2007-08-26 13:22:12 · 32 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Who says it is?
And christians have a glass full of nothing.
2007-08-26 13:27:51 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 8⤊ 1⤋
It's only depressing if you fear death and fear not existing. If you are an Atheist but do not fear death or having your existence terminated it wouldn't actually matter would it? I'm not an Atheist, I'm open to many possibilities. But the thought of not existing in a way sounds quite peaceful to me, a bit like before I was born. I don't remember being miserable then. If you didn't exist you wouldn't be able to fear anything or worry about half empty glasses, that doesn't sound that depressing to me. What sounds more depressing is to only be open to one possibility and then all you have is disappointment when it doesn't turn out that way. What is certain is that we can't control it, we are all going to die, so why not just get on with our lives and stop worrying about it
2016-05-18 21:53:13 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your question is based on a premise that...I dunno...is pulled out of some very, very strange and sad corner of your mind.
I am so much happier and more confident since I decided to commit to being an atheist than I ever was when I was kind-of-agnostic, I can't tell you. It's because I understand religion better than a lot of self-styled religious people do. I know how hard it is to be a true believer. I know how unhappy it makes you, and I'm familiar with all the stratagems that religion has designed to convince you that your unhappiness is actually happiness, or at least the shadow of some sort of future bliss that will happen after you're dead.
So for me, the glass being 50% capacity is not a sign of half empty or half full. It's about having planned ahead and having another bottle on the shelf.
2007-08-26 13:35:12 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Actually I would consider the flass half full. If the lower half of the glass has water in it (obviously just the top half cannot) then we know that the glass has definitely been filled to that point. We cannot be certain if it has been filled past that point, then emptied some.
2007-08-26 14:15:44 · answer #4 · answered by quierounvaquero 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Is that a real glass or a metaphorical glass, who made this "glass" and when, how did this glass evolve, was its ancestor a wooden vessel or some sort of stoneware. How can i answer a question like this without the facts.
Just joking, it is always full, only the ratio of air and what it contains vary/ change.
I am not Religious, I am not Atheist, I am just me.
2007-08-26 13:48:33 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I didn't think the saying had anything whatsoever to do with religion - the glass is always half empty for pessimists and half full for optimists!
2007-08-26 13:34:53 · answer #6 · answered by Banshee Babe 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because the other half glass is in the hands of people who don't know where the contents came from.
2007-08-26 13:28:41 · answer #7 · answered by BAL 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
who say the glass is half empty. it is half fill with air, another half full of water
2007-08-26 13:36:03 · answer #8 · answered by shadower 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Actually, the glass is just too big for the amount of water it contains.
2007-08-26 13:33:26 · answer #9 · answered by skeptic 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This atheist is still waiting to see the glass before offering an opinion.
2007-08-26 13:26:35 · answer #10 · answered by Let Me Think 6 · 17⤊ 0⤋
Because we consume water, we don't produce it, so the glass is usually in the act of emptying.
2007-08-26 13:27:59 · answer #11 · answered by Subconsciousless 7 · 7⤊ 1⤋