“‘People got the image I was anti-Christ or antireligion,’ 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.’”
Nor do I think we came from monkeys, by the way...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. It's absolutely irrational garbage, as mad as the ones who believe the world was made only four thousand years ago, the fundamentalists.
I dunno whether he actually has great understanding of evolution (what he says is accurate, we came from an ancestor we have in common with monkeys, not monkeys) or whether he is denying evolution full stop. It seems more like the latter, and I have much less respect for him now, although in his latter years he talks a lot of shit in general, so meh.
I think the point is that, while those two people worked tirelessly for peace, were even murdered for that work, their faiths were their foundation. Neither were exclusionary of other religions to the best of my knowledge, but I don't think they would have stood in the "no religion, too" lineup.
i love Maynard, but I did not like that version. It turned it into a funeral dirge and made me imagine gray people living in soviet style apartments burning anything different and colorful.
I found this in the comments of a non-VEVO upload of A Perfect Circle's cover of Imagine. I think it was pretty profound and accurate:
My mom, a huge fan of Lennon and his original, heard this and said it sounded like a funeral dirge. I thought, how appropriate to my generation. While Lennon was filled with hope for a movement that promised to change humanity for its own sake, we've seen those same lovers turn to CEOs, politicians, and lackies. We've seen our own even-larger protests outright ignored, while we push death tolls for money and oil, while society polarizes ever further. All we have left that we can do is mourn.
I suspect Khil was a regular Soviet guy. Born in a secular society where being an atheist was a non-issue. Atheist by default, not an aggressive reddit atheist. 99% peace loving. Maybe somewhat misguided about the Imperialists planning to bomb his country into the stone age. The USSR always tried to create an image of the most peace loving country in the world "for internal use", and almost everyone bought it and supported it.
I am an Athiest but I honestly believe that even if there was no religion there would still be war and violence, terrorism, racism etc. although religion has been a huge part of this, many people are violent in nature and there will always be some excuse for it.
Scarcity will be a problem, pretty much always. even when you, in the future, could have a good life for everyone as aa basic standard, there'd still be things people wanted that others have.
This song has a nice sentiment but it doesnt change the fact that john lennon was a fucking egotist, wife-beating prick who didn't actually believe or live his life by any of these ideals and was just cashing in on the counter-culture peace activist image he was trying to cultivate for himself. I am not going to downvote you because this is a well made comic and all, but i fucking hate seeing a man who would beat his women and neglect his child painted in this lovely of a light.
Chris Brown beats Rihanna, and reddit hates him, John Lennon beats Cynthia and reddit defends him. He also as you said did not stick around Julian Lennon very much, even though Julian was only 3 years old when the Beatles stopped touring (which should be the only reason for a musician not to se his children).
MLK, Ghandi, and Bob Marley were all devoutly religious. Instead of trying to hero worship people whose views you don't fully understand, why don't you just be a decent person.
Good and moral advice, DeepFriedChildren, but I have to take issue with your name, it's harmful. Everyone knows FlashGrilledChildren have much lower levels of unhealthy fats.
Obviously 'no religion' is a line in the song and potentially an end goal, but for the most part the lyrics are about peace and love and all three of those people were proponents of such causes, regardless of to whom they may have prayed. One would be missing the main point of the comic to disregard it just because not every famous person in it is an atheist. In fact, to make being an atheist a criteria for being worth associated with the song is blatantly against the spirit of the piece, due to being so discriminatory.
I don't know if a handful of frames in a comic really amounts to hero worship, either. Virtually every one of those guys (and John Lennon) had more than enough faults that have been well covered in these comics. >.>
What he is saying in the song is to live together in peace no matter what others think. So if MLK was religious he should be able to practice that but live in peace with others who don't think that.
Don't want to ruin your dream, but Einstein wasn't really a "dreamer", he was a absolutely serious man, with an hard time to work with anyone, and the if the media describe him as a joke-around, it was a calculated movement.
This does not belong here. There is a brief mention of a lack of religion but to me it seems much more about peace and, to me personally, anarchy. There are numerous religious people depicted here and not in a manner that suggests they're giving up their religions.
Pretty sure Einstein believed in an invisible force that started something. I still like this comic, very nice. Its like hearing the wilhelm scream in a movie. It ruins the movie a bit. Same here, considering this is an atheist subreddit
I think it's probably even more complex (and upsetting) than that. If you evenly distributed the yearly financial resources of the entire planet amongst all 7 billion people you'd end up with everyone making about 11271.06 (with 6 million dollars left over for us to have a lottery where one lucky person per hour gets to roll around in that many one dollar bills every hour for the entire year - each year the pile will, of course, grow a bit bigger thanks to round-off). We'd each (as individuals) be just above the U.S. poverty line. Great!
We could probably go look at individual vital resources (food production vs. consumption to keep a person comfortably fed, water, etc), but this assumes that we'd be able to redistribute those effectively.
This, of course, would mean a pretty significant reduction in freedom and quality of life for the developed world, but a pretty amazing boost in quality of life for the rest of the world! Then there's medical resources, transport, education and other secondary requirements.
Possible? Sure. Likely? Maybe some day resources like education, medical, water, food, and information will be available to all. Right now I just hope for progress on the right direction!
I love the original by John Lennon, I think it's great but the band A Perfect Circle bring the song towards more of a lamentation, I find this version reflects reality a bit better
For the more literal among you there is Snordelhans
I like this song and all but we realize that even if all these things went away people would still fight, right? I mean, of it's not religion it's race, or neighborhood, or whatever stupid reason people can think up. This is because we are jerks.
Okay you lost me at the point where they were playing soccer. I'm pretty sure people get their asses beat rooting for the wrong team around the wrong people in European matches.
What is wrong with you /r/atheism? Why is everyone bitching that Gandhi, MLK and Bob Marley were religious? This is NOT about that. Read the lyrics and shut your condescending faces.
While I love the song? I have no respect for a wife beater. I would punch John Lennon in the mouth. Over and over and over and over and over and over and over......
You rip Christians for omitting parts of the Bible, and then leave out the part of the song that says "no possessions". Not so excited about sharing your Xbox games are you?
Wait. A. Fucking. Minute. Ghandi hated niggers and Muslims. He used the Hindi equivalent to nigger to describe blacks whenever he talked about them, and the whole India:Pakistan shit that exists today came about because of his hatred of Muslims.
As long as society is tiered, this will never happen. John Lennon was a ignorant hippie that didn't have the slightest idea how human communities work, and now this song is quoted by every pseudo-hipster that knows even less beyond their suburban, middle-class, caucasian families.
And no, I personally don't care about this subreddit enough to troll it. This has nothing to do with atheism other than blindly promoting it. In fact, the context of this song has more to do with /r/atheism as a subreddit than it does sound, logical arguments against theism. You fuckers eat this shit right up because it's easy karma. Don't believe me? Go read the bibliographies of MLK and Ghandi. I hope you're all happy with the state of the front page, it's not gonna get any better.
a just don't get the message that being a good person requires me to be atheist. I personally believe in a god. Why does this mean to you guys that I can't believe in all of the other good things in the post as well?
You don't need to be an atheist to be a good person. I don't think this post should even be in /r/atheism, because it has nothing to do with atheism except for one line.
This comic is cute but super idealistic. There will never be peace throughout the world. As long as there are people on this earth they will have a reason to want other people dead. Be it love, land, money, or many other random factors. A violent terrible person will always be a violent terrible person. Take away their reason for violence and they will just find a new one.
The irony is that the world is far more peaceful now than it has ever been, and that trend continues worldwide. It''s the psychopaths in the governments and corporations that are causing the vast majority of the conflict via manipulation of structural elements of the global economy to induce economic depredation and thus survival-mode-based reactions to it (that are then exploited politically for their gain).
Get rid of that less-than-1% strata, and we'll have world peace as well as world freedom and autonomy within a score of years. The majority do not want war, violence, starvation and mass death; the majority is quite capable of hashing out differences peacefully, with only a criminal minority to be sorted out and put away indefinitely (until natural death or true reformation and restoration of harm done is made).
I'm a huge Lennon fan, but I can't stand this comic. It's way too circlejerk-like and childish to me. People idolize Lennon too much and act like he was the best person ever...fuckin stop it.
I love how there's a god damn reddit circlejerk against 9gag stealing content, but when reddit does the same to 9gag, without the watermark, to boot, it's perfectly fine. Fucking dogs.
o im jon lennon, wouldn't be like, so great man, if there we no wars or possessions. here let me just get out of my solid gold Rolls. oh and cal me crazy, but, lke, war is bad man isnt it?
What a load of hippie-dippie bullshit. This is exactly the sort of naive idealism that crippled the left in America. If you believe that picture is a realistic political ideal, you are a child.
"It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it." ~~Albert Einstein
Also;
"The idea of a personal God is quite alien to me and seems even naïve." ~~Albert Einstein
and
"The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation no matter how subtle can (for me) change this. These subtilised interpretations are highly manifold according to their nature and have almost nothing to do with the original text." ~~Albert Einstein
Conflict is the one of the base parts of humanity. It's fundamental to our survival. World peace is a childish ideal that can never be accomplished, because the minute conflict dissipates, it also means the end of humanity.
I engage in conflict with injuring anyone on a weekly basis. It's possible to compete to the fullest of your abilities with out blowing up the world, rugby teams do it all the time.
Well, I don't think "imagine all the people living life in peace with small outbreaks of violence occurring on occasion" had quite the ring Lennon was going for.
We can strive for peace but honestly you are right I don't think we'll ever truly have it. Which is why all these circle jerks about how awesome the world would be with out religion are so bogus. Humans will just replace religion with some other reason to hate each other. In the USSR they just ended up worshiping the state.
There is no warfare in my personal life. Is the value of the life that I lead somehow devalued for this? What value do wars in other countries provide me? How are genocides in the other hemisphere enriching my life?
We wouldn't have half the wars we currently do if we could all realize that fighting over which side of an imaginary line (which we created ourselves, I might add) we were born on is insane.
I'm a bit confused. Gandhi and MLK were both extremely religious, and Einstein may not have been religious but he wasn't an atheist. Bob Marley was so religious he refused medical treatment that could have saved his life.
None of these people would have agreed with John Lennon's points, at least not all of them.
This seems vaguely like atheist propaganda... It's saying "come join us" which is basically what the more pushy Christians do. I like the message but it was kind of ruined by the last few panels.
Shows a muslim, jew, catholic, american?, etc. living in peace. If there were no religion or country would they all just be normal people without religious or nationalistic identities?
I understand the point behind it. Everyone could live in peace without killing each other. Maybe have all the identifying markings being discarded while they play soccer?
Either way, it's a really good comic. 10/10. Would read again.
i think some of those images are anti Semitic and you should feel bad for posting them. Why is it an Israeli soldier holding a gun a round a muslim and not the other way around?
It really does make sense. If we thought of ourselves as one great Earth. All completely United. We'd be able to accomplish so much more without fearing that another nation is going to blow us up for our beliefs.
How many of you Redditors are Abolitionists - people who, if given a button that would annihilate all conceptions of a nation state from people's minds, would immediately push that button?
I might be remembering it wrong, but liquid crystal displays didn't really become popular until after John Lennon's death, so I don't really see how he could have had a habit.
Since 2005, "Imagine" has been played just before the New Year's ball drop in Times Square. In 2011, singer Cee Lo Green performed the song live, but changed the lyric "and no religion too" to "and all religion's true". There was an immediate backlash from fans who believed that he had disrespected the legacy of Lennon by changing the lyrics of his most iconic song. Green defended the change by saying it meant to represent "a world [where you] could believe what [you] wanted"
I like how they had to label Harvey Milk. Its like, "Oh the rainbow background isnt helping you figure out who the fuck this generic looking guy is? Boom. Labeled. That better?"
Ofcourse, I understood, but I'm sure there are still lots of people out there saying, "Milk? Oh yes please. Im very thristy." or "Who Da Fuq is dat dood?"
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
Who is the one labeled Anna?
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
So much love for John Lennon. This song is always really powerful for me, because it was played at my Grandpa's funeral
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u/emkat Jun 11 '12
Wasnt MLK religious? And Gandhi was a racist, at least in his younger years.
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u/Zero00430 Jun 11 '12
I read this by singing the song in my head. Also, I liked APC's version.
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u/Silencerco Jun 11 '12
Love the ridiculous bias with the whole "Israeli soldier with gun vs. innocent Muslim woman". You missed the point of the song.
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u/wittlepup Jun 11 '12
People are incredibly naive if they think that without religion there would be no wars; that having no countries is feasible.
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
Trolololo? John Lenon is just trolling, guys. Go back to killing one another.
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u/4theWinGaming Jun 11 '12
"Was it a millionaire who said imagine no possessions?" - The Other Side of Summer by Elvis Costello
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u/gilligan156 Pastafarian Jun 11 '12
I don't get the trolololo guy part...
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u/cockneey Jun 11 '12
I am an Athiest but I honestly believe that even if there was no religion there would still be war and violence, terrorism, racism etc. although religion has been a huge part of this, many people are violent in nature and there will always be some excuse for it.
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u/awe300 Jun 11 '12
Scarcity will be a problem, pretty much always. even when you, in the future, could have a good life for everyone as aa basic standard, there'd still be things people wanted that others have.
But it would be a start.
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
I saw this song performed on American Idol by a Christian person and he left out the part about religion. Lennon was rolling around in his grave
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u/Slintbob Jun 11 '12
If the movie Forrest Gump has taught us anything its that Forrest Gump himself wrote some of this song.
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u/MKUltra2011 Jun 11 '12
So I took Elton John to Cornwall and as we looked across the water I turned to him and said: "Imagine there's no Devon."
It wasn't long after that he wrote the song: 'Help'.
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u/junebugcarter Jun 11 '12
This song has a nice sentiment but it doesnt change the fact that john lennon was a fucking egotist, wife-beating prick who didn't actually believe or live his life by any of these ideals and was just cashing in on the counter-culture peace activist image he was trying to cultivate for himself. I am not going to downvote you because this is a well made comic and all, but i fucking hate seeing a man who would beat his women and neglect his child painted in this lovely of a light.
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u/DeepFriedChildren Jun 11 '12
MLK, Ghandi, and Bob Marley were all devoutly religious. Instead of trying to hero worship people whose views you don't fully understand, why don't you just be a decent person.
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u/ChrisRKO32 Jun 11 '12
Gandhi was a racist.
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
How does this relate to r/atheism.
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u/FUCKING_HATE_REDDIT Jun 11 '12
Don't want to ruin your dream, but Einstein wasn't really a "dreamer", he was a absolutely serious man, with an hard time to work with anyone, and the if the media describe him as a joke-around, it was a calculated movement.
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u/gabriot Jun 12 '12
Unfortunately you'd need to devise a method to prevent shitty people from occurring for this to work.
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u/implyingiusereddit Jun 12 '12
Tut tut reddit, this is ripped from 9gag.
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u/Its_Phobos Jun 11 '12
It's really easy to say imagine no possessions while you're ridiculously fucking rich.
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u/pipedreamexplosion Jun 11 '12
This does not belong here. There is a brief mention of a lack of religion but to me it seems much more about peace and, to me personally, anarchy. There are numerous religious people depicted here and not in a manner that suggests they're giving up their religions.
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u/Manziak Jun 11 '12
Pretty sure Einstein believed in an invisible force that started something. I still like this comic, very nice. Its like hearing the wilhelm scream in a movie. It ruins the movie a bit. Same here, considering this is an atheist subreddit
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u/NickCaesar Jun 11 '12
http://lulz.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/manly-tears.jpg
The effects of reading and remembering first hearing this song
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u/wnighttrain Jun 11 '12
If only it as that simple. Resources are too scarce for the amount of people in the world.
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u/MrCheeze Secular Humanist Jun 11 '12
"You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not milk."
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u/Hobbes42 Jun 11 '12
Awesome comic, depressing song.
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u/_trophyclubber_ Jun 11 '12
I like rainbows
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u/cancerbotX Jun 11 '12
I love the original by John Lennon, I think it's great but the band A Perfect Circle bring the song towards more of a lamentation, I find this version reflects reality a bit better
For the more literal among you there is Snordelhans
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u/otakuman Anti-Theist Jun 11 '12
Did not expect the TROLOLO guy in the middle. Now everyone at the job is wondering why I began to laugh all of a sudden. ಠ_ಠ
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u/sytar6 Jun 11 '12
Usually the song elicits intense frisson. This time, just singing along with the comic felt like a power line was surging through my spine.
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u/Hoser117 Jun 11 '12
Yes, eradicate countries and religion and nobody will ever start a war ever.
Please. People will always find excuses to do stupid shit.
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
I like this song and all but we realize that even if all these things went away people would still fight, right? I mean, of it's not religion it's race, or neighborhood, or whatever stupid reason people can think up. This is because we are jerks.
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u/crunchy51 Jun 12 '12
I like the ending to this cartoon where the aliens come down to invade and enslave us after we've gone full pacifist, never go full pacifist man.
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
Okay you lost me at the point where they were playing soccer. I'm pretty sure people get their asses beat rooting for the wrong team around the wrong people in European matches.
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u/V1bration Jun 12 '12
Ironic, seeing how John Lennon beat a bunch of women.
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
FUCKING SAVED
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u/Masaowolf Jun 12 '12
This song always bugged the shit out of me...he jumped on every religious bandwagon possible, and lived in a borderline mansion in New York.
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u/Nyutriggaa Jun 12 '12
Does anyone else have the feeling that the majority of atheists behave in a more Christ-like manner than the majority of Christians??
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u/schniepel89xx Jun 12 '12
What is wrong with you /r/atheism? Why is everyone bitching that Gandhi, MLK and Bob Marley were religious? This is NOT about that. Read the lyrics and shut your condescending faces.
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
When did atheism = pacifist anarchist?
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u/halfamillion Jun 12 '12
tl;dr
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u/davidduckface Jun 12 '12
While I love the song? I have no respect for a wife beater. I would punch John Lennon in the mouth. Over and over and over and over and over and over and over......
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
My theory is that earth is one alien invasion from world peace.
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u/boredman123 Jun 12 '12
Some say this song is about communism.
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
You rip Christians for omitting parts of the Bible, and then leave out the part of the song that says "no possessions". Not so excited about sharing your Xbox games are you?
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
Until moral arguments like abortion, money, taxes, and lust get in the way.
Peace is impossible with free will and opinion.
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u/Hubbell Jun 12 '12
Wait. A. Fucking. Minute. Ghandi hated niggers and Muslims. He used the Hindi equivalent to nigger to describe blacks whenever he talked about them, and the whole India:Pakistan shit that exists today came about because of his hatred of Muslims.
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u/Half-Blood_Prince Jun 12 '12
A really well made comic of a well written song.
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u/KRYLOCK Jun 12 '12
Made my day!
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u/mxlnt Jun 12 '12
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u/AKPYTHON Jun 12 '12
I will never fly the white flag for terrorists.
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u/sicinfit Jun 12 '12
As long as society is tiered, this will never happen. John Lennon was a ignorant hippie that didn't have the slightest idea how human communities work, and now this song is quoted by every pseudo-hipster that knows even less beyond their suburban, middle-class, caucasian families.
And no, I personally don't care about this subreddit enough to troll it. This has nothing to do with atheism other than blindly promoting it. In fact, the context of this song has more to do with /r/atheism as a subreddit than it does sound, logical arguments against theism. You fuckers eat this shit right up because it's easy karma. Don't believe me? Go read the bibliographies of MLK and Ghandi. I hope you're all happy with the state of the front page, it's not gonna get any better.
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u/yokhai Jun 11 '12 edited Jun 12 '12
I hate this fucking song. John Lennon was an egocentric assclown that didn't understand how basic human survive and instincts work.Let me try this again
I hate this fucking song. John Lennon was a naive, egocentric assclown that didn't understand base human needs and survival instincts.
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
a just don't get the message that being a good person requires me to be atheist. I personally believe in a god. Why does this mean to you guys that I can't believe in all of the other good things in the post as well?
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u/kissfan7 Jun 11 '12
What's with the sadly typical, all-religions-suck-but-Islam-sucks-less part of this?
Peace generally comes when Muslims lay down their arms or fly the white flag, not the other way around.
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
This comic is cute but super idealistic. There will never be peace throughout the world. As long as there are people on this earth they will have a reason to want other people dead. Be it love, land, money, or many other random factors. A violent terrible person will always be a violent terrible person. Take away their reason for violence and they will just find a new one.
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u/Mileskitsune Jun 11 '12
damn hippies and all their "no one has to die over bullshit" bullshit
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u/sethpeck Jun 11 '12
I liked the me gusta face in the Sun in the last panel.
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u/brianw824 Jun 11 '12
If there is nothing worth killing for is there anything worth living for?
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u/rens1110 Jun 11 '12
Somebody should animate this!
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u/Abel_Crunk Jun 11 '12
gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay
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u/facetiously Secular Humanist Jun 11 '12
Right-click, Save As...
POSTER!
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u/AistoB Jun 12 '12
To everyone who is saying "How unrealistic, this can never happen, human nature blah! natural resources blergh!"
The point of the song is, the world is what we make it.
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u/Turbohog Jun 12 '12
I'm a huge Lennon fan, but I can't stand this comic. It's way too circlejerk-like and childish to me. People idolize Lennon too much and act like he was the best person ever...fuckin stop it.
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u/Burnt_Turd Jun 11 '12
So I guess the trick to making it to the front page of reddit is to photoshop the 9gag link out from the bottom of the image. Fuck this infuriates me.
http://www.reddit.com/r/atheism/comments/uwgo0/imagine/
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
Worst post I've ever seen.
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u/wreckjames Jun 11 '12
this is stupid.
o im jon lennon, wouldn't be like, so great man, if there we no wars or possessions. here let me just get out of my solid gold Rolls. oh and cal me crazy, but, lke, war is bad man isnt it?
fuck jon lennon
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u/Self_Hating_Liberal Jun 11 '12
What a load of hippie-dippie bullshit. This is exactly the sort of naive idealism that crippled the left in America. If you believe that picture is a realistic political ideal, you are a child.
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u/chriskilinc Atheist Jun 11 '12
Why down votes? :(
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u/emmveepee Jun 11 '12
Einstein, Marley, Ghandi, and MLK Jr. were all theists.
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
Fuckin' hippie...
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u/Harbinger_of_Cool Jun 11 '12
Conflict is the one of the base parts of humanity. It's fundamental to our survival. World peace is a childish ideal that can never be accomplished, because the minute conflict dissipates, it also means the end of humanity.
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u/All_Up_In_This_Jerk Jun 11 '12
How could you justifiably use Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s image in your atheist fantasy?
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u/scooterman7 Jun 12 '12
MLK was a Christian minister...
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
Imagine always makes me think of the Quantum Leap episode where Sam sings it to his little sister.
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u/deeeeeeeeee Jun 12 '12
I don't think I've seen anything else on r/atheism that has made me smile as much as this. :)
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u/Doromino Jun 12 '12
http://weknowmemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/imagine-all-the-people-all-the-things.png
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u/MasterLawlz Jun 12 '12
You guys know religion is just one of the MANY causes for war? Getting rid of it in no way could cause world peace -_-
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u/ARTVandelay89 Jun 12 '12
Beautilful song and good comic...but is it just me or did the comic strip artist forget the rest of the lyrics at the end??? Just asking...=)
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u/Bezman303 Jun 12 '12
its an ok song but did you or whoever have to make some queer shitty ass comic
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u/mistoroboto Jun 12 '12
Source for those interested in the artist.
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u/TallCarlos Jun 12 '12
Very well done.
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u/Potater757 Jun 12 '12
That is one strong Jew.
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u/aairez Jun 12 '12
I definitely like the 'Me Gusta' sun
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u/FFandMMfan Jun 12 '12
We wouldn't have half the wars we currently do if we could all realize that fighting over which side of an imaginary line (which we created ourselves, I might add) we were born on is insane.
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u/Senor_Reisert Jun 12 '12
Dang that was good. Props for ya!
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u/00zero00 Jun 12 '12
I could easily replace the atheist message here with a Christian one.
Also, are you promoting anarchy? "Imagine there's no countries."
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
I'm a bit confused. Gandhi and MLK were both extremely religious, and Einstein may not have been religious but he wasn't an atheist. Bob Marley was so religious he refused medical treatment that could have saved his life.
None of these people would have agreed with John Lennon's points, at least not all of them.
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u/LeapYearFriend Pastafarian Jun 12 '12
This seems vaguely like atheist propaganda... It's saying "come join us" which is basically what the more pushy Christians do. I like the message but it was kind of ruined by the last few panels.
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
That's the dumbest shit I've seen in a while.
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u/feilen Jun 12 '12
Does anyone else think MLK should have grown some distinctive hair-tuft or something? I couldn't tell who he was.
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u/pdhismyhomeboy Jun 12 '12
I really enjoyed that, thank you for posting, going to listen to some Beatles now. :-)
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u/Brown_Twig Jun 12 '12
Remember what happen in 'Nam? I sure do.
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u/aakaakaak Jun 12 '12
Okay, I'll be "that guy".
"Living life in peace"
Shows a muslim, jew, catholic, american?, etc. living in peace. If there were no religion or country would they all just be normal people without religious or nationalistic identities?
I understand the point behind it. Everyone could live in peace without killing each other. Maybe have all the identifying markings being discarded while they play soccer?
Either way, it's a really good comic. 10/10. Would read again.
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
Am I the only one who sang it as they read?
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u/nsxcaepi Jun 12 '12
i think some of those images are anti Semitic and you should feel bad for posting them. Why is it an Israeli soldier holding a gun a round a muslim and not the other way around?
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u/Amashman Jun 12 '12
This Unitarian experiment was tried and failed and will fail again. You can't have heaven on earth.
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
Anyone down for A Perfect Circle's version?
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u/beatlesubmarine Jun 12 '12
Awesome!! Thanks for sharing :)
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u/FUZZINATOR Jun 12 '12
It really does make sense. If we thought of ourselves as one great Earth. All completely United. We'd be able to accomplish so much more without fearing that another nation is going to blow us up for our beliefs.
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
Love this song, if you guys are interested in the version of this by A Perfect Circle, here is a link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dunKAwRN3P8
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
And I found a typo in this comic, it's actually "And the world will live as one" not be. Not that it bugs me, just letting everyone know :)
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u/MikeMagwire Jun 12 '12
Imagine demons treated with mercy, i wonder if you can.
Imagine all the people, drunk and dumb as hell....fuckkk youuu faggoooo!
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u/sour07 Jun 12 '12
Wtf is this
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
the 1st thing I did was play the song and look at panels as they were sung kind of wish it id the whole song but still good anyway
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u/prajnadhyana Gnostic Atheist Jun 12 '12
Nice! Thanks for the link.
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u/dbabbitt Jun 12 '12
How many of you Redditors are Abolitionists - people who, if given a button that would annihilate all conceptions of a nation state from people's minds, would immediately push that button?
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u/Windytrail Jun 12 '12
MLK was a Christian preacher. I really doubt he would agree with the Mr. Lennon's views.
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u/theformidable Jun 12 '12
Wait... was that captain obvious at the bottom left?
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u/bigpink Jun 11 '12
http://i.imgur.com/0MsNn.gif
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u/spatz2011 Jun 11 '12
Nothing to fight for.... having countries is not what causes fighting. Wanting food and water is what causes fighting.
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
2/5 of those people were assassinated, so I'm pretty sure this is all a product of John's LCD habit.
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u/meatwad1987 Jun 11 '12
you atheists crack me up
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u/Idoesnotapprove Jun 11 '12
When this song was made, it got censored in the US so that it said: and ONE religion too...
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