The Berenst#in Bears Problem: Are We Living In An Alternate Worldline?

Marek

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I dont like this a bit! Its like that god damned dress that makes people see different colors ONLY A THOUSAND TIMES WORSE

http://www.strangerdimensions.com/2...blem-are-we-living-in-an-alternate-worldline/

Now, if you don’t know about The Berenstein Bears, they were a series of children’s books, and eventually a cartoon, created by Stan and Jan Berenstein. They focused on a family of bears, and did the usual educational children’s book/tv series thing. Simple enough. I remember them, vaguely, and I believe I owned a book or two when I was a kid. It’s been a while. So what’s the problem?

They’re not The Berenstein Bears. They’ve never been The Berenstein Bears. Despite the fact that many others remember them as The Berenstein Bears, and I myself still pronounce their name as The Berenstein Bears, this is false. This is wrong.

They are The Berenstain Bears.

It was such a strange feeling to find that out. To see Google correcting my spelling, to see the Wikipedia entry titled The Berenstain Bears, to see book covers that seemed at odds with the memories I had in my head. What was going on?
The “problem,” as it were, became clearer when I found this post by someone named Reece (“a graduate student of physics”) at a blog titled the Wood between Worlds (an interesting place, check it out).

Reece’s post is a trip down the rabbit hole for anyone, like myself, who remembers that cartoon family as The Berenstein Bears, not The Berenstain Bears. And with it comes a strange hypothesis.

Did something in our universe change to make this happen?

“…somehow, at some time in the last 10 years or so, reality has been tampered with and history has been retroactively changed. The bears really were called the ‘BerenstEin Bears’ when we were growing up, but now reality has been altered such that the name of the bears has been changed post hoc…In 1992 they were “stEin” in 1992, but in 2012 they were “stAin” in 1992.”

Reece’s proposal is essentially that somewhere along the way we shifted into an almost indistinguishable parallel universe. Almost, as there are minor differences, many we probably haven’t realized yet.

“…we moved to the stAin hexadectant, while our counterparts moved to our hexadectant (stEin). They are standing around expressing their confusion about the ‘Berenstein Bears’ and how they all remember “Berenstain Bears” on the covers growing up.”

In a later post, Reece would tackle some of the flaws in the idea. Many people do remember them as The Berenstain Bears, including members of the Berenstain family, of course. But perhaps these individuals are simply native to this Berenstain universe, and notice no difference. Others (perhaps yourself included) don’t remember one way or the other.
Perhaps we all just read it and heard it incorrectly.

Of Bears and Time Travel

Another possibility, however, is that what we’re dealing with isn’t a matter of parallel universes naturally diverging, but rather a meddling time traveler interfering with the past. In fact, at least one individual has made the connection between this curious problem and John Titor:

“…When John Titor traveled back to 1975 to obtain the IBM 5100, he caused some kind of Divergence. We were -supposed- to have Endured a Catastrophe in the form of the “Y2K Bug” (remember how it was a forgone conclusion?) … But he went off-mission, Changed something, and we Avoided It…

…To me, this BerenstEin (which it WAS, and was supposed to have remained) Phenomenon is an Echo of Proof that OUR World-line was Affected by the Time/Dimensional Traveler, John Titor. Maybe he wasn’t in Our Specific World-line in 1975, but whatever he did There (or Then) caused Ours to be Created as a Branch-off from that point. But he was CERTAINLY in Ours in 2000-2001, as we have the Posts to prove it.”

Could our false memories, in fact, be alter-vús?
Well, myself, I’m willing to admit that I probably read the name wrong. It’s just one of those things that happens, and as always I ride that line between skepticism and belief. Or maybe I didn’t, and one of the above theories is true.

Either way, it’s an intriguing outcome of events when so many people remember something a certain way, only to find out that the reality is entirely different. Check the links I shared above, dive down the rabbit hole yourself. There are apparently other inconsistencies. What do you remember?
 

LoneSage

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OK

Look at your avatar.

Next look at your user name.

Now ponder your existence.

LMBO

anyway

i was a wee faggot for the berestAin bears as a youngun

i had a lot of their books to help me learn to read and teach me conservative, traditional morals

in fact, was in a bookstore a few weeks ago and was somewhat delighted to revisit those old books

anyways

don't worry, it was always the berenstAin bears, no doubt

i clearly, clearly remember this because i was 5th grade spelling bee champ and i had a spelling memory like goddamn rainman

no problem, guys
 

LoneSage

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DONT YOU PUT THAT EVIL ON ME POPCORN SUTTON

I REMEMBER AS A CHILD PRONOUNCING IT AS BEAR-EN-STAIN BEARS DISTINCTLY JUST BECAUSE OF THAT SINGLE FUCKIN A

DON'T RILE ME UP NOW AS I AM MIXING UP EVENTS THAT HAPPENED IN 1995 AS EVENTS THAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED IN 1997

I DONT NEED NONE OF THAT HORSE SHIT RIGHT NOW
 

Marek

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...Says the man who's avatar and username are taken from an inbred hick drunk.

MUAHAHAHA!!!

You really wanna wrassle here, you comeback kid noob faggot?

I'll troll you to the bitter end you sad sack.
 

norton9478

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I still refuse to call Princess Toadstool and Dr. Robotnik by their modern names.

Especially Dr. Robtnik. That is an awesome name.
 

Marek

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Lol "sad sack"

Video games get you so much pussy

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Especially Guilty Gear, which is in the top three gayest game series ever. Second only to MLP:FIM and Blazblu or whaytever that godawful shit is called.
 

Opethian

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team "Ain"
 

Hikaru Ichijyo

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I still refuse to call Princess Toadstool and Dr. Robotnik by their modern names.

Especially Dr. Robtnik. That is an awesome name.

Which is it? Robotnik or Robtnik?!? See...something has happened to our reality and now you're affected! :eek: :help:

Actually wouldn't that be more tantamount to the whole M.Bison/Vega/Balrog issue? :loco:
 

FilthyRear

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Video games get you so much pussy

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Especially Guilty Gear, which is in the top three gayest game series ever. Second only to MLP:FIM and Blazblu or whaytever that godawful shit is called.

Lol

That's cool - different strokes for different folks. I can see why people don't like that sort of fighter, tho. The soundtracks are great.

What's "MLP:FIM"?
 

Marek

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Please, keep going. I'm interested in what you have to say lol

I dont know much about you really. Since your one of these guys that disappeared for a long time and came back with 200 posts. I'd be happy to tell you more stuff about myself though. For instance, I got more pussy in the last year than you have in your entire life.
 

LoneSage

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LMBO great thread

Berenstain > Berenstein jew bears, faggots
 

2D_mastur

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Fuck, could have sworn they were The Berenstein Bears. I even remember my 2nd(?) grade teacher reading these books for us... and I don't her remember saying reading "BerenSTAIN". Pretty sure I would have remembered thinking "WTF" if I had heard that.

Thing is though, I have a lot of false memories from being a kid, I'll just dismiss this whole thing as either ; me having a fucked up memory or being being an illiterate little piece of shit back then.
 
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Jibbajaba

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The "ain" movement is an obvious anti-semetic plot. Too bad Shroom isn't here. He's probably high-level up in that shit.
 
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