Worldviews dominate our era. The motto of the present time could be, “Everyone’s worldview is valid, only mine is valider.” The old glass-is-half-full/glass-is-half-empty metaphor seems like an effective way of “glassifying” some prominent worldviews.
- Optimism – The glass is ½ full.
- Pessimism – The glass is ½ empty.
- Darwin – The glass appeared at random and without cause. Survival of the thirstiest.
- Nietzche – The glass is dead!
- Freud – Women suffer from glass envy; men want to drink from their father’s glass.
- Roman Catholic – You must be sprinkled from the glass as a baby.
- Baptist – No! You must be fully immersed in the glass as an adult!
- Jewish – First you’ll have your glass-mitzvah, and then you’ll become a doctor.
- Hindu – You will be poured out over and over again until you realize the glass is an illusion. Oh, and the water at the bottom of…
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