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Imagine: Remembering John Lennon's Communist Anthem
Free Republic ^ | 3/12/2015 | Jan Sobieski

Posted on 03/12/2015 12:49:36 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski

Lest we forget the damage done to the moral fabric of our nation by Satan's minstrels, here are the lyrics to "Imagine" by John Lennon. A song still prominently played at most major venues and poignant to all but those who actually understand its horrifying "fundamentally transformed" implications...

Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky

Imagine all the people
Living for today

Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion, too

Imagine all the people
Living life in peace

You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you will join us
And the world will be as one

Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man

Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world

You, you may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you will join us
And the world will live as one


TOPICS: Education; History; Miscellaneous; Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: atheism; beatles; communism; imagine; johnlennon; lennon; rock
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1 posted on 03/12/2015 12:49:36 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski
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To: Jan_Sobieski
What about Nowhere Man and Dear Prudence?

If you're going to talk about Lennon songs at least talk about the good ones.

2 posted on 03/12/2015 12:51:27 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Every time Christmas season comes around how the hell did this song become a standard. The DJs and program directors never bothered to read the lyrics?


3 posted on 03/12/2015 12:52:37 PM PDT by C19fan
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To: Jan_Sobieski
“Imagine no possessions”.He was worth a billion in 1980...back when a billon was a lot of money.
4 posted on 03/12/2015 12:52:47 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Obama;A Low Grade Intellect With Even Lower Morals)
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To: Mariner

From what I understand Lennon was a complicated character. I heard storied about he was going to the right when he was murdered.


5 posted on 03/12/2015 12:53:23 PM PDT by C19fan
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To: Jan_Sobieski
HATE THIS SONG!!!!
Wonder what God said to him upon arrival.."did not you see my wonder in the birth a human?
Ever wonder who ordered all things?"
6 posted on 03/12/2015 12:54:26 PM PDT by Paul46360 (..)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Ha-ha, Mr. Wilson,
Ha-ha, Mr. Heath....


7 posted on 03/12/2015 12:54:27 PM PDT by proxy_user
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Answer: “Imagine no possessions.”

Question: What did Yoko Ono say to Julian Lennon and Cynthia Lennon when they asked Yoko why they were getting such a tiny portion of John Lennon’s inheritance?


8 posted on 03/12/2015 12:54:28 PM PDT by detective
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To: Mariner

I quit listening after “Imagine”...and kicked myself for not stopping after “Back in the USSR”


9 posted on 03/12/2015 12:54:45 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Satan’s Minstrels suck.

I can’t even see how they play clubs anymore.

Like only two songs ever got any radio play and only for a week each.

Saw them live once and was disappointed.


10 posted on 03/12/2015 12:54:58 PM PDT by humblegunner
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To: C19fan

We will never know now.


11 posted on 03/12/2015 12:55:09 PM PDT by Paul46360 (..)
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To: Jan_Sobieski
The Beatles were far greater than the sum of their parts.None of them did anything that was worth **** after the breakup.
12 posted on 03/12/2015 12:55:54 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Obama;A Low Grade Intellect With Even Lower Morals)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

One can imagine all the flowery crap in the song but when it comes to implement it all, you will ALWAYS end up with a tyrant on top because the power to re-distribute is the power to re-distribute to yourself and no human’s soul can survive that temptation.


13 posted on 03/12/2015 12:56:17 PM PDT by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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To: Jan_Sobieski
For a guy who wrote some great songs, Imagine was one banal POS.
14 posted on 03/12/2015 12:56:47 PM PDT by Sans-Culotte (Psalm 14:1 ~ The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.”)
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To: Mariner
I've always been partial to Happiness Is a Warm Gun.
15 posted on 03/12/2015 12:57:52 PM PDT by WayneS (Barack Obama makes Neville Chamberlin look like George Patton.)
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To: Gay State Conservative
[ The Beatles were far greater than the sum of their parts.None of them did anything that was worth **** after the breakup. ]

Paul McCartney did that wonderful TV show about the Myster Writer in New England that solved a Murder every week.


16 posted on 03/12/2015 12:58:44 PM PDT by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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To: humblegunner

Don’t tell me you saw them at a gay bar?


17 posted on 03/12/2015 12:59:35 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

He also wrote “revolution”, a smackdown to the Bill Ayers idiots of the world. He performed on “Taxman” too.


18 posted on 03/12/2015 12:59:52 PM PDT by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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To: C19fan
"From what I understand Lennon was a complicated character. I heard storied about he was going to the right when he was murdered."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ds82Id_GMe8 Later in the telecast, he spoke with Ronald Reagan.

19 posted on 03/12/2015 1:00:05 PM PDT by research99
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To: Jan_Sobieski

I recently read an interview where Lennon acknowledged that this song was simple minded nonsense and he came across as having some common sense. But treating artists as serious thinkers is a fool’s errand for the most part.


20 posted on 03/12/2015 1:00:29 PM PDT by Pelham (The refusal to deport is defacto amnesty)
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