Very quick question.

[Tryed]

Heya, here goes

Is a world with NO contingent beings (not even one) possible?

Or perhaps for better wording:

Is a world without the existence of any contingent beings possible?

Please help me with this one

[Plu]

What's a contingent being?

[Brian37]

Does a hurricane need an ocean god to cause it? Does lightening need a god to cause it?

A god is not required or any type of being for anything in the universe to happen. PERIOD!

An imagination and wishful thinking is all it takes to pull shit out of one's ass.

[Mister Agenda]

Sounds like a backwards-question. We know contingent beings are possible, because we exist. There appears to be no good reason why the universe couldn't get along without us, though. Shouldn't the question be if it is possible for a non-contingent being to exist?

[Brian37]

Sounds like a backwards-question. We know contingent beings are possible, because we exist. There appears to be no good reason why the universe couldn't get along without us, though. Shouldn't the question be if it is possible for a non-contingent being to exist?

How about skip the mental masturbation and chalk it up to human imagination?

[Tryed]

I'm simply asking if it's possible to conceive of a world like that. I know contingent beings are possible in some worlds and not in others. I'm asking if it's possible for there to be a world without even ONE contingent being, or a world without the existence of contingent beings.

[Jason78]

Is a world with NO contingent beings (not even one) possible?
Is a world without the existence of any contingent beings possible?

Yes.

Glad to be of help.

[Bibliofagus]

Is a world without the existence of any contingent beings possible?

Why would 'contingent beings', whatever the fuck they are, be nessecary for a world to exist?

Have contingent beings been observed on Mars? On Venus?

[stromboli]

We conceive of contingent beings because we are here. Haven't found any on Mars, far as I know.

[Bibliofagus]

We conceive of contingent beings because we are here. Haven't found any on Mars, far as I know.

Could you link me to a definition?
All google turns up is that 'contingent' means 'neither true nor false', and that - in my mind - is rather difficult to apply to 'beings'.

[SGOS]

As far as we know all beings in the universe are a byproduct of the universe.  Once you have a universe, atoms combine, and things happen, beings being one of the things that happen.  I don't see how anything could happen without a universe.

[Tryed]

Yes, SGOS, I wonder how necessary beings can exist without the existence of something physical.

I reformulated the question I think

Is the existence of contingent beings necessary in itself?

[Brian37]

We conceive of contingent beings because we are here. Haven't found any on Mars, far as I know.

And there is a word for that "anthropomorphism". It is nothing but psychological projectionism of human qualities on the world around you.

I forget which ancient Greek was on to this idea but said "If horses had gods their gods would look like horses"

[Brian37]

Yes, SGOS, I wonder how necessary beings can exist without the existence of something physical.

I reformulated the question I think

Is the existence of contingent beings necessary in itself?

The answer is no. If anything this bullshit over complicates explanations of reality. It is nothing more than a gap answer caused by credulity and willful ignorance.

[WitchSabrina]

I'm simply asking if it's possible to conceive of a world like that. I know contingent beings are possible in some worlds and not in others. I'm asking if it's possible for there to be a world without even ONE contingent being, or a world without the existence of contingent beings.

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