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What can you be sure of? You are just a……
What do you believe?
No seriously, what do you believe?
Liberty? Equal Rights? Laws of Physics? Your Body?
What can you believe in?
There are innumerable cultures, innumerable religions, and innumerable beliefs, yet we are just a droplet in the ocean. You know everything, yet you don’t know anything? Do you?
You are just in this space and time that you call the world. Yet, you don’t know what the world is.
You can reason and calculate, data and analysis are your friends. But are they?
All of those calculations are mere rocks and stones– purposeless, without your brain.
The only thing that is in your system, that for sure exists is your consciousness. Everything else is built upon it.
They might exist, they might not. But what do you know?
When our brains can’t even identify a straw in water to be straight or an image in the mirror to be a reflection of light waves, how is it supposed to know that anything is real?
Be skeptical about everything, and you lose your sanity; be gullible about everything and you become a social lackey.