English: Official Portrait of President Ronald Reagan (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
John Lennon – Overpopulation is a Myth – YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Emi1wf1q6os
I think it’s becoming a pattern, you know. This was a surprise to me. I hadn’t heard it before.
If there’s an assassination or even attempt on a big-name personality, it seems worthwhile to find out what kind of changes in philosophy happened to that person in the days leading up to the killing.
JOHN LENNON
In this one, John Lennon is saying on the Dick Cavett show “I think that’s a kind of myth thrown out to keep your mind off Vietnam and Ireland and all the important subjects”.
And here, at this blog, a Charles Pope writes about what John Lennon said in that interview, and more:
http://blog.adw.org/2012/03/did-the-composer-of-perhaps-the-most-secular-song-ever-written-disavow-that-song/
From an interview shortly before his death, going the rounds on the Net now, it looks like he disavowed the sentiments of the lyrics of his earlier atheistic and socialistic song, “Imagine“:
In his definitive song, “Imagine”….[Lennon] famously dreams of a world with “no possessions.” The mature Lennon explicitly disavowed such naïve sentiments: I worked for money and I wanted to be rich….What I used to be is guilty about money. … Because I thought money was equated with sin. I don’t know. I think I got over it, because I either have to put up or shut up, you know. If I’m going to be a monk with nothing, do it. Otherwise, if I am going to try and make money, make it. Money itself isn’t the root of all evil.
The man who famously called for imagining a world with “No religion” also jettisoned his anti-theism. “People got the image I was anti-Christ or anti-religion,” he said. “I’m not at all. I’m a most religious fellow. I’m religious in the sense of admitting there is more to it than meets the eye. I’m certainly not an atheist.”
Even more shocking to the idea of Lennon as a secular leftist, or a deep thinker, the man rejected evolution. “Nor do I think we came from monkeys, by the way,” he insisted. “That’s another piece of garbage. What the hell’s it based on? We couldn’t’ve come from anything—fish, maybe, but not monkeys. I don’t believe in the evolution of fish to monkeys to men. Why aren’t monkeys changing into men now? It’s absolute garbage.”
……His final interviews make clear he was above all concerned with his family. “I’m not here for you,”he said, speaking to his fans. “I’m here for me and [Yoko] and the baby.” He revered the institution of marriage, explaining how much it meant to get the state approving his union with Ono. “[R]ituals are important, no matter what we thought as kids. … So nowadays it’s hip not to be married. But I’m not interested in being hip.” [<a
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Now that’s a different Lennon from the popular idea of him most of us have held up to now. In that interview, he disavows the socialist “imagine no possessions”, calls evolution “absolute garbage”, and talked up how much it meant to him to be officially married with Ono, and how his family came first before his fans or other things.
Not finished yet! Next we find reasons to think maybe “Lennon was a closet Republican” who supported Reagan. From the Toronto Sun:
Fred Seaman worked alongside the music legend from 1979 to Lennon’s death at the end of 1980 and he reveals the former Beatle was a Ronald Reagan fan who enjoyed arguing with left-wing radicals who reminded him of his former self.
In new documentary Beatles Stories, Seaman tells filmmaker Seth Swirsky Lennon wasn’t the peace-loving militant fans thought he was while he was his assistant.
He says, “John, basically, made it very clear that if he were an American he would vote for Reagan because he was really sour on (Democrat) Jimmy Carter.
“He’d met Reagan back, I think, in the 70s at some sporting event… Reagan was the guy who had ordered the National Guard, I believe, to go after the young (peace) demonstrators in Berkeley, so I think that John maybe forgot about that… He did express support for Reagan, which shocked me.
“I also saw John embark in some really brutal arguments with my uncle, who’s an old-time communist… He enjoyed really provoking my uncle… Maybe he was being provocative… but it was pretty obvious to me he had moved away from his earlier radicalism.
“He was a very different person back in 1979 and 80 than he’d been when he wrote Imagine. By 1979 he looked back on that guy and was embarrassed by that guy’s naivete.”
Fred Seaman worked alongside the music legend from 1979 to Lennon’s death at the end of 1980 and he reveals the former Beatle was a Ronald Reagan fan who enjoyed arguing with left-wing radicals who reminded him of his former self.
In new documentary Beatles Stories, Seaman tells filmmaker Seth Swirsky Lennon wasn’t the peace-loving militant fans thought he was while he was his assistant.
He says, “John, basically, made it very clear that if he were an American he would vote for Reagan because he was really sour on (Democrat) Jimmy Carter.
“He’d met Reagan back, I think, in the 70s at some sporting event… Reagan was the guy who had ordered the National Guard, I believe, to go after the young (peace) demonstrators in Berkeley, so I think that John maybe forgot about that… He did express support for Reagan, which shocked me.
“I also saw John embark in some really brutal arguments with my uncle, who’s an old-time communist… He enjoyed really provoking my uncle… Maybe he was being provocative… but it was pretty obvious to me he had moved away from his earlier radicalism.
“He was a very different person back in 1979 and 80 than he’d been when he wrote Imagine. By 1979 he looked back on that guy and was embarrassed by that guy’s naivete.”
That’s John Lennon.
ELVIS PRESLEY
Rick Stanley says that his half-brother Elvis Presley told him about Bible-believing Christians:
‘Ricky, those are the people who care.’ Then eight hours later, he passed away.”
http://www.tvilletimes.com/view/full_story/9510356/article-Local-church-to-welcome-
minister–Elvis%E2%80%99-brother
After his brother’s death, Stanley filled with anger – anger at the God he had almost accepted and angry at everyone else. When Moye approached her friend at Elvis’ funeral, Stanley told her he didn’t want to hear another word about God, that he was mad at him.
“She didn’t even bat an eye,” Stanley said. “She said he can handle it.”
Read more: Thomasville Times – Local church to welcome minister Elvis’ brother
According to this next blog, his brother says Elvis Presley “recommitted his life to Christ” shortly before he died. One of his brothers said when they found him, there were two books open in front of him: The Bible, and a book about the scientific evidence for the Shroud of Turin.
Elvis had another step-brother, Rick Stanley, who today is a Baptist Evangelist that has spoken in over 4,000 churches. Rick Stanley has written a book, Caught in the Trap where he highlights many of the spiritual events and struggles in Elvis’ life. Stanley recalls when Elvis was in Las Vegas, he asked Evangelist Rex Humbard and his wife to be backstage with him. Elvis dedicated “How Great Thou Art” to Humbard that night. It was then that Elvis knelt down to pray with Humbard and recommitted his life to Christ. Elvis was talking about Jesus being the Truth the night before he died. It was Rex Humbard that conducted Elvis’ funeral.
What’s amazing is that these testimonies about Elvis are so ignored.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
Billy Graham wrote in his autobiography about a prayer breakfast at the White House a few short days before John F. Kennedy’s trip to Dallas.
In it, he relates how Kennedy walked him to his car, and seemed troubled and pleaded with him to stay and talk for awhile.
Some people who have left one of Secret Societies that JFK had been one of their members and was killed because he had become a Christian.
That would be one of the reasons that he had issued an executive order(s) to issue US Treasury Notes, begin circulating silver certificate dollars, and so start a process freeing the nation from the false balance of fiat currency and from the Federal Reserve monetary system.
The movie made by Oliver Stone about JFK left out some very important details. Like Kennedy’s orders changing the currency.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Abraham Lincoln was known as an agnostic in most of his adulthood.
But when his son Todd died, he was devastated, but saw hope to see him again when a minister and friend spoke to him about heaven. He reported this conversation later.
At the time he was shot in the Ford Theater, he had already promised to give his conversion testimony at the next Sunday service, and he was telling his wife excitedly that they would visit the Holy Land during the next year when the shot rang out.
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