half_empty_glass reitoei there is glass containing 50% water is it half full? is it half empty? or is just half? not a quantity or a perception or a belief or a drink of water or a joke or a drop in the ocean. maybe its just a glass with some water in it. and maybe theres nothing more at all and maybe i'm just glad to drink it. 020110 ... Norm Really, it has nothing to do with perspective. Whether the glass is half full or half empty depends on how the glass came to only have half in it. Well if the glass filled only half way that would make it half full, and if it were once full and then emptied to the half way mark it would make it half empty. So that settles that. 020110 ... ssiero For once, Norm, I agree with you. 020110 ... kitten on drugs for the last 4 1/2 months, the glass has been half empty. but now, it's not just half full.... it's overflowing. 020111 ... original or extra stupid if my glass stays half empty that's a good thing 'cause it means no one has pissed in it lately 020111 ... Mahayana 1/2 empty glass has everything 2 do with perspective Middle English, optical from Medieval Latin, perspectivus aiding the vision [{his eyes were like unto the wrong end of a perspective glass, when answering this blathe}] of, relating to, employing, or seen in perspective [{perspective glass: structures, mass consumption, articulated usage}] first in order to create a hypothesis, one has to gather as much information as possible: + what kind of glass are we referring 2 [art glass, borosilicate glass, cased glass, cheval glass, cocktail glass, cover glass, crown glass, cut glass, depression glass, field glass, flint glass, float glass, glass wool, glass sponge, glass snake] + can we all agree, it is the same kind of glass we are communicating about +what is it being filled with: gases, liquids, solids, theories, dreams, hopes, aspirations, wishes, goals, etc.? Whether the glass is /half full or half empty/ depends upon a plethora of elements & reasoning ] what is your 'perspective' are you a scientist, artist, writer, cook, person on a diet, food service provider, dancer, avant garde filmmaker... ] what is your hypothesis, often times this will skew a scientists results, esp. if a certain grant was obtained & certain expectations needed to be filled in order for annual renewal ] what is your motivation for asking/answering this question Well, if the glass was filled only half way, but done so [upside down]... than what? [would that make it 1/2 full or 1/2 empty] & if it were once full and then emptied to the half way mark {which is subjective to interpretation & 'perspective' yet once again} would that necc. make it ... 1/2 empty? 020111 ... Norm Good point, dick head. 020111 ... Mahayana :) thanks [sidenotes] [it amazes me when men name off parts of their genitalia when attempting to offend others] ¿[ironic isnt it[? 020111 ... j_blue about a month ago, i figured out that the proverbial glass has a hole in the bottom of it 020111 ... . . Good Points Mahayan 031106 ... . see also half_full_or_half_empty 031107 what's it to you? who go blather from