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Post #244,379 by danreck 2/13/06 9:31:54 AM Reply	Context Guten Tag, Arkadiy, I think that its pretty obvious which one Lennon was going for in the entire context of his "dream". After his dream was reached, then perhaps your second nihilistic assessment would happen... but then we would have to move this to religion/metaphysic forum. FWIW, Lennon was a fan of Gogol and Lermontov. At about this time in his career he was reading "Fathers and Sons" (saw a photo of him with book in hand). Imagine 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 isnt hard to do, Nothing to kill or die for, No religion too, Imagine all the people living life in peace... Imagine no possesions, 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 Im a dreamer, but Im not the only one, I hope some day you'll join us, And the world will live as one. Just a few thoughts, Danno
Post #244,395 by pwhysall 2/13/06 12:58:49 PM Reply	Didn't give his Roller away, did he? Peter [link\|http://www.no2id.net/\|Don't Let The Terrorists Win] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal] [link\|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org\|Home] Use P2P for legitimate purposes!
Post #244,460 by Arkadiy 2/13/06 9:14:53 PM 2/13/06 9:18:55 PM Reply	Oh, I know what _he_ meant I was just saying that the language uses its poets in a strange ways, sometimes. Without the poets being aware of it. And it's not _my_ dream. It's our reality nowadays. Noting is worth killing or dying for. Not the [link\|http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/02/09/ncart109.xml\|freedom]. Not your kids' [link\|http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,,1703884,00.html\|future]. Peace! ------ 179. I will not outsource core functions. -- [link\|http://omega.med.yale.edu/~pcy5/misc/overlord2.htm\|.] Edited by Arkadiy Feb. 13, 2006, 09:18:55 PM EST Expand All History
Post #244,496 by Ashton 2/14/06 5:16:44 AM Reply	As Jos. Campbell replied to Moyers, quite near the end of that remarkable series of (PBS) conversations, on myth: ... People die every day - for a metaphor. And if the measure of a Great poet is ~ how many 'entendres' may be generated by some utterance? - who amongst us shall presume next to enumerate those which Lennon surely "failed to discern?" (besides you, that is.)
Post #244,688 by jb4 2/15/06 2:14:24 PM Reply	The Hon. Franco Frattini can kiss my ass! (new thread) Created as new thread #244687 titled [link\|/forums/render/content/show?contentid=244687\|The Hon. Franco Frattini can kiss my ass!] jb4 "Every Repbulican who wants to defend Bush on [the expansion of Presidential powers], should be forced to say, 'I wouldn't hesitate to see President Hillary Rodham Clinton have the same authority'." &mdash an unidentified letter writer to Newsweek on the expansion of executive powers under the Bush administration

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