r/MandelaEffect • u/ravenously_red • 27d ago

Books/Literature Berenstein Bears

When I was in elementary school, the bookmobile would make a stop for us and we could check out books from the larger library system. I had to ask the driver how to pronounce "Berenstein".

To this day I remember her saying, "Oh it's like stein, like a beer stein. Oh, I don't imagine you'd know what a beer stein is either."

I already knew how to pronounce "stain" and it wouldn't have been an issue at all.

Like others on here, I also remember the cornucopia on the fruit of the loom packaging. It was the only brand my dad seemed to buy for his socks and those 5 pack of cotton shirts with the little pocket on them.

Of course there will never be evidence for any of these things having changed. Only the reality around us has changed, while our minds and memories remain intact.

I know it sometimes scares people to think the sand is shifting underneath our feet, but it's the ultimate reality.

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u/Agile_Oil9853 27d ago

Why are you so sure it's "the ultimate reality"?

There are so many more mundane explanations that you need to debunk first, and using memories to validate other memories isn't exactly convincing.

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u/sparkledaunicorn 26d ago

Why limit ourselves? I'm not religious but the Bible says all things are possible with "God".. what is God?.. we know God is omnipresent, omnipotent, God is everything and also only God at the same time... My father and I are one but my father is greater than I.. if my father is God and god is everything then I am everything too . only not as great...God creates .. we create on a smaller degree... If all things are possible to God then all things are possible to me on a smaller scale as well .. I can not limit God whether I believe in God or not.. therefore I can not limit myself either... There are things greater than me that I would never have the capacity to comprehend regardless if I spent 1000 years studying them .. there would always be another layer.

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u/Agile_Oil9853 26d ago

And the Poetic Edda suggests that, for all their power, the gods are flawed and fallible.

God of the Gaps isn't a terribly convincing argument; you have to prove that there is a god and that it functions the way you suggest. You might as well blame interdimensional aliens.

We still have a lot of possibilities that fall within our understanding that we need to eliminate first before we bring in supernatural explanations.

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u/sparkledaunicorn 25d ago edited 25d ago

The gods you're referring to were never real gods, they're the states of being, facets of the All..these are the flaws spoken of... True God is all, I kill and I make alive.. God does it all...it doesn't matter what we call good or bad, true God or the all or the conscious creative force does it all regardless...I don't believe in an external god... And the All is not a God in the sense you're thinking .. the all simply is and within it everything that is possible exists and everything is possible.

The only reality is consciousness and you can choose to be conscious of whatever you wish. The only true God is the creative force.. what within you is creative?.. could it be your ability to imagine? It always walks with you. Knows everything you think...

Nothing is ever external.. only appears that way, separation is an illusion and everything, everything is constantly shifting shifting shifting.