From: TomO on
On Sun, 01 Nov 2009 05:34:19 -0800, little man upon the stair wrote:

>
> Not at all. The classic riddle about whether a glass is half full or
> half empty is
> a sort of Zen koan that can be applied to existentialism and living in
> the moment.
>
> Westerners have a dualistic mind set and usually never realize that the
> glass is half full *and* half empty at the same time and that is the
> "suchness" of the moment.
>

I've always just figured that the glass was designed with a 100% safety
factor for the task at hand.