Posted on 02/04/2010 12:18:39 PM PST by FTJM
John Lennon caused a worldwide storm by claiming that the Beatles were more popular than Jesus.
Now, more than four decades on, it seems his former bandmate Ringo Starr has acknowledged a humbler place in the grand scheme of things.
The drummer says he has found God - after taking a long and winding road to enlightenment.
He admitted he lost his way when he was younger, both as a Beatle experimenting with marijuana and LSD and afterwards when he suffered alcohol and cocaine problems in the late 1970s.
But the musician, who has since become teetotal and quit his 60-a-day cigarette habit, says that religion now plays an important role in his life.
Starr, who turns 70 later this year, said: 'I feel the older I get, the more I'm learning to handle life. Being on this quest for a long time, it's all about finding yourself.
'For me, God is in my life. I don't hide from that. I think the search has been on since the 1960s.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
“HELP!
I need some Body!”
Any particular God there, Ringo?
i read this and sent out to friends the other day. i’m sorry that
john lennon never had the opportunity to reach this point.
he might not have taken it but, like ringo, he might have.
Good.
Good for him.
And i said,
“no, no, no, no, i don’t (choose yer poison) no more,
I’m tired of waking up on the floor.
No, thank you, please, it only makes me sneeze,
And then it makes it hard to find the door.”
John Lennon was overrated, and pw'ed by a manipulative nut.
“No no no no, I don’t drink (smoke, snort) it no more...”
Better late than never.
He looks real good for 70.
Good for you Ringo, and completely understandable. But I and the ever growing legions of faithless hordes (particularly the British) can only look forward to death as an end to everything. On our death beds we will lie there knowing thats its, the end, nothing, forever. You on the other hand will go to your end with a positive outlook and probably with much less fear. After all, we never ever speak about it, but I think the majority fear death, and rightly so I guess. After all, Life is the most amazing gift but an eternity of nothingness is just that nothing.
- Robert, Aberdeen, 3/2/2010 11:56
Praise God if this is true. Solomon with his riches and wisdom reached the same conclusion as well.
Yup he does!
Several years ago, I read here on FR that two biographers, working separately, both discovered that Lennon had accepted Christ a year or two before his death.
I have got to wonder if “immortality serum” has already been developed and you have to be “someone of note” in order to get your hands on it....
He doesn’t proclaim the name of Christ,
and “finding God” doesn’t do him much good, eternally, otherwise.
This will make progressive heads explode all over New England...
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