Mandela effect : new country in Africa
Just tidying up my kids room and his world map had fallen off the wall so I was putting it back up and spotted a country I've never spotted or heard of before.
Without looking see if you know it, it's on the west coast of Africa under Morocco and Algeria, it's capital is Nouakchott? and the country is massive.
I seriously have never heard of it or it's capital or seen it's flag before, freaky
It's Mauritania!!????
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Oh for fucks sake. Name us all the countries in Africa from memory, lets see exactly how many you don't recall.
And the reason you never heard of it even though its 'massive'? Its virtually all desert, has little wealth and less influence.
It's a huge chunk of Sahara desert, where the nicely paved highway stops a few miles out of town and from then on, you can drive a land rover on hard packed sand or take a camel. There's a single small tree growing in one place where you can see it for two hours when coming and two hours going away. My world map has a "city" on it that isn't a city, isn't a town, isn't a village, and isn't even an oasis. It's a WELL, just a well, location marked with four truck tires, and is the only feature worthy of note for a hundred-plus miles in any direction, which is the only reason it makes it onto a world map.
Mauritania looks more important on a map than in reality, but still, you've missed it for all these years. How observant you are.
Please tell me that the "Mandela effect" is a parody meme and not an actual conspiracy theory! My brain is incapable of accepting the sheer solipsism of the idea! How can anyone be ignorant of the fact that our memory is fallible, especially when it comes to trivia of no particular importance to us?
Oh hell, I knew about Mauritania a long time ago, so there goes that theory....(I was sort of a 'geography nerd' back in the day, for some weird damn reason...lol)
@Churchy LaFemme
Wouldn't prove anything except my ability to remember weird shit, but I could probably come close to naming them all...
When I was a student, I had a map of Africa on my wall, and could name the capital of every country (useful in pub quizzes). Including Nuakchott.
If you really think that because yo have not heard of something before, it has magically just sprung into existence, you have a problem.
The problem with Mandela effect theories is that there is no "there goes the theory". People will simply insist that either
A) Some power, possibly the CERN LHC has changed reality and only they were immune to the change and they remember the "original timeline"
B) They have unknowingly fallen between parallel dimensions that are both really similar, but have some small difference, like Nelson Mandela dying in different years.
By the way, not that anyone probably cares, but I got up to 120 before I just got bored with it....lol
@zipperback
What I wanna know is, how or why is someone supposed to be immune to the effect?
It's a big area so it's important? Didn't Mark Twain ridicule that argument in Tom Sawyer Abroad back in the 19th Century?
And there are countries you never heard of? Well I can't sing them all like Yakko Warner, so you could probably catch me out with a place I didn't know, too. So what?
What I wanna know is, how or why is someone supposed to be immune to the effect?
The idea, best I can tell, is that this current dimension is Dimension B, where event Y happened. Occasionally people 'fall through' from Dimension A, where event X happened, or from Dimension C, where event Z happened.
If it had something resembling a mechanism or proof other than 'thing happened I don't recall happening that way', it'd be fascinating.
You never look at maps on a daily basis, I get it, that's fine. Maps are tools, and you don't always use tools. But if an entire geopolitical entity exists without you knowing it, this is not proof that it recently started existing because Berenstain timesplit potatoes woof. I didn't know Montenegro was a country, myself, for years. You have to relax, A. Nonymous.
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