Posted on 02/11/2006 8:47:39 AM PST by Brian_Baldwin
The problem with people like Yoko Ono is, they value peace more than they value freedom. And people and nations who go down that path end up with neither peace nor freedom.
Anyone who knows the whole debauched scene of Yoko Ono and her corrupt, vengeful and decadent life, knows exactly what a Yoko Ono wants - she doesn’t want people to follow her ideas, she wants people to follow her. And if people did, they would end up under a Khmer Rouge dictatorship with plastic bags being tied over the heads of their children.
Yoko Ono is not a Buddha, Siddhartha, neither a Jesus, she is not a saint or a God, and such is not a religion that is grounded in values - rather those that are her peons are members of a cult, a cult that believes in deceptive, and in every case insincere, magic. These are the true believers in the crowd that every year on a given date commemorate John Lennon’s death by gathering together, burning candles, singing “Imagine”, and believing that if you loaf around thinking “peace” that peace will come. The same crowd also believes that by doing such “work”, such magic, they also believe that such loafing around is so important that others in government and society who do the real work should thereby support and feed them for free with their own hard-earned labor to support such “peaceful” loitering.
Yoko Ono’s life was one of many addictions, and not just addictions to drugs, but addictions to conspiracy theories, addictions of hatred, addictions to vice, black magic, mental addictions and mental problems. Neither is Yoko Ono a contemporary Gandhi of sorts or anything of the kind - she has never had peace, neither in her life, neither among those who followed her, and certainly neither in her head which is screwed up and cocked backwards as a loon. Yoko Ono announced to the Olympic audience, that if a billion people practiced peace, that we would have peace.
I have news for Yoko Ono, the Olympic Committee who put us through this orchestrated new age prop, and to the peons who follow Yoko Ono - there are already a billion people who practice peace everyday. Everyday, they simply live with their families, love their family, go and do peaceful work to earn and educate and feed their family. They do not kill others, nor steal from them, they are helpful to their neighbors, they have peace in their minds, and bring peace to the community because they believe in peace. For example, I am one of them, and there are countless of the same who read this forum. These are just regular people, not Yoko Ono’s - there are more than a billion such regular people who practice peace. More than a billion. Some might be different religions, or no religions at all. Some might be Christians - I am not one, but I can tell Yoko Ono a big surprise that there are over a billion Christians who practice peace each and every single day. But regular folks like that, they also know things. They know that the term peace isn’t the same as the absence of war. Countless Fulong Gong who suffer in the prisons of Communist China, they may try to keep peace in their heart, but I would imagine that the reality is they have no peace. It doesn’t matter that the Chinese government isn’t actively attacking a particular country at the moment - it doesn’t matter that China isn’t at war this day and time, this moment - there isn’t peace in China. There isn’t peace in a lot of places. For the Catholics suffering torture in the prisons of Fidel’s Communist Cuba, there isn’t peace - I wouldn’t call it that.
So I guess the message of the Olympic Committee is that, the modern Olympics is all about peace, peace among nations. I thought the modern Olympics was about competition in sports, in athletics, and nations competing among each other in sporting activity. They all sang John Lennon’s “Imagine” after Yoko Ono finished her absurd statement. Why Yoko Ono? For that matter, since athletics is the heart of the Olympics, why not have Rush Limbaugh get up and say “Hey! I’m a football fan. And I like sports! Let the sporting spirit of the Olympics thrive!” - but to have Rush up there would be just as absurd as having Yoko Ono. Because, everyone knows, it then becomes political.
The Olympics. I would rather be talking about the competitions - but that is exactly the point. When you put a Yoko Ono up there, you find a folks stop talking about it.
In fact, I may not even watch it now. One of the lines of John Lennon’s “Imagine” is, imagine there’s no countries. Gosh, if I imagined that, would there even be an Olympics?
Agreed. I always hated that song. I couldn't stand him or Yucko, either.
That picture should be shown to every middle schooler with the admonition "this is what happens when you use drugs." Probably would scare alot of kids straight!
Hve you seen the cover for their "Two Virgins" albumn?
The nutjob happens to be right.
Because it's nonsense that wasn't even followed by either John or Yoko. (Imagine no possessions? While living in the Dakota? Now that's rich!)
Besides, why doesn't Yoko practice what she preaches, and extend the olive branch of peace to her stepson Julian, and to Paul McCartney?
Good point ...
I guess someone had to state the obvious.
Please don't put words in my mouth. My point is that if somebody is going to lecture the rest of us how we should all "imagine" peace, perhaps that person should actually try to make peace with the people around them, and not merely believe in peace as an abstract concept. It's easy to pontificate about peace; why not actually put it into practice? And Yoko Ono has not achieved anything resembling peace with either Julian Lennon or Paul McCartney. And by all accounts, that is her choice, not theirs.
As for whether art is "invalidated if the artist has serious failings in their life," yes, I think it's hypocritical for an artist to write about imagining no posssessions when he's living in one of the most exclusive places in the world. That doesn't mean John Lennon was a bad singer; just that he wrote a very annoying song, one that he didn't exactly put into practice, either. Just being "idealistic" isn't enough.
My take on it is "imagine how peaceful the world would be if people didn't have gods to fight over".
Get rid of all gods (NO GOD) and problem solved. But it wouldn't solve things.
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