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[Qwert]

I see a whole different reality.  One where there are no more reasons for wars or greed.  One in which governments become much less important.

You must be five years old... well, maybe six: after all, you already know how to write. Tell me something about Santa Claus...

[trim12]

I see more and more people living on the sea, people fed up with government telling what they can do, will once the infrastructures are in place, choose to build their own habitats on the ocean either semi fixed or fully mobile.

Even floating Hong Kongs. 

[TinselKoala]

When all the people who sit around imagining the world of peace that John talked about _stop hiring politicians and generals who want war_..... then maybe it will happen.

Those people, though, are all full of love, have no weapons, eat vegetables for dinner, and make love. Meanwhile, the politicians, generals and Military-Industrial-Ikea complex depend for their livelihood on warfare, constant and simmering at low levels but which could "blow up" at any time.

If the generals and the peaceniks were to have a cage-fight.... who would you bet on?

"Right".... doesn't make might. "Peace" in Lennon's vision is seen as nothing more than a power vacuum by despots all over the world. We are human beings, we have millions of years of evolutionary history of bonking our neighbors over the head with big sticks, stealing their meat and their women, and trying to utterly wipe them out. The ones of us who were the best at that, survived to reproduce.... and then we learned to talk. It's been pretty much all downhill from there.

[WilbyInebriated]

'right in two' by tool:

angels on the sideline
puzzled and amused.
why did father give these humans free will?
now they're all confused.

don't these talking monkeys know that eden has enough to go around?
plenty in this holy garden, silly old monkeys,
where there's one you're bound to divide it
right in two

angels on the sideline
baffled and confused
father blessed them all with reason.
and this is what they choose.
monkey killing monkey killing monkey over pieces of the ground

silly monkeys give them thumbs,
they forge a blade, and where there's one they're bound to divide it
right in two.
right in two.

monkey killing monkey killing monkey over pieces of the ground
silly monkeys give them thumbs, they make a club
and beat their brother down.
how they survive so misguided is a mystery.
repugnant is a creature who would squander the ability
to lift an eye to heaven, conscious of his fleeting time here

cut and divide it all right in two
cut and divide it all right in two
cut and divide it all right in two
cut and divide it all right in two

fight over the clouds, over wind, over sky and
fight over life, over blood, over air and light,
over love, over sun, over another.
they fight till they die over words, polarizing.

angels on the sideline again
been so long with patience and reason
angels on the sideline again
wondering when this tug of war will end

cut and divide it all right in two
cut and divide it all right in two
cut and divide it all right in two
cut and divide it all right in two
right in two
right in two

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLjrD-oXkhA

[minnie]

Hi,
  I think that if a new form of cheap energy were to come along on Nov. 30 that it would probably take decades for it to filter
through. Everyone knows how to make and handle the stuff we've known for so long.  Change would have to be quite slow
because most of us couldn't afford new equipment, and manufacturing involves long term investment which couldn't be
scrapped over night.
                   Something needs to happen and fairly soon. I think that "fracking" is just going that bit too far, seems
to me we've messed up the atmosphere, now we're attacking the very earth itself,
                                                                                                        John.