Posted on 07/02/2015 7:39:48 AM PDT by wagglebee
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John Lennon also asked us to imagine NO HEAVEN, NO COUNRTIES, NO POSSESSIONS, NO RELIGION too.
And he hopes someday we’ll join him so that the world will live as one...
I liked John Lennon, loved him actually.
Erlich on the other hand I can’t stand. He’s a fraud and a dangerous lunatic.
Imagine there’s no Yoko.
Lennon wrote that, many people have adopted it, he was wrong to write it. That said, I understand once a friend was visiting him and he had some sort of expensive collection of China plates, something like this. His friend said to him, “But John, you wrote that song, “no possessions”” and Lennon said “It’s just a bloody song”.
There is no over-population.
Ehrlich is a complete fool.
Every prediction that he’s had is wrong.
His miserable “machine gun” quote is disgusting.
He hates humanity with a burning passion.
I doubt that he could predict whether or not he’d be able to make it to his own dentist appointment...
Ehrlich apparently never took the interstate through Illinois, Iowa or Kansas.
RE: Lennon said Its just a bloody song.
In other words, Lennon is telling us not to take the words seriously... Unfortunately, too many people have made it the anthem for their cause.
Some years ago, PJ O’Rourke observed that liberals will stand around a crowded room with their fellow kind drink in hand, discussing their recent trip to India or Bangladesh, and wax eloquent about the horrors of over population, yet they seem to be fine with crowds of like-minded liberals shopping at whole foods or at a gay parade. Deconstruction reveals that they just don’t like people unlike themselves. Period.
Remember when we all died about 10 years ago like Ehrlich predicted?
...neither does anyone else!
Totally agree, people can read up on Paul Ehrlich, on top of everything else, I think his forecasts have notoriously been shown to be a bunch of bunk. An aborto-Nazi for sure.
Lennon is pros and cons with me, he definitely has some views he expressed or things he did, I can't agree with. But maybe overall, his heart was in the right place, probably was. He just went through some heavy confusion and one can see that in his music.
And some great songs he wrote to boot.
> John Lennon also asked us to imagine NO HEAVEN, NO COUNRTIES, NO POSSESSIONS, NO RELIGION too.
And he hopes someday well join him so that the world will live as one...
Now that he’s dead I wonder if he’s changed his tune about no heaven and no religion. And for a guy who said “no possessions” he sure had a lot of ‘em. I guess people forget he was just a songwriter and not an atheist preacher...I know a crazy gal that acts as though he’s a god and worships him. She’s liberal of course not that I had to say it.
Totally agree, Neil Young and that Ci Lowe or whatever it is both sang "Imagine" and took out the atheistic sounding rubbish, "and no religion too", Neil Young even took that out and that video is over at youtube.
There are many discussions on Lennon, some say towards the end of his life, he might have bucked the atheistic sounding stuff and may have acknowledged a spiritual force. Does he have a song actually called "God"? Maybe, I know he has a song where he does seem to ask God for help. I can find it I am sure.
He conveniently left out stats for Great Britain and Yoko left out stats for Japan...
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