First of all, I am 24 years married to a women with 30 years in accounting. So, while I can feel fer ya, I have absolutely no solution for that problem at all.
Yer on yer own! (just like me)
She can make incredible intuitive leaps. She has a certain psychic gift of her own, tho I can not comprehend what sets it off. And yet she can be the most stubborn "let me see it, touch it, feel it" person I know. Maybe they are a product of each other, too.
Anyway, I go by the axiom:
"Everyone always knows the truth."
It seems tho that everyone, given the right amount of surprise or fear, will instead choose to cling to their
reaction to a truth. Getting one of us hard headed humans to go back and "choose again" can be a chore. I'm that way, so is everyone I know. comes with the navel, I think.
My deciding factors ... well here are my main two:
1. I have learned to listen to my "inner BS-meter". No it isn't some beast that must be fed, causing me to run amok denouncing anything insulted by it. More like the ability to set aside what it fusses about, until something more clear develops.
2. Qui bono? (who benefits). I've stepped in enough holes to have some sense for a "posterior motive". things like:
- Is the messenger more important than the message?
- Is the goal my "energy subscription" to some belief?
- Is this thing expanding my knowledge, leading me to new questions, or simply "insulting" what I believe?
Silly things like that.
So much tends to be subjective, yet I have learned not to discard something on that basis alone. In essence:
I cannot force, nor sell you what I believe, nor would I trade it for silver or gold.
In the end, that can turn out to be the best method of "Cenveying truth" there is.
Good luck,
Fred