Oh. I see. You wish to paint me as the sole possessor of those things I believe to be true and let "my truth" stand among as many truths as happen to be individuals. If so, may I paint you in the same way and dub you the sole individual worthy of establishing the educational cirriculum in all public schools? Or shall we add up all the adherents of our own beliefs and see how many agree with us, take a vote, and then decide what is really "truth?"
I have a standard. I have a text by which I judge all other information that comes into my hearing. What do you have? What do you use? What guides you? Anything? Nothing? Something in between?
Uh, have you ever heard of the scientific method?
A text much of which was written by people that thought the earth was flat and the sun revolved around the earth. Fortunately we also read more modern texts.
"I have a standard. I have a text by which I judge all other information that comes into my hearing. What do you have? What do you use? What guides you? Anything? Nothing? Something in between?"
I have no worries that if I am not guided by some ethos contained in the Bible I will suddenly become a serial or mass murderer. I have genetically programmed multiple choice responses tempered by the society that I live in and my ability to predict the consequences of my choices.