Posted on 12/13/2008 3:17:20 PM PST by mainestategop
December 8th was the anniversary of the death of Beatle John Lenon. Most of the world mourned the death of this man for his music but most of all for his views or I should say imagination. Well if we understood more about who he was and what he imagined, we would be celebrating rather mourning. Why? John's views were hostile towards the American ideals of individualism freedom and liberty and supportive of worldwide despotic communism at the hands of the New World order. His song Imagine was nothing more than a call for the destruction of America and religion and unity under a world wide socialist dictatorship.
We are already well on our way there. America, the last vestige of any kind of individual liberty is crumbling before our eyes. The past 18 years alone has seen the growth of tyranny of government and the loss of constitutional liberties. We are paying more and more for less and less for those who won't work, we are seeing our rights trampled on while criminals get away with murder, we see our business system crumble and give way to outsourcing, illegal immigrant job theft, over regulation and over taxation. Our morals have also taken a nose dive. Prop 8 may have passed in California and we may be taking back ground in some places but its still happening elsewhere. The values of the left that came about through the British invation and the hippies lead the way downhill.
Let us disect the meaning of the lyrics of Imagine and let us examined what Lennon stood for. John Lennon as we know was no friend of ours. Lennon was an open and avowed marxist who expressed his hatred for America and freedom and for America's independance. He is also notorious for airing blasphemy against Christ and the bible. He even faced deportation.
The song Imagine expresses just what he stood for:
Imagine there's no heaven, its easy if you try, no hell below us, above us only sky, imagine all the people, living for today.
In other words, imagine we were not accountable to a supreme being for our actions. Imagine we could go around doing drugs, getting drunk, commiting murder and other evil acts not to mention squandering our futures and our children's futures. Imagine living only for today! Well if there were no God we were accountable we could and avoid the consequences. Well, we ARE accountable to God for what we do in this life. We are required to protect the weak and down trodden, to safeguard liberty, to uphold the value of human life and leave this world as good as if not a better place than before to our descendants. Instead we now have an upayable debt, a nation that is becoming weaker and its all because we are living for today.
Imagine there's no countries, It isn't hard to do, nothing to kill or die for no religion too. Imagine all the people living life in peace
Imagine no countries. What is a country? A country is defined as a soverign and independant nation. Our country, is not just that but more, it used to be a nation of sovereign and independant individuals! Not anymore. We are no longer independant citizens but becoming world citizens of a worldwide collective. Not a very good one at that. Lennon also makes the mistake of believing that we have wars because of nationalism and religion. That can be a factor but if we look back that isn't the case. In the beginning in the days of Cain and Abel there certainly weren't any major differences like religion or countries, that didn't stop Cain from commiting the first murder.
The soviet Union was one big country without religion yet the governemt killed many people and many people died. Hardly anyone lived life in peace there. So atheism once again proves to be flawed as with Lennon's views.
Imagine no possesions I wonder if you can No need for greed no hunger A brotherhood of man Imagine all the people sharing all the world
You can say that Im a dreamer but Im not the only one I hope someday you'll join us And the world will live as one
Imagine no possesions. More like a worldwide collective where the state owns everything and everyone. Just like what Lennon advocates. Ironically Lennon was worth a ton of money when he died so he never practiced what he preached.
Lennon was criticized for his wealth during his Playboy interview but defended himself by pointing out how difficult it is to leave a materialist world behind once you are caught up in it and comparing this to leaving the Beatles:
PLAYBOY: "Why does anyone need $150,000,000? Couldn't you be perfectly content with $100,000,000? Or $1,000,000?"
LENNON: "What would you suggest I do? Give everything away and walk the streets? The Buddhist says 'get rid of the possessions of the mind'. Walking away from all the money would not accomplish that. It's like the Beatles. I couldn't walk away from the Beatles. That's one possession that's still tagging along, right? If I walk away from one house or 400 houses, I'm not gonna escape it."
Then there is his call for a brotherhood of man, where the world is one. Now I would have no problem with that if only the world government that they want us to submit to wasn't so anti freedom and anti Christ. The other problem is man's sinful and fallen nature that hinders this desire. No matter what the left does to obtain utopia on earth it is always a failure.
John Lennon wasn't a Beetle, he was a locust and I imagine there's no leftists, no atheism too where people live life in peace. Thanks to leftists like John Lennon and those who followed him who even now occupy our places of power, we have no peace. Posted by mainestategop at 6:00 PM Labels: atheism, beatles, communism, fascism, hypocrisy, imagine, johnlennon, leftists, liberals, marxism, nwo, terrorism
I agree entirely the Plastic Ono stuff blew bigtime, though.
LOL Just last weekend while in Mendocino (don't ask) I saw a VW van bumper sticker with that slogan on it. Mendocino is Hippy Central so I was surprised to see a sticker like that. His van also sported this bumper sticker:
"I Bet Jesus Would Use His Turn Signals"
My hunch is that he was a closet right-winger.
And U 2!!
They were good filters of each others' crap, well except for some of the stuff on "The White Album".
Imagine... No John Lennon
Okay. Done.
Gee that was easy...
Yikes. I reckon YO’s song received no airplay...
“They were good filters of each others’ crap, well except for some of the stuff on “The White Album”.”
By that point a songwriting credit of “Lennon & McCartney” was really more like “Lennon OR McCartney”. And you could usually figure out which one it was according to who sang lead.
John Lennon thought Yoko Ono’s “performance art” and “music” was brilliant stuff, enough said.
The classic story was when Paul sang the first line of “It’s Getting Better All the Time”, immediately John threw in the line, “It can’t get no worse.”
Yeah, I gotta say that Lennon’s vision wasn’t mine. His death (not wishing it on anyone) wasn’t a national crisis. He was a self-indulgent pop singer, fer cryin’ out loud. I don’t care how much these idiots mask their vanity with ‘Save the World’ concerts or imaginations of socialist utopias. At the bottom of it all and in the end, he was only one more deluded twit like way too many in my g-g-generation.
I also remember reading that Paul insisted that “Honey Pie” be included on the White Album primarily because John hated it.
Knowing our accountability to God is one of the greatest benefits to mankind: “By mercy and truth iniquity is purged, and by the fear of the LORD men depart from evil.” (Proverbs 16:6)
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I use to live around the corner from the Dakota, saw Lennon all the time. He was a frightened looking man.
As for the above lyric...he owned eleven apartments in the Dakota, all for his own use. Harlem and its real-world poverty was a mile away. He didn't share very much himself.
Thanks, I was unaware of that. I still have hope for him.
“Let us disect the meaning of the lyrics of Imagine and let us examined what Lennon stood for. John Lennon as we know was no friend of ours.”
That’s your first mistake – taking the lyrics of ONE song, and holding them us as “what Lennon stood for.” Yes, John was a hard-core liberal. Given his background and occupation and the times he lived in, would you really have expected anything different?
Look, the man was shot to death in cold blood, for no reason, leaving a small son whom he obviously loved very much. What’s more, whatever your opinion of it might be (or mine for that matter), his music gave pleasure to millions, as would the music he would have made if he had lived.
It's easy, I don't even have to try.
Who wrote Helter Skelter?
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