As I've indicated previously, most likely not often enough from my angle at least, I am writing for my own benefit. Everyone speaks, reads, and writes for their own benefit when we come right down to it.

One Only Believes 

What They Want to Believe

Everyone persuades themselves, even if they only agree with what they hear and read. On top of it all hearers maintain their very different views of the very same speaker. If I tell you that I had an epiphany, then that is the gospel truth only to you, that I told this to you. 

But, only to you! To anyone else you tell it to it is hearsay to them, which is quite bluntly at its' worst, gossip, and not admissible evidence to your hearers that I ever even said it at all. Now that I am so intimately involved with logic today, I only mention that I've heard some, incredibly, cast their illustrations of their truth as evidence of their truth in a matter.