By R.J.Fox (Rickf) on Saturday, July 19, 2003 - 10:04 am:
All You Need Is Love (Lennon/McCartney)
Love, love, love.
Love, love, love.
Love, love, love.
There's nothing you can do that can't be done.
Nothing you can sing that can't be sung.
Nothing you can say but you can learn how to play the game.
It's easy.
Nothing you can make that can't be made.
No one you can save that can't be saved.
Nothing you can do but you can learn how to be you in time.
It's easy.
All you need is love.
All you need is love.
All you need is love, love.
Love is all you need.
All you need is love.
All you need is love.
All you need is love, love.
Love is all you need.
Nothing you can know that isn't known.
Nothing you can see that isn't shown.
Nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be.
It's easy.
All you need is love.
All you need is love.
All you need is love, love.
Love is all you need.
All you need is love (All together now!)
All you need is love. (Everybody!)
All you need is love, love.
Love is all you need (love is all you need).
Yee-hai!
Oh yeah!
She loves you, yeah yeah yeah.
She loves you, yeah yeah yeah.
Just a reminder. Love, Rick
By Ellen (Ellen) on Saturday, July 19, 2003 - 12:56 pm:
Cool man...like, far-out!
:-)))
"And in the end, the love you take, is equal to the love you make."
But, this wouldn't be Dave's board, without quoting one of his songs:
"So you've been where I've just come,
From the land that brings losers on.
So we will share this road we walk,
And mind our mouths and beware our talk.
Till peace we find, tell you what I'll do
All the things I own, I will share with you.
And if I feel tomorrow like I feel today,
We'll take what we want and give the rest away.
Strangers on this road we are on;
We are not two we are one."
I read in the Providence Journal this morning, about a new "barter board," in a convenience store in Providence. They are looking for someone to donate an abandoned building, or space to have a "shop" to trade items and services...no money is allowed. Our Department of Environmental Management loves the idea; it will keep a lot of usable things out of the landfills! I just think it is good for everyone, and things get re-used, and folks without much money, get things/services they need.
Good post, Rich. God bless!
Ellen
By R.J.Fox (Rickf) on Saturday, July 19, 2003 - 04:04 pm:
That is such an incredible idea, not only for tangible items, but for services as well. Maybe some day we'll get back to the point of bartering as a daily currency... then job-sharing (my pet cause) and who knows whatever our collective imaginations will bring? Unfortunately I think it will only happen after a monumental disaster, whether it be "man-made", or an act of "Nature". Prophecy WILL be fulfilled ya know... Is it :) or :( ? P.S. God Bless you, too, Ellen!
By R.J.Fox (Rickf) on Saturday, July 19, 2003 - 04:53 pm:
P.P.S. I would add "A Long Way From Home" to that sentiment, Ellen. ;)
By Ellen (Ellen) on Saturday, July 19, 2003 - 10:07 pm:
I think you are right about that, Rick. (a disaster will happen first, that is) But, it will be the sign of better times ahead. How much more abuse can this poor planet take from us all?
Take care, Rick.
Ellen
By Sharon (Katieanne) on Sunday, July 20, 2003 - 05:29 pm:
I think you might enjoy these words by George Harrison, Rick. Funny, I saw Harrison on D*ck Cavett years ago (I think it was D*ck Cavett) (arg, censorship :) ) and Cavett says to GH, you know it's easy for you, a rich rock star, to say "All You Need Is Love" when all your other needs are already met. But Harrison was adamant about taking it literally. Wish I remembered more.
~Sharon~
By R.J.Fox (Rickf) on Monday, July 21, 2003 - 10:27 am:
Yes, Sharon, I had seen that interview before. George Harrison did all he could to be a renunciant in the "Western World" amid all the adulation and Media hounding. Too bad he had to "wall himself up" (Wonderwall?). I think he did a fine job. - R
By Ellen (Ellen) on Monday, July 21, 2003 - 01:21 pm:
To paraphrase Jesus: "It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven." George's needs were met, and he was extremely grateful for that...and chose to share his joy and peaceful relationship with the Creator, with everyone. A wealthy person can become holy, simply by sharing, and giving from the heart.
See: Luke 19:1-10. This is the story of Zacchaeus.
By Sharon (Katieanne) on Tuesday, July 22, 2003 - 12:18 pm:
Thanks for the reference, Ellen... I checked it out on the web. I don't know that I believe that Jesus was the son of God anymore but there is a lot to be learned from the Bible.
By Ellen (Ellen) on Tuesday, July 22, 2003 - 12:40 pm:
I always loved that story, and acted it out for one of my catechism classes. (no, I don't even go to church anymore...got fed up with the lies, and ever-growing list of victims of priests who *love* little children) It shows the lighter side of Jesus, and also His intuitive side...how did He know Zacchaeus was up in the tree?
Like Dave and many others, I have no problem in believing in Jesus' divinity, or anyone else's; it's the way the organized religions twist the truth around for their own power games that bugs me.
If you ever get your hands on the Nag Hammadi Library(it is one book), buy it! It is the collection of what remains of the old Gnostic scrolls that the Church couldn't get their controlling little paws on. Too much reincarnation, etc, for the Church to deal with in there!
Ellen