Gothamist: Yoko Ono's Message in The Times

Sten99592

Wed, 21 Mar 2007 05:25:09 -0500

I haven't gotten anything done today. I feel like a fog, but what can I say? I've just been letting everything wash over me lately, not that it matters. Shrug.

Sten64133

Tue, 06 Mar 2007 22:15:14 -0500

I've more or less been doing nothing worth mentioning, but eh. My life's been really bland today. I don't care. I've just been letting everything happen without me these days. That's how it is.

H.C. R. A.

Wed, 27 Dec 2006 15:03:03 -0500

The challenge of the holiday season - as well as every day of our life - involves finding life's beauty - where ever we may be - and elevating oneself to a higher level of being, thinking, interacting, reading, creating, expressing oneself through the arts, and ulitmately living. Thanks Yoko for doing your part. Healing and peace to you and your family. May evert reader attempt to bring peace into his/her heart and to make this world a better, more beautiful and peaceful place for everyone.

nunyabuisness

Mon, 11 Dec 2006 10:20:20 -0500

:) this ad makes me happy. your hate comments make me vomit. love

mike

Fri, 08 Dec 2006 22:55:33 -0500

I THINK THIS AD WAS WHAT JOHN AND YOKO WERE ALL ABOUT! IT LIVES ON TODAY! YOKO IS JUST REMINDING THE NEW GENERATION! FOR THE FOOLS THAT SAY JOHN LENNON WAS NOTHING, READ YOUR MUSICAL HISTORY FOR IF IT WAS NOT FOR THE BEATLES (WHO WERE MUSICAL GENIUS'S ESPECIALLY LENNON) THERE WOULD BE NO MUSIC AS WE KNOW IT TODAY!!!!! LET'S SEE THOSE PEOPLE WRITE SONGS EVEN CLOSE!!! LONG LIVE THE IDEALS OF A LEGEND!!!!

Carol

Fri, 08 Dec 2006 15:54:42 -0500

Reading these comments gives me pause and sadness. How can we ever hope for peace and healing when we take any effort a person makes in this regard and personalize it by projecting our own shadow on them. When pointing fingers one always has to point to self. What you are seeing in the other person is a part of yourself you do not want to own. We are not perfect but human beings. When we accept that fact we can begin to show compassion. In other words we can begin to forgive ourselves and others which is what this message is about. Don't get so myopic about it and read into it what isn't there. When you look "the enemy" in their eyes you will see yourself reflexed. Judge not.

Johnozed

Fri, 08 Dec 2006 14:53:38 -0500

Thanks for the wonderful and hopeful letter Yoko. All the best to you and everyone else that wants it. Too bad that certain people can only see and feel hate. As for peace, think globally and act locally.

Pam Jean

Fri, 08 Dec 2006 10:49:05 -0500

Yoko's words are beautiful and touch my heart and soul just as so many of John's did. Just IMAGINE if we all read, believed and lived peace and forgiveness. Thank you Yoko Pam 12/8/2006

Donny Maupin

Fri, 08 Dec 2006 00:43:13 -0500

It drips like water from the soul. Well the music I mean, the everlasting words of peace, love and understanding. A simple concept so fragile it can only be grasped through feeling. December Ninth Nineteen Eighty, was the end of all that was beautiful an yet the beginning of a revolution filled with inspiration. Even today the words are touching people beyond the depth of reason. Conceived by idealists, John Lennon a single word IMAGINE. love for all heal for all peace for all donny maupin 11/16/85

anonymous

Thu, 07 Dec 2006 05:24:56 -0500

hey nice comments everyone the beatles are only the most important rock group of all time and will be remembered for centuries long after you assholes die.

Clyde Fernandes

Tue, 05 Dec 2006 02:08:09 -0500

Im gonna be putting this up on my blog as well :) Helping to spread the message of peace n love!

Ice

Fri, 01 Dec 2006 16:26:29 -0500

Wow how sad. I appreciate The letter from Yoko. May the world someday see peace.

Opinionated? Moi?

Wed, 29 Nov 2006 16:22:48 -0500

Why on Earth would Julian want to be with Yoko? He already has a mother. There is no hate here... just a healthy disrespect for people who don't know what they're talking about.

Sam E. Scalici

Wed, 29 Nov 2006 14:09:36 -0500

What can I say? You either get it or you don't. Forgive her? For what, falling in love? That's funny! Imagine no possessions...I wonder if WE can. ( This was the lyric on one cut...he puts himself and Yoko in the same catagory!) If he were here now, he would have gotten Julian and Yoko together. Simply bad timing. Stop the hate. That's the message! Stop the wars everywhere. Don't worship Lennon! He said himself, he's just a man, an admitted shitty father to Julian, Beatles were just a pop group, nothing to worry about. I believe, knowing what he knows right now, he'd be saying that the "answer" to the meaning of life is loving humanity as did the Christ. Fuhgiddaboddit!!!

Opinionated? Moi?

Wed, 29 Nov 2006 09:26:33 -0500

Then again, your guess could be totally wrong. And what's so interesting about her? Her singing voice? Do you know anything about her? To put her whole ad into a nutshell: Forgive our country for electing such a dimwitted dolt.

peacewoman

Tue, 28 Nov 2006 16:06:47 -0500

maybe it is time for the world of John fans to forgive Yoko. Could that be what she craves as well? I've enjoyed her throughout the years and I agree with her. The comment above about "imagine no possessions" was very funny but-- come on.... she is only human. She can't give up EVERYTHING! My guess is she gives millions anyway. interesting smart lady. give her credit. forgive her.

Snark

Tue, 28 Nov 2006 10:29:04 -0500

Where's Julian?

Donna Lee Michas

Mon, 27 Nov 2006 22:30:45 -0500

Thank you for posting the full Ad. I looked for the content everywhere and could not find it. I shall direct my blog visitors here to read it ASAP.

gillian

Mon, 27 Nov 2006 17:59:44 -0500

manda, hair peace

Guy

Mon, 27 Nov 2006 17:19:44 -0500

Heather, I don't see how a simple text ad without much embellishment can get any more "tasteful". World peace also doesn't seem like anyone's own personal agenda.

k-one

Mon, 27 Nov 2006 14:57:51 -0500

props to yoko ono for this. every day as new yorkers and americans we're confronted with images and news of terrible violence, and sometimes it hits us close to home, whether through a mugging, carjacking, a friend or relative killed in iraq, or other senseless violence. that full-page ad is a reflective and commendable plea for sanity. and what she asks is no small thing: i've had a parent and a close friend murdered in my thirty-some years, and while i experience a lot of emotion around their deaths, forgiveness isn't one of them. but she's right that it has to happen at some point. look, did she have to lay out the dough for this? no. gothamist provides decent content. i find some pieces more interesting than others; i skim and read what jumps out at me. i really don't get why the comments here tend so heavily toward the spiteful and asinine.

Samantha T

Mon, 27 Nov 2006 13:30:10 -0500

Heathre, what the hell are you talking about? Yoko and John were huge peace activists and he died violently - she's using the day of his death to promote peace, not herself. She's a relatively low-profile New Yorker who is using her fame in an entirely responsible way. In fact, she's trying to harness the attention to her husband's death to remind us all of people suffering everhwere. As for the forum, perhaps getting the word out is more important to Ono than being "tasteful." I don't understand how anybody could criticize her for doing this.

Heathre

Mon, 27 Nov 2006 13:14:06 -0500

I am a huge Beatles/Lennon fan, but I feel like Yoko Ono is using her husband's death for her own personal agenda and to keep herself in the spotlight. I don't know. I just feel that this could have been done in a more tasteful way.

hary

Mon, 27 Nov 2006 12:54:02 -0500

This is great, and also on 50 other blogs. Where is the relevant music coverage ? Lennon was shot, time to move on.

Yvo

Mon, 27 Nov 2006 12:45:22 -0500

Geez people calm down. ...isn't that also Pearl Harbor Day?

Mondo

Mon, 27 Nov 2006 12:21:15 -0500

What kind of peace was John Lennon talking about anyway? Its a little vague.

'sif

Mon, 27 Nov 2006 11:38:59 -0500

geez.. the ad was a nice sentiment.. stop giving her crap about it.

christian

Mon, 27 Nov 2006 11:31:27 -0500

personally I think the Beatles stink / stunk ! Hey Yuko remember this line "Imagine no possessions" well your husband wrote it. So why don't you give away your possesions for the good of mankind and stop being a hypocrite ! Loooooser !

christian

Mon, 27 Nov 2006 11:27:08 -0500

What cares about John Lennon, woopie doo ! Now the liberal asshat Yuko Uno is at it again with her leftist rhetoric. Beautiful ? oh please ! lol You should be shot Yuko ! Why not write a letter to all the terrorist telling them we are sorry for putting those buildings in your flight path, you pathetic piece of dirt !

A Tasteless Jokester

Mon, 27 Nov 2006 10:40:35 -0500

Q. What did Yoko say after she heard John was shot? A. Ono.

JT

Mon, 27 Nov 2006 08:21:05 -0500

I'm not a fan or Yoko Ono or John Lennon at all, but I appreciate her letter a lot -- well said.

K

Mon, 27 Nov 2006 01:28:47 -0500

Beautiful. Thank you to Yoko for her heartfelt message... John will always be in our memories.

John Who?

Sun, 26 Nov 2006 23:03:00 -0500

um... who is John Lennon? the only important person to die that day was DIMEBAG!

anonymass

Sun, 26 Nov 2006 19:31:48 -0500

Just waiting for the bloodthirsty right-wing contingent to chime in on how it's America's right to trample over the globe spreading 'democracy'...

evan

Sun, 26 Nov 2006 16:35:24 -0500

yes i agree, girls, i needs that healing too, please do email so we all can heal