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MacCruiskeen » Wed Dec 19, 2012 5:41 pm wrote:Belligerent Savant wrote:.
Wait -- so if he's an "actor", then where are the real parents of the victim? Or is the victim's name fake? And if fake, wouldn't other parents of the school immediately call it out as a fake name? If on the other hand it's the name of a real victim, wouldn't the other parents/school reps immediately call out the above person as an imposter? Or are they all on some absurd gag order?
Am I missing something here?
Thank you. This is what I keep wondering too.
But by god that video is disturbing. OK, people are strange, and grief & shock can sometimes take bizarre forms (an urge to laugh, for instance - I've experienced that, at the funeral of someone I loved.) But the guy looks positively radiant with good humour when he walks in there. It's not just his smiling face, it's his purposeful stride and his entire physical aura. He enters the room like a movie star, handsome and confident. Then that transition, exactly like a practiced Method actor quickly "getting into character".
Wow. Cuda, if you ever do some personality testing, I'd love to see the results.barracuda » Wed Dec 19, 2012 5:56 pm wrote:Belligerent Savant wrote:Am I missing something here?
Lucky for you, I don't think so. If you watch the entire statement given by Robbie Parker, it's pretty easy to see that he's an entirely real human being faced with a tragedy for which he hasn't got a prepared, perceptually normative set of facial expressions to offer in response. He's shaken, nervous, and devastated by the events which he is about to discuss before a cadre of news cameras. His smiling entrance comes at about the three minute mark:
I'm not sure I expect to recognize a proper response to such a thing. There simply may not really be one. His six year old child was pretty recently butchered in her first grade class by a half dozen hollow point rounds from a fairly high powered rifle.
It's become apparent that this killing, which is really a local news story, is now functioning as a sort of tarot card reading of its own distanced viewers. Each person is able to overlay their own, personal concerns and issues onto the event and derive a meaning which replicates and satisfies their own worldview in a highly fulfilling way. If you want gun control, it's a gun issue. If you're concerned about mental health, it's a mental health issue. If you're wary of video games, he's a gamer. If broken families cause you to fret, here's a divorced mother. If violence in movies is your nemesis, there's that. If you're worried about the state taking your weapons, here you go. If you sense a vast conspiracy manipulating the masses, there it is in the conflicting details. If you don't like rich people, here's a whole bunch.
Whatever you need, whatever concerns you, it's here for you in the complete lack of details that make up the little we know about this thing. And we'll will probably continue not to know much. Because most of the people who might have told us something, anything of substance, are dead.
barracuda » Fri Dec 13, 2013 5:06 pm wrote:Why? You obviously couldn't competently assess a human behavioral response to save your life. You're simply looking at stuff you've been pointed to by other sad people on the internet and parroting rote, tired responses to material that's been hashed to death by sad Hooker Newtards for the last year. Perhaps before you worry about my MMPI ratings, you ought do a bit of real research about the subject you're posting on. I suggest beginning with some of the other public appearances of other parents of slain children - there are lots of them, including large group public meetings - and proceed on to a self-examination of your personal need to blindly follow the muddied, misguided pathways of internet writers whose motivations you neither question nor comprehend.
That first video of yours has a great title, though. Thanks for the chuckle.
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Lanza checked in to the Omni Mount Washington Resort & Hotel in Bretton Woods last Tuesday and checked out Thursday afternoon, the hotel said. Less than a day later, authorities say, her son Adam Lanza killed her and then opened fire in Sandy Hook Elementary School, killing 20 children and six adults there.
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Marsha Lanza revealed that Nancy had traveled to nine cities in three countries because she wanted out of the mansion she shared with her troubled son Adam - and could have known the end was coming
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chump » Sat Dec 14, 2013 2:10 pm wrote:With all due respect, do you know the Parkers?
Iamwhomiam » Sat Dec 14, 2013 2:47 pm wrote:Grief is expressed differently by different people and nervous humor or a laugh is common, especially when the world is watching you do something you've never done before, speaking up for your dead child.
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