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pan6467 · 06-07-2006, 08:18 AM

JOHN LENNON was a prophet, maybe not in the Biblical/religios sense.

He was able to get huge amounts of followers to believe his causes and fight injustices,insanity, greed and war, not for him, but for the purpose that all those injustices are such bullshit.

As for GOD figure, Lennon just taught what Christ, Buddha, Mohammed, and so on taught. He was the most vocal and visible person to combine religious/philosophical beliefs and to show that they all teach the same thing. That is to love, to understand, to forgive and to work out a peaceful union for all people and he also taught self reliance, self worth and self responsibility.

I fear a lot of his message and teachings died with him, because of the government, religious leaders, greed mongers who try to destroy his name. It is also sad that so many will point out his personal demons and then discount what he taught. But, I truly believe in 50 years or even sooner, people will rediscover what he taught and look upon it with reverence, respect and that his teachings will indeed become ingrained into some present religious teachings.

Every man has demons, Lennon was nowhere near perfect, however, IT IS what he taught and how he truly tried to stand by and live what he said, that should be what people focus on.

Lennon never claimed to be a prophet, or God sent nor did he ever claim he had the answer.... all he ever said was, "we should try peace, love and understanding and work for them because throughout our history we have tried nothing but hate, greed, war and negativity and people do nothing but suffer because of it. Perhaps if we spent that energy positively now, positive life would be our results."

While other stars and people, who tried to say the same thing were true hypocrites, liars, thieves and publicity hounds, because they told people how to live, but refused to even try to live by what they tried to dictate to others how to live.

Lennon was a true prophet, man of respect and one we all should be thankful was here to use his fame to work to better mankind.

RIP John...... you shall be remembered as one of the greatest teachers, such as Buddha, Christ, Confucious, John Calvin, Martin Luther, the Apostles, the Dalai Lama, and so on.

06-07-2006, 08:18 AM	#11 (permalink)
pan6467 Lennonite Priest Location: Mansfield, Ohio USA	JOHN LENNON was a prophet, maybe not in the Biblical/religios sense. He was able to get huge amounts of followers to believe his causes and fight injustices,insanity, greed and war, not for him, but for the purpose that all those injustices are such bullshit. As for GOD figure, Lennon just taught what Christ, Buddha, Mohammed, and so on taught. He was the most vocal and visible person to combine religious/philosophical beliefs and to show that they all teach the same thing. That is to love, to understand, to forgive and to work out a peaceful union for all people and he also taught self reliance, self worth and self responsibility. I fear a lot of his message and teachings died with him, because of the government, religious leaders, greed mongers who try to destroy his name. It is also sad that so many will point out his personal demons and then discount what he taught. But, I truly believe in 50 years or even sooner, people will rediscover what he taught and look upon it with reverence, respect and that his teachings will indeed become ingrained into some present religious teachings. Every man has demons, Lennon was nowhere near perfect, however, IT IS what he taught and how he truly tried to stand by and live what he said, that should be what people focus on. Lennon never claimed to be a prophet, or God sent nor did he ever claim he had the answer.... all he ever said was, "we should try peace, love and understanding and work for them because throughout our history we have tried nothing but hate, greed, war and negativity and people do nothing but suffer because of it. Perhaps if we spent that energy positively now, positive life would be our results." While other stars and people, who tried to say the same thing were true hypocrites, liars, thieves and publicity hounds, because they told people how to live, but refused to even try to live by what they tried to dictate to others how to live. Lennon was a true prophet, man of respect and one we all should be thankful was here to use his fame to work to better mankind. RIP John...... you shall be remembered as one of the greatest teachers, such as Buddha, Christ, Confucious, John Calvin, Martin Luther, the Apostles, the Dalai Lama, and so on. __________________ I just love people who use the excuse "I use/do this because I LOVE the feeling/joy/happiness it brings me" and expect you to be ok with that as you watch them destroy their life blindly following. My response is, "I like to put forks in an eletrical socket, just LOVE that feeling, can't ever get enough of it, so will you let me put this copper fork in that electric socket?" Last edited by pan6467; 06-07-2006 at 08:30 AM..