The Mandela Effect is the idea that scientists at Cern did experiments involving quantum computing and accidentally merged two different histories from two different but parallel universes. An example is seen in where this "effect" derives its name. While quantum computing, as David Deutsch said in 2005, "will be the first technology that allows useful tasks to be performed in collaboration between parallel universes." Put these two together, and the world begin to look like the Martrix, Inception, and The Wizard of Oz, all wrapped into one.
A number of people claim to remember that Nelson Mandela died in prison during the 1980s, followed by an outpouring of sympathy from celebrities, marches, and even Oprah Winfrey doing a big show about it. Someone even found a text book that clearly stated that Mandela died on July 23, 1991.
The fact that Mandela died in December of 2013, then, is interpreted by people who say they remember him dying in prison, not as being a false memory, but proof that Cern scientists merged alternate histories together: one where Nelson died in 2013 but where a residual of the previous reality, where Nelson died in prison, is left over in the minds of half the people.
There are lot of other examples of this, like whether Darth Vader really said "No Luke,I am you father," or just "No, ... I am your father," without the "Luke." Or whether Forrest Gump said "Life is like a box of chocolates" or "Life was like a box of chocolates." For people who believe the Mandela Effect is real, these and many other such examples are not mere collective confabulations, but rather glitches in the system, where things have actually changed from what they used to be, to something only similar but different. And all of it proves, so such "believers" will tell you, that Cern scientists have messed with reality itself.
It is even claimed that "there is computer code in the fabric of the universe" itself, even though the guy talking about it here clearly says "in the equations we want to use to describe the cosmos." (So although this guy says "yes" in answer to Neil Degrasse Tyson's question, he in all actuality is saying, "no.")
But rather than arguing that the Mandela Effect is real or fake, I just want to call attention to how it illustrates how easy it is for people to believe all kinds of things, given their cultures, the right environments, technology, understanding, and so on.
In the days of Jesus, for example, there were all kinds of stories about dying and rising "man-gods," and probably as many people who believed in all of them as there are who believe in the Mandela Effect.
So on the one hand, if the Mandela Effect is simply an illusion or pure fabrication, preached by people who refuse to admit they could be wrong, it simply demonstrates how obstinate people are to ever admit they could be wrong about their "beliefs." And as such, it serves as an example of not only Christians today, but how all religions basically arise in the minds of people.
On the other hand, if the Mandela Effect is real, in any way, then it undermines our ability to claim that anyone is wrong, since we may each be remembering history from different parallel universes that have all been merged into this one. Hence, in a different parallel universe, it was not Jesus but Barabbas who died for our sins and rose from the dead.
The point is, since we all live in our own reality tunnels as it is, according to neuroscientists, a church claiming to have "ultimate truth" seems even more ridicules than that Mandela actually died in 1991, in some parallel universe somewhere.
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