Alternative Explanations for 'The Mandela Effect'

[Bungle_Bear]

what else can you say about it?

It was longer than any response you've ever given. Care to answer my question? How do you spot the truth from fiction?

 

[JohnEmmett]

Care to answer my question? How do you spot the truth from fiction?

By caring about the truth

 

[Bungle_Bear]

By caring about the truth

Another meaningless group of words pretending to be an answer. It would have been shorter and more honest to just say "I believe any nonsense"

 

[JohnEmmett]

Another meaningless group of words pretending to be an answer.

Irrelevant

 

[Bungle_Bear]

Irrelevant

Lol. Sums up your posts.

 

[JohnEmmett]

Lol. Sums up your posts.

Irrelevant again

 

[Freodin]

Irrelevant again

Quite relevant. Because it is indeed meaningless.

You "care about the truth"... and that's how you determine truth. By caring about it.

So... I, too, care about the truth. I can distinguish between fact and fiction. You post fiction. I know. Because I care about the truth.

Funny how that works, isn't it?

 

[JohnEmmett]

You post fiction. I know. Because I care about the truth.

Truth is stranger than fiction, not less strange

 

[Freodin]

Truth is stranger than fiction, not less strange

Nice phrase... but not true.

"Strange" here means just "unusual". Something the audience is not expecting, not accustomed to. And here it might indeed be the case that people are just don't understand truth, but do understand fiction. Because fiction is made by people... the very same kind of people.

Truth is always more complex than fiction... but it may or may not be "stranger". In fact, it is possible to create fiction that is stranger than any truth.

But all that does do nothing to tell us what is truth and what is fiction. You cannot use the "strangeness" of something to determine its truth.

 

[JohnEmmett]

Data Explains the Manheim Effect

 

[Freodin]

Data Explains the Manheim Effect

And here you are... citing fiction. You are a hoot!

(And you might have noticed that this "effect" is indeed a work of fiction, and that no explanation was given, because there is none, nor is any required for fictional statements.)

 

[JohnEmmett]

And here you are... citing fiction. You are a hoot!

Life imitates art

 

[Freodin]

As in an example posited by Wilde, although there has been fog in London for centuries, one notices the beauty and wonder of the fog because "poets and painters have taught the loveliness of such effects...They did not exist till Art had invented them."

And I am sure, no one got wet and cold or choking in all the centuries of London fog before Art taught people they should be...

 

[JohnEmmett]

(And you might have noticed that this "effect" is indeed a work of fiction, and that no explanation was given, because there is none, nor is any required for fictional statements.)

An explanation was given, it was a scientific experiment

 

[Freodin]

An explanation was given, it was a scientific experiment

It was a FICTIONAL scientific experiment. It's not real. You don't create "truth" by just writing down "science!"

 

[JohnEmmett]

It was a FICTIONAL scientific experiment. It's not real.

Does not seem to be merely fictional

 

[Freodin]

Does not seem to be merely fictional

Appearances are deceptive.

 

[JohnEmmett]

Appearances are deceptive.

Are you trying to understand

Or do you already understand before investigating

 

[Freodin]

Are you trying to understand

Or do you already understand before investigating

Are we back to "investigating"? Does that mean anything to you except "read stories"?

 

[JohnEmmett]

Are we back to "investigating"? Does that mean anything to you except "read stories"?

I am still trying to understand this effect


But you already know…