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Yes, but I feel alot of people take it too literally. It´s a beautiful piece of art that´s conveying a feeling of frustration with the reasons we use to cause harm and a wish for things to get better. However, in reality things that sound good aren´t always good in reality (See populistic movements like communism, nationalism, Trumpism etc.). "If only this and this happened, things would be great". In reality, we need religion, nations (or other political, cultural unions) but WITHOUT violent and toxic tribalism, walls etc. We need money, markets etc. WITHOUT market failures, lack of opportunity for the unfortunate etc. But this more nuanced view wouldn´t sound good in a song. Lennon´s Imagine is a beautiful piece of art, a beautiful feeling, not something to build your world around. In reality we need pragmatic nuanced solutions.

@@mlberg2327 what you have described is the utopia that most of us would love to live in. Yes, it will be hard and take centuries to achieve, but I believe it will be eventually achieved if those of us who are alive now, take what this song is asking us to do to heart. There will always be those who will cynically say "it's a beautiful idea, but not practical" and continue to perpetuate the status quo. I choose not to be one of them. I dare to imagine, and live accordingly. Ok, maybe mankind will never evolve to that level of enlightenment, but at least it won't hurt our souls or karma, to try.

Indian lady.... lmao!!!

Show ya right

@christian miller agreed

No it's not. Basically, we all have to be the same in order to get along, and that is not true freedom.

@@spirittammyk "We all have to be the same in order to get along" ...no?

@@spirittammyk The point is; We ARE all the same. Some people, like you, just haven't realized yet... I hope some day you'll join us...

@@experi-mentalproductions5358 No, we are not. Some of us are smarter than others and have skills and talents that others don't and we can use those to make ourselves better. So why should the blessed person be punished for the ones who are not so blessed or don't want to work hard to achieve more in life.?

literally people like you divide us lol@@spirittammyk

That’s powerful. 💜

Yoko was his 2nd wife. Cynthia, Julian's mom was his first. .

He's trying to say that we as a people fight over far too many things. Therefore, IF we didn't have these things, we wouldn't fight. World peace

@@janicekersting5329 Very true, but obviously he can't Imagine or even realize what most suffering is caused from. Religion, country, greed, (country and greed are both related to possessions) etc. Get rid of those and you may have peace. At least that was his hope. If people could just "IMAGINE'".

Gary R “If you can imagine a world at peace, with no denominations of religion - not without religion but without this my God-is-bigger-than-your-God thing - then it can be true ... the World Church called me once and asked, "Can we use the lyrics to 'Imagine' and just change it to 'Imagine one religion'?" That showed [me] they didn't understand it at all. It would defeat the whole purpose of the song, the whole idea” -Lennon Most people think this is what he meant so you’re not alone.

I’m the biggest Beatles fan possible. I’ll never ever understand the Yoko haters. She’s easily one of the most interesting and inspiring people on the planet. The myth that she broke up the band is absurd. There’s no way you could listen to the Let it Be album and not know that band was done. And that album was STILL a masterpiece.

Beautifully said. Thank you

It’s the communist manifesto co written by the self professed witch he married. This is song filled with hate and a globalist agenda.

@@mumbles215 you're hilarious -_- this song originated because some schmuck at a bar said nothing had happened in the last x amount of years. Go spout your political bs elsewhere. I don't want to hear it kid

BWAHAHAHA

@@mumbles215 No, clearly he wasn't a communist, he only hoped for peace from the Vietnam war. its funny when people use labels such as "communist" as a trumped up (lol puns) deflection or gossip or bigotry or prejudice to align with another political party. its just hateful words. was depressing about your rhetoric is that its here for no purpose other than to spread hate, and poor John who wanted peace and love, gets killed by some other mentally ill individual. and Mr. Video has no idea what the song means. if only we could get rid of all the reasons for war....including war of words. all i know is, vulnerable or not, id rather be on the peace and love side.

A perfect way to summarise the meaning of the song

Me too. I was horrified. I said, "Oh God. Please don't say that." .

Bill Burr can tell you all about it.

Years ago someone pointed out her background "vocals" in Lennon's Christmas song and I've never been able to unhear it 😩

😂😂😂 he would have flipped over backwards!

No please dear God don't let her screech!

Have you heard her sing imagine? She released it a couple years ago

YES, YES, YES to both! EXCELLENT CHOICES! L O L A , Lola!

That will totaly blow his mind

Lazin on a Sunny Afternoon, if we goin Kinks...

Yes!!! LOLA!!

Spicy

Listen to Yoko’s song, “Bubbles”. Will confirm your spacey comment lol

This came on one morning while I was driving my 7 year old at the time to school. I hear crying and I turn to her and ask what is wrong, she says this is the most beautiful song she has ever heard and she wishes the same thing x I was blown away

The song is about Marxism. Do remember the song American Pie, ny Don McLean? In it he writes "Lennon read a book on Marx... " Marxism is Communism. It is cleverly packaged to seem like a Utopia, but it is a horrible existence with only the dictator and a few big wigs in the communist party at the top, and all of us at the bottom with nothing. Incidentally, it is the Communist party or the dictator who owns everything, in this song's case, worldwide comminism. No borders and no free nation like America to defect to like many people living under Soviet Communism did. NOTE: If you say "This is about Socialism NOT COMMUNISM!" You don't know much about either. In the mid 1800's Heinrich Heine wrote: "Communism is being served to the people on the silver platter under the GLAMOROUS word SOCIALISM" Let me prove that true: The former USSR is called "The United Soviet Socialist Republic" and a cousin to this Communist system is the NAZI party of Germany. Proof? NAZI stands for: "The National Socialist Workers Party" The 1st thing they do is take the guns. Why? So you are like sitting ducks - your utopian government has all the guns. No due process, no trial. Go against the party you are taken off the street and never seen again. Millions die in the implementation. They believe they are fighting in the revolution so everyone will get the same piece of the pie. Nope, only your dictators, worse than a monarchy, will own everything. 30 million or more died in Russia, 78 million died in China (45 million in 4 years), 1,500,000 died in the killing fields of Cambodia by Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge. MORE IMPORTANTLY for ALL Lennon fans to know: A few years ago it was announced that Lennon's letters to a friend were found. In it he writes regarding this song, and his protesting: "I was a young punk, who knew NOTHING! I was on the wrong side of politics. (He goes on to say something even more shocking to his fans) ...I like this presidential candidate Reagan. He has a lot of ideas that make sense." Lovely packaged song. Everyone is "re-imagining" everything. Sadly, they have no idea what it really means.

Felina, that’s very interesting. I hadn’t heard that analogy of the song before. It certainly gives a person something to think about and I appreciate the correction. I can’t decide though if you’re being sincere with this knowledge or if you’re being sarcastic and feel as though you’re talking to an imbecile. While I would like to think it’s with sincerity you’ve passed it on I feel it’s more the later. I’m going to thank you anyway!! 😁😁😁

@@WickedFelina Don McLean simply used a pun where he mentioned Lennon as a tongue in cheek reference to Lenin and while Imagine had Marxist overtones, John Lennon was a millionaire capitalist.

John Lennon's naive utopian interpretation (tribute) of communism. Song's message is Anti God, Anti Religion, Anti Society and Anti Family. All couched in flowery phrases within an enchanted melody. "Propaganda" at its' very best!

I've been there & cried. It was surreal

It's a beautiful peaceful place and always there are Beatles fans paying their respects.

John Lennon's naive utopian interpretation (tribute) of communism. Song's message is Anti God, Anti Religion, Anti Society and Anti Family. All couched in flowery phrases within an enchanted melody. "Propaganda" at its' very best!

She's over 80 now, they loved each other. She saw the love of her life shot in front of her eyes. Leave her alone .

Nah, she was the inspiration for John to write this song. Actually it was her idea. You dumb.

Huh...yeah I guess I’d be spaced out if my hubby was shot to death in front of our home....

Ok for Everyone not old enough to remember all this that you are talking about.... Reality and Timelines are important here. He was not shot at the time of this video...she had not seen that at the time of this video...it is a a very very very sad thing that she saw that, and she did love him dearly..but let's keep everything in perspective . This video was her BEFORE he was shot, so we can not transpose that event back on to this video

A very cruel statement about a woman whose accomplishments put your “spaced out” definition to shame. 🤨

🤣🤣🤣🤣That was AWESOME 😆😆💜

That's his wife 🤣

You are truly sick.

🤔 Thanks a lot,🙏✌️😂

@Akhen, he is the best hands down. I adore @Mr. Video.

Amen

A man of peace??? Dude that may be partially true but he was shot because he was a arrogant hypocritical prig. This song is shit coming from a man who had all the possessions and abandoned his first born child for his skank of a wife. John was nothing but an egotistical opportunist.

I remember that day so vividly

Please pray everyday

@@denisesalmon4496 ....and twice on Sunday

I agree that every person has value, but I do not supportJohn Lennon's naive utopian interpretation (tribute) of communism. Song's message is Anti God, Anti Religion, Anti Society and Anti Family. These messages couched in flowery phrases within an enchanted melody. "Propaganda" at its' very best! Idealology that this song disavows is exactly the beliefs and behaviors that will positively effect the manner in which we engage with others.

wrong, different culture, different time, dont judge.

@@lashlaroopiggot4795 His opinion. And he's entitled to it. So, no, not wrong.

Humans go to war for many different reasons. See World War 1 and 2, Vietnam War, Korean War, Gulf War etc. It´s easy to name so many wars that were fought for other reasons than religion. I am an atheist, but this quite common view that "religion is bad because people fight war over it" is not nuanced. There´s usually a confirmation bias there and a lack of appreciation for all good things that come with religion. Human DO NOT need religion to fight wars, you can separate kids into two groups and give each side a color and they´ll start bonding with each other, forming a common identity. Then they start to get annoyed with how the other group behaves, and the intergroup conflict is a reality. Humans sadly can become violent and conflict-seeking for MANY reasons, religion being one of the reasons.

Mist wars are fought over resources. Money, land, trade. Full stop. Probably every religious war was just a masquerade and those were the real reasons i.e. the crusades

@The Dude that war was also about money, land and resources The Nazis, Italians and Japanese wanted everyone else's stuff, everyone else didn't want to give it to them.

Wars are fought for power, position and the love of money. Yes religion is in there as well. Man has always messed things up. Mans inhumanity to man will get worse. The Creator's plan, God's plan was and is different.

I think if you read the lyrics right you'd think differently lol

John Lennon's naive utopian interpretation (tribute) of communism. Song's message is Anti God, Anti Religion, Anti Society and Anti Family. These messages couched in flowery phrases within an enchanted melody. "Propaganda" at its' very best! Idealology that this song disavows is exactly the beliefs and behaviors that will positively effect the manner in which we engage with others.

John Lennon's naive utopian interpretation (tribute) of communism. Song's message is Anti God, Anti Religion, Anti Society and Anti Family. These messages couched in flowery phrases within an enchanted melody. "Propaganda" at its' very best! Idealology that this song disavows is exactly the beliefs and behaviors that will positively effect the manner in which we engage with others.

@@jamescoomer4413, those are my thoughts, exactly. I watch the preacher, Dr. Robert Jeffress, and he one day stated that John had been watching Billy Graham, and told Yoko that he’d given his heart to Jesus. She told him that it wouldn’t be a good idea to go public with that. Can you IMAGINE how many people he could have reached and influenced had he professed his new faith?

She's wearing hippie clothes, japanese clothes for women are different.

I’m praying on it

They were high.

We’re you trying to make a salient point? If so, you failed epically. If not, why bother commenting? I don’t really think people care about your personal opinion and, unless it is something inspiring, don’t need more negativism.

John Lennon's naive utopian interpretation (tribute) of communism. Song's message is Anti God, Anti Religion, Anti Society and Anti Family. These messages couched in flowery phrases within an enchanted melody. "Propaganda" at its' very best! Idealology that this song disavows is exactly the beliefs and behaviors that will positively effect the manner in which we engage with others.

I've been a recovering cathoholic for years

Wow! That’s sad

I walked away from the Catholic Church when I was 9 ! Even at that age I could see Science over the fairy tales that is Religion which is a scourge on Humanity.

It is quite liberating, taking your faith and leaving organized religion behind

Nathan Weiss finally intelligently taking back your life

The Volkswagen?

That was bullshit though. They were on the way to breaking up already. She was just a scapegoat.

@@Nightcloudmama I completely agree. She was a scapegoat that is still used today.

You know what the biggest, most widely read communist manifesto is? Is the New Testament; all of Jesus's teachings. Funny how people (looking at you GOP) seem to conveniently overlook that fact. John Lennon knew that people would label him a communist, but he knew what was right. Btw, Lennon never said it was wrong to make money, he just didn't want people doing bad things just to get money.

@@munizdaniel7 So predictable. As always the case.. Did Mr. Lennon''s words rub you wrong? Do you think I approve of people doing bad things to make money?

Oh, and you obviously don't understand the proper context of what Yeshua.was saying.

@@Miykael1933 how did you arrive at this conclusion? Read what I wrote. Not one word to indicate that what Lennon wrote rubbed me the wrong way. In fact I'm agreeing with his thinking. Maybe you thought my response was a personal attack on you? I wrote what I did under your comment because it was on the topic of what you said, not because it was an attack on your comment. As far as being predictable, it is only because you assumed and took what I said as the response that you were obviously waiting for from somebody. And as far as my interpretation of what Jesus said: 100 people will interpret the bible in 100 different ways... It is a personal journey, which is why religion has always been problematic ( another point Lennon was making). In any case, the basic teaching of Christianity revolves around the theme of a communal way of life (hence the basic similarity to the idea of communism), sharing and providing to the less fortunate through acts of charity and selflessness. Either way, if my comment seemed like an attack, I apologize for that, but it wasn't.

@@munizdaniel7 Well, I apologize if I came across hasty. Your first response was predictable, your second one was not. It is rare. I am so accustomed to being savagely attacked if I say anything against Communism or promote what the Bible is really saying. Yeshua was talking to individuals to be responsible, humble, and be giving to those less fortunate. Communal living was tried in the book of Acts, but they were not obligated to give everything, the choice was theirs. Serious problems arose when Ananias and wife Sapphira lied saying they gave everything when they didn't. They paid with their lives. We are responsible as individuals. If you commit, you'd better follow through. The communal living was soon dispersed and they were scattered because of Roman persecution. Modern Communism is totally different from what Yeshua said. It takes over everything and doesn't give people a choice. Greed of man always takes over in a situation like this. Just look at the men who promote it. Karl Marx was a terrible man who wouldn't take responsibility for his own family and let them go hungry while he followed his own selfish pursuits. John Lennon with his hundreds of millions wouldn't help his son Julian who he had abandoned. The support Lennon gave son Julian and his ex-wife, both of whom he had abandoned, would be laughable if it wasn't so tragic. Julian struggled with his father's abandonment for many years until he says he finally has come to terms with it. Julian's mother was a classy lady, more than I can say for Yoko. I don't know if I could be as generous to John's legacy as she was if I had been in her shoes. I was pleased that Julian was able to make his own mark and make a future for himself in the 80s. I encourage you to go to Wikipedia and do a search for Julian Lennon, especially read the "Relationship With His Father" section. Suffice it to say that neither John Lennon or Yoko are heroes of mine. I'll leave it at that, but there is much more to the story.

Walk through a children's cancer ward some time if you want to get a look at some of god's 'other' plans.

John Lennon's naive utopian interpretation (tribute) of communism. Song's message is Anti God, Anti Religion, Anti Society and Anti Family. All couched in flowery phrases within an enchanted melody. "Propaganda" at its' very best!

Being that the way human nature is flawed naturally towards evil all the time, religion is the moral foundation. It isn't the greatest song ever.

the mansion is empty though. Probably a mansion to get away from crazy nutcase beatle fans

Yes a mansion, an empty mansion not full of possessions. That was the point. For him it was most likely an investment. Remember the Beatles song, Taxman? ;)

@@bearballin Yes, but that was George's song, and his house was anything but modest. Google Friar Park.

Rabbi Spidermann people like you purposely misrepresent what he is saying. He’s saying “imagine no possessions”, for everyone, not just him. You have no imagination.

We can’t imagine it because if we could then we would all be as one!🤯

Yea, what's that song that says dream on, dream on.

Julie Hemmerling l studied history in college and l can tell you for sure that wars are usually started because of greed. Good luck finding a war waged over philosophy. Even in the Middle East with all of their generational hate, the underlying driver is land. By the way, is it warmongering to say "turn the other cheek" or "love your enemies" or "do good to those that hate you"? It's the people who refuse to embrace these Christian directives that destroy peace. Bless you.

Sounds like a communist country.

No, John Lennon *wasn't * wrong. He said, "IMAGINE". Imagine all of these things and places that people kill and hate for. And resort to violence for. That's not wrong.