But that doesn't make Cho anything. Cho was living out delusions in his own sick mind. That he picked up bits and pieces of equally insane ideas -- Isamil, 88, the poses -- and finally the murders, from hither and yon is to be expected. No conspiracy needed.
Cho was too much a loner, too pathologically shy -- to have joined any organization no matter how loony. JMO.
You said — “Your “88” reference sounds very reasonable. Unless there is some real address “88”, I would think you are correct with it.”
Well, it’s not something that I’m trying to “put in there” on my own. It’s something that he wrote down. So, you have to ask, “What on earth does he mean by that?” And so, this is one thing that it could mean.
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And you also said — “But that doesn’t make Cho anything. Cho was living out delusions in his own sick mind. That he picked up bits and pieces of equally insane ideas — Isamil, 88, the poses — and finally the murders, from hither and yon is to be expected. No conspiracy needed.”
No, this information given here was not meant to indicate a conspiracy. I mean, there are FReepers, right now as I write this, who are (and have been) posting that Cho had to have Islamic terrorist connections. They are convinced of those connections. But, I’ve argued against that on thread after thread. I don’t think so.
And likewise, I don’t think he has a connection to some Neo-Nazi group, either. BUT, he *does* apparently have *ideas* which *he, himself* links up to the philosophy of the Neo-Nazis, because he’s using symbolism related to it. And he’s had a long time to pore over the Internet and search out all sorts of hate literature, like from the Neo-Nazis.
So, this is a connection in his own twisted mind — and not a connection that exists in the “real world” with real people. Mind you, he had an “imaginary girlfriend” too (what his dorm-mate said). So, he was probably a “Neo-Nazi” in his imaginary life...
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Finally — “Cho was too much a loner, too pathologically shy — to have joined any organization no matter how loony. JMO.”
Oh, I think you’re exactly right there. But, he — in his own mind — links himself up to various ideas and “groups”, even though it’s not real in a normal sense, the way it is for you and me. It’s his “imaginary” connection, you see.