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Question: Common question: Half full or half empty!?
People commonly ask if the glass is half full or empty, but I think it depends!. If your filling the glass up and stops halfway its half full!. If it was being emptied out and stops halfway then its half empty!. What are your opinions!?Www@QuestionHome@Com


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damet! that's EXACTLY what i was going to say!!!! wow someone else shares my opinion! you rock!Www@QuestionHome@Com

This is a question of language and phrasing!. You could just say, "Its holding capacity is at the halfway point" (or rather, its capacity) and avoid the whole judgment thing!. Admittedly, it's not as concise, but sometimes it's necessary to be a bit wordy in order to be clear, or non-committal, or whatever!.
And even if you're filling the glass and stop halfway, it's still both half full and half empty!.
Ha! You could say it's half emptyfull!. :-)Www@QuestionHome@Com

I think you got it wrong!. This eternal cliche on optimism and pessimism is not about the person who either pouring liquid into or out of the glass!.It is about the people , like you and me , who happen to see a galss with some liquid in it!. If someone were to ask you what you see you might say that you see a glass half full!. I , on the other hand , might say that I see a half empty glass!. It is a diffenece in perception !. This has been blown out of proportion!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Either-or-ness is a limiting concept of the dualistic mind!. Beyond the minds perception of positionality it is obvious that the glass is both half full and empty while simultaneously neither!. Duality and positionality always brings up conflict of the opposite position!. Non-duality is allowing rather than forcing!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I disagree with you there if you have a full glass and you are dumping it out and you stop halfway I believe it is still half full!. Then again I also believe that if you are filling it and you stop halfway it is still half full!. I guess I'm just one of those, "the glass is half full" kind of people!. Www@QuestionHome@Com

It can be both!. It depends on how you see it, at any given circumstances!. It definitely has the potential to become more full or more empty!. But on the other hand, what is "full" and what is "empty"!?You lose something and you gain something else!. And vice versa!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Unless you have somehow created a vacuum in the top half of the glass, it is entirely full!. Half is full of water, half is full of air!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

It depends on what life deals you!. Whether it was half-full or half-empty it would depend more on what it was half-full or half-empty of!. Water, Milk, Garbage, Wine, Mud!.!.!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

If your filling it up and stop you left it half empty and if your drinking it and stop you left it half full!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Its either your a optimist or pessimist!. That is all, its called an analogy its not meant to be measured!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

It is half full as well as it is half empty !. If we see life in that view we will never get disappointments !.Www@QuestionHome@Com

The glass is full; without liquid there can be no measure!.

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It's both, it takes a more complicated mature mind to see that!.
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The glass is too big!. It can hold a lot more!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Half full!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

It's still half full!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

You've just told us how you view life!.Www@QuestionHome@Com