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The Winds of Fate and Destiny in an Eternal World: The concepts of fate and destiny and the concepts of eternity and infinity are all entwined in meaning but have distinct connotations. Fate and destiny relate (differently) to a predetermined state in the future and that future may or may not be held eternally or infinitely. Also available as a Word Guide.
A Brief Moment in the History of Time:
Time is the continuous passage of existence in which events pass from a state of potentiality in the future, through the present, to a state of finality in the past.
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The Winds of Fate and Destiny in an Eternal World: The concepts of fate and destiny and the concepts of eternity and infinity are all entwined in meaning but have distinct connotations. Fate and destiny relate (differently) to a predetermined state in the future and that future may or may not be held eternally or infinitely. Also available as a Word Guide.
A Brief Moment in the History of Time:
Time is the continuous passage of existence in which events pass from a state of potentiality in the future, through the present, to a state of finality in the past.
Also available as a Word Guide.
Luminous Light Streaming From Above
Better to illuminate than to
merely shine...
- Aureate: brilliantly golden; also, grandiloquent
- Blinding: so bright as to obscure vision
- Coruscating: flashing, or sparkling; also, brilliant or showy
- Crepuscular: dim, or resembling twilight; also, said of animals active during twilight
- Dappled: marked by spotted or patchy light; also, marks of this kind on a surface
- Effulgence: brightness taken to the extreme. You may be dazzled by it, stunned by it, or even overcome by it. Usually used to refer to the sun or some other mega-star
- Ethereal: Extremely delicate, light, not of this world
- Fluorescent: giving off light produced by another source of illumination
- Fulguration: to flash or dart like lightning
- Glancing: intermittently flashing or gleaming
- Gleaming: shining, radiant
- Glimmering: faintly or unsteadily shining
- Glinting: see gleaming; also, appearing briefly, or glancing briefly
- Glistening: see lustrous
- Glistering: see glittering
- Glittering: flashing or sparkling; also brilliantly and/or superficially attractive or appealing
- Glossy: bright on the surface; also, artificially opulent or sophisticated
- Illuminating: bright or shining; also, highlighted or made clear
- Inara: Arabic for brilliant shining light
- Incandescent: warm, glowing
- Iridescent: rainbow colored
- Irradiant: giving off or reflecting light readily or in large amounts
- Lambent or Luclulent: softly bright or radiant, Having a gentle glow; luminous
- Lucent: bright, clear, or shining
- Lucid: see lucent; also, easy to understand
- Luciferous: bringing or providing light
- Lucifugal: shunning light, as in the case of nocturnal animals
- Luminescence: Light products by chemical, electrical, or physiological means
- Lustrous: shiny, radiant, glistening, glossy
- Luminescent: shining by chemical or physiological means
- Luminous: full of light
- Lustrous: smooth, evenly lit; also, brilliant or eminent
- Mangata or Gumusservi: the glimmering reflection of the moon on the water
- Nimbus: an aura or light surrounding a person or a thing
- Opaque: blocking light; also, obtuse, or difficult to understand
- Opalescent: see iridescent
- Penumbral: partially shaded
- Phosphenes: the light and colours produced by rubbing your eyes
- Phosphorescence: light emitted by a substance without combustion or perceptible heat
- Phosphorescent: continuing to glow after removal of a light source
- Prismatic: brilliant, or resembling colors formed by passing light through a prism
- Radiant: glowing, or radiating light
- Relucent: shining; bright
- Refulgent: shining brightly; radiant; gleaming
- Resplendent: brilliant or glowing
- Scintilla: small brilliant spark of light
- Scintillating: sparking, or sparkling; also, brilliant, as said of personality
- Shimmering: soft or wavering light or reflection
- Spangling: see glittering
- Spectral: made by a range of colors of the spectrum; also, ghostly
- Translucent: diffused, or transparent
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