Wouldn't it be awesome if the famous song by John Lennon "Imagine" became reality?

Answer 1

Awesome is not even the word for it.
They'd have to make a new word to describe how great it would be.

Answer 2

That is my favorite song. We can't make everyone live it but we can live it ourselves and perhaps that will cause it to spread.

A Generation Sleeps
by Ed-Mike Mertell

It's a cold December morning in 1980. A shot rings out on a New York street. A man falls lifeless to the ground. Somewhere in the distance an alarm clock rings. A Generation Sleeps. It's time to wake up kids.
Wake up children look and see, our whole world has fallen apart. Somehow we let war, power, and greed, replace peace, love, and art. Yes somehow we must have fallen asleep.
In the days of yesterday we cried for peace, we spoke out against the needless destruction of the land, we preached of love equality and brotherhood for every race of man.
Wake up children listen and hear. What we once said are now only words. Empty and with out meaning, as if mocked repeatedly by senseless mocking birds.
Now we praise the war as gallant, we rationalize that for profits made sometimes the land must lose, and other people need only be treated as equals when our way of life they choose.
Wake up children pick up your newspapers and read. It seems that someone has killed John Lennon.

Answer 3

Incredibly awesome... I can't even hear one verse of that song without crying at how unreal but perfect it sounds. John Lennon was truly a visionary... a messed up man, but a true visionary.

EDIT: trebor, it's not about communism, you ninny. It's about a perfect world where people would all get along without regard to religion, politics, social standing, money, or anything. It's a total impossibility taken as a whole... but the "no religion" part is an excellent idea. Think about it... no 9/11 because the muslims wouldn't want to destroy us. No "god in school" debates because it wouldn't matter.

Of course, we'd all just turn our animosity to politics and social standing and money... LOL! But at least we wouldn't be called evil or told we're going to hell all day long.

Answer 4

When I was an evangelical Christian, I took offense at the line, "Imagine there's... no religion too..." A world with no religion (without MY religion specifically, of course) would be a better world? How could that be?

Today I realize the wisdom of those words. A world without any religion ("to kill or die for") at all, no division among humanity because of which faith, myth or fairy tales one believes... What a wonderful place that would be! We'd still have problems, but how much better it would be, if we could be rid of one of the worst and most deadly problems humanity has ever faced.

Answer 5

I don't see how life on this world could be any better than, if our world was just like this song! Like many of the others said...it would be more awesome than mere words could ever express! *sm*

Answer 6

I think the point of the song was partially that it is a reality if you join him.

It's a great song. When I was young I didn't like it much because of the music (which I find kinda boring). But it is now one of my favorite songs.

Answer 7

Totally. Imagine is the song I would listen to over and over when I was forced to go to fundie church. It was my mantra for sanity.Excellent choice music and otherwise. Thanks.

Monkey business: your monkey is so cute i could eat him with a spoon.

Answer 8

Dear John. I miss him to this day.

Answer 9

OMG! Blasphemer!!!

So much for the party response.

Yes. It would be totally awesome...and gnarly.

Answer 10

You wish! The song describes Communism; but it *failed* in the former Soviet Union - remember?