Dallas, Apr 25, 2008 / 08:50 pm (CNA).- Yoko Ono, the widow of Beatles singer and songwriter John Lennon, has with several others filed several lawsuits challenging the use and critique of Lennon’s song “Imagine” in the documentary “Expelled.” One lawsuit seeks a preliminary injunction that, the film’s producers claim, could remove the film from theaters.
Well if she is responsible for John Lennon can we sue her for his imagine no religion? You know that is really hurtful for us religious types especially when he says it is easy to do. Then he even tries to take away from us believers living in the eternal now by saying only atheists like him are "Living for today." Besides Monks and many in religious life don’t have to imagine no possessions since they have gone beyond that. I bet Yoko is really really glad John Lennon only imagined no possessions instead of actually giving away all of his possessions. But then again it is always easier being a dreamer than actually living the dream.
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Strong but true words, Curt Jester.
Excellent movie, by the way.
Who cares? She’s passe as a 1952 baloney sandwich. People say stupid things all over the world and she’s just one more person who says stupid things.
You know, someone should make a video of that song. They should include quotes from Nietzche and stuff, and show clips of Nazi Germany, Communist Russia, the Khmer Rouge, etc…, throughout the piece.
I don’t have the technical expertise, but I think it’d be easy to do, if you try. I’m not the only one who dreams of this video, and I hope someday soon it comes true.
Whoever does take up the challenge, try and make the still photos and film clips correspond to the lyrics. For example, soldiers burning villages when Lennon sings about no possessions, and pictures of body fields when he sings about no hell below us, and pictures of bombed out and destroyed churches when he sings about no heaven above us.
Bottom line, be graphic, and make his lyrics seem as Satanic as they really are.
Or what if every blogger put on their blogs, the exact same parts of the lyrics, in written or audio form, that the movie used? Fair use law, and all that, right?
I don’t think John meant to imagine a world without religion, rather a world without hateful and intolerant religion as often exhibited by this blog and others and those who comment on it. Imagine.
At the risk of feeding a troll…..
do you, Tobyzzzz, have any specific examples of the hateful and intolerant comments?
I’ve always wanted a T-shirt that read: “Imagine John Lennon is dead…it’s easy if you try.”
“I don’t think John meant to imagine a world without religion, rather a world without hateful and intolerant religion as often exhibited by this blog and others and those who comment on it. Imagine.”
…ummm, no, he was pretty clear that he didn’t want any religion at all. He didn’t even want people to have any cause worth living or dying for. Frankly, I’m not sure what he really wanted. He was very ambiguous, as are most ideologues.
I can only assume he was advocated a sedated hedonism of sorts…indulge yourself each and every moment as much as you can, without creating a purpose to live or die for. To me, this sounds very similar to some strains of Buddhist thought.
I think the most paradoxical feature of the last century was that people were, in fact, very willing to live and die for a very peculiar cause, namely that their posterity should not have any causes to live and die for.
I agree – someone should do a satirical youtube clip with footage of communist oppression.
And when it mentions people living for today, show packed shopping malls.
I imagine there are going to be lots of lawsuits concerning that movie. It’s an amazingly true documentary.
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