No point crying over spilt milk, someone should have shot the kid first to prevent the violence. Or someone should have not allowed him to have a gun. What does burning his house down now do to help anyone?

Happy Birthday Milkman! "I don't like looking back. I'm always constantly looking forward. I'm not the one to sort of sit and cry over spilt milk. I'm too busy looking for the next cow." Gordon Ramsay

"As it is, Not as we would like it to be"

When we have a desire or expectation on what we want or how things should go, but it does not turn out the way we 'hoped' or 'wanted' (desire), then we loose the balance of our mind.
Desire is based on illusion, we desire (hope) something that has yet to happen and we think about how perfect it would be 'if', yet when that 'if' turns out to be something we did not expect, intend or desire, then we become agitated, sad or depressed that it did not transpire the way we thought it would be. We then take that agitation and we try to share it with others. We don't like to feel the way we are feeling, so we express it to others, spreading the drama. Most people take on the agitation of the one with agitation and become emotional in some way to either commiserate with them or it brings up our own internal agitations about so many things, that we then become embattled with the one that is agitated. Then the fire that is inside is being spread to each other and sometimes it gets bigger and keeps spreading to those around the ones that are agitated. Then it keeps growing and we have a tendency to hold on to that agitation from moments past or days, weeks or years past and it keeps building. It becomes a habit pattern and we keep repeating the same process because we are consumed with it.
But we all know that the only thing that puts out a fire is water. Water is the cooling substance to quench the fires lust to consume. It is the same way with human beings, water (calm cool words or actions) can help diffuse oneself or others.
When we are agitated we lose our self-awareness and travel down the path that our sensations or emotions are taking us. We in essence lose control, we allow ourselves or others to guide us down a path that is never helpful to any situation.
But there are many paths to change that habit pattern within ourselves and gain mastery over our minds and change the habit of allowing ourselves to lose our equanimity.
Science has proven that no one can make you feel a certain way, or make you do anything. Yet we still have a habit of blaming others for our agitation or sadness, or even praise others for making ourselves happy. Yet we are the only ones that can make ourselves happy or sad. We have the ability to accept things as they truly are be it 'bad' or 'good' and be OK with it. Why do we cry when the milk has spilt? It has spilt, crying or any other emotion over that reality is not going to make the milk un-spill. Cleaning it up and learning or teaching on not to have the milk spill again and moving on from that moment is the most important thing.
We are incredible beings with so much power and beauty. To be with ourselves and learn from within our own beings is so important and the key to dealing with the world around us.
So yes, hope can be a very dangerous thing when that hope consumes us to the point of anger and depression when that hope it not fulfilled.
We do not have any control over how things transpire outside of ourselves, but we do have the ability to master ourselves so we can be mindful to the ever changing world when our hopes are not fulfilled. As we grow we learn not to have so many expectations (hopes), but allow life to unfold around us and 'Act' to any situation instead of 'React' with emotion. When we Act, we start to become aware instead of becoming blurred when we are reacting with unawareness.

'Be well on your journey, May Truth and Awareness be your guide'

There's no assumption going on, the electorate decide who their second choice is.

To make things easy, let's imagine an electorate of 100 voters, with 3 representatives and a 33% threshold.
So let's say 60 people give White Tiger their no.1 and among those people, their second vote is spilt 40 to Orange Tiger and 20 to Silverback.

So White Tiger has 27 surplus votes. Those surplus votes are divided by proportion to Orange Tiger and Silverback.

So in this case Orange Tiger gets 66% of the surplus vote and Silverback 33% giving them 18 and 9 votes respectively.

I'm not sure the "not wanting to go to war" bit applies when you're already at war. At that point in the war, I suspect all parties still active in WW2 had serious regrets about getting involved in the first place. But that's spilt milk.

This kind of speaks to the time-specific nature of what kinds of judgements it's possible to make. It's easy to say, now, what would have been the best course of action for any player, but we all understand ours is not the perspective Truman or Hirohito had at the time.

Similarly, they would have had different perspectives before the war than in the middle of it. Japan was a willing participant in WW2 at the start, no question about that. The question is, once they were in it, and losing, what would it have taken to get them to surrender, and did anyone have the ability to know?

>> ^charliem:

>> ^EMPIRE:
i actually imediately thought of sticking my head in a bucket full of water and collecting and weighing the water that spilled over.
Thank you Archimedes

You dont collect the displaced water, you just measure the weight of the bucket before and after, split the difference!!
Far easier than trying to scoop up spilt water


you got me there lol

>> ^EMPIRE:

i actually imediately thought of sticking my head in a bucket full of water and collecting and weighing the water that spilled over.
Thank you Archimedes


You dont collect the displaced water, you just measure the weight of the bucket before and after, split the difference!!

Far easier than trying to scoop up spilt water

I figured, from the downvotes.

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No use crying over spilt milk.

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No use crying over spilt milk.

No use crying over spilt milk.

No use crying over spilt milk.

Snowy better get drunk licking spilt whiskey up. I swear that shit happens in every book.

First, regular people aren't morally good and you know it.
And if christians condemn someone for a crime that really isn't a crime, well of course that's wrong.
As for God torturing and killing Jesus, that's applying human traits to God, which is generally ridiculous.

I challenge you to plainly state why christianity is amoral. If I can forgive spilt milk, then I can forgive something much greater. Doesn't make it amoral.

Careful professor, you almost spilt some on your cotton wool hair.

i'm so annoyed at typing now. i 'm typing using my mouse with the windows accessibility program. i spilt a drink on my keyboard last night and i wokeup to find that a lot of letters don't work anymore. i just wanted to say thank you anyway