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The Seneca Glass: Half Full or Half Empty?
Optimist: the glass is half full.
Pessimist: the glass is half empty.
Catastrophist. It will not be half full for long.
Cornucopian: We are running into water rather than out of it.
Oil executive: The water level grows more the more we drink from the glass.
Conspiracy Theorist: Water? What water? THEY want us to believe that there is water in the glass.
Chemtrail believer: Don’t look at the water! Look up at the sky! Don’t you see THEY are poisoning us?
Climate Science Denier: Scientists cannot predict the weather one week in advance, how can they say if the glass is full or empty?
Bad Pun Lover: A fish was swimming in the glass. It swam into the wall and said, “Damn!”
Thomas Malthus: You can only fill the glass at a linear rate, but people will drink from it at exponentially rising rates.
Harold Hotelling: When there will be no more water in it, we’ll use beer as a backstop resource.
Robert Solow: the amount of water in the glass will keep growing exponentially.
Neoclassical Economist: when the water level will be low enough, market forces will create more.
Julian Simon: there is enough water in the glass to last for six billion years.
Colin Campbell: After you drink the water in the glass, there will be none left.
Charles Hall: the water return on energy invested (WROEI) declines as you drink it.
Gail Tverberg: Water is not really a renewable resource.
Guy McPherson: All the water will have disappeared from planet Earth by 2030.
Donald Trump: We need to build a wall to keep the Mexicans from drinking our water.
Erwin Schroedinger: The glass is neither half full nor half empty – until you drink from it.
Jesus Christ: Have faith and walk on the stones, just like I do.
Lao Zi: A glass of a thousand gallons is filled starting with just one drop.
Buddha: The water is an illusion, just like the glass. And the drinker, too.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca: It takes a long time to fill the glass, but emptying it is rapid.
Cassandra’s legacy by Ugo Bardi
10 Comments on "The Seneca Glass: Half Full or Half Empty?"
Jef on Mon, 23rd Jul 2018 3:42 pm
Environmentalist – Never mind full or empty just be sure to put the glass in the recycle bin.
baha on Mon, 23rd Jul 2018 4:15 pm
Realist – Drink – Pee – Filter – Drink – Pee – Filter…
deadly on Tue, 24th Jul 2018 2:14 am
“I say the glass is too big.” – George Carlin
Davy on Tue, 24th Jul 2018 2:45 am
Whiskey Is for Drinking; Water Is for Fighting Over.
Mark Twain
peakyeast on Tue, 24th Jul 2018 3:39 am
Well – If you look at the glass in question. When measuring height it is at the halfway point. But notice the sides are slanting outwards as you go up – which means that at the ½ way point in height 2/3s of the drink is gone.
It is thus half-empty – not half-full 😀 :-p
JuanP on Tue, 24th Jul 2018 7:28 am
Peaky is correct in that an objective observation reveals that according to human convention the glass is not a cylinder, but a section of a cone. That means that it could be best described as being more than half empty and less than half the full. But, does the glass really exist, or the water for that matter? Only according to our very limited sensory perception and even more limited intellectual interpretation. In other words, both the glass and the water are, essentially, human abstractions.
Karl Johnson on Tue, 24th Jul 2018 11:54 am
Dont drink water – thats where fishes fuck.
Sissyfuss on Tue, 24th Jul 2018 2:35 pm
I can’t see the glass. I need glasses but should I get half full or half empty ones?
peakyeast on Wed, 25th Jul 2018 3:47 am
@Sis: I just updated the world dictionary definition of half-full and half-empty.
Half-full is when you have a glass that has a bigger volume at the bottom than the top and the level is at the halfway.
Half-empty is when you have a normal glass which is also filled to halfway point in height but where the volume is bigger in the top-half.
:*)
print baby print on Wed, 25th Jul 2018 11:27 am
hahahhah good comments folks