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• Amazon Sales Rank: #577137 in Books
• Published on: 2008-12-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 240 pages

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• ISBN13: 9780942257458
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But what about those Country Stars who've bested Satan
There is no longer any question that John Lennon sold his soul to Satan? The case Joseph Niezgoda makes in "The Lennon Prophecy" is about as airtight as it gets. I mean, hey, we're talking creation science levels of proof here. Niezgoda's conclusions are unassailable.

Each proof--whether it's the missing "The" on the back of the "Abbey Road" album or the fact that Charles Manson believed the title of the song "Revolution #9" sounded a lot like the Bible's Revelations Chapter 9--is incontrovertible. Yes, it's as incontrovertible as the fact that Adam loved to feed carrots to his pet stegosaurus, Pokey.

But as good as this book is, the addition of a chapter about all the country musicians who've bested Satan would have made it even better. That's a story that doesn't often get told in the libumetrocialist media. They'd rather we believed that Lucifer has domain over all music, when in fact Beelzebub only digs rock and the blues. That's why there's never been a book written about how Charlie Daniels out-fiddled The Deceiver or how the second most heterosexual American (I'm the first), Horatio Lee Jenkins, kicked Satan's puking butt in a drinking contest Drunker Than Satan Ep. The libumetrocialists don't want us to know.

There's also the question about whether John Lennon, Nancy Pelosi, Mia Farrow, Dan Rather, and Satan all participated in a ceremony that resulted in Obama's conception. It's not covered in this book at all. I mean, sure, we've all seen Obama's Hawaiian birth certificate--so maybe he was born there--but does anyone really know how and where he was conceived? Was Lennon's Satanic seed involved? Was it in a foreign place like San Francisco? We don't know, because Niezgoda fails to address it. But then maybe that's another book.

A bad book filled with manufactured evidence that even reaches the point where it appeals to the darkest of ethnic hatreds
While there is some interesting historical data about the Beatles in this book, I totally reject the premise of the author that their success was due to a pact John Lennon made with the devil. It is certainly true that Lennon had a hard childhood and in his early years often mocked the Christian religion. It is also true that the rise of the Beatles was phenomenal; it is hard to explain to anyone not conscious at the time (I was) how extensive their celebrity was. However, it is absurd to claim that all this is evidence that Lennon made a Faustian bargain.
Many if not most successful people had a very difficult upbringing; in fact the successful people argue that it was those early problems that instilled in them their drive to succeed. The sixties was a time of enormous social change, the number of dramatic alterations, from the civil rights movement to the development of the birth control pill is so numerous that not all of them can be mentioned. In the early sixties, the social change cauldron was in a superheated state and the arrival of the Beatles simply tapped into that tremendous potential energy. Therefore, one does not have to conjure up mystical explanations for the success of the Beatles.
As a co-editor of "Journal of Recreational Mathematics" I regularly encounter material based on numeric coincidences using arithmetic operations. Given the number of ways in which computations can be done, there are always many ways in which numbers can be "massaged" to return whatever values you desire. On page 117 there begins a list titled "The Number Nine in John's Life." Some of the entries are:

*) John Lennon was born on October 9.
*) During Chapman's first trip to New York, he stayed in the YMCA on West 63rd (6+3 = 9) Street. He checked in on December 6 (inverted 9).
*) His early band, Quarry Men, has nine letters.

Note that in one case the 6 must be inverted in order to get the desired nine.
Given that nine is a single digit, any person who understands how ubiquitous numbers are and how they can be manipulated will never be impressed by a list of numeric coincidences involving 9, no matter how long.
The most appalling statement appears on page 88 and is reproduced here in its entirety.

"The timing of Epstein's death is notable. Once John's rise to the top was complete, his manager was gone. That fact is feasibly coincidence, but could also be attributed to the idea that when one deals with the devil, sometimes an intermediary is used either to arrange the pact or to carry out the deeds that fulfill it. In fact, Maximilian Rudwin writes that historically Jews have acted as such intermediaries for Christians, not because the former have any sort of sinister leanings, but simply because `the zealot in one religion prefers a zealot to a liberal, even in an opposing religion.'"

Since Brian Epstein was Jewish and was the manager of the Beatles when they rose to stardom, the implication here is obvious. What is appalling is that over history the allegation that Jews are agents of Satan has been used as a justification for their persecution. That claim is repeated here with no justification whatsoever. This is a bad book full of nonsense and outlandish and manufactured claims.

DO NOT BUY THIS CRAP!
This book is CRAP. It has nothing to do with John Lennon or the Beatles. It's all made up bunk. It's Albert Goldman style journalism. CRAP.

If you want to know about John Lennon, play the music. Buy the Ray Coleman "LENNON" book....great book.

Do not buy this garbage! It doesn't deserve any stars!