Columbine: A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy

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Columbine: A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy
Rubatosis Offer Upgrade User ID: 70053572 United States 02/19/2016 02:23 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation	Columbine: A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy I have always been a passionate researcher when it came to school shootings. When the shootings at Columbine happened April 20 1999, I was an innocent 8 year old girl living in California. I didn't understand that it would ultimately affect my future. Yesterday, I picked up a copy Sue Klebold's book A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy I am only about 170 pages in (out of 284 - excluding the index) but I have found that it explains so much more than I thought possible. It even answers a few questions I've had for a long time. While most survivors of school shootings write about the day in question, such as Kaitlin Roig-Debellis and her debacle of a memoir, this one is just... Different. I have been taking notes, which has caused me to read it a bit slower than I'd like but it's totally worth it. So I decided to make this thread to discuss the book and the whole event. I will post quotes from the book as often as possible and I encourage everyone to read it. So, to begin; "Like Dylan, Eric kept journals - private writings where he reveals his innermost thoughts and feelings. They are almost unreadably dark, filled with sadistic images and drawings, fantasies of rape, dismemberment, and scenes of massive destruction, including, in more than one place, the wholesale extinction of the human race." - Page 167 "Dr. Langman writes, " [Dylan's] journal is markedly different from Eric's in both content and style. Whereas Eric's is full of narcissistic condescension and bloodthirsty rage, Dylan's in focused on loneliness, depression, ruminations, and preoccupation with finding love. Eric drew pictures of weapons, swastikas, and soldiers; Dylan drew hearts. Eric lusted after sex and fantasized about rape; Dylan longed for true love." - Page 167 People who are intimidated by you talk bad about you with hopes that others won't find you so appealing. Rubatosis - n. the unsettling awareness of your own heartbeat, whose tenuous muscular throbbing feels less like a metronome than a nervous ditty your heart is tapping to itself, the kind that people compulsively hum or sing while walking in complete darkness, as if to casually remind the outside world, I’m here, I’m here, I’m here. The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves. ~ William Penn I understood myself only after I destroyed myself. And only in the process of fixing myself, did I know who I truly was. Revenge is not in my plans. You'll fuck yourself on your own.

Anonymous Coward User ID: 71509722 United States 02/19/2016 03:03 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation	Re: Columbine: A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy [link to i68.tinypic.com]
Rubatosis (OP) User ID: 70053572 United States 02/19/2016 03:21 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation	Re: Columbine: A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy [link to i68.tinypic.com] Quoting: Anonymous Coward 71509722 Page 126 - Heard a rumor that military training materials on brainwashing techniques had been found in the* Harris home. So that picture doesn't surprise me. It actually makes perfect sense. Dylan was clearly manipulated into doing things by Eric. The whole Columbine/South Park thing is pretty accurate and that's scary. Last Edited by Rubatosis on 02/19/2016 03:21 PM People who are intimidated by you talk bad about you with hopes that others won't find you so appealing. Rubatosis - n. the unsettling awareness of your own heartbeat, whose tenuous muscular throbbing feels less like a metronome than a nervous ditty your heart is tapping to itself, the kind that people compulsively hum or sing while walking in complete darkness, as if to casually remind the outside world, I’m here, I’m here, I’m here. The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves. ~ William Penn** I understood myself only after I destroyed myself. And only in the process of fixing myself, did I know who I truly was. Revenge is not in my plans. You'll fuck yourself on your own.
Rubatosis (OP) User ID: 70053572 United States 02/19/2016 11:42 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation	Re: Columbine: A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy Dylan Klebold's last words on the basement tapes: "Just know I'm going to a better place. I didn't like life too much." This makes me sad because I think if they had found GLP'ers like us they wouldn't have gone to such extreme lengths. & just for the record; I am highly suspicious of the "official" story. I grieve for Mark Taylor and what he has gone through and fought for and ultimately sacrificed his surviving life for. I grieve for those 100 or so people who swore up and down to police that they saw more than 2 shooters. Dressed in camo/military style clothing. I wish this book had included more about the January incident that has been rumored to be behind their motive. By page 193 I have only encountered one paragraph or so, of the boys arrest in January. But I DO believe the pictures that Eric allegedly drew are currently in the hands of the local PD. However, the book is overall wonderful and it really breaks down the events leading up to the shooting. I have about 80 pages left. Normally I'd be done by now but I've been taking notes like it was my homework or something. "A 2001 study of adolescent school shooters, prompted in part by the massacre at Columbine High School, resulted in two interesting findings. - The first is that 25% of the 34 teenage shooters they looked at participated in pairs. This is different from adult rampage killers, who most often act alone. - The second finding from his study; typically, one of the two kids was a psychopath, and the other one suggestible, dependent, and depressed. - ... This appears to be the dynamic between Dylan and Eric." People who are intimidated by you talk bad about you with hopes that others won't find you so appealing. Rubatosis - n. the unsettling awareness of your own heartbeat, whose tenuous muscular throbbing feels less like a metronome than a nervous ditty your heart is tapping to itself, the kind that people compulsively hum or sing while walking in complete darkness, as if to casually remind the outside world, I’m here, I’m here, I’m here. The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves. ~ William Penn I understood myself only after I destroyed myself. And only in the process of fixing myself, did I know who I truly was. Revenge is not in my plans. You'll fuck yourself on your own.
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