Opal Rising Magazine features philosophy and speculation articles in our online magazine. Our articles are published every Tuesday and Thursday.
AN INSIGNIFICANT SPECK OR A UNIQUE BRIDGE?
When one thinks about an individual’s place in the Universe, one is often struck by how infinitesimal one’s life appears to be.
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Aphorisms and Questions on Life, Death and Other Petty Annoyances
1) All my life, my ultimate aim has been to capture all of life’s essence in a single sentence and then to refine that sentence into a single word. I am proud to announce that I have recently been able to come up with just such a word.It is a Greek word, a compound Greek…
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THE TRIUMPH OF NOTHINGNESS
BY BORIS GLIKMAN By the way things were going, it seemed undeniable that the Universe had given up on matter. The physical world was being slowly destroyed, and nothingness was being given the chance to flourish in all of its myriad shapes, forms and permutations. As if to prolong and intensify mankind’s agony, the destruction…
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The River of Life
Despite mankind’s unrelenting efforts over the ages to find the answer to this question, it has stubbornly resisted all attempts to being solved. Could this be because a fundamental problem exists with trying to discover the meaning of life?(Note that when we talk about the meaning of life we usually implicitly mean that we are…
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