Is the Cup Half Empty or Half Full?

[Mystical_Journey]

Is the Cup Half Empty or Half Full........

[pyrhho]

Doesn't matter, either way it's not enough water to do anything with anyway.

[skylar77]

All I know is that if my beer is at the half mark, i'm not celebrating because it's still half full, I'm on my way to the fridge. Half Empty.

[Amethyst Star]

There's no such thing as EXACTLY half, ergo I can not answer the question. All that means is, WHERE'S MY WAITER! -Amé

[bradybaker]

One is not half of two?

[Kaniaz]

I know this is the second time I've half-insulted Amé but I cannot believe how quickly and simply bradybaker did that. It's sort of funny.

[Amethyst Star]

[/above attempt at humor] Nevermind.... Apparently no one's seen "Drop Dead Gorgeous" (sp?) brady.... There's a word that comes to mind (not directed at you but at the situation), but I won't say it. Morals, you know. Fine, I'll say half-full. I try to look on the positive side of things. -Amé

[Kaniaz]

You have confused me.

[bradybaker]

I think I missed something here.... What word won't you say? I don't know what's going on.

[Rakkantekimusouka]

Well, I can't grasp this without utilizing a little logic... It all depends on how the glass started out. If it was originally empty, and someone filled it half-full, then it is half-full... ...on the other hand, if it began as full, and someone drank or otherwise emptied it halfway, then it would be half-empty. Live long and prosper! (Btw, the official response to that is "Prosperity and long life" -- it's modeled after the Hebrew "Shalom Alechem/Alechem Shalom") Edit: Before anyone including brady says anything, I realize that it is incredibly ironic that I would be logical in regards to this subject as compared to how spiritual I normally am as evidenced by my replies in the Philosophy forum. All I can say is, well, the world isn't black-and-white... Edit Numero Two:...it's also blue, purple, red, orange, and of course, green. TMNT forever, baby!

[Belisarius]

Given that the natural state of a cup is empty, it is only natural to say half full as a positive assertion of the extra prescence in an object.

[bradybaker]

Given that the natural state of a cup is empty[/b] Hahah, that's awesome. Rakka: You should try using logic more often, I think you'd like it.

[sensi]

Half full. Its just how i see it. Peace Sensi.

[Mystical_Journey]

All I know is that if my beer is at the half mark, i'm not celebrating because it's still half full, I'm on my way to the fridge. Half Empty.[/b] I totally agree, my sentiment exactly, beer if different to water.... Rakkantekimusouka i love your logic! i just thought it would be an interesting question to ask, with the philosophy boards main picture as a half empty glass.

[Rev. Pastora]

The whole half empty/half full question is just a sneaky way to weed out the optimists. The glass is BOTH.

[Mystical_Journey]

I love it when a plan comes together, world domination is my plan, im leading people into a false sense of security with the half glass thing, then wham the entire world is mine! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! megalomaniac is here, there is no glass, its on the floor, smashed into pieces! Hypnosis on your ass bitch, MIND BULLETS! The glass isssss BOTH!

[Joseph_Stalin]

This is borderline senseless banter...

[Mystical_Journey]

Political decisions and policies are philosophy at their core, there can be no ideal state or just life without understanding the principles of political philosophy and understand these principles is understanding what knowledge itself is....... Everything that happens in human existence are judgements in relation to truth and falsity. ignorance.....you don’t understand my world domination plan.

[Soilent Green]

I have no cup. When I make orange-juice from concentrate, I pour the mix right back into the can. That's how we do it in the ghetto If I were to fill the can to about the half-way mark it would be neither half-full or half-empty. It is impossible for a physical thing to ever be "half", just as it is impossible to draw a perfect circle, or make a perfectly square box. The volume of the juice can be 50.0000% percent of the volume of the can, but rounding the number is inevitable, there is going to be some error somewhere. At the molecular level, the juice would constantly be changing volume as the water that I had just mixed in slowly evaporated. At the subatomic level, things fluctuate even more. The cup is neither half-full nor half-empty. It is, however a few chugs from needing a refill.

[Entity]

Who cares if the glass is half full or half empty. Just drink the bloody thing.

[Fetish]

maybe.... the cup is just to damn big! stupid moronic smelly fool and dont forget i will always love you i ate the cup

[Aphius]

You can't really say that its both half full and half empty, because the two sides of the question, the scientific side of the question, the glass can never be truly half way, and individual interpretation of the question, optimism and pessimism, don't really allow for a definitive answer. I've always thought that it wasn't a very good question because most people have heard it before, when people have heard a question and the answer to that question that is most widely accepted by the questioners and anyone who may be watching, they tend to answer that way instead of it being a spontaneous answer. Most would answer "Oh yes, the glass is half full ofcourse" to try and make themselves out to be a optimist, because we all love optimists much more than those 'damn pessimists'. Personally I don't answer either way, the glass is both of those things and yet its neither of those things. I try and take it for what it is, a half glass of water, not half full or half empty, subject to no interpretation.

[spoon]

Originally posted by Aphius Most would answer \"Oh yes, the glass is half full ofcourse\" to try and make themselves out to be a optimist, because we all love optimists much more than those 'damn pessimists'. There's an interesting question. Which would people rather be regarded as? Pessimist or Optimist? I recently took some team managment classes at uni and was suprised to learn that, as far as the makeup of a team is concerned, pessimists are just as important as optimists. Being that optimists tend to set too lofty goals, and pessimits tend to shoot lofty goals down. As for me... aim low, shoot high. Pessimism represent. Of course I'd just usually equate pessimism with realism, but thats just to piss optimists off. And to answer the OP's question: [pessimist]"everything sucks and we're all gonna die so the cup can go screw itself" or "half full or half empty, the cup's still evil - like the human race"[/pessimist] -spoon (has fun with negativity)

[Peregrinus]

Physical objects can be half full/empty. For example: Your "cup" is a potential well that originally has 10 atoms in it. You lower the potential of the well, and 5 atoms now have the energy to escape. You're left with 5 atoms in the well, which you then raise back up to the original potential. Voila! Your "cup" now has 5 atoms in it-- half of the original quantity. Of course, you can argue that since an infinite potential is impossible, part of the atomic wavefunctions will necessarily lie outside of the well and thus it will not be truly "half" full, and since we're in the Philosophy forum, that's perfectly allowable. However, I doubt that the people who brought up the "no such thing as precisely half" argument were thinking along those lines. But maybe they were...

[Kaniaz]

You just set fire to everybodies brains with that.