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MR2-Sooner86
12/8/2010, 11:25 PM
Mark David Chapman missed his aim and hit John Lennon instead of Yoko Ono :mad:

MR2-Sooner86
12/9/2010, 12:28 AM
Always interesting the comments you hear about him every single year around this time.


John Lennon, BFD. he just another liberal that made one descent song and people put him on a pedestal. The guy disparaged our values and Christianity, and he is special? I say he got what he deserved.


Rest in pieces, Lennin. May all the destruction you brought to the minds of willing youth bring you eternal torment and gnashing of teeth.


WHO CARES, he was a piece of crap , socialist hippie. Good riddance you piece of crap.


I don't care whether his songs were good or not, I will never listen to the music of anyone who thought he was more popular than God.


Who cares what that twit thought about anything? He was just a mediocre poet, riding the coattails of Paul McCartney's melodic genius, taking full advantage of the fact that he was in the right place at the right time. The hair and the beard made him look like Jesus, so stoners made that connection and deified him. He was a leftist durinng the Cold War, who opposed the Vietnam War, and the Left praised him in order to use him. That being said, his lyrics did make McCartney's songs more vivid.


you can slam me all you want liberals, the fact is he was a drug addict. you liberals hate facts don't you?


John Lennon is burning in Hell where he belongs

So...I take it he wasn't too popular even when he was alive?

olevetonahill
12/9/2010, 03:17 AM
Depends on who you listen to.
Personally After the Beetles broke up I didn't much care for anything he did.When he married Yoko i thought he had lost his ever loving mind.
I Much preferred Harrison and Paul.

Blue
12/9/2010, 04:07 AM
Is this a John Lennon appreciation thread or a Christians are da debbil thread?

TIA.

Boomer_Sooner_sax
12/9/2010, 08:36 AM
I am a much bigger Paul fan than John, but at the same time, John had some good stuff. Most of it was way too out there for me, but when he was with The Beatles, it seems Paul kept him in check a little more. Yoko didn't do that for him and that is why Paul had a much more successful career after The Beatles.

Aside from that, why all of the hate about him being a socialist/think he is bigger than Jesus comments above/drug user? How is that different than any "artist" (and I use that term loosely) today?

TUSooner
12/9/2010, 09:08 AM
You'd think some knowledge would have seeped into ignorant brains in 40+ years. So Lennon once said in the 1960s that the Beatles were more "popular" than Jesus. He wasn't bragging; he said it as a way of showing that their popularity was excessive and illogical. It was more of a statement of wonder or even lament rather than a boast. And you know what? He was right! As it was then, so it is now. Lots of things are more "popular" than Jesus: Television, dope, music, fame, money (always a top choice), power, politics, even dumbed-down cartoon religion and popularity itself. As Lennon said, "If I'd have said television was more popurlar I might have gotten away with it."

Lennon's only real appeal to me is that he spoke without a filter and could be bright and clever. Sometimes he said stuff that I think was stupid or silly, other times he was spot-on and funny. Anyway, he could make people think about what they were doing and thinking.

OUthunder
12/9/2010, 09:15 AM
Vince Neil>John Lennnon




















:D

MR2-Sooner86
12/9/2010, 09:48 AM
Is this a John Lennon appreciation thread or a Christians are da debbil thread?

TIA.

Well his most well known song is Imagine that is #3 in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame's songs that shaped the world so it's a pretty well known song. Correct me if I'm wrong but he's obviously promoting atheism and communism. Yes? No?


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

My Opinion Matters
12/9/2010, 09:51 AM
Paul fans are the enemies of common decency.

Jammin'
12/9/2010, 10:13 AM
Imagine is the first song both of my boys heard in life.


The power of christ compels me or somesuch.

TUSooner
12/9/2010, 11:00 AM
Well his most well known song is Imagine that is #3 in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame's songs that shaped the world so it's a pretty well known song. Correct me if I'm wrong but he's obviously promoting atheism and communism. Yes? No?

I'll say NO. IMHO, "Imagine" transcended profane politics and religion. It was pure utopian fantasy. It was deliberately Unreal.
So, it's petty and oversimplistic to equate "imagine no possessions" with marxism or bolshevism or any earthly plan for the distribution of wealth. It's more a wistful longing for some ideal state of satisfaction for all. Pure fantasy, as I said. It might even be said to correspond to a religious vision of Heaven itself, the only place I can envision where there is no need or wanting.

Likewise "no heaven," "no hell," and "no religion" are not the same as saying "no God" or "nothing is sacred." It laments the false proxies we have for true Divinity. Anyway, that's how I look at it, and I don't even really like the song that much. ;)

Of course, petty oversimplification is the bread and butter of some posters. (And that is not directed at MR2, just so you know.) It facilitates the hasty formation of rigid opinions and thus allows folks to retreat into the bunkers of closed minds from which they shoot all would-be trespassers on sight. :D

Boomer_Sooner_sax
12/9/2010, 11:16 AM
Vince Neil>John Lennnon




















:D

Kittens dies because of this post! :mad: ;)

OULenexaman
12/9/2010, 11:27 AM
So Lennon once said in the 1960s that the Beatles were more "popular" than Jesus. He wasn't bragging; he said it as a way of showing that their popularity was excessive and illogical. It was more of a statement of wonder or even lament rather than a boast. And you know what? He was right! As it was then, so it is now. Lots of things are more "popular" than Jesus: Television, dope, music, fame, money (always a top choice), power, politics, even dumbed-down cartoon religion and popularity itself. As Lennon said, "If I'd have said television was more popurlar I might have gotten away with it."

Lennon's only real appeal to me is that he spoke without a filter and could be bright and clever. Sometimes he said stuff that I think was stupid or silly, other times he was spot-on and funny. Anyway, he could make people think about what they were doing and thinking.

This is the exact same thing I was trying to explain to my wife last night. The media was so off base on it at the time.

sheepdogs
12/9/2010, 11:43 AM
Imagine an individual that could appease all. Not a realistic scenario and so we have comments like those found in a post above, thus such comments are to be expected and are rather the norm.

diegosooner
12/9/2010, 11:59 AM
He was a great songwriter. I miss him.