Are we all just dust in the wind?

Answer 1

ashes to ashes
dust to dust

Answer 2

No, we're thrown into the world with no GD reason-- people are born into slavery, others destitution, oppression, alienation, regulation, in families and orphaned, in mountains and valleys, the tundra and the desert-- With no organizing Reason why. Except to assume there is One Total explanatory Reality which will answer every poorlyy-formed question. What metaphor is dust in the wind? Of inanimate stones chiseled from the earth, incapable of choice, moved by nothing with no perspective, vacuous. This is not the case. It MATTERS to us whether we are stones or the beings we are. We care. The rock, the mouse trap, the fire hydrant, the stop sign Do Not Care. And it is our human perception that guides us to uncovering how it is to care, and what matters most centrally to us. When you face the rock-- even a child knows this-- you know it is dead, lifeless. You may throw it and never hear a shriek.

Facing that alternative, that of death, makes us question our life-- and thus death, the very real possibility of the impossibility of Being as such, we face with anxiety. How you cope with the fact will determine what kind of person you are. If you live in denial, and throw yourself at these thing called afterlives, post-and prior reincarnations.. you live in the land-of-make-believe beyond this world. You forsake this world of language and logic, of the human perrceptual-- call it mere appearances! shadows! and cling nihilistically to that which you cannot even fathom, cannot believe-- except through the "basest" of anthropomorphisms. This is the false call to religion. The one that calls this world evil and contradictory, when it is the afterlife that we must turn our backs to to understand And Live here. A continuum of life, a plenum where no one is born or destroyed is a myth. One that eradicates the quality of the here and now. One that is careless for you and yours. In the afterlife all will be perfect! is said. And that is the state of despair coursing through the many too many. Who cannot face life while alive, refuse it, cast out their neighbor, plead on bloody alters for forgiveness, when all that need be done is LOOK around to truly see.

Answer 3

If you are referring to our brevity of existence, in the grand scheme of things, yes. But that is not how I would describe it.
In the book of Ecclesiates, the writer begins with vanity, vanity, all is vanity; life can be empty, no doubt. Of all the creation we know human beings are the wonder of the universe, think of what we are. Inside our head is the most complex matter in the universe, the brain. A storehouse of knowledge and memory, capable of tackling the toughest mathematical problems and solving it. A memory that is expandable, with incredible recall ability, it may not be a fast as the computer, but it can hold more data. Human beings are the only creation, that is introspective, we can comtemplate our existence. That is why there is philosophy, we reflect on how we know, how we experience our lives, making choices and worshipping the creator. Our unique position makes human being wonderful, capable of having a relationship with their creator. However, some of our thinking is misguided, think about Nietzsche's famous proclamation, "God is dead." Well, when God died,(which He didn't) then any value that man had died with Him. That is why atheistic existential philosophers as Satre and Camus are so depressing, because life is meaningless. God gives meaning to life. So we are not just dust in the wind, we are rational, emotional and spiritual beings with a unique relation to the universe. From the book of Ecclesiates, chapter 12: 13,14, the writer concludes about life, Fear God and keep His commandments for this is the whole duty of man. For God will bring every deed into judgement, including every hidden thing whether good or evil. We shouldn't live in fear, but in obedience to God, through Jesus Christ.

Answer 4

Yes, like grains of sand through the hour glass
these are the days of our lives ,,

Answer 5

yes, just ripples in the water.... ants in the ant farm.... a grain of sand in the all the beaches of the earth.... From the perspective of the Universe, Man does not exist...

Answer 6

If you believe the musical group Kansas.

Answer 7

No - some of us have gotten wet and become the mud on the bottom of someone's galoshes.

Answer 8

Now, don't hang on.......
Nothing lasts forever but the earth and sea.

Pretty much I would say!

Answer 9

According to Kansas we are.

Answer 10

I dont think so