The Mandela Effect

[BeTheGoddess]

I'm pretty sure it was a lampoon effort... and it may have been an American thing once used to evoke a sentiment of living in plenitude.  A lighthearted allusion to "life is good." 

MPFC made a lot of use of the graphics of the day... in their own inimitable style at the time.
Rest assured - despite the European media's endless characterizations about American... some of us were watching as soon as you sent it our way.

At the time you in the US had a much broader access to media, we had 3 hannels when you had 52, its fair for us to asume you would be watching other stuff. 

If its lampoon, someone still would have efinded the skit.

I think it was a KFC ad, but again there is no evidence of it.

[UltraBudgie]

Some have claimed its was from a Flying Circus sketch,  but you in the US didnt watch Monty Pythons Flying Circus back in the day.

Also nobody seems to be able to find the skit.

I did, but not until I was a teenager, and this was from before that. I don't recall ever seeing that skit.

There's also a Simpsons clip, because of course there is:

[marshun]

a personal Mandela effect anecdote.

I recall reading a book about voodoo years ago.  among other things it mentioned a sort of ghost car that priests and practitioners would ride around in at night.  as I recall it was called 'auto zebop'.  supposedly if you saw strange lights at night it was an auto zebop.

I looked for this last few days and found nothing.  I did find a bunch of references to some Grand Theft Auto stuff.

auto zebop / voodoo ghost car ring a bell with anyone?

[BeTheGoddess]

a personal Mandela effect anecdote.

I recall reading a book about voodoo years ago.  among other things it mentioned a sort of ghost car that priests and practitioners would ride around in at night.  as I recall it was called 'auto zebop'.  supposedly if you saw strange lights at night it was an auto zebop.

I looked for this last few days and found nothing.  I did find a bunch of references to some Grand Theft Auto stuff.

auto zebop / voodoo ghost car ring a bell with anyone?

Try other spellings of voodoo:  Vudun, Vudoon, Hoodoo?

[Halfswede]

Bullshit!

Our memories won't be denied of 'Stouffers stove top stuffing'. It truly was a catchy phrase. I should know because the marketing is genius. I have created many catch phrases for my company.

Quite interesting that there was an autofill for Stouffer's..........

The real question is 'Why?'  Why the effort to gaslight. I don't know how or why some possibly regional branding was well-known as 'Stouffers' and played on every channel every year for years, but why try and claim that it wasn't. Somewhere there are reels of those commercials and some smug illuminati prick is giggling.

I understand some things might have been regional or national differences, but they were real. Kraft Dinner in Canada vs. Kraft Mac and Cheese in the US, but the level of effort to prove it never was is disturbing. 

I think in some cases, one person's popular blog declares this or that, and because it's controversial to everyone's mind, lots of people share it and boost the search algorithm. Since it was a relatively irrelevant and older thing in the first place, there is almost no internet record of the alternative and it just winds up being buried in a sense.  The lie (intentional or not) becomes reality.

[KKLoco]

The real question is 'Why?'  Why the effort to gaslight. I don't know how or why some possibly regional branding was well-known as 'Stouffers' and played on every channel every year for years, but why try and claim that it wasn't. Somewhere there are reels of those commercials and some smug illuminati prick is giggling.

In order to answer this question, you must first ask yourself a much deeper question: Why are our memories wiped before incarnation here? 

Here is a quote from one of my favorite books: "What greater brutality can be inflicted upon anyone than to erase or deny the spiritual awareness, identity, ability, and memory that is the essence of oneself?"

You see, our memories are everything. If you erase or jumble them, we are kept in perpetual confusion. Disoriented from who we really are - Immortal Spiritual Beings.

[Halfswede]

In order to answer this question, you must first ask yourself a much deeper question: Why are our memories wiped before incarnation here? 

Ahh.  You have led this way off topic, but I must respond.  If you know everything you did before, you would always act appropriately in every conflict and there wouldn't be the opportunity to demonstrate any enlightenment or improve your character. It is designed that way to speed up the process. Otherwise it would be terribly slow.

For example if you had beaten someone and then you were supposed to get beaten this time to clear the debt, neither of you would participate in the exchange if you knew the past. However, if either of you handle it better in spite of the drive to reconcile it that way, and the ignorance of the past, it can bring even greater compensation/reconciliation. I am a Falun Gong practitioner and these things are pretty integral in the process.

You have some say in how it is arranged during the in-between state, but it still must be arranged according the the amount of debts/karma you have to reconcile and with whom.  Sometimes people are able to see the situation after the fact and it all makes sense though. I knew someone who had been raped by their drunk husband and later saw that they had been the rapist the time before and it completely dissolved the resentment. 

For those who have the misconception that it just keeps going on forever, and why bother, there is a final time or final judgement even with reincarnation.  It is more that you came here originally for the whole process of cleaning up and repairing the very fabric of your original state, and that may involve several lifetimes to complete.

Anyway, a topic for a very different thread.  Sorry OP.

[Wild Bill]

It's not the Mandela effect for me its the Billy Graham effect that blew my noggin  , just how many times did he die 

Dolly had braces in my weird world

[billxam]

I've had 2 distinct instances recently. I remember thinking that I would have liked to see a Alan Parsons concert. He's still alive. I was watching jr's podcast with Neil Bonnett. Now he died at Daytona in 1994.

[UltraBudgie]

Ahh.  You have led this way off topic, but I must respond.  If you know everything you did before, you would always act appropriately in every conflict and there wouldn't be the opportunity to demonstrate any enlightenment or improve your character. It is designed that way to speed up the process. Otherwise it would be terribly slow.

...Anyway, a topic for a very different thread.  Sorry OP.

I don't think you two are off-topic at all. I think the Mandela Effect hints to two things: first, that memory is fallible, people are imperfect, and what we think we know as fact is far more of a social phenomena than most people want to believe.

Second—and this is what I suspect strongly some days—that reality itself doesn't work the way we think it does. Or, the way that determinable empirical science claims is how it must work. I do believe in science and history, such as they are, but I believe the foundation they rest upon is subtle. I find it somewhat suspicious that we generally consider than in the last few centuries of "enlightenment", we have finally found how to break through the fuzzy-headed mythic thinking and science and history are finally seeing the "true" picture of the world and the past. I suspect that the ancients also felt the same way about their worldviews at the time, as we do now. And, I think that 500 or 1000 years from now, the people of the future may look back at us and our certainty and think "lol how lost in myth and illusion they were".

Because I believe history is malleable. Really.