Name: Nathaniel Weimer or Tres…

Class: Freshman

Major: Physics/Engineering

Hometown: Wichita, KS

Date of Birth: 1/31/87

Voice Part: Tenor

Number of Years in True Men: This is big number 1

Musical Experience: Choir (High School), Barbershop Quartet (High School), Role of Christmas tree in “The Littlest Christmas Tree” (1^st Grade)

Other activities/organizations: Beta Theta Pi

Favorite thing to do in Kirksville: Late night food runs (Pancake City, Taco Bell, McDonalds…)

Favorite TV show: Family Guy

Thing you miss most about pre-college days: Riding the bus, even though I haven’t done that since way back at the very end of my senior year.

Aspirations for the future: Get a car

Most memorable True Men moment: Finding out I made it

What is your idea of perfect happiness? Consider the following. We humans are social beings. We come into the world as the result of others' actions. We survive here in dependence on others. Whether we like it or not, there is hardly a moment of our lives when we do not benefit from others' activities. For this reason it is hardly surprising that most of our happiness arises in the context of our relationships with others. 
Nor is it so remarkable that our greatest joy should come when we are motivated by concern for others. But that is not all. We find that not only do altruistic actions bring about happiness but they also lessen our experience of suffering. Here I am not suggesting that the individual whose actions are motivated by the wish to bring others' happiness necessarily meets with less misfortune than the one who does not. Sickness, old age, mishaps of one sort or another are the same for us all. But the sufferings which undermine our internal peace -- anxiety, doubt, disappointment -- these things are definitely less. In our concern for others, we worry less about ourselves. When we worry less about ourselves an experience of our own suffering is less intense. 
What does this tell us? Firstly, because our every action has a universal dimension, a potential impact on others' happiness, ethics are necessary as a means to ensure that we do not harm others. Secondly, it tells us that genuine happiness consists in those spiritual qualities of love, compassion, patience, tolerance and forgiveness and so on. For it is these which provide both for our happiness and others’ happiness. 
Next question?

What is your greatest fear? Falling out of a tree and rupturing my spleen

What is the quality you most admire in another person? Humor

What do you most value in your friends? Still humor (that’s like the same question, who wrote this?)

How would you like to die? Extreme sunburn