2007-10-26 09:36:52 · 7 answers · asked by gismoII 7 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
This Lifetime is just a blink of God's eye. We "think" we are so significant and our problems are great, yet we are specks on a speck in the middle of nowhere!
2007-10-26 09:41:37 · answer #1 · answered by Premaholic 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The song is perfect as it is: as a muscial cosmology of that philosophy, and at getting the words perfect.
But if you mean to ask about the philosophy that we are "dust in the wind," it is metaphysically unimportant. So what if we exist only for a brief moment in time and then become "ashes to ashes"? During our moment in time we have the ability to prove we are able to leave a part of us behind that is not "dust." Jesus, Aristotle, Plato, Marcus Aurelius, Aquinas, T.Jefferson, A. Lincoln, etc will never be dust in the wind so long as someone exists who remembers them.
Our contributions to life are metaphysically important, not what happenes to us when we die.
2007-10-27 01:46:09 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have never heard of the song, but just soaking up the meaning of the words, lead me to believe that our physical lives are just a blink of an eye.(God's eye) Our physical being is fleeting and people are so full of this self importance. In God's eyes this physical self is worthless and not as deep/heavy as one might think. To God our physical worth is is as light and unimportant as dust blowing away to and from in the wind without any of us(mankind) having the control/power to stop it.
2007-10-26 10:08:22 · answer #3 · answered by Rhapsody 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's a great song by the group Kansas. I bought a CD just for that one song. It's a classic.
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2007-10-26 09:43:46 · answer #4 · answered by ericbryce2 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that it just reminds me of how insignificant our lives really are in the long run
2007-10-26 09:44:31 · answer #5 · answered by ~NIKKI~ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I like it....its was in Bill and Ted's excellend Adventure : )
2007-10-26 09:39:55 · answer #6 · answered by tapdiva2003 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Umm... I don't even know what that is... What's it got to do with philosophy?
2007-10-26 10:29:01 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋