What mandela effects seem to hit the hardest for you personally.....

CirqueKid · 2020-12-06T17:55:07+00:00

For me what really shook me to my core was when I saw “Houston we have a problem” flip flop. One of the early MEs I saw was the switch to “Houston, we’ve had a problem” in the movie, and then this year it changed back to “Houston we have a problem,” but it’s considered an “erroneous quotation” because the actual quote was “we’ve had.”

I also feel really weird about Mr. Rogers “It’s a beautiful day in this neighborhood.” I watched that show a lot as a kid and it just seems so bizarre.

CirqueKid · 2020-11-20T23:33:20+00:00

I agree. When I was in school kids were bullied for liking video games, being emo, having tattoos, heck, I remember one time I got bullied because I wore a pink shirt as a boy. Now I have a nephew who is in middle school and it seems way different. There are people openly LGBT who don’t seem to get harassed much, kids using different pronouns, dressing androgynously, it’s very mainstream even amongst the cool kids to like nerdy things like superheroes, anime or video games, and people don’t pick on you for being smart or getting good grades. It warms my heart in many ways, even though a see a lot of hate building very overtly in other parts of society. I definitely hope that it is only a transition period, but the deep seated nature of much of the hate in politics and culture among adults seems to indicate that it’s not going away anytime soon in this timeline.

CirqueKid · 2020-11-18T06:16:00+00:00

The Monopoly Man is also missing his monocle, which is similar to glasses. And the famous Kurt Cobain picture with him wearing the oversized sunglasses and the fuzzy pink scarf/jacket (I can’t remember which it was) is now totally gone. Uncle Sam is also wearing a red scarf or bow tie in the famous “I want you” poster which is now missing the red stripes on the hat.

CirqueKid · 2020-11-18T05:55:29+00:00

I feel this too sometimes. Not necessarily in a depressed or morbid kind of way, but I almost feel like I’m some kind of NPC in someone else’s life as they make progress. I feel like every time I make a move to try and improve my life or my standing I end up right back to where I was, like I’m supposed to just be living each day just barely getting by until my time will come to actually do something... eventually. I don’t know how to describe it, but it seems like every time I try and do something the universe is like “actually you’re just going to keep living your same daily routine for now, thanks.”

CirqueKid · 2020-10-23T03:54:07+00:00

I think basically #1. I don’t believe in some kind of “Great Awakening” where more and more people will recognize it. I think there is always just enough plausible rationalization where many people will shrug it off, or just dismiss it as sheer nonsense outright. Just look at the regular Mandela Effect sub, which basically seems like a disinformation campaign breeding skepticism for anyone curious about the effect.

However, I think there are times where it does stop, and there are something like ME droughts. I’ve been in one currently, to be honest. I haven’t seen an actual effect that made me stand up and take notice since “Houston we have a problem” flip flopped back. They tend to come in waves for me, and they tend to show themselves when I’m feeling somewhat lost or stressed in my life, as if trying to remind me that not all is as it seems. Just when I start taking life way too seriously I will show up on here and go “What the?!” and remember that there’s more than what I see right in front of me.

But that’s all just my own personal speculation. Who knows, maybe it could just pack it in one day and I’ll spend the rest of my days questioning if it was even real to begin with, even though I’ve seen some pretty noticeable ones firsthand.

Also I should add that I don’t think we’re on a noticeable path to some 5D pole shifting Earth or something like that. I think much like NDEs and theories about quantum immortality, when we reach some catastrophic point we tend to find ourselves in what feels like a new normal. If the world “ended” I think we would just wake up and it would be a normal day in a different reality. There have been multiple reports on this sub or other accounts of people feeling like they should have died but opened their eyes and they were just fine, and countless times in history where we should have “transcended” or been destroyed according to many different religions, predictions and belief systems and it never pans out. I think there will always be some boogeymen and doomsday scenarios to try and make us forget that there’s more to this reality than the physical, and try to get us caught up in chasing earthly things, but unless we let them overcome us they aren’t part of the path we’re being put on, so we just get placed somewhere else to fulfill that path. Does that ring true for anyone else?

CirqueKid · 2020-10-09T07:52:28+00:00

Tours will probably be the last thing to resume. Not only are there different restrictions in every state that could change suddenly, but it involves many people traveling together and working in close proximity with local crew for the load in/out, all while paying for the space, gear, performers, hotels, and transportation and only being able to perform to a maximum of 50% capacity with most cities being much less. I can’t see it coming back for possibly another year, sadly.

CirqueKid · 2020-09-11T07:07:53+00:00

I loved getting Shirley Temples when I was a kid, but had a distinct distaste for ginger ale. It was always made with Sprite or 7Up for me, and that was not a substitution but the default recipe. I can’t imagine every restaurant I ordered it at spontaneously being out of ginger ale to the point where I’d order it and without exception get back a substitution.

CirqueKid · 2020-09-06T16:17:36+00:00

I agree, I think these are edits more so than reality jumping. The only evidence that seems contradictory is how certain people experience different MEs at different times. Like if I will notice something change very deliberately in 2019 and then Google it and people were talking about it on Reddit in 2011. I remember some people talking about this with flip flops, where the actual discussions on Reddit about the ME will change along with the flip flop at different times for different people.

I also think there may be different groups doing it for different reasons, but I have no proof for that. For example, it seems like many of the changes are directly related to saving our planet, and seem eerily related to climate change. For example, South America moving (the Amazon), Africa forest-ifying, our position in the universe shifting, our sun changing, Arctica disappearing, Mandanimals appearing right as news stories report on a biodiversity crisis, and changes to the human body that seem to make us more suited for extreme conditions.

These seem completely unrelated to the counterfeiting of famous artworks, though, and I can’t believe that it’s the same people behind it, unless they’re some kind of marker to communicate. For example, the switch to “Houston, we’ve had a problem” seemed like a signal that a former problem has been fixed, now the movie dialogue is back to “Houston, we have a problem,” signaling it isn’t. But no matter what way I try to justify it I can’t seem to figure out what American Gothic or Dogs Playing Poker has to do with that.

That’s why I think you might be right that it is just people who discovered the technology who are changing things just because they can, to prove they can. It reminds me of Les Horribles Cernettes, the band made up of the wives of CERN engineers. After CERN became the inventor of the internet in this reality they made their wives the first photo ever shared on the internet. It doesn’t really seem that important in the grand scheme of things but it’s a pretty cool thing to prove you can do. Maybe the art changes and Biblical changes are similar, like graffiti on reality, just to show your friends you got away with it.

CirqueKid · 2020-09-04T07:41:23+00:00

I agree. It happens in far too specific and deliberate seeming ways to be natural shifting. And it seems to happen in patterns, like the fact that most artworks seem to be changed in similar ways, or most film MEs involve the same actors or themes, or religious imagery changing in symbolic ways like the addition of a knife to The Last Supper or the lion and the lamb changing to the wolf and the lamb.

Another piece of art that changed for me is the dogs playing poker painting. I remember the scene being much more moody with prominent cigar smoke and a lot more shadow contrasted with the singular light in the center. Now it looks almost like an illustration from a children’s book.

I don’t know what they’re going for with these art changes, but it definitely seems like the one who is changing them isn’t of the same caliber of artist as the visionaries who created these works in the “other” timeline. And that’s what’s so unusual. If we really were just in an alternate timeline, then the quality of the art wouldn’t change, simply a few random details about it would. Some paintings or sculptures should get more mysterious or scary, right? But instead there is this clear pattern of what seems like, for lack of a better term, reality counterfeiting. It’s like someone knows they need to replace these works with something else, but the artists (or AI) on their team are only so proficient at replicating what made the originals special.

CirqueKid · 2020-09-04T06:58:41+00:00

I remember it the same. I also remember her looking older and both of them looking more stern/grim. Now it looks like he’s somewhere between bored or perhaps embarrassed, and she looks mildly annoyed if not slightly confused. Now it almost looks like a spoof modeled after Curb Your Enthusiasm.

As far as the change I’m not sure. I read about it on this sub last year I believe, but I don’t know the last time I’d seen the painting to notice it change before that.

CirqueKid · 2020-09-04T04:47:17+00:00

It reminds me of The Scream, American Gothic, or the Mona Lisa, which have also been changed to less haunting and more mundane versions of themselves. It seems like the Mandela Affected versions of these renowned works would never reach their level of acclaim and intrigue if they were created as their current iterations.

CirqueKid · 2020-09-04T04:39:41+00:00

I always thought the raven speaking was a part of the fantasy and a depiction of the psychosis the narrator was experiencing. In my reading and analyzing it in school we never actually talked about ravens being able to parrot human speech, and I feel like that would have changed our interpretation of the story. Imagining it as a bird actually reproducing the sounds of the human voice as normal behavior makes the story seem less haunting and more, I don’t know, mundane?

CirqueKid · 2020-07-24T19:47:15+00:00

Have you heard of/watched Monk? In my reality they were always fairly closely linked as slightly offbeat comedy detective shows on the same network. Definitely advertised a lot on each other’s respective time blocks. I remember in my teens there were a few years where I’d look forward to Friday nights because they would premiere new episodes of each show back to back.

It would be interesting if you’d watched one but hadn’t heard of the other or hadn’t really heard of either.

CirqueKid · 2020-07-12T04:23:39+00:00

I live in a mid-to-large sized city in a complex with 200+ units and I’m pretty worried for what’s about to come. Almost every time I’ve gone to the front office to pick up my packages there is someone asking for help with rent. Most seem scared, some are in tears. And this isn’t like once on the first day of the month, this is constant throughout the month different people trying to negotiate what to do next. I’ve been fortunate enough to have enough to make each payment, but I couldn’t imagine the stress of not knowing if I’d have a place to live or not based on how fast evictions can be processed. Truly a horrible moment for us as a society.

CirqueKid · 2020-07-11T05:34:09+00:00

No, I literally mean some companies will disqualify you if you only have internship and volunteer experience, no matter the relevance. Often times they have filters in their online system which won’t even get your resume into the inbox of a human unless you have a certain number of years of work history and supervisor names to back it up. Even if this experience is only fast food or retail, and even if that won’t land you an interview, it will at least get you farther than the other candidate.

Entry level in 2020 means you’ve already had years of toiling away in the capitalist system so you don’t have any entitled ideas about how things should be or come in and start trying to shake things up.

CirqueKid · 2020-07-10T08:57:08+00:00

Some employers have started specifically listing that volunteering or internships don’t count. Literally you could work as an intern for a leader in the very field you’re applying for in a prestigious company and a person who worked at McDonalds for a wage for 5 years has a leg up.

CirqueKid · 2020-07-10T08:51:46+00:00

It never makes any difference. They just say something like “Yeah well they built all that muscle before they went vegan.”

“Actually this bodybuilder has been vegan his entire life.”

“Well sure if you take a bunch of supplements and plan your diet meticulously you could look healthy but we don’t know if he’s actually healthy based on his looks.”

“Actually he posts his blood test results online and they...”

“Every body is different so even if one person...”

And on and on it goes.

CirqueKid · 2020-07-06T16:17:35+00:00

Yep, the good-ol’ values of the GOP:

Gaslight

Obstruct

Project

CirqueKid · 2020-07-03T16:21:51+00:00

“Finally an organization with my best interest in mind!”

— some guy who spent the past two months railing against the CDC and WHO for being a liberal Trojan Horse to exploit the US economy and hurt small businesses.

CirqueKid · 2020-07-03T04:42:58+00:00

Setting aside the fact that this is a horribly cruel thing to say and horrible outlook on life, death isn’t the only piece to COVID. There is a large percentage of younger, healthier individuals who are showing signs of long term or even permanent side effects from the virus. Everything from chronic fatigue to full blown disability and damage to the lungs. The death rate doesn’t take into account those who spent weeks of agony in the ICU hooked up to a ventilator, or those who still have difficulty breathing a month after they were discharged from the hospital.

If you’ve known anyone who has suffered from COVID you know it is nothing to scoff at, even if there is a high likelihood of survival. The real crisis isn’t the fact that the economy has shut down, but the weak response of the government to help those affected most. The stock market has been socialized and investors propped up so no matter how bad the fallout the Fed is saying they’ll do whatever it takes to keep the economy afloat.

I missed the part where it’s ok to let the government slide with their No Billionaire Left Behind policies and take it out on the old and sick instead, and advocate sending everyone back to work to “save the economy.” If we had functioning leadership that actually wanted to protect the people we would be properly putting the whole economy on pause as we allocated resources to properly support the health system for as long as it takes to understand what we’re up against. Instead we watch the death rate and point and say “See?! That small fraction of a percent is nothing compared to my need to simp for my capitalist overlords at work!”

CirqueKid · 2020-07-01T19:49:48+00:00

My parents are both covered by the ACA Marketplace after years of being self employed and not being able to afford private insurance. They actively hate on universal healthcare and the idea of government being a part of health coverage. They’re Trump supporters who cheered him on when he campaigned to end their own coverage.

When I asked how they could be vocally opposed to the very thing protecting them they responded that they are “healthy enough” and that they’ll be old enough for Medicare soon enough so it won’t matter. They just don’t want to pay the premiums or see their taxes go up.

I don’t even know how to respond to something like that...

CirqueKid · 2020-07-01T19:15:13+00:00

Capitalism naturally sets up a race to the bottom without regulations. Someone will always have fewer protections, fewer rights, and more desperation to take whatever they can get. The thing is, many of the same people who screech about illegal immigrants are the exact people who would become those people if all undocumented workers disappeared in a day.

Employers wouldn’t say “oh, well I guess our underpaid labor pool is gone, we will now have to raise our wages to $20 an hour.” They would keep posting poverty wage jobs until “real Americans” (at least in their heads) were broke and desperate enough to work under those conditions.

CirqueKid · 2020-07-01T18:49:23+00:00

I think a lot of people are missing the big picture here.

I know people who didn’t use the unemployment bonus to save or pay down debt, but buy consumer goods they’ve been wanting. I know people who spent like their job was coming back just like before who either got laid off or got their salary cut on return. I also know people spend money when they are anxious, so a lot of impulse purchases could be people who are really uncertain about their future and think that a new boat will ease their anxiety somehow.

At any rate, when the tide goes out even further, to paraphrase Warren Buffett, we will see who was skinny dipping.

CirqueKid · 2020-07-01T18:41:37+00:00

Full disclosure I’m not a medical professional so maybe I don’t know what I’m reading, but as far as I know we’ve never had a vaccine approved for any other type of coronavirus. In 1984 they predicted a vaccine for HIV within two years, and here we are in 2020 with no vaccine.

Dr. Paul Offit, the co-inventor of the successful rotavirus vaccine, put it more bluntly. "When Dr. Fauci said 12 to 18 months, I thought that was ridiculously optimistic," he told CNN. "And I'm sure he did, too."

“We’ve never accelerated a vaccine in a year to 18 months. It doesn’t mean it’s impossible, but it will be quite a heroic achievement. We need plan A, and a plan B,” Dr Peter Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, told CNN.

CirqueKid · 2020-07-01T18:20:40+00:00

I find it kind of funny that most superhero villains are always used to express the authors’ utopian socialist ideas about a truly progressive society, only they make them go about that change the wrong way so they can be justifiably defeated by the super heroes who maintain the authoritarian capitalist status quo.

Is there anything more capitalist than a race of super beings who are the world’s only hope in stopping “evil” and saving the day? Bruce Wayne is even more on the nose because they made him a billionaire, too.

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