Something has changed, timeline?

originally posted by: Snowi
In my view the world map has changed a lot.

I have Google Earth open, and am checking your observations point by point. This is like a bad B-movie or nightmare, I just want it to end, but I can't help being curious.. and your observations are like icy swords through my soul.

1. South America has moved east and are now closer to Africa

Holy moly! It's really to the east, when it used to be pretty much straight down. What happened? HOW could it have happened?

For some, I have no idea, because I am not good at this planet's geography. But those that I thought I know, are now completely different. This is like that Twilight Zone episode, where words started changing, and a man had to re-learn all the words again in the end.. except it's geography, not words.

I wish it wasn't an 'impossible' thing like this, but something smaller and more 'explainable'. How am I ever going to get anyone to understand the continents are different shape and in different places (and it almost looks as if the Earth is somehow smaller, there's less 'room' or 'space' in the ocean for the continents, but that can be my imagination, I freely admit it)?

5. Iceland is bigger

This is one of the few things on your list that I know about and don't necessarily agree. It could be, but to me, it still looks kind of small, and even if it is, the change is not as dramatic as with the others.

At least it looks to be the proper shape.

6. Denmark moved East and is now closer to sweden

What? It's almost touching Sweden! And it's somehow curved to the right, when it was standing upright more to the west previously. How can .. aargh!

7. England has moved south and is now very close to France

I remember England always being that close, there being an english 'channel', and even a tunnel going between the countries. This was a big plot point in an old TV show, 'Yes, Minister" - a very funny show, I might add.

8. Sicilia has grown in size and has moved east and is now only
3 kilometer from the mainland Italy (fascinating)

Thank GOODNESS someone else said it. I didn't want to add this to my previous rantings about being freaked out about this (this only happened to me yesterday, so I am still understandably in a bit of a shock), because I thought maybe it sounds a bit too much, or something, and I wasn't sure.

But to me, Italy isn't supposed to be TOUCHING any country (visually speaking, I know it's not literally touching - and then again, what happens underwater, pretty much all countries are 'touching', but that's a different story). Italy is supposed to be its own thing, away from other countries, so we can clearly see its nice and interesting boot-shape, that it's famous for.

Now it's a boot kicking a rag, not just a 'boot'.

Did some 'godly force' just rearrange the geography, and make those changes retroactive throughout history, and brainwash most people to think this is how everything is supposed to look like, with only a few people being able to resist and still remember how it used to be? I don't know, I am grasping at straws here, I need to know the truth about what really happened, and how this can be possible (in my mind, it's NOT possible, you see)..

11. Japan has moved North

Tashikani! I mean, definitely! (That's the japanese word for 'definitely')

And it's strangely curved now, I didn't think it was that curved. A little bit, yes, but not that much.

12. The whole South East Asia has changed in size. It all seems bigger
and all the islands has moved South East

Yes, it looks that The Philippines used to be very close to Japan (I remember, because I visited The Philippines once, and later, checking Google Earth, wondered about it, and wished I had visited Japan instead, and remarked to myself how frustratingly close it was, too.) Now it's a huge distance away. What the..?

13. Australia has moved a lot North West. Australian had much more vegetation, the desert where much smaller and concentrated in the middle of the country. Australian where also surrounded by a huge ocean on all sides and was not even close to Papua New Guinea.

I don't know about the vegetation bit - to me, Australia always seemed to be like a 'hot desert country'.

But the rest of it - YES. A big, resounding YES.

It's hardly even below the equator anymore, when it used to be 'down under', like, completely on the 'opposite hemisphere'. Surrounded by water, not near any other land (making it ideal for a prison colony for that reason).

I can't get over its freakish shape with the spike and the 'wild portion' left from the spike (it used to be smooth), and that odd dent on the upper left, and also like someone had taken a bite from the lower portion - I can almost swear it had more land mass on the lower portion as well. Tasmania also looks a bit odd to me, but that could be a faulty memory, so I will give them Tasmania.

14. New Zealand has moved South(used to be just North East of
Australia and much closer than now)

For me, New Zealand was always in the northwest, until about a year or two ago, when I was mildly shocked to learn, it's actually in the southeast. But back then, everything -else- about Australia was still 'correct'. Only yesterday, it changed for me. How do I get back?

15. Tasmania has grown in size(i think, can't ever remember seeing it
there before)

Yeah, together with the spike and the gulf, Tasmania is definitely looking weird to my eyes, it shouldn't look like that (though I can't remember how it should look like).

16. The Antartica has grown and seems to be closer to South America.

Now that you mention it, yes. It was supposed to be relatively small, and not have that kind of spike that reaches out towards South America. How is South America that close to Antarctica?

and this is my memories of the world layout.

Mine are almost identical, with only a couple of differences. WEIRD.

Also, Germany should be bigger, Poland should be very tiny, not humongous, like it's now, and some other countries should be smaller as well. And what the heck is Mongolia, and where did it come from?

Mongolia was supposed to be history, like Babylonia, etc. Just an old name for a region that's something completely different now. It was never supposed to be its own country, nor should it have taken a bite out of China. This is just too odd.

But I could swallow ALL the other changes (although with a bit of difficulty), and just blame it all on my own bad memory, and go on with my life, if Australia wasn't FREAKING ME OUT every time I look at it. Shape, location .. if those two things were to go back to normal, it would all be good. I wouldn't mind even New Zealand being completely different from what I remember it should be. My memory says it should be slightly curving, more symmetrical to Australia's shape (not 'this timeline''s shape), and on the northwest portion, relatively close to Australia itself.

But if it has to be in the southwest, and look like that, I don't have a problem with it, as long as the shape and location of Australia were to go back to normal.

Weirdly, nothing else is different in 'this timeline' (if it can be called such) -- every little detail that I remember about my own, daily life, for example, is -exactly- as I remember it. USA looks identical to my memory of its shape and location. Mathematics seems exactly the same. All the things I have taken photos of, created, etc. seem to be exactly what I remember them to be. My own surroundings, everything.. exactly as it should be, as I remember it.

Everything else that I examine, seems to be exactly, perfectly normal and identical to my expectation and memory of it. If it was a memory problem, wouldn't other things also be distorted my, oh, so poor memory?

If this is a 'timeline' thing, then .. are the people I meet, the SAME people, the same souls I've met before, just living in a different timeline, with no necessary memory of a 'shift', or how things used to be, -or- are they different people altogether, but very similar, because of similar souls?

How does this work? I don't get it.. the other people seem the same, they look the same, they behave the same, they don't seem any different. How can everything be so 100% the same, but then a few continents are so completely different? This is not logical, it doesn't make any sense, and I think I may be just completely mad / crazy / out of my mind.

I guess I am going to have to eventually accept the way things are now, and just chalk everything to some memory distortion (although I know that doesn't explain everything, either). It's just the easiest and cheapest solution..

And the most practical. I have to go on with my life, I can't just sit here, staring at maps of Australia, and being freaked out about it.

As long as everything else remains 'normal', it's not going to make that big a difference in the daily life.

I can tell ya.. when it happens to you, it hits like a thousand of Thor's hammers in the face. Before that, it's easy to theorize, even laugh at the silly fools, who 'believe in timelines'. I don't even want to entertain such an obviously stupid thought that I would somehow have 'shifted' to a different timeline. It sounds just as ridiculous to me, as anyone.

But when something dramatic happens to you, and you have no answers.. you start grasping at anything that -might- give -some- kind of explanation.

So okay, continents are not where I thought they were. Maybe I will just accept that and continue .. I know it's wrong to seek support and/or help from this place, as this place is more like what the Oiled One described, if you give someone pearls .. they will 'rend you'.

This place and its posters love 'rending'.

I will end this post with the thought that something strange IS going on, and you can accept or deny it all you want, but when it hits you, you are going to panic a bit, and won't have any clear answers.

Then you might regret possibly laughing at 'these people', who are either 'bonkers' or just have 'bad memories'.

(I am still willing to entertain the idea that some time-traveling national socialists went back just to screw with the maps, and then screwed with every single mapmaker in history, and the Earth still ACTUALLY looks like we 'victims of timeshift' know it should, but only the MAPS have been changed. That would make it 'slightly less impossible', because instead of continents being screwed up, it's just maps that are screwed up.. much more feasible)

a reply to: GreenIrish

As the memory matrix/simulation comes apart, things you don't think about a lot will tend to disappear.

My wallet, which I had for sure left in my vehicle disappeared one day.
It had all of my essential ID. MY passport card, my social security, everything.
3 months later, I find it under my bed.
This would be fine if I hadn't flipped my bedroom over looking for the wallet, including under my bed where I found the wallet.

As your mind forgets memories of certain items, these items have a tendency to disappear into the null void, where time and space only exist in linear applications. A dip appears and your sweater falls in. It smoothes out a year later and your sweater pops back out.

More and more people are noticing this odd, surreal feeling of un-reality.

That means the programming is dissolving.
Step 58.
Extinguish the hotheads
Step 59, ignite the small guys so that they may crash the plane
Step 60, make the fire rise

How that will unfold is up to a cosmic entity known as Jim, caretaker of planet Earth.
He really doesn't appreciate what mankind has done to his favorite vacation spot.
So he decided to change what has happened without interfering with free will, which has proven surprisingly easy.
Turns out, if given a choice between a hot ember and an ice cube, most people will choose both at the same time.
But when more people choose the ember, the ice melts.

The ice is evil in this analogy.
The ember is good.

Ice kills and slows down movement.
Fire creates life and encourages change in the environment.
Make the fire rise and melt the ice that is slowing down humanity.

a reply to: Shoujikina

that is because we have the memory of 99.96% of what the world should look like.
in that tiny gap, things can change and be made into reality through the simple fact that not everyone remembers the same thing the same way.

John Titor screwed up our timeline by fixing his.
His mere presence in our timeline introduced a new memory of how things were that then corrupted other memories.

Or we're all crazy and some are crazier than most.

Based on Google Earth,

i did notice that Bahamas are much closer to Florida. I have always thought that Bahamas were more to the east. Also look too close to Cuba.

Also, New Zealand does look out of place. Too far southeast compared to what I remembered.

Lastly, Australia looks far more "deserty" than I remember.

a reply to: itanosam
Umm...no we in NZ havnt moved,still cold,wet and where it has always been.