Your Truth

From the reading for September 10th
"You must believe that your truth is every man's truth"

I thoroughly enjoy Emerson and most of his ideas, but this one really did not sit with me well, particularly since it is a constant argument that I have with my boyfriend. He is a firm believer that anything he says is automatically "fact", and I have on multiple occasions had to teach him that there is a such word as "opinion". I'm glad that he is confident in himself; that is something that I often wish for myself. However, political and religious conversations get old very quickly (they do in general, because those are things that you are not going to change for someone...why bother arguing) because he is completely unwilling to listen to anything else. I don't know why he is determined that what he learned is THE answer, because while I think that now I have finally found my own truth, it is certainly not being a left-wing Catholic (an oxymoron, at that). But with all the different religions and political views, how can we think that a personal truth can possibly be the truth of everyone?