Posted on 04/18/2007 1:29:40 PM PDT by harwood
AX...beginning and end of the alphabet! Just my observation.
It may have been a combination of this:
One possible source of the gunman's reference to "Ismail Ax" on inside of his arm is... James Fenimore Cooper's The Prairie. Character Ishmael Bush had an axe. "And the axe, which created and transformed through destruction, clears the figurative way for the deflowering of the New World."
The axe is apparently both literal and symbolic, and references are made about the character's having moved from the east to the west, creating change through the destruction (using the axe), and the like. Just a possibility, esp. for someone who was an English major?
Link: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1818819/posts
and the book Ishmael by Daniel Quinn, which has been discussed on this thread.
Or it could be something else his psychosis cooked up. Understanding crazy people is harder than understanding cats.
“I wonder how many more are out there?”
Don’t want to venture a guess on that...
Ha! I thought that too
Oops...too many Sam Adams tonight!
Now, it is rampant everywhere! So is the fact that teachers ( ultra lefty ones ) lowering grades if a student doesn't agree with what the prof believes in, but comes to his/her own conclusions about things.
The site’s owned by a guy in Texas who makes it a practice to register sites every time he sees something in the news. The local paper interviewed him yesterday.
Alpha and Omega? The beginning and the end?
Interesting.
There was so much foul words used, that whole segments can't be shown on T.V.; or so was reported on FOX tonight.
Probably a few from me! But then I'm a Christian.
It doesn't appear Cho's objection to hedonism and degeneracy is from a Christian or Jewish perspective, and we know it's not from modern leftism.
I would not exclude the possibility that along with his radical leftist dogma he has absorbed some of radical islam's criticism of western society as being hedonist and degenerate.
Together with his own personal demons and psychoses, a very toxic stew.
You said — “Yes, I certainly fear the sane and evil ones more than this guy.”
And certainly those are the ones we should really be looking for and aware of. They are the really dangerous ones. And they are not really “insane”. Their values are certainly different than the Judeo-Christian heritage that we come from. We have built up our value systems over the centuries from this heritage. And while their value systems and their religion *is* evil and despicable — it is not insane.
I know that people describe their actions as “insane” but they’re not — in the same sense as this particular guy’s is. He’s living in this society (that we’re in) and he can’t cope here — right here. The jihadists live in a different society (and I’m not a relative moralist either, it’s an evil and despicable society they have created for themselves). But, they can cope within the framework that they have created for themselves and they are not insane. They are rational and capable of carrying out their goals. That’s why they were successful at what they did on 9/11. And that’s why they *are so troublesome* in trying to eliminate them. Face it, we’re having *great problems* eliminating this threat. It’s not going away. They are not insane. They are shrewd and crafty and evil. They know very well what they are doing and they can accomplish a lot of damage.
That’s what people have to realize, and not be worried about this nutjob of a guy (in the real sense of being “insane”) and whether he’s a “jihadist”. In no way is he a jihadist. If he is, we’ll have no problems with the war against these terrorist (if they’re all like him). But they’re not. He’s just a nutjob...
Regards,
Star Traveler
Those who knew him from high school? The guy who doesn’t say a word to anyone about anything? It’s a wonder any of them even know the dude’s name, let alone what religions or movements he was interested in or sympathetic to.
And I’m not sure what your point is about the “Ax”. Because the reference is still a mystery, you can say with certitude that it had no Koranic significance to the dead mass murder?
You can say it, but it doesn’t make it true.
Not that I’ve seen; no.
Why don’t you tell us, since it is YOU who have posted your delusions about this, as “fact”.
See my 1023. The "change through destruction" seems to fit, and he was an English major. It's as good a guess as any.
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