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Subject: Why did Seung Hui Cho buy dozens of rubber ducks before the shooting? Sun Apr 18, 2021 8:21 am
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Subject: Re: Why did Seung Hui Cho buy dozens of rubber ducks before the shooting? Sun Apr 18, 2021 9:31 am
I think he found them cute, or just wanted to use them in the bath. That's what I think.
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Subject: Re: Why did Seung Hui Cho buy dozens of rubber ducks before the shooting? Sun Apr 18, 2021 12:02 pm
I did not know this, I think I agree that it could have been an outbreak, maybe he did it irrationally and did not even think about what he was going to buy. Is very strange ...
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Subject: Re: Why did Seung Hui Cho buy dozens of rubber ducks before the shooting? Wed Apr 21, 2021 8:36 am
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Subject: Re: Why did Seung Hui Cho buy dozens of rubber ducks before the shooting? Wed Apr 21, 2021 9:04 am
Actually, from what I understand a behavior of psychotic people is impulsively buying large quantities of things or very expensive things. I am not saying 100% that it is psychotic, but I think many things suggest that Cho could have been. As mentioned above, not all psychotic people act in the same way, but I see in Cho a pre-eminent, as was also said, disconnection from reality, or false reality. Sorry if im wrong
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Subject: Re: Why did Seung Hui Cho buy dozens of rubber ducks before the shooting? Fri Apr 23, 2021 7:13 am
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Subject: Re: Why did Seung Hui Cho buy dozens of rubber ducks before the shooting? Sun Apr 25, 2021 8:36 pm
Mr Bubbless wrote:
margaflor wrote:
Actually, from what I understand a behavior of psychotic people is impulsively buying large quantities of things or very expensive things. I am not saying 100% that it is psychotic, but I think many things suggest that Cho could have been. As mentioned above, not all psychotic people act in the same way, but I see in Cho a pre-eminent, as was also said, disconnection from reality, or false reality. Sorry if im wrong
No you're pretty much spot on, from what I've heard, the attitudes towards Schizophrenia are similar to what we've seen with autism, seeing it as a spectrum of symptoms and diagnoses rather than a set disorder.
Ooh yes, I have heard about that, at first I thought that it only manifested itself in children but the more I investigated I read that the symptoms can be similar at any age.
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Subject: Re: Why did Seung Hui Cho buy dozens of rubber ducks before the shooting? Mon Apr 26, 2021 3:24 am
Just an idea: Did he perhaps take the ducks to a gun range to use for target practice? Or at least planned to have done so?
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Actually, from what I understand a behavior of psychotic people is impulsively buying large quantities of things or very expensive things. I am not saying 100% that it is psychotic, but I think many things suggest that Cho could have been. As mentioned above, not all psychotic people act in the same way, but I see in Cho a pre-eminent, as was also said, disconnection from reality, or false reality. Sorry if im wrong
Not really. "Psychotic" just means experiencing delusions, hallucinations, seeing things that aren't there, hearing voices in your head etc. So "psychotic" is not a single disorder, rather these are really symptoms present in many different individual disorders.
Compulsive purchases of weird objects is not something typically associated with psychotic episodes, but it can happen. Example: "L.Ron Hubbard is communicating telepathically with me and he told me I need to buy this car, so I bought it"
So perhaps some of the weird things Cho did were in fact linked to his delusions, but we just have no way of knowing for sure.
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Subject: Re: Why did Seung Hui Cho buy dozens of rubber ducks before the shooting? Mon Apr 26, 2021 6:44 am
Sabratha wrote:
Just an idea: Did he perhaps take the ducks to a gun range to use for target practice? Or at least planned to have done so?
margaflor wrote:
Actually, from what I understand a behavior of psychotic people is impulsively buying large quantities of things or very expensive things. I am not saying 100% that it is psychotic, but I think many things suggest that Cho could have been. As mentioned above, not all psychotic people act in the same way, but I see in Cho a pre-eminent, as was also said, disconnection from reality, or false reality. Sorry if im wrong
Not really. "Psychotic" just means experiencing delusions, hallucinations, seeing things that aren't there, hearing voices in your head etc. So "psychotic" is not a single disorder, rather these are really symptoms present in many different individual disorders.
Compulsive purchases of weird objects is not something typically associated with psychotic episodes, but it can happen. Example: "L.Ron Hubbard is communicating telepathically with me and he told me I need to buy this car, so I bought it"
So perhaps some of the weird things Cho did were in fact linked to his delusions, but we just have no way of knowing for sure.
Oooh thanks for explaining, if I think I was referring to "psychotic" wrong. Like you said, I think it was introduced by disconnections from reality or delusions. I also believe that this massive purchase of ducklings could have occurred due to some kind of disconnection from reality, although it is not known for sure.
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Subject: Re: Why did Seung Hui Cho buy dozens of rubber ducks before the shooting? Mon Apr 26, 2021 6:59 am
margaflor wrote:
I also believe that this massive purchase of ducklings could have occurred due to some kind of disconnection from reality, although it is not known for sure.
My first idea was more mundane (cheap object for target practice), but it is entirely possible that he thought Jesus is telling him to buy them or something equally delusional. * shrug *
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Subject: Re: Why did Seung Hui Cho buy dozens of rubber ducks before the shooting? Mon Apr 26, 2021 7:02 am
Sabratha wrote:
margaflor wrote:
I also believe that this massive purchase of ducklings could have occurred due to some kind of disconnection from reality, although it is not known for sure.
My first idea was more mundane (cheap object for target practice), but it is entirely possible that he thought Jesus is telling him to buy them or something equally delusional. * shrug *
My first thought was the same, but now that I think about it it wouldn't be strange to think it was a message from Jesus or something
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Subject: Re: Why did Seung Hui Cho buy dozens of rubber ducks before the shooting? Mon Apr 26, 2021 7:18 am
margaflor wrote:
Sabratha wrote:
margaflor wrote:
I also believe that this massive purchase of ducklings could have occurred due to some kind of disconnection from reality, although it is not known for sure.
My first idea was more mundane (cheap object for target practice), but it is entirely possible that he thought Jesus is telling him to buy them or something equally delusional. * shrug *
My first thought was the same, but now that I think about it it wouldn't be strange to think it was a message from Jesus or something
Considering his obsession with comparing himself with Jesus, I wouldn't be surprised if he bought the ducks to sacrifice them to the great duck lord so he could enter heaven with them.
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Subject: Re: Why did Seung Hui Cho buy dozens of rubber ducks before the shooting? Mon Apr 26, 2021 7:37 am
Mr Bubbless wrote:
margaflor wrote:
Sabratha wrote:
margaflor wrote:
I also believe that this massive purchase of ducklings could have occurred due to some kind of disconnection from reality, although it is not known for sure.
My first idea was more mundane (cheap object for target practice), but it is entirely possible that he thought Jesus is telling him to buy them or something equally delusional. * shrug *
My first thought was the same, but now that I think about it it wouldn't be strange to think it was a message from Jesus or something
Considering his obsession with comparing himself with Jesus, I wouldn't be surprised if he bought the ducks to sacrifice them to the great duck lord so he could enter heaven with them.
It would be an interesting version of the Last Supper but with ducklings
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Subject: Re: Why did Seung Hui Cho buy dozens of rubber ducks before the shooting? Sat May 08, 2021 7:14 am
Lol, love how you all sorted this out and came to the only logical conclusion.
But seriously, they may have has some meaning to him that we'll never understand. My thinking is maybe he saw people/society as rubber ducks. Like a version of that dreaded word 'sheeple'.
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Subject: Re: Why did Seung Hui Cho buy dozens of rubber ducks before the shooting? Sat May 08, 2021 7:41 am
Maybe he thought it was funny?
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