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I remember that with absolute certainty. I had conversations with Muslims afterward who were happy, even jubilant that it happened and loved bin Laden. I met a group of Muslims who told me they couldn't wait for the Jihad to begin so they could kill all the non-Muslims (mostly Chinese) in their country. It says in the Quran the will of Allah is to dominate the whole world and it is the duty of even Muslim to struggle towards that goal. Muslims aren't even trying to hide this fact. Every Muslim I personally knew were all happy at the idea of a Muslim world and will discuss it openly with non-Muslims if you simply ask. If it were not for Taqiyya and the Western media everyone would understand this.
"When someone tells me they are sure they remember exactly the way something happened, I just laugh," Bridge said.
The reason for the distortion, Bridge said, is the fact that human memories are always adapting.
"Memories aren't static," she noted. "If you remember something in the context of a new environment and time, or if you are even in a different mood, your memories might integrate the new information."
It's essentially like something like every time you view a jpeg, you actually copy and make a new one. Over time the quality of the image will go down until it is no more. Probably something similar with memories
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What's strange is that large groups of people can have exactly the same false memory. For example Berenstain Bears or Berenstein? Remember the scene at the end of Wizard of Oz where she realizes it was all a dream, but then you see the ruby slippers proving it wasn't? (That scene never existed.) Do you remember Forrest Gump saying "life IS like a box of chocolates"? (he didn't).
Maybe it's mass delusion, or perhaps there are things about the nature of reality that we don't yet fully understand.
I think some of those things can adequately be explained by your memories being altered by what you expect to be true. Your brain fills in the gaps of your memories. I learned to read thanks to the Berenstain Bears and I'd swear up and down it was Berenstein but I accept that 1) my young self wouldn't find Berenstain an odd spelling and 2) I probably applied the common Berenstein spelling to my memories after the fact. Same thing with that Forrest Gump quote, with the added bias of "life IS like a box of chocolates" being a widely recognized quote and meme born from the movie.
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[–] GumbyTM 0 points 8 points 8 points (+8|-0) ago
Perhaps that's because the news media was showing pictures cheering muslims all day long.
[–] Lemongarb 1 point 4 points 5 points (+5|-1) ago
But it was stock footage from something else.
[–] ScientiaPotentia ago (edited ago)
I remember that with absolute certainty. I had conversations with Muslims afterward who were happy, even jubilant that it happened and loved bin Laden. I met a group of Muslims who told me they couldn't wait for the Jihad to begin so they could kill all the non-Muslims (mostly Chinese) in their country. It says in the Quran the will of Allah is to dominate the whole world and it is the duty of even Muslim to struggle towards that goal. Muslims aren't even trying to hide this fact. Every Muslim I personally knew were all happy at the idea of a Muslim world and will discuss it openly with non-Muslims if you simply ask. If it were not for Taqiyya and the Western media everyone would understand this.
[–] toats 1 point 7 points 8 points (+8|-1) ago
Interestingly, your brain distorts memories every time you remember them.
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-memory-gameeach-recall-event-brain.html
[–] Dashippy 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
I remember someone telling me that when you remember something what you actually remember is the last time you remembered it.
[–] Teh_Sauce_Guy 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
It's essentially like something like every time you view a jpeg, you actually copy and make a new one. Over time the quality of the image will go down until it is no more. Probably something similar with memories
[–] Lemongarb 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
I remember that.
[–] Dashippy 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago (edited ago)
But the internet told me it's because the Large Hadron Collector altered reality and changed the past.
I refuse to use "/s" so I'm switching to using italics to show sarcasm.
[–] Lake ago
I like your italics idea better. When someone puts /s it just kind of ruins it for me. It's like they are explaining the joke.
With the italics I just read it in a sarcastic tone like you would say it in person.
[–] dv1155 1 point 1 point 2 points (+2|-1) ago (edited ago)
What's strange is that large groups of people can have exactly the same false memory. For example Berenstain Bears or Berenstein? Remember the scene at the end of Wizard of Oz where she realizes it was all a dream, but then you see the ruby slippers proving it wasn't? (That scene never existed.) Do you remember Forrest Gump saying "life IS like a box of chocolates"? (he didn't).
Maybe it's mass delusion, or perhaps there are things about the nature of reality that we don't yet fully understand.
/v/mandelaeffect
http://mandelaeffect.com/major-memories
[–] ScientiaPotentia 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
You must be from an alternate universe.
[–] pepepepepe 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
I think some of those things can adequately be explained by your memories being altered by what you expect to be true. Your brain fills in the gaps of your memories. I learned to read thanks to the Berenstain Bears and I'd swear up and down it was Berenstein but I accept that 1) my young self wouldn't find Berenstain an odd spelling and 2) I probably applied the common Berenstein spelling to my memories after the fact. Same thing with that Forrest Gump quote, with the added bias of "life IS like a box of chocolates" being a widely recognized quote and meme born from the movie.
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[–] dv1155 ago
Not in this timeline. It's now "life WAS like a box of chocolates"