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Do you believe in nominative determinism? It's an interesting concept with gigantic implications.


Do you? Does your username have deterministic implications? Or aspirational?


Haha, both!


Not the person you are replying to, but I do (but didn't know the term, thank you!)

I find that teams and products with negative pun acronyms fail for example. I find that the trend of the name Lilith being popular correlates with abortion rates (in the bible, Lilith killed unborn babies) etc etc etc




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