There are countless false beliefs that run through people's heads every day. This has been going on since there have been propositional thoughts, and will go on for as long as there are propositional thoughts. Many of these false beliefs cause horrendous suffering. Many of these false beliefs are accompanied by a mistaken certainty.
It's disturbing how so many false beliefs go uncorrected. Even when false beliefs have no bad consequences, there's still something ugly about their falseness, and that ugliness is cemented by the fact that the record is never set straight for those who believed mistakenly.
To really feel the ugliness of it: Every moment that passes "updates" our universe. Each update reinforces history, reality. Every update reaffirms the falseness of the belief, reaffirms that the belief is mistakenly believed, or was believed, reaffirms the mistaken confidence in the false belief, and reaffirms the lack of correction and the lack of setting things straight. Some things do get set straight. But when a person dies, all their false beliefs remain false forever with respect to that person – the dead never find out that they were wrong.
There's just something upsetting about it – the injustice of it.
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