Imagine... No John Lennon

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.

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

have you listened to the bootleg from the twickenham and abbey road sessions leading to the let it be album? lots of george’s all things must pass stuff. he was writing a lot, but complained that john and paul refused to help him as they did each other.

I never heard it. I heard a long time ago John didn't think George had any tallent. John and Paul kinda remind me of two others Don and Glen in another group. The band had plenty of tallent but they wanted the spot light on themselves and became control freaks of sorts. The result was a band split and before that a loss of several musicans far better than themselves. Don and Glen didn't learn a thing :>{

Harrison could write songs as well as play them. He likely was a far better player though which is fine too. BTW his life was connected to a lot of people. Look at the song George wrote "Something" and then the songs Clapton wrote Wonderful Tonight and Layla ironically about the same woman. A real story that nearly destroyed three lives.

ANY defense of the insipid, self-righteous, self-important, selfish and worthless Lennon and his “music” speaks volumes about many things, including the defender.

Lennon and McCartney were competent POP writers when together. Without each other to edit out the utter dross, they became self-indulgent and unlistenable.

“Silly Love Song”, anybody? How about “So This Is Christmas?”

GAAK!

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