Tag: Dylan Klebold

Dylan and I were very close, and I’m upset with the way that the media has portrayed him. We spent a lot of time together. Dylan always had few friends, he was an easy child, a normal teenager. Sue and I were always there for him. We were not absentee parents. I believed that my son had a personality that was very similar to mine. We did a lot of things together and talked a lot. We played sports, we also worked on Dylan’s car together and built speakers for the car. He also built his own computer and we played chess.

Tom Klebold (via columbinearchive)

Columbine 101: Transcript of Dylan’s Explanation of the Van Break- in

acolumbineblog:

Eric & I were driving home (him driving his car), & we stopped at the parking lot thingy at Deer Creek Rd & Wadsworth. We got out & he set off a few fireworks, & then we were going around smashing bottles. Then almost at the same time, we both got the idea of breaking into this white van…

Columbine 101: Transcript of Dylan’s Explanation of the Van Break- in

Columbine 101: Excerpt from the Basement Tapes

acolumbineblog:

Dylan gets dressed, pulling on a black trenchcoat. “I’m fat on this side,“ he says and starts talking about how he looks “fat with all the stuff on”. He tries to toss the TEC-9 into his hand from where it’s hanging on the sling but his coat prevents the move.

KLEBOLD: I’ll have to take the coat…

Does this outfit make me look fat?

Columbine 101: Excerpt from the Basement Tapes

thedragonrampant:

“Klebold followed Harris wherever Harris went,” as witnesses stated.
But when journalists saw the Basement Tapes, that vision changed. According to some, it was Dylan who seemed to be the dominant figure (the ‘psycho’ of the two) on those. He talked more often, seemed more determined, appeared to be the biggest hater. “Contrary to popular opinion,“ writes the Denver Post, “it is Harris who comes across as the most sympathetic of the two. He was seen in the first few days as angry and weird, but here he is apologetic and somewhat remorseful. (..) Klebold is monstrous on those tapes, raging on about his lifelong hidden anger and all the slights he suffered at the hands of his fellow students, teachers, and family. (..) He shows no contrition, just deadly aggression.”
Years later, in 2006 when the journals of the two were released, that monstrosity took on a different meaning. Then it became clear what Dylan was really like, when nobody else was around: pathetic, down, interested in nothing but his misery and his reunion in death with an imaginary soulmate — not even the shooting mattered to him. It is this side that he kept hidden from Eric. His monstrosity was an act — it was showing off, begging for acceptance, the price he had to pay for his ticket to the halcyon. He misled Eric.
But he misled everyone. (..) On the Diversion list with thirty problems, of which Eric noted fourteen as being relevant to himself, Dylan only ticked two: money and jobs, exactly the two things that said nothing about himself. The Diversion-people swallowed the story; in the three-quarter year he had to deal with them, Dylan knew how to keep the kookiness of his journal hidden from them completely. Just like he hid it from his parents, his friends, the entire school. And from Eric.

– Excerpt from We Are But We Are Not Psycho, by Tim Krabbé.

Krabbe has an interesting take but I don’t agree on this point.  It’s not quite fair to allot a disproportionate amount of blame, essentially vilifying Dylan over Eric.   If Dylan misled Eric then Eric misled Dylan by suddenly revealing hesitation and remorse after he’d spent a year vocalizing how much he hated the world and that everyone needed to die and NBK was the solution.  I think since Dylan sat on his negative feelings more so than Eric, he was using the Basement Tapes as a way to spew all his pent up resentment and with someone he knew would appreciate and rejoin in it. 

What hit me in the basement tapes was the fact that Eric is running is gun, called Arlene, over a pile of pipe bombs, back and forth, and he’s talking casually, and Dylan said, I believe he said, ‘My uncle is going to be very upset.’ And he’s talking about a Jewish holiday. And Eric says to him, ‘You’re Jewish?’ And Dylan says, ‘Yeah.’ and I think he starts saying ‘half’ or ‘fourth’ and I think for a second there he thinks ‘Eric’s going to turn on me.’ It’s just a very strange thing. And Eric goes something like ‘Wow that’s too bad.’

Judy Brown on the basement tapes. (via pumpkin-fairy)

Poor Dyl. Can’t seem to fit in anywhere.

acolumbineblog:

While being interviewed in the Diversion Program, Eric states that Dylan is his “best friend". Dylan, however, states Eric is just as friend of “about 4 years". Then like an after-thought adds, “Very good friends". 
It’s interesting to see the dynamic of their friendship. Dylan had other friends. Eric had all but lost friends he’d made due to the changes in his personality over the years.

“Best Friend” was still reserved for Zach Heckler.

Faster Pussycat, Kill Kill!: Sounds just like Eric and maybe even Dylan.

watchyoubleeed:

Sounds just like Eric and maybe even Dylan.
The conventional list of indigo children characteristics mentions:
* ADD like characteristics – indigo children might find it hard to focus on one thing for a long time, but this could be interpreted as being highly strung or perhaps just particular about how they spend their time as much as a “disorder”
* System busting characteristics – indigo children have problems going along with meaningless systems and work to break them down.


* A characteristic strong sense of justice
* A feeling of not being “from here”
* Impatience
* Characteristic intense emotions and sensitivity – indigo children and adults can be happy, sad, joyful or angry more intensely than anyone can


* A characteristic strong will and innate sense of self esteem. While indigo children can get down on themselves sometimes, especially if they are hit hard by life, they are naturally unwilling to get into any sort of power play and display strong self esteem when put into an inferior position. Because our very society is based on structures of superiority and inferiority, indigo children are often rebellious and struggle to find a way of living that feels right for them.


* Related to this, indigo children are said to have the characteristic of feeling inside like kings or queens. (I definitely do. People have said I talk and act in a “regal" manner).


* Indigo Children have the characteristic of feeling a sense of having a grand purpose in life, even if they don’t know what it is.


* Indigo Children are often loners and often prefer to be the leaders of groups if they are not loners.


* Indigo Children have the characteristic of being very creative, and often very expressive through their sexuality and humour too. They tend to be passionate and very good at multiple things, and can be labelled as “gifted children”. They don’t always do well in school, though.
Besides these conventionally mentioned characteristics, I’ll add a few more which I’ve noticed:


* Indigos tend to be very unhappy as children and are often born into traumatic circumstances. They might have illnesses or be the victims of abuse. I think there isn’t one indigo who I’ve gotten to know who didn’t have a rough time as a child. They also often have a hard time as adults, but can grow to be the most balanced, happy and spiritual people you’ll ever meet.


* Indigo children are compulsively authentic, and find it very hard to maintain a social mask. As the convential list of characteristics mentions, indigo children are also very good at seeing through the social masks of others


* Indigo children often don’t do well at school, despite their characteristic giftedness. They just don’t fit into the system.


* Indigo children prefer deep interactions and eschew shallow ones. This (combined with the sensitivity) is what causes them to be loners most of the time. It also brings indigo children to look for older company, and even later on in life they tend to have friends as well as romantic partners who are older than them.


* Indigo adults have the unusual characteristic of finding their twin flame more frequently than other people do. This very rare ocurrence is something around 10-20% in the case of indigos.


* Indigos are sensitive to the toxins in their food and tend towards vegetarianism and veganism. I’d say more than 50% of awakened indigos are vegan, and those who aren’t are usually close to it. Btw, Eric’s aura IS indigo!

Dylan has some of these traits as well especially not feeling as though he belongs here. Also, let’s not forget that Eric picked his nickname color as “Indigo". Dylan went by “Green". I think Dylan liked the color green. Always seemed to design his t-shirts in dark green.

http://www.metagifted.org/topics/metagifted/indigo/indigoChildCharacteristics.html

Faster Pussycat, Kill Kill!: Sounds just like Eric and maybe even Dylan.

One day, I caught him scratching something into a freshman’s locker. He [Dylan Klebold] became very agitated, and began cussing at me. He seemed like a very angry kid.

Peter Horvath (CHS dean)

“DK Diversion: DK suspended for one day for damaging locker of student he was mad at; paid $70 for repair”

(via acolumbineblog)

OoO Dylan.