"Cogito ergo sum" - variations on a theme -

"I have convinced myself that there is nothing in the world — no sky, no earth, no minds, no bodies. Doesn’t it follow that I don’t exist? No, surely I must exist if it’s me who is convinced of something. But there is a deceiver, supremely powerful and cunning whose aim is to see that I am always deceived.

But surely I exist, if I am deceived. Let him deceive me all he can, he will never make it the case that I am nothing while I think that I am something. Thus having fully weighed every consideration, I must finally conclude that the statement “I am, I exist” must be true whenever I state it or mentally consider it"

Thanks should be given to Rene Descartes for enlightening mankind to the possibilities of human thought and thus the possibilities of mankind itself.

Like I said, thanks "should" be given, but is it?

Or are we all just pigeons? Donald Trump, REALLY?????