Have you ever thought of being skeptical to the things around you?

I am sure you have...

How about being skeptical to your own existence?

Being truly able to see, hear, touch, smell and taste the things around you proves that you and the things around you are real. Yet, how do you know your hand is yours? =)

Or how do you know that you aren't living in the matrix?

Descartes' take on our existence, "I think, I exist." sums up that we are all thinking things. But... at this point i don't know how to continue...

It's amusing how I am skeptical to so many things around me, but I've never doubted on our existence. I mean like we wake up, and we feel like shit because we got to wake up so early, but we force ourselves up, and we think that it is our responsibility to pack our beds so we go and do it, and we meet our friends and we buy them presents because we like to see them happy and at night we get back home, we have a good talk with our parents and sometimes we feel sad because we didn't do well in our tests, or you fell down and cut your leg and your bleed...

Well... my point is that all these made us very much alive. Very much existing.

Yet... there's this point that somehow overrides all arguments(or maybe i'm very much mistaken or that i haven't thought of others)... As Descartes try to bring forward, imagine this cunning evil demon that is controlling all our thoughts. Everything is pre-planned. Your encounter with another person is planned. Your waking up is planned. Your perception of everything around you is controlled by this demon. You are hungry because it's planned. The food you eat are all fake because you are made to believe you are full. You are scolded by your teacher because his wife didn't have sex with him yesterday because she thought she had when in actual fact she was having sex with the demon. Basically everything is fake/make-believe/pseudo.

YOU... ARE LIVING IN ONE BIG SCAM ...

=)

Okie... or maybe not a demon... how about you are dreaming now? You are going about doing everything but how do you know you are not dreaming? How do you know you are not in this one big dream?

Well... i am sure you talk in dreams right? You eat in dreams? You even sleep in dreams right? If you haven't, maybe you haven't dreamt of those yet.

So what makes you think you aren't dreaming now?

See i told you... it screws with you mind ...