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Misremembering is not being wholly ruled out, but it is the most miniscule of possibilities amongst all other possibilities.
And that is the way it's going to remain regardless of how many barrages of "rational explanations" involving memory are thrown at us.
The knowingness is as strong for many of these ME's as your knowingness is of the names of your parents and siblings, or what kind of car you own when you're not in it. As much of a possibility as you accept of being wrong about those things is about on par with the level of possibility many of us have that we are "misremembering."
As for what you call the "simple ones," I'm assuming you consider the Depend(s) ME a simple one. But it has been established in the new ME thread here in Skunk Works that this one cannot be a long-term memory mistake, because Depends never went away. They have been on the market for 30 or more years, so they have remained contemporary in the collective psyche throughout. Being one of the more "recent" ME's, this is not a case of "remembering differently," but a case of a sudden inexplicable change infiltrating into many consciousnesses at this juncture.
Now, you say "10 years is hardly recent," implying that the more time goes by, the more likely things are to be misremembered. That may be true in a "baseline" sense, in a scientifically cookie cutter sense, but remember, we are talking about repetitive, ingrained memories established over prolonged periods of time. Do you really and truly think you would be likely to forget the lyrics to Happy Birthday if 10 years were to pass without you singing or hearing it? Do you really think you would be likely to forget the name of a close friend or immediate family member after not seeing or talking to them for 10 years?
If you have that little confidence in your memory, you may want to keep yourself in a padded room, away from sharp objects.
I keep using the Happy Birthday example because it is the most comparable "simple song" I can think of in regards to the Mr. Rogers theme song. If there are now 17 and 18 year-olds claiming adamantly (and there are) they are certain of a different version they heard repeatedly 10 or less years ago, how likely is it that they are all "misremembering" the exact same alteration? No one is claiming to remember "our neighborhood," or "your neighborhood," etc. At some point, deductive reasoning about these type of things should start being used by the skeptics.
You yourself claim you remembered it as "the" also, but after watching a few times, you just accepted that you were wrong and had misremembered. Why would you ever do this??? Several of us in this thread have talked about how thinking about it too much or overanalyzing begins to put uncertainties into our psyche that conflicts with the intuitive knowingness within, and this is a dangerous slope. Tangible evidence be damned.
There are multiple implications of this "Mandela Effect," and one of the aspects of it is that there is a now a war being waged for consciousness; in actuality, it is an agenda of soul-enslavement. It would be very detrimental at this point to abandon your intuition and inner-knowingness for things that can be "verified" from outside of yourself, such as through "tangible evidence."
Many, whether consciously or subconsciously, are deathly afraid of what is happening here; not frightened by the Mandela Effect itself, but by the implications of the Mandela Effect. It may be wise to do a self-examination and see if this applies.
The Mandela Effect is a double-edged sword. It may be uncomfortable to face when confronted with it, but accepting it while also holding fast to your truth within will ultimately bring redemption; rejecting it will only drive out your inner-truth more and more, ultimately resulting in the relinquishing of your own soul to the nefarious entities who are orchestrating these anomalies for that very purpose.
The Mandela Effect is a double-edged sword. It may be uncomfortable to face when confronted with it, but accepting it while also holding fast to your truth within will ultimately bring redemption; rejecting it will only drive out your inner-truth more and more, ultimately resulting in the relinquishing of your own soul to the nefarious entities who are orchestrating these anomalies for that very purpose.
There are multiple implications of this "Mandela Effect," and one of the aspects of it is that there is a now a war being waged for consciousness; in actuality, it is an agenda of soul-enslavement. It would be very detrimental at this point to abandon your intuition and inner-knowingness for things that can be "verified" from outside of yourself, such as through "tangible evidence."
Its not the Great Deception, as that is fantasy based in a fantasy story. So dont worry.
originally posted by: FlyInTheOintment
BINGO. We have now come to the very heart of the matter (no pun intended). This is serious #. People are waking up and realising that somehow, everything they held sacred regarding the concreteness of reality, is wrong.