Micah, Maybe you are right. I don't know for sure what Lennon intended. But I don't think he meant that it would be a good idea for people to give away all their possessions or to criticize people who were unwilling to give their stuff away. That would have been rediculous since as you say, he didn't give away his possessions. Maybe you are right and Lennon was a hypocrit and stupid enough to make such an obvious display of it, but I always interpreted the line to mean "imagine if there were no such things as possessions"--that no one owned anything which would mean that everyone owns everything. I am pretty convinced that he was not stupid (but I'm also pretty sure that to some extent we are all hypocrits). His song is a pipe dream, but maybe a dream worth dreaming now and then?
But it must be nice to feel superior to people like John Lennon... How is that working out for you? Regards, Steve On Wednesday, January 16, 2008, at 10:31AM, "Micah" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Steven, > >I think the "idea" is that the rich are cavalier about money, because they >have it. He didn't have to "imagine no possessions" - he could have given >them away - but he was a hypocrite. > >Micah > > > > > > >On Wednesday, January 16, 2008, at 09:49AM, "Micah" ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>"Imagine no possessions"...Hmmmm...I think a rich man said that. > > > >Moq_Discuss mailing list >Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. >http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org >Archives: >http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ >http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ > > Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
