Opinion question...hope for humanity??

Question

In one of John Lennon's songs it goes imagine there's no countries, religion, or possessions...

In your own opinion, what do you think the world will be like if there weren't any countries, religions, or possessions. Do you think we could ever achieve peace on earth? I'm curious too know what everyone else thinks. feel free to be as open as you wish. :)

Answer 1

the world would be like a really long beatles song... i would like it :D

Answer 2

I do think there would be peace on earth if there were no countries, possessions, etc, because those things all come down to greed, and a lust for power.

No possessions=no need for greed.

Answer 3

I think the world would be cool but hope does not exist.  For some reason, we put change in the future.  That someone or something will change us.  What about now?  Now is all you really have that only really exist.  The future is only the unfolding moment coming forth.  What change do you really seek?  Something according to your own view?  John Lennon?  Should the world unfold onto what you think it should be?  Had we not seen what happens when the world is the view of one person or the few?  Historically people who have had control of other and have shaped the world have created violence and conflict within societies. The question becomes how are you to change?  Through positive thinking?  Hoping of change?  Creating an idea of what the world should be and forcing it down peoples throats?  If you follow what we typically call change is nothing more than conditioning.  We react to what we don't like and go with the opposite.  If we don't like war, we want peace.  If it is too peaceful, we become restless which can lead to violence.  Conditioning is not change but mere reaction.  It is what most of us have done all our lives.  So what is change?  Change has nothing to do with reaction.  A child can react when it does not gets it way with its parents and most of us still react that same way since we were children.  If we dont get our way, we react with beligerance and sometimes violence if we dont get our way.  The American society is condition for pleasure and all of life should be happy without the least bit of trouble or unhappiness, yet unhappiness, conflict and trouble still exist.  The politicians cannot change because they are the product of the society itself and from looking at politics, they are interested in getting relected and getting their own agenda into law.  The religious people cannot do it either because they are trying to get their beliefs across to everyone.  In both cases, you may see that they are not interested in change but in getting you to conform to some kind of rules or control.  That is not change.  To change means that the conditioning process of becoming, to be different, the need to change has to come to an end.  To try to change to be something only leads to further reaction and conditioning of the mind.  If that process can stop within you, then that is change and if that can take place within you, then you have an effect upon humanity.  You will never be for this or that but always operating in the present and seeing things for what they are.  Not hoping for the better world nor asking for it.

Answer 4

I believe its emotional dichotomies that divide our world.  Especially that of Religions.... but I too must realize that some people that are religious are open-minded and as tolerant as anyone could expect them to be.... and that's the problem with these false-labels sects and boundries between us..

On a humurous note, does anyone remember when Bugs-Bunny(warner bros 80's cartoon) went into outer-space and he catches himself asking "Hey, where are all the lines....you know like on the map??"  You catch yourself laughing....but when its the first time you've thought about it...you say 'you know I might of asked the same thing..'

Anyway.... I think when it comes to religions... we need to learn about them, all of them, as early as we can as children.... it should be subject that is taught right along with social-studies, map-skills, and History.... not that we should teach them in depth theology about each one but the main similarities and differences...

Isn't funny when we ask College or High-School students, "What's your major?" and they reply "Mathematics, Biology, or Physics"... we choose not to bat an eye.... but that some peoples hairs stand on end when they learn their teen is hanging out with a Pagan or a Muslim...educating kids about religion early may not change the degree of Religious-Intolerance any one of us face over night, but it would be a good start and aim to the end John Lennon was trying to get at.

It might be different if there were no religion, but there is.... and the above alternative seems to be the next best way... to help take some of the exaggerated emotional-heat that comes prepackaged with religion today...

"One day I hope you'll join us....then the world will beat as one..."

Good question, Good correlation... peace..

Answer 5

...it would be nice...don't forget he was into drugs too...

...and on a high...there are no possessions, countries or religion...so we beat as one...

...then, COMES the down...and man does it hurt...REALITY...

...PROBLEMS...one IS staring at any individual NOW to contend with...

...only thing he had right was his title:  IMAGINE...

...thanks for asking...

Answer 6

John was right, however We can imagine, but as long as mankind has greed, lust for power, ego. That in his heart, his way is the only way. That the world has multi-languages, different currencies, and religions where the follower thinks his religion is the right one, and only true faith, there will never be world peace.