• Midnight Wolf@lemmy.world
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      11 hours ago

      Carefully observe how the above argument lacks any supporting argument or information.

      Curious.

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          6 hours ago

          When asked by Complex[7] about the meaning of the numbers, Skrilla said, “Everybody else got their own different meaning. But for me, it’s just ‘negative to positive.’ It helped me turn from a negative person to a positive person.”

          In a comment to the Wall Street Journal[11] from the same timeframe, he also said, “I never put an actual meaning on it, and I still would not want to … That’s why everybody keeps saying it.”

          So it’s a number repeated in a song that the artist says has no meaning, instead of it just being a meaningless number.

          Glad you helped clear that up. Way to prove everyone wrong.

    • lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      I would argue that it has an origin but lost its meaning since the people who use it don’t know the meaning. At this point, it’s more than anything a cultural signifier which isn’t a new thing either. People try to belong to an ingroup and adopt their insider even if only as marker of that group.