Posted on 07/02/2015 7:39:48 AM PDT by wagglebee
America is overcrowded and was destroyed by this last 100 million people, and liberals, and Catholics want to import 100s of millions more.
There is more to having a wonderful, clean, nation than whether science and high rise building can keep up with the food and shelter needs of a population.
America was wonderful in 1970, today it is all starting to look like a crowded city, and we are starting to seem more and more like productive factory farm animals that work and live, and spend our off time, all on concrete and indoors.
There is no good in America having a population of a 1000 million people.
> “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.”
John is like some family members. You can argue with them but you love them always.
Erlich is not family material. He’s weird and dangerous. You don’t want to have a person like him at your back. He appears mentally deranged.
Exactly.
The ENTIRE overpopulation movement is motivated by eugenics. They are interested in getting rid of that portion of the population that they consider to be inferior.
Five years later, in 1977, Lennon became deeply moved by NBC’s broadcast of the movie Jesus of Nazareth and told his friends that he had become a born-again Christian. A week after seeing the film, Lennon returned to church on Easter Sunday with his wife Yoko and son Sean in tow.
It was during this time that Lennon even penned several Christian songs (“Talking with Jesus” and “Amen”), and according to Turner’s book, even called The 700 Club prayer line.
http://www.cbn.com/entertainment/Books/carey_john_lennon.aspx
It’s easy if you’re deaf.
John’s friends and family said in the months before his murder that he was finally coming around to Christ and that he really wanted to see his family in England and make amends, Apparently his anger and bitterness may have been overcome and forgiveness and repentance was in his heart. I see it as growing up finally to become a complete man. Wish we could all have witnessed it.
One of the best films made with star Kristin Scott Thomas was about John’s life growing up. It really explains him and his confusion and anger. It’s called ‘Nowhere Boy’. Highly recommend it be seen.
Unfortunately, Lennon was killed two years later.
It would have been interesting to hear what his opinion is about what his song has become...
You can easily fit the entire world’s population standing up in our Grand Canyon.
If you want the entire world’s population to have 4 or 5 to a home, driveway, and streets, you only need Texas to hold the entire world’s population.
World overpopulation is a joke.
Well, after listening to Yoko ‘sing’ for more than a minute, that problem would already be solved.
> “Five years later, in 1977, Lennon became deeply moved by NBC’s broadcast of the movie Jesus of Nazareth and told his friends that he had become a born-again Christian.”
I did not know that John had seen Franco Zefferelli’s ‘Jesus of Nazareth’; that explains a lot.
Zefferelli’s ‘Jesus of Nazareth’ is a masterpiece bar none. Nothing comes close to it. All other Jesus movies seem as garbage compared to it. It’s actually a mini-series that is about 6.5 hours long. I’ve written about it on FR when people were posting about ‘Son of God’ which is just another awful Jesus movie. Franco’s Jesus of Nazareth captured the true heart of the Lord. It’s online for free but best to purchase a high quality unedited version on Amazon.
“John Lennon also asked us to imagine NO HEAVEN, NO COUNRTIES, NO POSSESSIONS, NO RELIGION too.”
Most people, sadly, do imagine “no heaven”.
Countries have been disappearing and breaking apart since he said that (i.e., during the Cold War), with the Middle East (ISIS) only being the latest...no much “Utopia” there.
No possessions is just freaky - even dogs have possessions (or at least my neighbor’s do acted that way, once he got his paws on a toy of my dog).
No Religion: Mission just about totally accomplished in the West...at least in his context (i.e., Christianity). Of course other religions have stepped in, from atheism to Islam. Religion isn’t going away...rather only a SINGLE religion is going away - the religion that lifted us out of the stone age...so back we go.
A broken clock is right twice a day...
Freedom and capitalism, not socialism of libtardism, enabled advanced countries to escape the Malthusian trap.
I agree completely. It is a true masterpiece.
It’s very good but I recently watched Nick Ray’s King of Kings and was surprised at how it held up. So much better than George Steven’s very slow and lugubrious The Greatest Story Ever Told.
It’s sad that Lennon, if true, was converting due to a mini-series but, I guess, whatever it takes.
Just the other night I was flipping through channels and saw that an old "Man from UNCLE" was on and decided to see what it was all about, not having ever watched one. The premise was that a scientist for the bad guys was on a train carrying a vial of some virus that made people infertile. The hero, Napoleon Solo, asked his chief "so you want me to obtain it and bring it in?" and the chief was vehement. "No, you must destroy it immediately!"
I thought "wow, that will upset the leftists who created it to wipe out humanity so the earth could live free"
.... Along with Ehrlich, [Stewart Brand, a former disciple of Ehrlich's who’s now a critic] led a movement of Americans who took to heart his call for “a system of incentives and penalties,” to reduce childbearing, even “by compulsion if voluntary methods fail.” Ehrlich and his followers proposed “responsibility prizes” for childless marriages, a steep tax on families with more than three children, even a “blacklist of people, companies, and organizations impeding population control.”
But it was in other parts of the world where the idea behind Ehrlich's book really took root. Throughout the 70s, the Indian government undertook a program of population control that saw more than eight million women surgically sterilized. Untold numbers of these procedures were forced, and many resulted in death. The patients, in the words of one Indian family-planning official, “were treated like cattle.” And China, with its infamous One Child Policy, took even more drastic measures.
None of this defused the population bomb, though. What did, argues Brand, were advances in agriculture and economics in developing nations—advances Ehrlich could have never foreseen, and which his worldview precluded. And so today, despite an increase of four billion people, fewer people today suffer from extreme poverty or hunger than when Ehrlich wrote the book. Explaining Ehrlich's failed prediction, Indian Economist Gita Sen told The Times, “There's a tendency to apply to human beings the same sort of models that may apply for the insect world.” The difference? We’re not insects. “[H]uman beings are conscious beings, and we do all kinds of things to change our destiny.”
Thanks for posting this, wagglebee!
> One of the best films made with star Kristin Scott Thomas was about John’s life growing up. It really explains him and his confusion and anger. It’s called ‘Nowhere Boy’. Highly recommend it be seen.
I will check it out.
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