RE: God is so quiet
February 11, 2018 at 7:45 am
(This post was last modified: February 11, 2018 at 8:05 am by The Grand Nudger.)
You're a contingent being because your existence has dependencies. If you are a contingent being you cannot be a necessary being...however, that you are not a necessary being does not imply that you are a contingent being. In your case you happen to be so..but not because you don't exist at all points in time.
Consider this, if a being came into existence tomorrow with no existential dependencies, it would not have existed at all points in time, and it wouldn't be a contingent or necessary being. Another example..consider a being that has existed at all points in time but did have an existential dependency. A pan pyschic whatsit that was born at the very instant of the big bang. This would be a contingent being despite it's temporal or spacial distribution.
The difference between necessity and contingency in beings is simple. One depends on some x to exist whereas the other does not. I'll drop a mention here..that I don't intend his to be a counterargument to your thoughts on the wider cosmos or eternal blocks of reality or relaionships between multiple universes..only as a suggestion that whatever you're talking about isn't what other people are talking about when they use the terms in contraposition.
Personally, I'm not certain that the concept of a necessary being is valid in and of itself...and if it isn't..that would explain why discussions of such beings fall to inanity almost as soon as they're proposed. I think it's just an anthropomorphization of causality, and an explicit one, at that. Putting everything I said above about the concepts aside, it seems as if all beings are contingent, even non-factual beings, if only in that they need some place to -be-.
Consider this, if a being came into existence tomorrow with no existential dependencies, it would not have existed at all points in time, and it wouldn't be a contingent or necessary being. Another example..consider a being that has existed at all points in time but did have an existential dependency. A pan pyschic whatsit that was born at the very instant of the big bang. This would be a contingent being despite it's temporal or spacial distribution.
The difference between necessity and contingency in beings is simple. One depends on some x to exist whereas the other does not. I'll drop a mention here..that I don't intend his to be a counterargument to your thoughts on the wider cosmos or eternal blocks of reality or relaionships between multiple universes..only as a suggestion that whatever you're talking about isn't what other people are talking about when they use the terms in contraposition.
Personally, I'm not certain that the concept of a necessary being is valid in and of itself...and if it isn't..that would explain why discussions of such beings fall to inanity almost as soon as they're proposed. I think it's just an anthropomorphization of causality, and an explicit one, at that. Putting everything I said above about the concepts aside, it seems as if all beings are contingent, even non-factual beings, if only in that they need some place to -be-.
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