John Lennons birthday today, Peace Tower to be lit, a letter from Yoko on IMAGINE PEACE

to you the pessimist i wish you peace, love and my hand to you the optimist i give you thanks in believing peace to all

I am really celebrating John's ideals. You still alive in my heart John!

Its time for the puppet strings to be cut.

The vale has been lifted.

We know the wizard is behind the curtain, yet we continue to pretend that the big talking head is real.

That our government murdering people isn't us murdering people.

We all have bloody hands. Our government is representative. It represents us. That means we're all murderers.

"One ounce of Peace is better than an ocean of war"

John, I miss you. We all do.

And when it comes to giving peace a chance. You really meant not just one chance. But a new chance, every day.

Even after your enemy hits you. You give peace a chance and turn the other cheek. And then again.

All we need is love.....

You were dialed in & had a lot of answers to the same issues that plague us today before most people had a clue what was going on. Your efforts, music & memories are still anthems & the backdrop for many of our causes as your messages ring truer than ever today.

"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."

A wise man once said:
"He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows nor judge all he sees."

Can you sit by and watch someone beat a small child? I for one cannot and would not sit idly by and let that happen. I would declare war on that said person. I WOULD judge what I saw.
Same goes for a small innocent country that is attacked by a brutal leader or other govt.

People are going to be evil to one another. You can sit with your mouth shut and not judge them and live in peace with them at the expense of the innocent.
That is called appeasement and an appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last.

My seldom seen father once told me: "Crap in one and wish in the other hand. Tell me which one will fills up first."
Its ok to wish and dream but those wont fill a thimble.

It surprises me to see how many people are pestimistists in regard to world peace. Personally I think that's part of the problem. If everybody believed that peace was intangible then we'd have wars left and right 24/7. On the contrary if everyone believed that peace was attainable and attempted to attain it, then I believe with time we'd achieve it.
Search for the greater understanding.

NICE!
:)

happy burfday

Those who are opposed to this are bringing up a very interesting point, that we are born evil. If that is the case, wouldn't the best course of action be to protect the world against us?

A quiet toast to a fine and flawed man.
To you, John.
*tink*

i wonder if him and Paul ever forgave each other

John and Yoko spoke their contribution to society from their bed. So what? No one contributes to the world in the same way. No one defines peace in the same way. But if one sits around judging others or accepts violence, than what are they doing for society - besides giving us something else to fight about?

John Lennon was,as His music still is today,a brilliant,compassionate ARTIST,who`s interests were not only about himself!!!Happy Birthday John. "Keep peace in your heart and kind words on your tongue"

I can't tell you how sick I am of hearing about John Lennon.......besides writing some semi decent songs and staying in bed to protest a war and getting shot the guy didn't do anything.

I will always believe in Whirled Peas. Good stuff.

The legend lives on.

IT CAN HAPPEN, PEOPLE.
enough with the cynical and pessimistic responses.
people have invented war, they can sure as hell bring about peace. global peace is absolutely attainable, without force or violence. mankind gets no benefit, no satisfaction, nothing good whatsoever from war or violence.
the problem is society and the way it has been geared to like violence via the brainwashing of the media. peace is here if you want it.
john was the most inspiring person to have ever lived.
peace is possible.
war is waste
love life
know peace
and it will happen

I think that Bill Hicks said it best

"Hey - don't worry, don't be afraid, ever, because, this is just a ride...” But we always kill those good guys who try and tell us that, you ever notice that? And let the demons run amok. Jesus - murdered; Martin Luther King - murdered; Malcolm X - murdered; Gandhi - murdered; John Lennon - murdered; Reagan... wounded. But it doesn't matter because: It's just a ride. And we can change it anytime we want. It's only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings and money. A choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love, instead, see all of us as one. Here's what we can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride. Take all that money that we spend on weapons and defenses each year and instead spend it feeding and clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore space, together, both inner and outer, forever, in peace. "

John Lennon was a great musician and human being
and I am happy that he was born. Happy Birthday
John Lennon.

as person who has spent most of my life working towards peace it is still true words today.

its a great idea, but sorry john, that shit aint happenin'.

and yoko, you killed him! you didnt pull the trigger but you knocked over the first domino.

The reason no one has ever done it is because it can't be done.

As long as people think that everyone can do whatever they want to be happy (without [lame] harming someone else it's ok---whatever the hell that means) peace won't exist.....because allowing Hugo and AJ from Iran or telling someone to jump off a building and not get into trouble or bailing out banks that screwed everything up to begin with or sex is less damaging than war do it with whomever....there's no way peace can exist with the idea that anything is ok as long as it makes you happy.

No one understands our mind well enough to know what it is that we need to obtain a good balance of happiness that will enable peace among the population. No because when they start thinking of happiness they start to become more selfish and less selfless and that is also a problem.

I love his song Imagine, though. Great song...one of my favorite songs.

Striving for peace is admirable. its' not stupid because by trying you have the ability to not only make yourself a better person but those you speak with better....and that's great, but the end product will not be world peace. The wild cards, the one percent that ruin everything for everyone else...will ruin it because the peace lovers will not do away with them and can't. Because killing or removing someone that's nothing like you only causes problems with everyone else...

it's just impossible.

Nice Reminder!

People have been fool and tricked into thinking world peace is a fool's dream. And in doing so, have ensured it remained that way, just a dream..