Descartes' Third Meditation, much like most of his other works, was wildly deep stuff that I didn't really understand all of. I did, however, understand one part- the logic behind his constant fight between "clear perception" proving God exists and being sure of those perceptions because of the existence of God. At the very heart of this is a simple logical difference- Descartes himself can't quite decide which is true, but he knows that only one can be true... or can it be? Maybe Descartes (and the rest of humanity who has tried to solve this puzzle) didn't understand because it's not just simple logic. God isn't defined by human logic, or perception, or reality. God is outside of anything that the human mind can comprehend. God is the reason we can make logical arguments, but that also means that we can't just rely entirely on logic to prove His existence. Trying to put God in a human logic box would be like trying to run Windows 10 on the Antikythera Mechanism (theoretically the oldest computer known to mankind, a mechanical calendar made by the Greeks in 200ish BC.)
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