Unexamined Life

"The unexamined life is not worth living." So what makes life worth living? Is it finding truth or is only the search for it what matters? If this quote is wrong, should we still search for the truth knowing this is not it? Is truth just what we believe to be true or what all the facts point to? Do we even know if facts are indeed true unless we were at the exact event? Even if we were at the event, do our eyes deceive us? How do we know we aren't in a lucid dream from a higher dimensional multiverse, unable to wake because are view of the truth has been twisted by a brain that has to be even greater and more complex than the one we believe to have right now? I think Richard Dawkins puts it best when he says there will always be things in the universe that will be unprovable but that doesn't make them true. You can't disprove unicorns but that doesn't make them true. I think Dawkins is like the modern day Socrates. He basically wants people to question their beliefs mainly in god and creationism through books and debates. He says very explicitly that he doesn't care about what you believe he just cares passionately about the truth and we must take all the evidence we find to point us to the best possible conclusions because evidence is the only thing we should rely on.

Eulogy

Mark Waechter. What a guy. There are so many things to say about this man. Let's start with his most important rule. Never get mad. Mark understood that getting mad didn't solve anything. It was all about thinking logically to this guy. Being close-minded was not the answer. You can never reach conclusions while being close-minded. He always knew the best way to fix a problem was to listen to all the ideas, not think he was the only correct one. There is nothing as scary as a man who thinks he's right. Life to him was all about changing the world for the better. If we get a bunch of powerful enough together to help make a change, what does it matter if they are all closed-minded and think they are right? No work will get done because no one is willing to compromise because they are SURE that their way is the right one no matter how much evidence is stacked against them. That’s why Mark hated politics. The politicians no longer care about helping the citizens get better lives. They care about trying to implement their laws into the government to help their own lives and try to get elected again so they can get paid to get nothing done. This is the problem with the world. No one really seems to care about making the world better for the next generation. All we want is to be lazy because we don’t understand the amount of influence we have on being able to change the course of history.