Yes, yes, I know, it’s spelt MandAla effect (or is it though? Ha!)
There has been quite a lot of talk in recent days about the phenomenon of people remembering something being totally different from what it apparently now is.
I think I wrote on it before too. For example, I recall the cartoon Heidi, when I was little it played on Italian TV, where Heidi was blonde. My brother remembers it the same way. And yet…
Vox has written a couple of very interesting posts on it. More specifically, and most disturbingly for some, here, where the idea that the changes are global even in temporal terms and the result of a supernatural shift caused by Satan himself or some of his underlings.
And more recently here where he refers to a quasi SF-like and at least superficially “plausible” theory of it, linked to the Large Hadron Collider, in a handwavium technological way common in pulp SF novels at least (but, that if you are familiar with most of the papers cited, as I am, has several holes in it, largest of all being that the evil overlords would have no way of knowing how to control the changes, unless, of course, they just keep running it until they hit a timeline that “works” for them… but then… how do they ever stop… and… ultimately… there being a God, their plans, must, necessarily, inevitably, unavoidably, fail. In fact, I am not even sure God is required, perhaps maths alone is enough to make it so).
The most disturbing Mandela effect at the last link above was indeed the Moonraker one, with the Jaws guy kissing the girl with the braces. I remember that scene well. It was the whole point of the film at the end! The bad guy gets the right girl for him. And Miles Mathies believes he even found evidence of the cover up.
Whatever the real nature of the Mandela affect (yes I know, I know, Mandala effect), it IS disturbing. But, I have a ray of hope for those Christians who are very disturbed by the Biblical changes.
I am personally more disturbed by the moonraker film alteration/change than the scriptural changes. Why? Maybe because I was not a christian most of my life, so I was never a good student of the Bible. The passages I know best are in Genesis and that because I wrote the Face on Mars when I was 26.
And probably because my conversion was essentially brought about by a proper Road to Damascus event. Mere logic and reason alone had only got me to the point that I valued Christian ideology and dogma from a merely practical point of view. People who genuinely believed Jesus rose from the dead and followed the general doctrines of that obviously crazy and nonsensical religion, at least didn’t normally steal, rape and murder each other (those who only pretended to believe however did so as scum of their sort ever did, and I saw the belief of the genuine believers as a weakness towards these charlatans).
That was as far as mere logic would have ever got me.
But once you have a personal, undeniable, encounter with whatever tiny aspect of God a human being can take without instantly bursting into flames for how undeserving of such Grace we are, well… all theories vanish in the face of undeniable reality. I really am, and always have been, a scientist at heart. And a real scientist at that. Which really means an explorer and an engineer. Theory is just a map for a real scientist. And the map, is never, ever, EVER, the territory. And never exactly like the territory either. Engineers know this. As do explorers.
So, even if every Bible on the planet became a Peppa Pig picture book, it would not shake my faith in God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, by one iota.
And perhaps you should consider that level of faith, and consider that we are told (in Revelation I think, but as I am telling you, I’m no Bible scholar) that at the end, all but a tiny remnant lose faith, and they too would have lost it if Jesus had delayed returning any longer.
I am planning to be in that remnant. If it is possible for me to be in it, then I aim to be. And I feel in my heart (though I fear its testing) that I will be.
So, take heart, fellow traveller, because, as Dire Straits said, in my favourite song, Brothers in Arms, it is written in every line of our heart.
And, it would be remiss of me if I didn’t end with a completely zealous point that, of course, salvation is only found in the Sedevacantist part of the Holy, Apostolic, Catholic Church.
Because all the rest are lies, and if you took the time to find out what actual Catholicism (and thus Sedevacantism) is and so on, as long as you’re honest, you would come to the same conclusion I did. Because the truth is only one.
May God have mercy upon you, at least as much as He had on me, for if I was as wrong as I was and am here now, there is certainly hope for you too, no matter how deceived you may presently be.
May our Lord have mercy on us all, especially the youngest and most innocent, and may we be worthy of having had the courage, honour and truth to protect them unto our last breath, always.
I have experienced the mandela effect on a few occasions, enough for me to say that it exists. Satan being behind it makes sense to me, the LHC does seem plausible (I won’t pretend I understand), but whenever I have thought about it I always end up on some form of time travel. Maybe it’s mad scientists, maybe it’s demons, but they are outside of time in some way. These mandela effects always have the trait of being dumbfounding yet having gone under the radar for some time. With the number of bible readers in the world, you would think someone would have been reading the word lion as it somehow became wolf. If all Mcdonald’s signs became red and green tomorrow, would you be able to convince the populace that it had always been so? I don’t know the answers to my questions, but time travel makes the most sense to me. Much easier to change every bible ever produced if you can get your hands on the original(s). To be fair to the supernatural point, I guess it would not necessarily have to be logical.
But in the end you are right, what is important is to believe in our Lord Jesus Christ. What happens in this realm, however creepy or illogical, is a test of our faith.
In essence I agree. There is one more point that suggests this too. Looking glass (I mention it in my RPG, surviving the zombie apocalypse, which I know you have) and that is that according to the 90s whistleblower, the evil cabal loses no matter what they do, and they are just buying time. There was a similar series on either netflix or prime, I can’t recall, that had this same sort of premise, that people could be downloaded into someone in the past and they would then try to save the world but the series concludes with the entire endeavour failing, and then, a computer restarts the entire process, considering the whole series as just iteration X of many failed attempts.
So, yes, something like that could be happening. As to why we remember it in some cases, Peter Garajev explains this best because in short he proved DNA has/is/can transmit/receive information as if it were a tiny temporal wormhole.
The biblical changes are not real. Just people have a different translation than the KJV memorized for a verse and not realizing it. As for the “lion lays down with the lamb” citation, that’s just paraphrase to create alliteration. It always said the wolf will lay down with the lamb and the lion will eat straw with the ox. Or do you really believe CERN can change not only the KJV but every English translation ever and Jerome’s Latin Vulgate too? But the Berenstein Bears one is very strange.
I place zero stock in the KJV since it was commissioned by a raging homosexual who literally founded the satanic lodges of Freemasonry as we find them today. The KJV contains over 33,000 “mistranslations” most driven towards reducing the importance of Mary, Jesus and even the commandments (The KJV says “do not kill” the original says “do not murder”, so yeah, not exactly tiny changes!)
That aside, the theoretical idea that some form of time-travel/reality-shifting mechanism exists (whether man-created, or supernatural) is certainly plausible.
From a secular perspective, see my previous reply to a comment, from a spiritual perspective, nothing is impossible to God. From a personal perspective, I function mostly from an engineering perspective, so…while I keep the door of “maybe” ajar, I would need a lot more evidence before I am in any way convinced either way. In short, it is an unknown presently, and while I am aware most humans have an instinctive deep rejection/fear of unquantified unknowns, I personally have never had a problem with them. There are many, many, many of them in life, and all a reasonable person can do is approach life on the basis of those things that logic, reason and observation make relatively clear are true and real.
My initial reaction to Vox’s theory on the bible coming under the Mandela effect was that the official translations of the Catholic Church would be under the protection of the Holy Ghost.
I think that there are some things in history that are protected from editing. A friend of mine had a time machine that he said used some form of scalar energy tech, some science stuff I didn’t fully understand, and a bunch of magnets to transport oneself back through time.
I had just finished reading the Siege of Malta book at the time and thought “heck that would be fun.”
Short version of the story is: I was told by some entity, like a “time librarian,” that I wasn’t supposed to be there.
Long version:
The machine consisted of a box with a couple of dials (I didn’t see the internals) that plugged into a wall socket. A metal band around the head with wires (like that napoleon dynamite movie), a large electromagnet about the size of a beer glass. I don’t remember the entire setup of the machine or how it was run, but the basics of it was this: While the machine is running, think of the place you want to go in time and space, and concentrate on that and only that for an extended period of time (I think it was like 2-5 minutes or something). I was told that, that night when I went to sleep, I would time travel and be transported to the place I thought of. I was told that I would be able to interact with people, and that minor changes could be made to stuff, and that I should stay out of the way of whatever happened.
As I mentioned above I chose the 1565 Malta during the siege. During the night, I had an eerily vivid “dream.” I was in a nonsensical blackness, as in I couldn’t detect anything with my senses, but I could “feel” fear, and the presence of some entity. I was then told by that entity “you do not belong here” or “this is not your place” the meaning was clear but there weren’t really any words. I didn’t see anything but the source of the message gave an impression of being a timekeeper of some kind, the name Kronos came to mind for it quite readily. I knew I was in some ineffable danger from that entity and I immediately said the Hail Mary numerous times think “Help I’m scared, I want out.” Though I never saw Mary, I immediately felt myself “pulled back” to the present and awoke on the couch where I was sleeping. I grabbed my rosary, prayed a bit and then went back to sleep while holding onto it.
Time travel isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
But yeah, I’m not surprised that history can be changed. Much more complicated than I’m capable of even thinking about. I’ve got my own soul to save, and the guarantee of the Holy Ghost’s protection over the True Church. I’ll stick with that.
Ave Maria
The Immaculate protects
P.S.
The protestant bibles are so screwed up they don’t really need a Mandela effect. Tyndale’s version of the bible had something like 6,000 or so errors in it. Not to mention the willful editing of scripture by Luther and Co.
If people knew how many emails I get that make this one sound perfectly normal, I think they would be amazed at my patience and contained responses to these sort of things.
Is it possible all this really happened…sure…tiny as though that possibility may be.
Is it more likely that an unnamed friend in an unnamed place and time with some suggestion of fantastic technology and the addition of supposedly Pagan Gods (i.e. Demons) in the story is meant to make Catholics (and sides in particular) seem crazy to the average reader who may come across this? Yes. And a lot more probable.
Especially since I have been offered tickets at various junctures, and have received absolutely insane emails whose only purpose is identifiably psyops.
So, there you have it gentle readers.
I never watched that version of Heidi, but when I saw it, I was impressed that they got the color of her hair right as many Heidi movies wrongly give her blonde hair. Maybe I saw the advertising after the change though.
However I’ve read the book many times through my childhood. It was my favorite book. I read it until it fell apart, and then I read the pieces. I can confidently say that in the book she had dark curly hair. Her grandmother was apparently some kind of foreigner. The grandfather came back from his prodigal days in the military and whatever else with a baby (her father), and nothing is known about the baby’s origins.
As I said, I remain comfortably skeptical of all explanations. Maybe you’re right and I am misremembering or maybe your DNA is just more attuned to the Cern Hadron Collider!
Either way, it doesn’t keep me up nights.
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