75 years later, IMAGINE

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Originally Posted by pcamps

Take a left at the Red Lion go half a mile turn right at White Horse..... we are hundred yards down the left after you pass the Black Swan........you can't miss us

But I can go right past, which is just as good.

Originally Posted by DewDropInn

It might interest you to know John was a man of faith. He believed in God and prayed for peace.

YOU cannot just change John's words or his intent or tell people he missed the verse. NONE of us get to do that. John was a poet and a man who wanted us to imagine peace. He wanted us to imagine a different world.

I feel sorry for those who can't.

In fact you can change John's words. And get away with it so long as nobody checks. I had a look and John Lennon's views on religion are more complex than 'a man of faith. He believed in God' would indicate. I came across one site site that was pretty blatantly selective - quotemining a brief time when he was dragging Yoko and his son along to church - and stopping right there and broadly hinting that he remained a 'believer' the rest of his life. It totally misses out his interest in eastern religious thought and the later indications of irreligion if not disbelief. He may have longed for peace but I doubt that he believed that praying for it would accomplish anything.

[pcamps]

Originally Posted by AREQUIPA

But I can go right past, which is just as good.



In fact you can change John's words. And get away with it so long as nobody checks. I had a look and John Lennon's views on religion are more complex than 'a man of faith. He believed in God' would indicate. I came across one site site that was pretty blatantly selective - quotemining a brief time when he was dragging Yoko and his son along to church - and stopping right there and broadly hinting that he remained a 'believer' the rest of his life. It totally misses out his interest in eastern religious thought and the later indications of irreligion if not disbelief. He may have longed for peace but I doubt that he believed that praying for it would accomplish anything.

That is your prerogative...

Lennon's prayer was imagination and i believe he did imagine...... Nothing is created without imagination.

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Originally Posted by pcamps

That is your prerogative...

Lennon's prayer was imagination and i believe he did imagine...... Nothing is created without imagination.

I can relate to that

[DewDropInn]

Originally Posted by AREQUIPA

In fact you can change John's words. And get away with it so long as nobody checks. I had a look and John Lennon's views on religion are more complex than 'a man of faith. He believed in God' would indicate. I came across one site site that was pretty blatantly selective - quotemining a brief time when he was dragging Yoko and his son along to church - and stopping right there and broadly hinting that he remained a 'believer' the rest of his life. It totally misses out his interest in eastern religious thought and the later indications of irreligion if not disbelief. He may have longed for peace but I doubt that he believed that praying for it would accomplish anything.

As an intelligent man who enjoyed reading John didn't confine his curiosity to Christianity. His interest in Eastern religions is well known. He gave many interviews about belief as his own changed and evolved. Yoko has said that he believed in God and prayed for peace. I'm willing to take her word for it.

BTW: I don't "confine" God to the traditional Judeo-Christian God. I've read a LOT about John. I don't think he did either. Just my opinion. That's all we've got...opinions. Since John got gypped out of the second half of his life and he's not here to tell us.