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anarchovegan
There are downsides to everything.
anarchovegan
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There are upsides to everything.
Metalbrushes_Tattoo
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Agreed. The glass can always be half full if you choose to see it that way.
Simon Van Gelder
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Only those things with sides.
anarchovegan
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Everything has a silverlining.
Simon Van Gelder
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Only things with sides. Where's the silver lining of a Möbius strip?
anarchovegan
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At the edge, especially when put up against the sun.
Simon Van Gelder
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An edge with a surface area would require depth. Where is the silver lining of a point "cloud"? You only get sides when you abstract, and you can only guild when you have sides.
anarchovegan
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Clouds are where we get silver lining From. Even on a computer screen, a mobius strip has depth at the edge! Could you explain your last sentence?
Simon Van Gelder
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A Möbius strip by definition on has one side.
anarchovegan
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Yes, and therewith, an edge.
Simon Van Gelder
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An edge with no surface area to be lined.
anarchovegan
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How so?
Simon Van Gelder
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Exactly: the *abstraction* of a cloud (it being an ominous thing, with non-silver sides) is what we imagine has a silver lining: the physical cloud itself has no sides, and no lining.
anarchovegan
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Not if the sun isn't shining on it.
The analogy and correlation is that of our awareness and consciousness shining light on our life situation, which might be very cloudy indeed.
Simon Van Gelder
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And my point is that the ability to shine light is dependent upon first viewing the cloud in a bad light.
anarchovegan
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Yes, and [dark] clouds are often represented as someone having a bad time, with the sun coming through later as a sign of things going better.