You are God, and I do not exist.

I see. I must admit that I'm annoyed by the type of rhetoric you blabber out. But as a philosopher, it's a natural reaction because you, as a skeptic, make philosophy utterly pointless. Now, I quoted authoritative people like C.S Lewis and Rene Descartes not to refute your argument but to show you that authoritative minds have challenged your type of skeptical argument. But of course, what you believe, these authoritative minds are concoctions of my own mind. Yet if the world only REALLY started at my birth then these people are really just contradictions of my own mind. It is as if my mind built this type of world to deceive me and make me believe that we are apart from the world (like in the Matrix) but my mind is also trying to hint to me that this is just a huge fabulation (through Descartes and C.S Lewis, furthermore even yourself!) But fine, I will play your little game. When I say that there is no counter argument against skepticism, that didn't mean that I am submitting to you, but rather I'm showing you the absolutely ludicrously determined mindset you have. For while you preach that all this is purposeless, you started this debate for a purpose of your own, that you claim, is a concoction of my own brain- which is all a contradiction. You as a skeptic doubt everything, as according to what my brain created, and so my brain is a contradiction, like I said before. Now that you have admitted that I am a "thinking thing" you must also understand that as a "thinking thing" their can be no such contradiction- reread Descartes argument. But that's not important. Actually nothing is. Because everything doesn't matter. You still don't prove a purpose for me living as a skeptic. Actually, if you are trying to convince me to follow your point of view as a skeptic, Then my brain is trying to make me something opposite than what it wants. Like I said before, it's a contradiction that leads to these kinds of troubling situations: As a figment of my imagination, you should give a purpose for me to live!! Or at least my Brain should give me purpose to live through different means, because If I die this whole world dies with it. And so then my brain has no relative meaning and probably dies with it. Or I can say that after this life I just start another life because my brain creates another world for me, and so it doesn't matter. So I can just keep killing myself over and over, and I will be "reincarnated" each time into a new world that my brain made. So I'll kill myself over and over until my brain creates a world I like. I would love to be Jessica Alba's panties!! Oh… but I can't because we have already established that I am a "thinking thing." So my brain must create me as a thinking thing every time so it guarantees its survival Furthermore, just like the Big Bang has its troubling instigator, I can't help but wonder what, who, or how my brain became the ultimate creator of this world I live in. Just like the Big Bang, something must have initiated the universe. Unless we conclude that my Brain has always been. But we can't do that because this universe that my brain has concluded consists of time and space. But of course, my brain makes me believe that the Universe consists of time and space. I think I have affectively disproved the Big Bang theory. Yet, I still can't help but wonder how my brain started being. Maybe it has always been. Thus it will ALWAYS be. So that leads back to the Jessica Alba dilemma- I can kill myself infinite amounts of times till I come across a world I like! I assume that life and living is the most important premise in this argument. Because, like you said, without it this world doesn't exist. I, this world that I am in, don't assume that I'm my own mini-god. I assume that the instigator of this world, as you say ‘my brain', is a mini-god. But MY own GOD-like brain seems to limit me in this world. And if my own God-like brain is a contradiction to myself in this world by limiting, then I can't be a "thinking thing" because everything has already been predestined. Being a "thinking thing" means that I have the ability to think on my own, but you as a skeptic would say that my brain makes me think that I have such ability. So I'm not really a "thinking thing" Which you earlier admitted that we were: "Yes, you know that YOU are a thinking thing, or substance" No, actually I don't really know that I'm a thinking thing in this world. But I can prove that I am, which again is another contradiction in this world that my God-like brain has created. The quote from C.S Lewis then comes into effect: "If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be a word without meaning." If I knew that I was limited in this world, I should not have ever found out that my God-like Mind that created this world is unlimited, because there is no way to find that out in a skeptic's viewpoint! I think its beneficial to MYSELF to have faith that I'm apart from the universe than the creator of the universe, because as human who would believe that my BRAIN is GOD then I can just manipulate these skeptical viewpoints, which is no way to pragmatically live. Like I said, I would love to be Jessica Alba's panties… let me think it and I'll be it. The only way to make this world and existence meaningful is to take the viewpoint that we are apart from this world. There is no successful way to totally refute skepticism. All one can do is show its complete foolishness, unreasonableness, irrationality, etc And please don't mock me by saying you will "humor me" Because the fact of the matter is that you are a hypocrite with just attempting to initiate this debate. A skeptic wouldn't care to follow this through. Don't go through my arguments Point by point- Because in doing that, you are claiming that there is a possibility of a world apart from my own. But of course, my brain can be fooling me, in which it is a contradiction. My very being is a contradiction so there is no purpose in living. I'm going to go commit suicide right now…. Right. Life and Living is the only way to disprove your skeptical argument, in which I have done.