead. That's odd. How could so many people pose wrongly in front of the statue itself? Even @MrMan cannot explain that one away. There appears to be more to it here than just confabulation.
This was the one thing that got me. But I tried to think why I thought it was on his chin. I think I was in kindergarten and they had all these pictures of different things in the world, and I think I remember seeing a statue of someone leaning onto a fist. That makes sense. I can't remember actually seeing the Rodan statue doing that. There is no picture in my mind or memory of it. I just remember thinking the Thinker had that pose.
Actually, Rodan's pose for this thing is so unnatural. Head on fist was probably associated with thinking in English culture in his time and before it. Maybe you thinking of the picture of Oscar Wilde doing the head-to-fist post in front of the hand-to-mouth thing. Maybe that's because for most people, or the English and Americans, Rodan's pose makes little sense.
I'll tell you what. When I was in Jakarta, I went to this building that had a Thai restaurant. Boom, there it was. I'd read there was a copy of The Thinker in Jakarta when I interacted with you on this Mandela Effect theory. This was it. So I looked at it from all angels. I think someone could actually see the statue, hear the name for the first time, then think the head was on the forehead because it's just unnatural.
5. The famous cartoon Flint Stones is now Flinstones. The T seems to be gone.
You spelled it two ways here-- once with a space. I don't think you remember well. I just saw 'Fintstones' on Google, so if your mind-- and not your body-- just fell through a hole into another universe into another you... then why isn't 'poop' said as 'potatoes', so you say 'Pass the potatoes and other people laugh or say to not talk about that, and it's spoiling their appetite? Why don't you go outside to catch a bus, and instead they have huberbuses? Why is it obscure stuff like spelling, mostly, and words we would say the same if we spelled them one way or another.
Interview with a Vampire and Interview with the Vampire are pretty much indistinguishable if you say them fast. Speech is primary. Writing is less a natural to us and learned.
6. Australia has changed position and is now much higher up than before. It's supposed to be lower in the hemisphere.
Far south like this?
https://www.amazon.com/Wall-Pops-WPE062 ... 5188&psc=1
Maybe you just learned it off a crap map. One thing I thought was strange after reading a little of this thread is that South America was so far east compared to the US, closer to Africa on the map. I can't remember if it was board Risk or online Risk, but what i remembered was from a silly game, not a map. There are also different styles of maps.
Australia is close enough to parts of Indonesia for poor refugees to sail over if they need to.