Who has the truth? Who can arbitrate? Where is the 'golden source'? You can't show someone is right, except in limited cases - all you can do is sometimes sh

Who has the truth? Who can arbitrate? Where is the 'golden source'? You can't show someone is right, except in limited cases - all you can do is sometimes show that someone is wrong if you are able to show how their story is incoherent in its own terms. Even then, if you correctly point out the inconsistencies that show a story cannot be true (as truth is consistent) if this person is acting in bad faith they can refuse to acknowledge your argument. This is the most common result - people do not want to be corrected and become aligned with truth - they want to be right which is more comfortable for their ego. The deeper answer is that if you are aligned with truth, you do not care about winning an argument. In fact, losing the argument and disabusing yourself of a false understanding should be gratefully accepted as a blessing. Ultimately, the 'golden source' is what each individual has personally experienced. This is an epistemological question - how do we know what we know. Unfortunately, most of don't even know what 'knowing' means - we think that if others have told us they know that we know too, we think if we have seen something on a screen we know it. But the map is not the terrain. Anecdotal experience is king. Knowing is only that which we have personally verified.