Existentialism and Imagine

The third line of this verse, no religion too, is self explanatory, no religion means that there is no thought of God or heaven as in the first verse but using religion in the place of God creates uniformity throughout the world. The second line, nothing to live or die for, is just like a quote that Camus stated. The first line explains, to imagine there are no countries, this meaning that we are not separated; we are all humans, alike, living in the world. nothing to kill or die for, no religion too, Imagine people living in peace. This theory is presented by Sartre when he stated that existentialists believe that even if God does not exist, nothing would change. In the third line, we should imagine all of the people living for today, this is saying that we just make choices for ourselves today, and not worry about what is going to happen to us in the future. This agrees with the philosophy of existentialism in that we create our own lives by a series of choices and consequences day to day. magining that there is no heaven or hell, he is saying that there is no higher power above us. In life, we make our own decisions, we know what is right and wrong without God, and we are able to live life by making our own choices and living with the consequences. Camus stated that “If something worth living for is worth dying for, what about something not worth dying for?” (http://www.

Another specific example in the song is the second verse, “imagine there’s no countries…. All the same, all capable of creating and living our own lives alike. ” Again, this is another very existentialist way of thinking.

The third and fourth verses of this song states that if we have no possessions, no need for greed or hunger, and a brotherhood of man all sharing the world, then again, this removes all obstacles in our way, and we can then all live our lives as one in complete peace.