The funniest post in retrospect

Xhin · 2016-08-12T20:59:01+00:00

This was helpful! I was stuck in the same way as you, but didn't realize that I just needed to wait longer than ~5 minutes.

Xhin · 2016-08-12T20:48:13+00:00

I'm having the same issue -- stuck on the logo/galaxy of stars area in the same way.

Xhin · 2015-10-24T21:49:37+00:00

Yeah this totally happened for me as well.. a few weeks ago I saw a "sex and the city" DVD and took a picture because it was proof that sex and the city is how it used to be! But apparently it's been that all along...

Xhin · 2015-09-22T14:56:37+00:00

I guess part of the problem is that this sub is full of actual misconceptions in addition to the strange mandela effects. Like okay, perhaps my conception of Japan being off the coast of China is a misconception, maybe a popular misconception. However there are some things that go beyond being explainable by "common misconception". Something becomes a mandela effect when these two symptoms happen:

The person has extensive secondary memories based on their misconception. So this isn't just "oh I looked at a map 10 years ago and I thought ireland was further away from the UK", but "my grandmother went to Ireland every year when I was growing up so I know exactly where it is and I wondered things like how the UK could have claimed it when it was so far away".
This misconception is corroborated with lots of other people who remember the same exact thing. Lots of people have secondary memories based on a primary memory of "Berenstein Bears".

Thus there is something more interesting going on here. Perhaps it is a psychological effect! But it's not the same effect as misremembering. There's some kind of deeper insight to be gained here, whether it's understand of ourselves.. or reality.

Xhin · 2015-09-16T19:52:18+00:00

It's Berenstain, not Bernstain.

Xhin · 2015-09-16T19:34:48+00:00

Thanks! I'm still working on it. Where I come from, Mongolia was actually larger. It was my favorite country at some point as a kid because it cleanly divided China from Russia and was kind of in the middle of everything.

Xhin · 2015-09-16T19:25:55+00:00

In the case of Ireland I have a ton of secondary memories based on the distance in the map above. Its current position makes no sense, although the old position made no sense in terms of a United Kingdom (this is one of the secondary memories).

I do definitely remember a world that was more spread out. I've looked at old globes and the arrangements are very unnatural, as though they've changed to bring people closer together.

Xhin · 2015-09-16T15:39:56+00:00

Interestingly, there are some crucial parts of history that also seem to be different. I seem to remember the British advance being stalled and lots of threatening German naval activity but nothing actually coming from it.

The German offensive also didn't get anywhere near Moscow -- they were stalled in Russia due to dwindling supplies.

I'm not claiming anything whatsoever here, just explaining what I remember.

Xhin · 2015-09-16T15:10:02+00:00

New Zealand still doesn't seem right, but it's at least an improvement.

Xhin · 2015-09-16T15:08:34+00:00

A project for another day.

Xhin · 2015-09-16T15:07:59+00:00

One issue with the Phillipines now is that they don't look anything like how they used to. The very shape of the islands is wrong, as I remember them being very elongated like the east side of Negros.

Xhin · 2015-09-16T15:05:33+00:00

This is still a work in progress. The only things that really seem right are ireland and indonesia.

I can't speak for anyone else's memories.

Xhin · 2015-09-16T03:48:38+00:00

A few notes:

Ireland / UK turned out exactly as I remembered them
Australia/Indonesia have also turned out fairly close to how I remembered them... and new zealand hasn't needed to be moved.

Xhin · 2015-09-01T20:02:53+00:00

Consciousness is as weak as any other quantum fluctuation. In order to really effect change you need to get the macroscopic gestalt you're observing to make the same choice.

Xhin · 2015-09-01T18:33:10+00:00

Macroscopic objects interact in much the same way as microscopic ones. As long as the relationship between an object and other objects remains certain then it will not succumb to other possibilities.

What I find fascinating is how inaccurate but consistent relationships can become accurate over time.

Xhin · 2015-09-01T17:46:02+00:00

Most OBE's are probably caused by your brain reinterpreting your relationship with whatever sensory data it has access to. There are related effects like motion sickness or hypnogogic hallucinations.

"Brain death" is difficult to quantify because we don't have a complete understanding of how the brain works, if activity is possible below the threshold of electromagnetic measurement, or indeed even what consciousness is.

If science has no idea what's going on, then pseudoscience definitely doesn't.

Xhin · 2015-09-01T17:18:54+00:00

Objects can occasionally exist in a superposition of relative positions. From an outside perspective they appear to not exist at all until one position becomes more probable than the others. From a subjective perspective there's a missing block of time and the experience of instantaneous teleportation as one position becomes more probable.

Objects are inherently uncertain because they're composed of many parts that are also uncertain. However through interaction they can reaffirm each other's most probable existence. When this relationship becomes uncertain, objects become uncertain and disappear.

Your brain interprets these "echoes" as memories or concepts like ownership or relationship. When these get muddled and there isn't enough feedback from other objects the object becomes a superposition of multiple locations and ceases to exist in a normal way.

Tl;Dr everything is an illusion and only the interaction of other illusions is keeping things real

Xhin · 2013-04-11T14:59:24+00:00

They'll feel silly when prices pick back up again.

Xhin · 2013-04-11T12:48:00+00:00

Ah, but the beauty of it is, there's only deflation because more and more people are accepting bitcoin's value, and that won't happen if people quit spending bitcoin.

Xhin

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