If My Glass is Half Empty.....
- Thread starter Poetic Justice
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I don't even want the glass. This is an interesting topic though. I think my glass has been defined for me by my parents, especially my dad, up until about three years ago.
What do I fill my glass with after I have defined it. Milk? A Manhattan?
What do I fill my glass with after I have defined it. Milk? A Manhattan?
the optimist states that the glass is half full
the pessimist states that the glass is half empty
the pragmatist states that the glass is twice as large as it needs to be
the pessimist states that the glass is half empty
the pragmatist states that the glass is twice as large as it needs to be
Excellent
This is a good example of content reframing which GPS mentioned earlier
Drive your own bus
[MENTION=3738]gps[/MENTION] I've just realised this could be taken the wrong way. It was a reference to "who's driving the bus?". Judging by your post I assume you know what I mean by that
I tend to go with the smaller glass idea, too....that's how it worked for me. I have made big adjustments in my life and simplified it in many ways. Every change brought a time of slight disorientation, but things have always come out much better. These things always required a change of perspective/awareness on my part, but once made (over time), whole new vistas appeared. My glass is pretty full...but it is not a glass that is disproportionate to my actual needs.
[MENTION=472]Poetic Justice[/MENTION] I took/interpreted it as the individual driving his or her own metaphorical bus.
I'm not only capable of placing links to `content' framed as half-full and these links to bisocciation and concept blending, I'm actually capable of multi-framing, multi-sociation and intersubjectivity ... to some extent, on some occasions.
Or so I'd like to believe.
No offense stolen or responsibly attributed for offense stolen.
No harm, no fowl. Play on!
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[MENTION=3545]bickelz[/MENTION]
Your glass ... after your J mindset has fabricated that closure?
Why not imagine the Milk or Manhattan as a just-right, serving-sized amount from a great lake full of it then have Scotty beam it directly into your mouth a sip-full or gulp-full at time as per your whims and wishes? ;-)
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Everyone is capable of all those things. Most people just don't know the terms
Who's driving the bus was a reference to a classic NLP book. As you used lots of NLP jargon in your first post i thought you'd know what i mean. I guess i meant it as a sort of secret handshake but then i realised it was a little obscure. Lol
Of course i also meant what you thought i meant
[MENTION=472]Poetic Justice[/MENTION]
I certainly am.
Though why `take' offense when you can wrench it away from a victim one can unilaterally victimize by playing an offended victim of insult beyond toleration ;-)
I almost miss the PC movement with it's euphemisms and assortment of victims which emerged when the one-and-only one PC euphemism wasn't (mis)used.
I'll fess up to owning copies of The Structure of Magic, parts I and II, Frogs into Princes, and Reframing.
I opted to link to cognitive restructuring wiki page rather than the Reframing book as the concept is more generic than the NPL buzz word `reframing'.
I `knew' as much as my epistemology would allow ;-)
Meant?
We'd have to get into `meaning' then, wouldn't we?
What is meaning?
I certainly am.
Though why `take' offense when you can wrench it away from a victim one can unilaterally victimize by playing an offended victim of insult beyond toleration ;-)
I almost miss the PC movement with it's euphemisms and assortment of victims which emerged when the one-and-only one PC euphemism wasn't (mis)used.
I'll fess up to owning copies of The Structure of Magic, parts I and II, Frogs into Princes, and Reframing.
I opted to link to cognitive restructuring wiki page rather than the Reframing book as the concept is more generic than the NPL buzz word `reframing'.
I `knew' as much as my epistemology would allow ;-)
Meant?
We'd have to get into `meaning' then, wouldn't we?
What is meaning?
@Melkor, in this case why bother with the glass and just thread a crazy straw through the bung hole of a barrel of beer and be done with the middle man `glass' altogether ... bearing in mind to keep the bung hole up as you're sucking the metaphorical nectar from life as you're sucking beer straight from the barrel? ;-)
Hmmm ... why bother with that damned barrel?
How much do those brewer's kettles hold?
Where I live there are lines of tubing running from Maple tree to Maple tree to a big sap barrel.
Perhaps when the sugaring season is over we can re-use the tubing to `tap' a brewery kettle and distribute the contents accordingly.
A man's got to believe in something ... I believe I'll bypass the glass, barrel, and kettle and go straight for the contents.