they can find this, but not his political party affiliation...Early stages of schizophrenia?
Holmes sounds like he’s about as nutty as Loughner is. They go to college and end up becoming incoherent pscyhobabblers.
He mentions a mentor in one of the news stories. It is important to identify that mentor, if real. I wish I could point readers to the specific item. So many out there now.
Kids today in general seem to have trouble distinguishing reality from fantasy.
He sounds like Col Walter Kurtz in Apocalypse Now!!
Was fond of strategy games, huh? I bet he was.
Sick of this guy- give him his punishment already
and be done it.
Sick of this guy- give him his punishment already
and be done with it.
they can find this, but not his political party affiliation...don’t really want to know what makes this kind tick.
The newscast actually shows only the tiniest snippet of the kid’s presentation to his peers at camp, but it does manage to get in a plug for the President’s visit to the families of the victims. Priorities, priorities.
“He said his dream was to own a slurpee machine.”
When I was his age, my dream was to have my own beer keg machine. It wasn’t until much later that I set out to learn how to make a perfect martini.
Not related to this video, I suspect that in addition to his other issues, it may be determined that this murdering scum was abusing head meds to help him cram and deal with the rigors of learning his field. Everyone has a breaking point, he hit his and never came back.
Perhaps a list of Holmes’s university professors would be enlightening.
YIKES....when I was a kid...12 or 13 years old, my dream was to have a slurpee (icee machine) as well. My brother and I would walk to the corner store almost daily, getting my dad’s cigarettes, and get an icee as a treat. Almost seems like child abuse now...lol.
My brother and I wanted to buy that icee machine before they closed, but never got the chance.
Anyone starts talking about “lucid dreaming” or “illusions changing the past”, pull their damned guns. This is the same thing 2 times now. Loughner and now this dude.
My feeling after seeing these brief excerpts is that he was an “impostor”. That is, he was not a “smartkid”, but knew how to act like one, for example with his cute remark that his dream was to own a slurpee machine. He goes wrong with his ambition to “make scientific discoveries”, though. This is supposed to be cute also, but the act has already worn thin in the few seconds we see of this presentation. We need not doubt that he could act his way to good grades with the kind of soft topic that we see here, but I think he went off the rails when it all fell apart for him at the graduate level.
The Joker persona was a very obvious recourse in his case: “I’ll show you who’s smart.” - very much like Syndrome in The Incredibles, as well. He wouldn’t have had nearly the draw of Heath Ledger’s Joker, of course, and my feeling is that that portrayal was a major influence on him.
It all started with PONG.