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By Pages:   1    2    3    4    5    Add Your New Review About The Song The Reviews about Imagine (page 2/ 5) ------ performed by John Lennon The John Lennon I knew | Reviewer: Anonymous | 11/2/08 I lived on Merseyside from 1962 through to 1979. I first met John at a gig at the Orrell Ballrooms. I (we, me and 3 mates) followed the Beatles all over Merseyside. We saw them on The Royal Iris as The Silver Beatles, Hulme Hall (Port Sunlight), The Majestic (Birkenhead), The Tower Ballroom (New Brighton), The Iron Door and every time they were on at The Cavern. John was the only Beatle that acknowledged us (he recognised us from the times we saw them). At the interval or breaks he would have a drink with us. I love John and Imagine stands for everything that he believed in. John was the best. Mike Lees Bath What John Wanted.... | Reviewer: HopefulSoul | 10/22/08 John was trying convey to everyone, if there wasn't any religions or different countries, there wouldn't be any hatred or killing. He felt that if we lived all together as one country, united together as one people, we would be living in harmony. Helping one another because it's the right thing to do. Feed the hungry, clothe the poor, provide medicine for anyone that needs it. I know many of you think it sounds like fantasy, but if more and more people tried to help. We could eliminate more and more of the of the problems in our world. I can only hope one day, we will be able to live in such a place. If not in my generation, then in my sons. That is what I believe John was trying to convey to us. May you rest in peace John...you will always be remembered. Enlightenment for All | Reviewer: Anonymous | 10/25/08 Imagination is the most powerful function of the finite and thus limited human mind. John Lennon was on his inner journey, his inner path to spiritual enlightenment. The message is that everyone is enlightened, just they have forgotten it, and imagination is one way to jump-start the remembrance. Another way is meditation techniques. John Lennon found a guru who taught him techniques of meditation that can help one to transcend the mind and go beyond the mind to the highest state of consciousness, a/k/a, spiritual enlightenment. The ultimate truth of the Upanishadic sages is that One is All, and All is One, i.e, nondual oneness. The only divisions and thus diviseness is in the human mind, which is a mechanism that necessarily operates by inventing polar opposites, dichotomies or other dualities. There are no divisions in truth, in reality. They exist only in the mind's projection on the screen of the world. Consider the lyrics in the light of this framework. Imagine no heaven and no hell. The concepts of sin, guilt, and fear are stock-in-trade of the profession of ordained clerics of organized religion who use these constructs to control, manipulate, and exploit their adherents in the name of God. So Lennon is saying: Imagine no organized religion, which divides humanity into faiths, sects, and cults. Imagine no countries, no nations, and no flags. The concept of the nation-state or other political jurisdiction with citizen-residents on the inside and aliens on the outside is the stock-in-trade of politicians who use this construct to control, manipulate, and exploit their constituents in the name of nationality, patriotism, and the national flag. So Lennon is saying: Imagine no nation-states, which divide humanity into factions and parties. Imagine no possessions and no private property. The concept of private property is the stock-in-trade of intellectuals, pundits, and economists who use this construct along with free markets and democracy to control, manipulate, and exploit the people in the name of the market, utility, productivity, and conformity to societal laws. So Lesson is saying: Imagine no ownership of private property, not even possession of children by their biological parents, and thus no greed for material wealth of any kind. Humanity is divided by hate-mongering religionists, moralists, politicians, and intellectuals who seek to advance only their own selfish interests. They pose as do-gooders who wish to unilaterally, tyrannically impose their ideas of a better world on everyone else. John Lennon is not a dreamer; he is the ultimate realist. He is a peace-maker. The world, the universe, existence is One. It cannot be otherwise, but only a spiritually enlightened soul has the depth of direct, immediate, existential experience to realize this eternal truth. John Lennon was a poet, not a mystic. He seemed to be on the verge of a breakthrough in his own spiritual development. He was not a socially conditioned robot that acted and talked like the mass of humanity, a/k/a "we the sheeple". Wherever you are, may the Sun shine upon you. May the Sun illuminate your understanding and bring you peace. Lennon's world, communism or not: Not possible in this world | Reviewer: Mark | 10/1/08 You forget Utopia, unified government or global peace will never exist for the simple fact that resources will never be able to be shared evenly amongst people so therefore there will always be strife and competition for goods, services, and consumables such as energy. The only way for a state of living as Lennon describes it to exists is to be part of/the "insert you afterlife of choice, when you pass away, here" because that's the only time that there would ever be the ability to have mandatory resources(Food, water, energy) distributed on an on demand basis to maintain a true communistic utopia. So therefore our best adaptation is a localy managed government that handles a region and generates compitition as a way to effectively manage distribution of goods, services, and consumables, hence capitalism. Not perfect, but the most effective way to deal with the amount of distance and transactions things have to cover to satisfy everyone, whether they worked for them or not. - | Reviewer: riodiculous | 10/1/08 Im interpreted this wonderful song as mr. lennon's imagination, not his idealism, communism, or any of that. just imagine, just dream. dont take this too serious by judging this as a propaganda or some like that. no offense, but i prefer dreaming rather than take this disgraceful world like there is nothing wrong, even more, maybe we should make a world of utopia, where there hitlers communism or bennys fascist. Imagine | Reviewer: Ryan Boyce | 4/21/08 I love Lennon, he's my hero if I ever had one. I'm not so sure about all of this communist stuff people seem to say about him, but for me, this song is a mantra for a better world, not by force, but by truth and the greater human way. Don't hope for a better world when you could very possibly be living the only life you'll ever have today. Love people as your fellow men and women, we all spring from the same earth and no one is above that. Share the love, share your wealth, the true nature of growth is compassion. People take everything he says so literally, trying to twist the words around and contort them into some kind of verbal monster. Take what you will from the lyrics, but only if you really want to make the world a more beautiful place. I love you John, and I'll face the world as purely as I believe you did. No ideals | Reviewer: Jazzy | 4/12/08 What an idealistic world promoted by Lennon. Again, as long as humanity lives in this world, it seems unworthwhile to think of what would happen in a world such as that. Reality bites, ideals don't matter, except to set a standard we try to attain. Maybe socialism and this song have one thing in common: an ideal that is unattainable. Look at what happened to socialism. As such, humanity will make all ideals falter and crack. It just doesntt work.If we all lived in that manner, we wouldn't be called human beings. Because none of us are perfect - and that is a perfect ideal, peaceful, placid world. Indeed, it is apt to imagine. Read me | Reviewer: Anonymous | 3/3/08 It angers me to see so many right-wing cynics dismiss anything meaningful as communist. Lennon isn't calling on a government to impose communism, even if the song shares some of the ideologies. It preaches sharing the world with others and dismissing social boundaries that keep mankind apart. If you think it's based on any system of government at all, you are entirely missing the point. Mr. Lennon is very inspirationale | Reviewer: Anonymous | 3/3/08 I think this song is realy inspirationale espesialy with that stupid war in iraq im no hippie but this song realy speaks about whats going on and when David sang it on American Idol it blew me away I love this song Lennon's Lyrics Most Definitely Are Promoting Communism...So What? | Reviewer: Brian McKinley | 2/29/08 If you read Lennon’s lyrics, and understand anything about the origin of Communist ideology, it is incredible that any person could argue that Lennon was not promoting a Communist agenda. “No religion”…”No possessions”…”No countries”… Those lyrics—what Lennon is describing, whether intentionally or unintentionally—is Marx’s description of Communism. Now I’ve seen people argue here, “Well look at Communist nations…they have wars, they have greed, they experience loss.” But there’s one problem with that argument: There’s never actually been a Communist nation in the recorded history of the world. What most people refer to as “Communism” is, in fact, Socialism. According to Marx, a Communist state would exist in a state of utopia. There would be no need for a military, because people would get along since there wouldn’t be any competition over resources. People would be employed in the occupation they were most qualified for and interest in. People would only work so much as they needed to in order to support the needs of the commune. Goods would only be exported in such quantities as was necessary to sustain the need for imported goods. Since every person would have equal property rights, based upon their family’s needs, there would be no need for greed. Everyone would have what they needed. It sounds great on paper. But it’s idealistic in reality. Marx didn’t appreciate (or ignored) man’s inherent nature. Greed is innately born of competition for resources, just as you see animals in nature competing for resources (e.g., marking territory, fighting over kills, demonstrating pack dominance). Although Marx’s (and Lennon’s) ideology sounds ideal, it isn’t going to happen. Does that mean that Lennon can’t dream of such a world? Absolutely not. I may not agree with Mr. Marx or Mr. Lennon, but I respect their right to voice their ideals and opinions. Perhaps Voltaire summed it up best when he wrote, “I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.” Add Your New Review About The Song By Pages:   1    2    3    4    5