half_full_or_half_empty imposter One of the wisest things I have ever heard: "Depends on whether you're pouring or drinking" Think about it 030902 ... misstree that's actually one of the best responses i've heard... yum... i collected them, for a bit... but i'm going dancing so no tidbits from me. :P 030902 ... Flowers from Safeway I heard a rather clinical response once. "...completely full: the top half is filled with air." Pretty stupid, huh? 030902 ... misstree who cares? drink what ya got and order some more. 030903 ... werewolf what's it matter when you've lost your thirst? 030903 ... stork daddy or as a friend of mine says...heck...just pour it into a smaller glass 030903 ... splat stork daddy, that defeats the whole philosophical purpose of the question! Jeez! 030904 ... kss it there's shit in the glass, does it really matter? 030905 ... a neither...it's gin 030906 ... krazyk In the case of the moon, if it's totally at half-phase then it must be either waxing or waning. The moon won't go from full to half, then back to full. So if you looked out one night and saw a half-full moon and asked "half full or half empty?" you could speculate all you wanted, but you'd have to wait a few days to see what it was really doing. Or, you could conduct a similar experiment and go out at precisely noon and ask a friend to look directly up at the sun and tell you whether they though it was rising or setting. They'd probably tell you their eyes were buring from staring at it too long :-) 030906 ... k *whether they thought...not though supid haste 030906 ... ferret hey you! waddaya say? something beautiful something free! i'd say it depends on which half 030906 ... birdmad the glass is never close enough for me to tell through this window 030906 ... splinken I've got a crazy teacher, he wears dark glasses. Things are going great, and they're only getting better... 030913 ... karl the weed i hate this question. when people ask me that, i get pissed off. 030914 ... ashmanzhou it doth be either until it is broken and then it doth be neither 030914 ... icy rather like "how are you?" - they ask because it's something neat to ask, and more trendy. those who ask a question like that usually don't care about the real answer. they'd rather hear a smart little quip and move on the next bit of philosophical nonsense or stimulating conversation - mostly centered on themselves. o, better stop. bad day at work, bad day at life. half empty... or maybe half full. it all depends. 031104 ... surrendering i never got a glass to start with... (half empty, i guess) 031104 ... ClairE half_empty_glass 031104 ... ...IV The glass is neither half full or half empty. It is too big. 031104 ... jane i am the empty glass 040407 ... jane i am the empty glass 040407 ... Water Never Felt So Good I'm filling jane up to the halfway point. 040407 ... zeke it is in a quantum state of full/empty until disturbed or examined 040407 ... realistic optimist it is well balanced. 040408 what's it to you? who go blather from