Obama is more popular than God.

[Warrior_of_Freedom]

http://google.com/trends?q=obama%2C+god&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=1

[sevin]

so is porn: http://google.com/trends?q=porn%2C+god&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=1

What a world.

[Objectivist]

Odd... I don't believe in either of them.

[Yieu]

Odd... I don't believe in either of them.

You don't believe in Obama or porn? Me neither! :D

[rpfan2008]

http://www.mythinglinks.org/HitlerPlatform~newURL~c~R50~TL.JPG

[Kraig]

At least he is real.

[tonesforjonesbones]

John Lennon said that...look what happened to him...tone s

[heavenlyboy34]

John Lennon said that...look what happened to him...tone s

But Lennon was talking about the Beatles rather than himself, if I remember correctly. :confused:

[zach]

Obama is the answer to our prayers...

YouTube - BARACK OBAMA TRIBUTE - ONE MOMENT IN TIME - WHITNEY HOUSTON (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nP1NCEINvYM)

[Kraig]

John Lennon said that...look what happened to him...tone s

He died like you are going to? Everyone dies, what is your point?

[gls]

John Lennon said that...look what happened to him...tone s

He was murdered in front of his NYC apartment by Mark David Chapman, a deeply disturbed individual who had just returned from a Christian Outing where much of the focus was on how "evil" the Beatles were.

Is that how God exacts his revenge? Not any diety I want to follow.

[OptionsTrader]

Odd... I don't believe in either of them.

I believe in porn.

[Kraig]

He was murdered in front of his NYC apartment by Mark David Chapman, a deeply disturbed individual who had just returned from a Christian Outing where much of the focus was on how "evil" the Beatles were.

Is that how God exacts his revenge? Not any diety I want to follow.

LOL is that true? Never heard that before.

[tonesforjonesbones]

I never heard that the guy just came from a Christian outing...but i know he was assisinated...I wouldn't say I was more popular than God...bad omen. The USA is already getting SMOTE by the Big Man. tones

[Kraig]

I never heard that the guy just came from a Christian outing...but i know he was assisinated...I wouldn't say I was more popular than God...bad omen. The USA is already getting SMOTE by the Big Man. tones

I'm more popular than god. oh shit!

[tonesforjonesbones]

[edit] Motivation and mental health
It has been suggested that, as a young boy, Chapman was "very sensitive and that his parents' anger towards each other intruded upon his normal development. He retreated from a very early age into a fantasy world."[40] For a period during his teens he regularly smoked marijuana and ingested LSD. Chapman was a fan of the Beatles, particularly Lennon, but was reportedly angered by Lennon's infamous 1966 remark that the Beatles were "bigger than Jesus." Jan Reeves, sister of one of Chapman's best friends, reports that Chapman "seemed really angry toward John Lennon, and he kept saying he could not understand why John Lennon had said it. According to Mark, there should be nobody more popular than the Lord Jesus Christ. He said it was blasphemy. Chapman had also read in a library book (John Lennon: One Day at a Time by Anthony Fawcett) about Lennon's life in New York. "He was angry that Lennon would preach love and peace but yet have millions [of dollars]," said his wife Gloria. Chapman later said that "He told us to imagine no possessions, and there he was, with millions of dollars and yachts and farms and country estates, laughing at people like me who had believed the lies and bought the records and built a big part of their lives around his music."[41]

At some point, Chapman became obsessed with Catcher in the Rye after rereading it for the first time since high school. He was particularly influenced by protagonist Holden Caulfield's polemics against "phoniness" in society, and the need to protect people, especially children. He was holding a copy of the book when he murdered Lennon, in which he had written "This is my statement." After his arrest, he wrote a letter to the media urging everyone to read the "extraordinary book" that may "help many to understand what has happened."[42] When asked if he wanted to address the court at his sentencing, Chapman read a passage from Catcher in the Rye that describes Holden Caulfield's fantasy of being on the edge of a cliff and having to catch all children from falling. A psychiatrist at the sentencing, Daniel W. Schwartz, said that Chapman wanted to kill Lennon because he viewed him as a "phony." Chapman later said that he thought the murder would turn him into a Holden Caulfield, a "quasi-savior" and "guardian angel."

Chapman recalls having listened to Lennon's John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band album in the weeks before the murder and stated: "I would listen to this music and I would get angry at him, for saying that he didn't believe in God... and that he didn't believe in the Beatles. This was another thing that angered me, even though this record had been done at least 10 years previously. I just wanted to scream out loud, 'Who does he think he is, saying these things about God and heaven and the Beatles?' Saying that he doesn't believe in Jesus and things like that. At that point, my mind was going through a total blackness of anger and rage. So I brought the Lennon book home, into this Catcher in the Rye milieu where my mindset is Holden Caulfield and anti-phoniness."[41] Chapman later stated that, while Holden was not violent, he did "have a violent thought of shooting someone, of emptying a revolver into this fellow's stomach, someone that had done him wrong" despite being "a very sensitive person and he probably would not have killed anybody as I did. But that's fiction and reality was standing in front [of] the Dakota."[43]

Following the murder, Chapman underwent dozens of assessments by different psychiatrists. He described his anger toward his father, who he said used to hit his mother. He spoke of his identification with Holden Caulfield and with Dorothy of The Wizard of Oz, and his conferences with the "Little People," an imaginary set of people with whom he interacted and from whom he took guidance. He also provided a list of other celebrities he had thought about killing. Chapman later told journalist Jack Jones that he had told his "Little People" he intended to go to New York and kill John Lennon and they begged him not to, saying "Please, think of your wife. Please, Mr. President. Think of your mother. Think of yourself." Chapman says he told them his mind was made up, and that their reaction was silence.[11]

Chapman also said that, while in New York, he had thought of leaping to his death from the Statue of Liberty. He had attempted suicide three years previously. Overall the psychiatrists concluded that, while delusional, he was competent to stand trial. However, six were prepared to testify for the defense that Chapman was psychotic. The prosecution presented three psychiatrists who said that Chapman fell short of full psychosis.[44] Chapman has since said he thinks he was suffering from schizophrenia, a diagnosis made by some in his pre-sentencing psychiatric assessments. Journalist Jack Jones has referred to him as a sociopath.[43]

Chapman stated to his parole board hearing in 2000 that "I feel that I see John Lennon now not as a celebrity. I did then. I saw him as a cardboard cutout on an album cover. I was very young and stupid, and you get caught up in the media and the records and the music. And now I've come to grips with the fact that John Lennon was a person. This has nothing to do with being a Beatle or a celebrity or famous."[16]

In his 2006 parole board hearing, when asked if he did it to become famous, Chapman said "The result would be that I would be famous, the result would be that my life would change and I would receive a tremendous amount of attention, which I did receive... I was in a very confused, dark place. I was looking for reasons to vent all that anger and confusion and low self-esteem." He stated that "I believe that if I really wanted to, I could have changed my mind; I had ample opportunity to do it and I didn't do it and I regret that deeply."[45]

[heavenlyboy34]

I never heard that the guy just came from a Christian outing...but i know he was assisinated...I wouldn't say I was more popular than God...bad omen. The USA is already getting SMOTE by the Big Man. tones

hmmm...I thought it was the Chi-comms and international bankers smiting us. :eek::confused:

[Objectivist]

At least he is real.

Real? Who?