RE: Necessary Thing
April 21, 2016 at 3:11 am
(This post was last modified: April 21, 2016 at 3:11 am by Ignorant.)
(April 21, 2016 at 1:44 am)robvalue Wrote: I was thinking of the simple case that everything that exists is made of energy, and if any amount of energy got destroyed, all energy ceases to exist. Now that's a fictional scenario, of course, similar to what I was drivelling on about previously. But it's logically consistent with reality as we observe it. And then everything remains contingent on everything else.
I'm not suggesting energy can actually be destroyed, but in this hypothetical scenario, it can. We just don't know how yet. Further research needed boffins!
Great! So for you, there IS a thing which exists without the condition that something else exists. For you, it makes good rational sense that there must be some thing that just exists of itself, IT is its own explanation, its own condition, necessary being. Thanks for all of your input! Whether its energy or not, for you it makes sense that something like it must exist.