💩 The pile of wrong

Book of TREE 2.11

We humans have believed a lot of things that turned out be untrue. You could list a few dozen without trying hard. Throw your list on the pile of mistaken beliefs and it would make no discernible difference. It’s huge. It’s a mountain.

And the pile grows every day. Just like always, the things we think of as facts are riddled with error and misunderstanding.

Your beliefs, from what you think is the best breakfast food all the way up to the meaning of life, come from your limited understanding and flawed interpretation of these dodgy facts.

So…

1. Hold your beliefs lightly.

2. Take heart. That big pile of discarded beliefs is proof that those who are willing have the ability to inch their way closer to the truth.

Until Friday, I’d never heard of Coheed and Cambria. I like this song a lot. (Warning: if super-violent sci-fi animation seems a bit much for a Monday morning, maybe listen on Spotify or wherever you stream your music.)

My posts for the next three months are in an ordered stack of paper on the shelf behind my desk. When I picked up today’s I thought, Well, I got that wrong. When I finished fixing it, the only words left from my original post were ‘hold your beliefs lightly’. See what I mean?

Grow slowly
Jeff