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Guess what, you are most probably alive. Have you ever stopped to think about what that means, have you thought to stop thinking about what it means to think? Regardless of your belief about life, existence and the nature of all things, you are alive. How does one know one is alive and what does this mean to you? might be the next question worth answering. The answers are clear once one assumes one very important thing, life. Yes life, once you make that first hurdle of knowledge, you are well on your way to doing things, knowing things and being things. Do you think you can do that right now, think to yourself and say, "I am alive". A lot of people know it and believe it, but fewer recognize it, and to recognize something instead of just knowing it as being there are two very different things. So the first important step of knowing you're alive is to recognize you are in fact alive by understanding what it means to be alive.

To be alive involves several different things in terms of several different criteria. If one is a scientist life could mean being a biological organism composed of cells. Or if one is a Christian, being alive could mean being subject to the relationship of the son, the father and the holy ghost. Or if one is a layperson, one could be alive because one eats and sleeps. Still other signs of life are breathing, thinking, and the possession of limbs such as arms and legs. The perception of things, self-awareness and the hunch' that you are' can also trigger one to believe that he or she is indeed alive. In sum, what I'm trying to say is there is a high probability that you are in fact alive.

Skeptics may argue that 'ontologically' there is no evidence of such a thing as life, but who are they kidding besides themselves? The nature of being that created life is evident from its effect; even if no resolute cause can be drawn from the effect of life, the cause that created life can be logically induced. It can be deduced mathematically as well as the numbers themselves rest on one very important thing, namely the perception of numbers. Such a perception of numbers makes several assumptions, life, existence and the ability to perceive anything in particular. To induce alone leaves room for doubt, but this does not imply that the doubt within induction is not a sign of a living thing. Even if one argues that doubt itself does not exist, to argue this in the first place strongly implies the existence of the argument itself. In other words, whether

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