if you had to write a dictionary definition of , how would it go? what does it mean to you?

PURplEMaPLeSyrup said:

if you had to write a dictionary definition of , how would it go? what does it mean to you?

Its Female/Male...meaning sexual intercourse....in the shape of a funky guitar!!!

Here is Toejam's response to a similar question on an old thread:

"Ahh, a good old "" thread... Haven't seen one of them in a while

Yeah, the symbol is a mix between the traditional male and female symbols along with and an alchemy/soapstone symbol.

Alchemy is the ancient art of turning base metals into pure gold (which is, of course, impossible according to modern science). For thousands of years rulers were always interested in being able to manufacture pure gold from everyday materials and would go to crazy lengths to try and find its secrets. Whoever owns the gold makes the rules so they say...

However alchemy is also seen as a spiritual journey. As alchemists embark on a life long task of trying to do something that is seemingly impossible, it is also a metaphor for turning oneself, your inner soul, into "gold". Hence the term "alchemy" has become synonomous with change/inspiration/growth etc.

It's interesting that there are a lot of references to "gold" and "alchemy" in Prince's 90s work - 3 Chains 'O' Gold, Goldnigga, The Gold Experience "...until the stud in your mouth turns gold" (Mad Sex), "... the alchemy occured most in the Muse" (The Rainbow Children) etc...

Not that I'm saying Prince knows the secrets of alchemy , but it's certainly something that he related to back then (the life long struggle between him and WB perhaps?) and incorporated into his music (and the now famous symbol)."

Jakeasaurus said:

It's a combination of the male and female sex symbols and the alchemical symbol for soapstone, designed for Prince, and officially named Love Symbol #2 Thats all there is to it, no further posts in this thread will be necessary.

jake! ...dont u think itd be intresting 2see what others make of it?....ppl may see it diffrently than u...like i see what u sed...but i added a funky guitar!!...maybe thats a mental thing cuz he has guitars made in teh shape after it was created...but its still a diffrent view!!...THAN YOURS!

Jakeasaurus said:

Thats all there is to it, no further posts in this thread will be necessary.

Optimus2 said:

Jakeasaurus said:

It's a combination of the male and female sex symbols and the alchemical symbol for soapstone, designed for Prince, and officially named Love Symbol #2 Thats all there is to it, no further posts in this thread will be necessary.

jake! ...dont u think itd be intresting 2see what others make of it?....ppl may see it diffrently than u...like i see what u sed...but i added a funky guitar!!...maybe thats a mental thing cuz he has guitars made in teh shape after it was created...but its still a diffrent view!!...THAN YOURS!

The problem is there's no need to see what others 'make of it'.

It is what it is. Period.

I can't recall the details, but I seem to remember

Prince saying about the symbol that "for every man

there is a perfect female counterpart." So the symbol

was representing your soulmate.

vitriol said:

Optimus2 said:

jake! ...dont u think itd be intresting 2see what others make of it?....ppl may see it diffrently than u...like i see what u sed...but i added a funky guitar!!...maybe thats a mental thing cuz he has guitars made in teh shape after it was created...but its still a diffrent view!!...THAN YOURS!

The problem is there's no need to see what others 'make of it'.

It is what it is. Period.

yeah maybe 2 u and that post above this 1 ^ proves my point AGAIN DIFFRENT!

Should you use proper English I might've gotten to know what you're trying to say.

But something tells me I'm not missing much...

vitriol said:

Should you use proper English I might've gotten to know what you're trying to say.

But something tells me I'm not missing much...

this keeps coming up for u...are u an english professor? need glasses? anal retentive? what gives??

I've always seen it as both the Cross, the male and female sex symbols combined and with the curl just like the cloud guitar.....put them all together and you have the symbol.....but thats just me.

I think it's the third-coolest superhero logo, after only and 's.

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One Love

When I first glanced at the thread title I read it as "defaming".

Cerebus said:

When I first glanced at the thread title I read it as "defaming".

for those of you who saw the Oprah interview, then you know the font has been broken down.

if you didn't, here goes....

O ( + >

now..this is what i see..

O ( + >

OCTV

Octave as in Music.

Okay... anyway

I thought of it as a male & female combination, representing Prince's androgyny. Since he wanted to be perceived as both, spiritually, when he'd first started, and still to this day. It's a Prince thing

But good answers from the previous posts, gives me new ideas which is the point of discussion boards

Obviously, no one tries to spoil a thread like ole Jake! If he is so old, tired, and jaded about new people posting their naive enthusiastic threads--then maybe he should retire....

Jakeasaurus said:

No. Anyone with opinions about what the symbol means or is made of is wrong. You're all wrong. The facts have already been posted. Stop posting your stupid thoughts.

I dig it when your agressive.

lotusboy said:

Jakeasaurus said:

No. Anyone with opinions about what the symbol means or is made of is wrong. You're all wrong. The facts have already been posted. Stop posting your stupid thoughts.

I dig it when your agressive.

Kinda makes you a little--hunh?!

lotusboy said:

this keeps coming up for u...are u an english professor? need glasses? anal retentive? what gives??

Nope. I'm not even an English speaking native.

That's why it gets too much on my nerves that a big bunch of you don't have a clue about using your own language. That's shameful, right?

And, again, please stop seeing things with the symbol.

It's a mix between Prince's usual male/female symbols and the Alchemy symbol for soapstone as it has already been said several times on this thread. It is THAT and anything else IT ISN'T. Period.

vitriol said:

lotusboy said:

this keeps coming up for u...are u an english professor? need glasses? anal retentive? what gives??

Nope. I'm not even an English speaking native.

That's why it gets too much on my nerves that a big bunch of you don't have a clue about using your own language. That's shameful, right?

And, again, please stop seeing things with the symbol.

It's a mix between Prince's usual male/female symbols and the Alchemy symbol for soapstone as it has already been said several times on this thread. It is THAT and anything else IT ISN'T. Period.

well, thanks for trying to tell native english users what to do with our own lanuage...we can twist and turn all we want...its STILL a free country...USA anyways..

and until PRINCE himself tells us his FULL meaning behind his symbol...(which by the way is the

same symbol he's been using for years, he later put the horn/cornicopia squiggly through the center of it amidst the WB issues) he did not create the symbol "as is".

..its a total variation on his original "logo" (like the one that appears on the motorcycle in purple in rain for example).

lotusboy said:

vitriol said:

Nope. I'm not even an English speaking native.

That's why it gets too much on my nerves that a big bunch of you don't have a clue about using your own language. That's shameful, right?

And, again, please stop seeing things with the symbol.

It's a mix between Prince's usual male/female symbols and the Alchemy symbol for soapstone as it has already been said several times on this thread. It is THAT and anything else IT ISN'T. Period.

well, thanks for trying to tell native english users what to do with our own lanuage...we can twist and turn all we want...its STILL a free country...USA anyways..

and until PRINCE himself tells us his FULL meaning behind his symbol...(which by the way is the

same symbol he's been using for years, he later put the horn/cornicopia squiggly through the center of it amidst the WB issues) he did not create the symbol "as is".

..its a total variation on his original "logo" (like the one that appears on the motorcycle in purple in rain for example).

original symbol Prince used before adding the "horn" through the middle. as u can see he didnt add much...

It means 'hermaphrodite.'

lotusboy said:

vitriol said:

Nope. I'm not even an English speaking native.

That's why it gets too much on my nerves that a big bunch of you don't have a clue about using your own language. That's shameful, right?

And, again, please stop seeing things with the symbol.

It's a mix between Prince's usual male/female symbols and the Alchemy symbol for soapstone as it has already been said several times on this thread. It is THAT and anything else IT ISN'T. Period.

well, thanks for trying to tell native english users what to do with our own lanuage...we can twist and turn all we want...its STILL a free country...USA anyways..

and until PRINCE himself tells us his FULL meaning behind his symbol...(which by the way is the

same symbol he's been using for years, he later put the horn/cornicopia squiggly through the center of it amidst the WB issues) he did not create the symbol "as is".

..its a total variation on his original "logo" (like the one that appears on the motorcycle in purple in rain for example).

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lotusboy said:

well, thanks for trying to tell native english users what to do with our own lanuage...we can twist and turn all we want...its STILL a free country...USA anyways..

Sorry but it's not YOUR language. English people created it, you just destroy it.

But it's ok if you feel free to be an ignorant.

purplethunder3121 said:

Here is Toejam's response to a similar question on an old thread:

"Ahh, a good old "" thread... Haven't seen one of them in a while

Yeah, the symbol is a mix between the traditional male and female symbols along with and an alchemy/soapstone symbol.

Alchemy is the ancient art of turning base metals into pure gold (which is, of course, impossible according to modern science). For thousands of years rulers were always interested in being able to manufacture pure gold from everyday materials and would go to crazy lengths to try and find its secrets. Whoever owns the gold makes the rules so they say...

However alchemy is also seen as a spiritual journey. As alchemists embark on a life long task of trying to do something that is seemingly impossible, it is also a metaphor for turning oneself, your inner soul, into "gold". Hence the term "alchemy" has become synonomous with change/inspiration/growth etc.

It's interesting that there are a lot of references to "gold" and "alchemy" in Prince's 90s work - 3 Chains 'O' Gold, Goldnigga, The Gold Experience "...until the stud in your mouth turns gold" (Mad Sex), "... the alchemy occured most in the Muse" (The Rainbow Children) etc...

Not that I'm saying Prince knows the secrets of alchemy , but it's certainly something that he related to back then (the life long struggle between him and WB perhaps?) and incorporated into his music (and the now famous symbol)."

I did some research myself and found this out as well. The Border's Bookstore back at my old spot had this book and I was buggin' and thinking to myself that P was 'on' a different tip ... LoL