Paleo Joe Literally Living a Mandela Effects Life
He Seems to Be Recalling an Alternate Reality Where Most of Us Never Lived
The Mandela effect is a term that was coined by internet researcher Fiona Broome to describe a type of false memory that is shared widely by a large group of people. 1 Although not widely researched, false memories are common and can be easily swayed by suggestions. The term originates from the anomaly where many people recall Nelson Mandela dying in prison in 1981 and are adamant about this recollection.
Can the “Mandela Effect” be explained away by collective false memories of a population? Maybe.
Since the Mandela Effect was recognized and named in 2010, did the 2008 activation of the giant particle collider, CERN, create anomalies in reality? Maybe.
Is the Matrix breaking down faster than Deus Ex Machina can repair it? Maybe.
How ever these glitches in the Matrix happen and reality seems to be resetting, is not the topic, but I’d love to hear your opinions. In our family, we do have personal expressions of the Mandela Effect.
The most intriguing glitch in our family’s Matrix is that every woman in the family (matrilineal) are terrified of snakes. Of course, in my opinion, this is a valid phobia—and I am grateful to rattlesnakes for warning us of their venomous nature. My mother told me a family legend that I passed down to my daughters (who were already exhibiting a fear of snakes):
One of our female ancestors on the frontier (I have traced my family on both sides back to the European settling of North America) was left home alone by her husband who went out hunting, or something, not knowing that he had built their cabin on a snake nest. Our ancestress was in bed with her newborn when the snakes came out to swarm over her and her baby. She reportedly hid under the covers for a few days before her husband returned: Hence our genetic fear of snakes.
To make a long story short (too late) my oldest daughter Carly adopted a ball python and my youngest daughter and I were profoundly shocked! Apparently, even though even Carly’s best-friend knew this family legend, Carly had never even heard of it. You must understand that Carly has a mind like a steel trap and forgets NOTHING! To this day, she is convinced that at some point our realities diverged and we are wondering if there are other discrepancies in our realities to be discovered.
Besides Paleo (opposite of Keanu’s Neo) Joe literally spewing a re-arrangement of history, claiming that he was arrested with Nelson Mandela protesting apartheid in South Africa, he has accumulated a long list of alternate historical claims.
Anyhoozles—this is Paleo Joe’s latest Mandela Life gaffe:
WASHINGTON — President Biden blurted Wednesday that one of his childhood Catholic school teachers was drafted by the Green Bay Packers — an assertion disproven by a simple check of publicly available NFL records.
Another recent Mandela Life by Paleo:
During a recent trip to his hometown of Scranton, Pennsylvania, President Joe Biden visited a local veterans’ memorial honoring his uncle and other service members.
While speaking to reporters after the visit, Biden said his uncle, Ambrose J. Finnegan, Jr., was shot down over New Guinea during World War II and suggested he could have been eaten by cannibals in the region since his remains were never recovered.
Not only was “Uncle Bosie” not eaten by cannibals, his aircraft was NOT shot down, records show it was more than likely an equipment failure.
Then there’s the one where Paleo “remembers” being a truck driver. From CiaNN
President Joe Biden has revived a debunked tale about his past – his fictional claim that he used to drive an 18-wheeler truck.
Biden has repeatedly embellished or invented biographical tidbits. In 2021, he claimed during a tour of a Mack Trucks facility: “I used to drive an 18-wheeler, man,” then added, “I got to.” At a separate 2021 event, he told college students studying truck technology, “I used to drive a tractor-trailer,” adding, “I only did it for part of a summer, but I got my license anyway.”
Biden’s claims were fact-checked at the time as false. But on Tuesday, during a campaign event in Florida, Biden said it again.
A big Paleo memory flub is one that particularly effects me—he has claimed many times that his son Beau was killed in Iraq:
Joe Biden recently told Marines stationed in Japan that his son Beau died in the Iraq war—an incorrect statement that the president has puzzlingly made several times in the past. “My son was a major in the U.S. Army. We lost him in Iraq,” Biden told the troops in Iwakuni on Thursday, according to a video obtained by the New York Post. Despite his son actually dying of brain cancer at the Walter Reed military hospital in Maryland, Biden has made the same claim about Beau’s death at least twice before. Last October, Biden told an audience in Colorado that Beau “lost his life in Iraq.” Just weeks later, he said “I’m thinking about Iraq because that’s where my son died,” during a speech in Florida. In reality, Beau died in 2015 after battling stage four glioblastoma—a diagnosis that the president has previously attributed to the “burn pits” in Iraq, which the military used to destroy trash while Beau was deployed from 2008 to 2009.
The list of Paleo Joe’s misrememberings is too long for a Substack post, but here is a link to a good recap:
Seventeen times Biden lied, plagiarized, and exaggerated
December 12, 2023 9:26 pm
Many pundits call Paleo Joe’s Mandela Life and/or his blatant lies, half-truths and exaggerations “gaffes.” False—he, or his caretakers, make them up according to his audience and potential voters. Few shitlibs care that he is a walking Mandela Effect and few people go beyond the façade of Empire to burrow down to a reality that doesn’t exist for Paleo: One where decent people live decent lives and do the best we can to live a meaningful life.
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I have never seemed to be able to verify the mandela effect.
I think it's more a result of us assuming that our memories are solid. Did you know that when you remember something, it gets re recorded in a different way?
Perhaps the mandela effect is a milder version of what's described here. Perhaps it came about because of the internet, which is full of conflicting information.
Perhaps it is a form of what was described in the movie Inception where an idea can grow and later seem to be true.
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"Daimonic Reality by Patrick Harpur examines UFOs and a wide variety of “paranormal” phenomena from a rather unique angle. Although Harpur never fully defines the daimonic—“the daimonic that can be defined is not the true daimonic,” as Lao-Tse would say—it seems to exist both inside us and outside us. Like the Greek daemon and unlike the Christian demon, it takes both good/healing and bad/terrifying forms, depending on our commitment to rationalistic ego states.
In a sense, the daimonic is like the collective unconscious of Carl Jung, inside us as a part of our total self that the ego wishes to deny, outside us in all the other humans who ever existed and in the dreams, myths, and arts of all the world. But Harpur follows Irish poet (and Golden Dawn alumnus) W. B. Yeats as often as he follows Jung, and traces some of his ideas back to Giordano Bruno and the alchemical/hermetic mystics of the Renaissance. The daimonic is just a bit more personalized and individualized than Jung’s species unconscious.
Harpur’s major thesis is that unless we recognize the daimonic (make friends with it, Jung would say) it takes increasingly malignant and terrifying forms. For instance, the Greys of UFO abduction lore, he says, are deliberately mirroring our ego-centered and “scientistic” age—showing no emotions of the humans they experiment upon, just as the ideal science student feels no emotion and has no concern with the emotions of the animal being tortured in his laboratory."
Despite dealing with many subjects common to conspiracy theories, this book does not quite fit into that category. We are the conspirators, so to speak. We have repressed the most creative part of ourselves and now it is escaping in terrifying forms."
Confabulation
Confabulation involves your brain filling in gaps that are missing in your memories to make more sense of them. This isn't lying, but rather remembering details that never happened. Confabulation tends to increase with age.
Misleading Post-Event Information
Information that you learn after an event can change your memory of an event. This includes even subtle information and helps to explain why eyewitness testimony can be unreliable.