Cho Seung-Hui is Ismail Ax
April 18, 2007 7:47 PM | Posted by : | Reply
A bit of a stretch but could IsMail be a reference to Call Me Ishmael the frist sentence of Moby Dick?
April 18, 2007 8:48 PM | Posted by : | Reply
Cho compares himself to Jesus Christ and the crucifixion.
That's funny, because Islam doesn't believe Jesus was crucified. They believe that he lived until old age, and died peacefully.
Could it be that Cho was a Christian who believed in the "end times", and wanted to be martyred for Christ? Most of these end time nuts rail against hypocrisy, hedonism, liberalism, and consider non-psycho Christians as false.
April 18, 2007 11:13 PM | Posted by : | Reply
Unless if someone comes out of the shadows, I sense we may never know who or what is the meaning behind Ismail Ax.
The facts are while he is South Korean, he's more of an Asian-American, having lived in the U.S. for about 15 years. And I don't buy the Muslim/Ishmael comments going around. Gaming name? Sure. It could be any online name. It could also be spelled wrong, or it could be a code for something else. Who knows. We may never know.
April 19, 2007 9:06 PM | Posted by : | Reply
Another game to investigate would be World of Warcraft (often abbreviated as WOW)
Deep Throat told the Watergate reporters to 'follow the money.'
In Cho's case, we need to look for the unconscious derivatives (Langs)---
murderers are like artists --they have energy and need a medium by which to give it form.
April 24, 2007 1:52 PM | Posted by : | Reply
WoW-- don't even get me started... I was once going to write a piece on this. Someone should examine the realtiosnhip between online behavior and real life. I think it'll be the opposite of what's expected, i.e. in WoW he'd be a really nice, kind person, and in real life he'd be an evil killer. And that's because, of course, in the game people like him, so he's nice, and in real life they hate him, so he hates... and it feeds on itself.
May 7, 2007 7:48 PM | Posted by : | Reply
actually islam believes Jesus was taken up to heaven and another man was crucified in his place...
Ishmael was taken by his father (Abraham) and left in the desert (disowned) by his father at the insistance of his father's real wife (Sarah) so that he would not be a threat to his half brother, Isaac... essentially Ishmael disappears from Judeo-Christian scripture... becomes irrelevant... only to reappear in islamic scripture... and it is Isaac instead, who God commands Abraham to "Axe"... to test his faith... so I guess Ishmael could ask God after hearing this story, "why not Axe Ishmael?" Why is Isaac more beloved to Abraham?
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