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The quote is NOT “I’m your worst nightmare”


It goes like this:

Zayson: “Who are you”
Rambo: “Your worst nightmare”

Much like how it’s not “Luke I am your father”, or “we’re gonna need a bigger boat” or “I’ll be BACH”

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So what is your point?

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That people misquote it

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Do you belong to a Star Wars nerd club? Who misquotes it?

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lol

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People I know

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Well I didn't know of any person who misquoted that. The people you know must not be good listeners

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Except that it ABSOLUTELY is 'Luke, I am your father' .. or maybe "No, Luke... _I_ am your father!"

It's not my fault this parallel Universe doesn't have it the same as it was, but 100% it contained the word 'Luke' in a different parallel existence of some sort. Even the voice actor has quoted and thus remembered it that way (not that it's proof of anything but mysterious residue).

Reality is more interesting than people are willing to admit.. Dolly absolutely had braces, and human anatomy absolutely wasn't as weird as it's now.

Just to clarify, I am not talking about this timeline, history or anything, so it can't be proven one way or another. In THIS (whatever), it WAS always the way it is not, it's not like it was changed from one form to another.

I am also convinced it STILL is exactly as I remember it in that other reality, Universe, timeline or whatnot (even though that other timeline might have been erased for all I know). Memory is fickle and untrustworthy to a POINT, but not _THIS_ much. It's like remembering sky as green and being shocked that it's blue (or vice versa - imagine if sky was suddenly green and you'd have to admit it ALWAYS was green, although to you, it has always been blue) - no one's memory misremembers THAT much.

Also, with misremembered memories, people are usually unsure, not convinced. I have never been convinced about something that I realized I was remembering wrong, I have always been hazy and unsure about it.

This is an impossible effect to explain to anyone that isn't a victim of it, because people will just react in two ways: 1) No, look, I can prove it, it was ALWAYS this way, look at this proof! and 2) It's your memory that's faulty, you are just misremembering, and you are stupid to think otherwise.

No one ever takes a step back, realizes that yes, in THIS reality, it has always been the way it's now (I hear Pepsi logo is used as a landmark - I have seen 'residue' of the blue and red portions switched in a product).

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So to summarize;

1) It has always been that way - in THIS reality and history. It is useless to try to go back and prove it with old photos or whatnot, because they're going to show this reality's history of it. This means, you CAN'T prove it right or wrong. No one can.

2) It's NOT a memory problem, because if it was, the memory would be hazy and unsure and unclear, and people would be 'well, maybe it was like that after all'. No one would be 100% convinced their memory is correct if it was a simple memory error. I have PLENTY of memories I am not sure of, some memories where I was a bit wrong about some detail, and some things I can't remember at all.

I have never had a clear memory that turns out to have always been completely different, and something HUGE and MAJOR like human anatomy or Dolly's Braces that I remember very clearly, isn't something you'd misremember THIS MUCH anyway.

People use this 'memory error' explanation, because it makes the most sense (I can't really blame them), it's the easiest and quickest explanation, and ANY other explanation would prove the Universe is just TOO wild, and most people can't handle that.

However, if you are a victim of the effect, you can't really deny it this way, and you are FORCED to realize just how wild the Universe is. Maybe the LSD users and 'magic 'shroom users' have been right the whole time, maybe quantum physics' wildness has a point to it, maybe all the Zen masters and enlightened spiritual teachers of history were right that matter is illusory and there's more magic in the Universe than anyone dares imagine.

In any case, I just wanted to correct this erroneous statement that omits important facts.

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I am mystified. You spend a lot of words on how unreliable human memory is and explain how important things are not forgettable... The important things you find impossible to imagine are different from your memory are the braces on an actress in an old Bond movie and... something... about human anatomy.

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Also, it ABSOLUTELY is 'I'm your worst nightmare', exactly the way Weird Al Yankovic says it in UHF. I don't know about Rambo III, though.

I don't know what you mean about the 'Bach'-thing, but Arnold absolutely said 'I'll be back' in a strong accent, now he says it fluently.

The bigger boat I can give or take, but I wouldn't be surprised if it actually WAS the actual quote, just like Sally Fields' (and it was Sally Fields, not Sally Field, hence the quote) 'You like me, you really like me'..

But believe whatever you want, I guess it's easiest to just claim some people are crazy and have memory problems and look at the 'proof' and be convinced, and go about your day. It's an enormous 'what if' one would have to swallow to even entertain the possibility that the reality itself was this faulty in this kind of weird, nonsensical, specific, subtle way. I am convinced this solar system was located at a relative edge instead of so middle in the galaxy as well, but whatever.

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