Agree with you two about the Beatles......and the idea that Harrison's family is asking for a worldwide 'moment of meditation' today at 1:30 or 4:30 or whatever seems a bit much.-----Think I read his ashes are being sent to the Ganges.....
Bless his soul, I hope he saw the 'light' before the end, but I don't reverence or idolize him.
I agree, it also gives fodder for my Mom to go into a 1/2 hour tirade about "Idolizing druggies" and I can't get her to cease and desist.
I hope he saw the Light before the end. From where 'is ashes are going, it would appear not.......
Matthew 12:30
"He who is not with me is against me, and he who does not gather with me scatters.
Mark 16:16
Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.
John 3
17. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.
18. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son.
John 5:24
"I tell you the truth, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned; he has crossed over from death to life.
John 12
47. "As for the person who hears my words but does not keep them, I do not judge him. For I did not come to judge the world, but to save it.
48. There is a judge for the one who rejects me and does not accept my words; that very word which I spoke will condemn him at the last day.
Romans 8:1
Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus,
1 Corinthians 11:32
When we are judged by the Lord, we are being disciplined so that we will not be condemned with the world.
2 Thessalonians 2
11. For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie
12. and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness.
2 Peter 2
1. But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them--bringing swift destruction on themselves.
2. Many will follow their shameful ways and will bring the way of truth into disrepute.
3. In their greed these teachers will exploit you with stories they have made up. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping.
1 John 3:23
And this is his command: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded us.
Well, I guess I'm the "Contrary Mary" here; the Beatles meant the world to me at one point in my childhood; and George was my favorite. Of course I never reverenced or idolized them but I was hooked on their music big time from 6th grade through high school.
I felt sad when George died; not that I've been paying much attention to him or the rest of the group for the last several years; but for what he represents in terms of my childhood. A little piece of it is gone forever; the years march on...........