Everything You Knew is Wrong

You could probably subtitle this, “most of the people I run into on Livejournal.”

Imagine What?

I’m a huge, huge Beatles fan, but can’t stand “Imagine” on multiple levels. So this, even though it’s a crime against the general principle of song parodies and has about three times as many syllables as it ought to, really made me laugh.  I can’t embed Vimeo videos here, but check out the link for video of the performance.

Imagine there’s no heaven,
It’s easy if you try
Imagine there’s nothing real but what you see
Isn’t that a cheery thought?
Imagine all the people living for today

Imagine there’s no heaven or hell
And while we’re at it, no moral justice
No more consequences for what you do
You can cheat on your wife, no problem
(Everything turns out right anyway)
Wouldn’t this really be
A wonderful world to live in

You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
And we all know truth is determined by majority
So come along and we’ll be as one

Imagine no possessions
It isn’t hard to do
Imagine not being responsible for anything
Or caring how it’s treated
Life would be sort of like the public library
All the books with the pages ripped out

Imagine not wanting to own anything
Imagine not having the things you enjoy
So imagine not caring what you have for dinner
And no passions too
Imagine what it feels like to be a brick
Living as a brick for evermore

You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
So if we get enough people together
I’m sure we can talk some sense into God

Imagine no religion
No Jesus Christ to tell us what to do
Just all of us sort of figuring it out
And everyone stopping being selfish
A brotherhood of man
Because……it’s a nice thing to do
Imagine all the people
Achieving an uncorrupt, socialist world state all by ourselves

Well maybe that’s a little hard to imagine
But go ahead anyway,
After all we’ll show God we can be brave
No-ho-ho matter what He thinks

A lot of people can’t stand Commonweal, but I like it most of the time and just roll my eyes the rest of the time. I found this article fascinating, since I’ve met many Vietnamese-American Catholics in the last ten years, before visiting southern California, I didn’t even know that they existed. Yes, I grew up in a bubble.