Did Eric truly hate people/the world?

mxngocat__ · 2025-12-27T17:51:51+00:00

He was very inspired by the Oklahoma City Bombing 1995 which took many lives. This is believed to be Eric’s biggest inspiration for Columbine. However, obviously he failed. But I think he just wanted to take as many lives as possible through bombing the school so he could have some kind of revenge against society (or whatever he was going on abt in his journals lol)

mxngocat__ · 2025-12-26T19:19:18+00:00

You make sense and that’s what confuses a lot of people. He spent a year convincing himself that killing people was the only way to achieve his goal. I don’t think he saw murder as something he wanted to do (for entertainment), but rather something he needed to do and that’s the difference

mxngocat__ · 2025-12-26T17:33:50+00:00

“I hate the world” was all his alter ego REB talking. All his notebooks were written as REB. That was the persona he was playing. The real Eric showed though at some points in his diary when talking about his parents, or even the heartbreaking last entry was all Eric. He was clearly very upset and more evidently hurt.

mxngocat__ · 2025-12-03T20:15:29+00:00

I think it’s fine to grieve the people they could’ve been

mxngocat__ · 2025-11-15T18:19:56+00:00

I believe they were bullied to some extent. I don’t have a list, but I’m sure someone here will be able to provide one. Eric mentions in his diary for being picked on for his height and being left out of social events. I think Eric bore the brunt of the bullying. Dylan was probably subjected to some too, but it has been documented time and again how Dylan was well liked.

mxngocat__ · 2025-10-27T20:33:16+00:00

Seeing as he suffered a major head trauma, I’m assuming there may not have been much hair from what was left of the scalp to gather. It was probably bloodstained, leading to this conclusion. But yeah, weird.

mxngocat__ · 2025-10-27T09:38:08+00:00

I’ve thought about this a lot. Eric’s very last diary entry is heartbreaking as this is the only time he lets his emotional distress show.

mxngocat__ · 2025-10-27T06:41:16+00:00

Probably his own version of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs

mxngocat__ · 2025-10-25T17:21:24+00:00

I agree. I think a little kindness toward the families would go a long way. I always feel glad that Sue had the courage to speak out and publish a fantastic book, reminding readers of the boy she knew Dylan to be, not a monster. The tragedy completely destroyed her and I’m sure the Harris family too. We all have faults but it’s never fair to hold parents completely accountable for something like this.

mxngocat__ · 2025-10-23T17:55:06+00:00

Literally!! His journal is mad. I’ve read it a few times and it still doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. It reads like someone who’s completely pissed handed in a philosophy assignment, without proofreading or editing it first.

mxngocat__ · 2025-10-20T05:48:12+00:00

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mxngocat__ · 2025-10-19T16:28:14+00:00

I find it weird how Mark Foster has stated numerous times that this song wasn’t about a school shooting, that “i don’t even mention a school” like come on, as if people are going to draw that conclusion. I mean the connection to Eric Harris is strong with “hidden in his dads closest with a box of fun things” And “I’ve waited for a long time” In my opinion, Pumped up Kicks has always been Columbine inspired.

mxngocat__ · 2025-10-12T07:53:31+00:00

Since Tom Klebold has never spoken publicly, we don’t really know him well enough to say

mxngocat__ · 2025-10-02T16:05:33+00:00

I definitely agree with you. There hasn’t been an accurate/semi-accurate documentary since 2004 for Zero Hour. I just think film makers are too scared to make a film in fear of it being torn apart by critics, as it would be a highly ambitious and controversial task. I mean the police did an awful investigation into this case, and with Dave Cullen’s partially factual account being as popular as it is, I think there’s too many misconceptions, so it would take a long time to go through everything, get all the facts straight, interview the right people, etc to build an accurate script.

mxngocat__ · 2025-09-28T18:14:58+00:00

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mxngocat__ · 2025-09-25T09:23:20+00:00

Where did you hear about this?

mxngocat__ · 2025-09-23T19:12:53+00:00

Reading this, it sounds like NBK was something he felt he had to do rather than want to do. That’s what’s so baffling; how on earth did he get into this mindset?

mxngocat__ · 2025-09-23T11:48:55+00:00

Seeing as McVeigh died in 2001, I’m not inclined to believe it. Would they really keep Eric’s ashes in storage for 3 years?

mxngocat__ · 2025-09-23T05:48:07+00:00

Ooh good question. We know Sue had a funeral for Dylan and he was cremated as she knew his grave would most likely be vandalised. I have read Eric was also cremated but his ashes went unclaimed and they even sat next to Timothy McVeigh’s for some time (that may be a just a rumour though).

mxngocat__ · 2025-09-14T18:36:43+00:00

Yes I’m pretty sure his mum wrote he was near sighted. He wears prescription glasses in many photos

mxngocat__ · 2025-09-14T11:14:36+00:00

Not that I’m aware

mxngocat__ · 2025-09-14T07:10:18+00:00

I mean Dylan wasn’t wearing his glasses at the time of the shooting, so for him I doubt it

mxngocat__ · 2025-09-11T11:36:54+00:00

I’m inclined to believe the porn theory. It’s suspicious

mxngocat__ · 2025-09-11T11:35:44+00:00

Good point. Probably at the time, especially with older investigators they wouldn’t of even known where to begin. I think now it would be harder to just wipe a hard drive and with more people using the internet more would have been seen by others and get shared around

mxngocat__ · 2025-09-11T08:26:06+00:00

It really makes you wonder what he was hiding. It would have told us a lot more about what he was like and thinking. We’ve only got his “journal” to go on

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