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    The Berenste(a)in Bears and parallel universes...

    As I was stalking an old friend on Facebook this evening, I found this:

    I can't say for sure if I remember the name as spelt with an e or a, but I definitely DO NOT remember Nelson Mandela dying in prison!
    Thoughts?

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    Funny you mention this, because I had this conversation with my parents this weekend. I clearly remember it being "stein" as do my folks. And they stated that they remember it being a political thing about announcing Mandala's death, that was later rescinded. Who knows.

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      A few weeks ago I watched some youtube clips about this... the Berenstein bears weren't a part of my childhood but I have also had some kind of assumption of Mandela having died in prison. (But my memory is such that it would be easy to plant something in it.)
      There were also other things like this, such as the mirror poem in Snow White. Apparently it begins with the words "magic mirror" but people remember it as "mirror, mirror..." (it gets weirder: in some languages it is "mirror, mirror" and even the Finnish version begins with similar phonetic pattern ("kerro, kerro") so... I'm a bit confused about that one! )
      baah.

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        People think their memory is so infallible that they believe we would sooner slip into a parallel universe before we would be wrong about the spelling of a children's book.

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          Originally posted by ThePaganMafia View Post
          People think their memory is so infallible that they believe we would sooner slip into a parallel universe before we would be wrong about the spelling of a children's book.
          The issue is not that of a single person being fallible, but that of tens of thousands, or possibly even millions, of people having the same exact mis-memory. That itself is interesting enough to be further looked at.

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            Totally had this conversation a couple of weeks ago at work, and as a whole we all remember it as "Stein".
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              I don't think it's that unusual or odd that this happens (and no, I don't think its because of parallel universes . If you've ever listened to the TV show theme song, it is sang in a twangy accent...if you are going off how you've heard it and interpreting it as the word by which you've read, then it's a bit of an ambiguous sound. And, people generally don't read letter by letter. And language shifts in fairly predictable ways--a long a to long e shift isn't likely outside the realm of possibility within an entire language (and it generally happens by dispersal), so why should it be surprising in a single word among a group of people hampered by the fallibility of the human brain? ......particularly when memories are so very plastic, especially when you are reremembering something. And suggestibility is totally a thing (I would hypothesize, on the basis of the reading I've done on how the brain works and on how different factors of our personality interplay with others, that we are particularly susceptible to suggestibility when controversial ideas are involved..
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                So is it frankinstieen or frankinstein...or is it just a thing...
                MAGIC is MAGIC,black OR white or even blood RED

                all i ever wanted was a normal life and love.
                NO TERF EVER WE belong Too.
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                  Re: The Berenste(a)in Bears and parallel universes...

                  Originally posted by anunitu View Post
                  So is it frankinstieen or frankinstein...or is it just a thing...

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                    Really???
                    MAGIC is MAGIC,black OR white or even blood RED

                    all i ever wanted was a normal life and love.
                    NO TERF EVER WE belong Too.
                    don't stop the tears.let them flood your soul.




                    sigpic

                    my new page here,let me know what you think.


                    nothing but the shadow of what was

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                      Re: The Berenste(a)in Bears and parallel universes...

                      Goodness, that's disturbing, if not groundbreaking. More likely to be a glitch in humanity than a glitch in the matrix, though what do I know.

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                        Hmm, I need to be more thorough next time I patch part of this reality. Humanity is finally at the point of noticing fine details...

                        Oh, That's position is significantly more likely and everyone should go with that.
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