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So, heres a question i find surprisingly deep. I feel it defines a persons approach to life in certain aspects and is very simple.
You have your favourite spread for bread / crackers etc. It's whatever you love most, cheese, jam, peanut butter, anything!
You have barely enough to make it into two servings (so you can have it again later / tomorrow etc, not share) but it will be spread very thin during those servings and wont be as tasty.
Or, you can have a small extra helping with one serving and enjoy it to the fullest, but over a shorter period.
So, Teamliquidans, One or two servings?
Poll: One or two servings?One! Enjoy dat spread! (43) 77% Two! Less but longer enjoyment! (13) 23% 56 total votes Your vote: One or two servings? (Vote): One! Enjoy dat spread!
(Vote): Two! Less but longer enjoyment!
Personally, i'll always go for one serving in life, i'd rather enjoy something to its max then water it down over a period of time so im enjoying it less but for longer.
There will always be future opportunities to "eat spread" again! :D
 
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"Which is it?" I say to myself. "Which one is better?!?" I grab some bread out from under the bathroom sink and cut away the mold. I open up the minifridge I use as a TV stand and take out one of my ButterSticks. But alas, I've already eaten half of it! Here I've got TWO slices of bread, and only half a ButterStick to cut apart and use. Despair! I sit there, alone, debating with myself if I should splurge it all on one slice, or spread it thin between two.
"Dammit!" I yell. "Why did this have to happen to me of all people?" God was playing tricks on me again. I checked the fridge again to see if I missed anything. But all that remained was an old pair of blue jeans my grandma stitched up for me as a birthday present. I flushed the toilet and put down my food on the floor before raiding the house.
I checked the dishwasher first, hoping I might find some butter residue somewhere, but she told me to go back to bed on the couch. No good!
I checked the pantry, hoping to find some morsel of butter that I had forgotten to put away. But, to my dismay, my pet roaches had already eaten anything, if there was any to eat to begin with. I bid them farewell as I searched for that spread of Heaven.
But it was all in vain. For nowhere in the house was butter to be found. The chunky milk on the counter, as I found out the last time this catastrophe happened, was no substitute for the good stuff. I returned to the bathroom, ashamed and defeated. The slices of bread stared up at me from the floor. They knew. They knew of my troubles. I don't know how, but they knew. I picked them up with tears in my eyes, apologized, and proceeded to spread the entire ButterStick on one slice while flushing the other down the toilet.
"I'm sorry." I cried.
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Spread it over two but enjoy it as a cracker sandwich in one sitting.
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If I can control myself to not eat it in one serving, then it probably isn't good enough :p
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is this a metaphor for ordering a footlong from subway and telling yourself your only gonna eat half, but you always have the whole foot (11 inches)?
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On January 29 2014 13:47 Epishade wrote:
"Which is it?" I say to myself. "Which one is better?!?" I grab some bread out from under the bathroom sink and cut away the mold. I open up the minifridge I use as a TV stand and take out one of my ButterSticks. But alas, I've already eaten half of it! Here I've got TWO slices of bread, and only half a ButterStick to cut apart and use. Despair! I sit there, alone, debating with myself if I should splurge it all on one slice, or spread it thin between two.
"Dammit!" I yell. "Why did this have to happen to me of all people?" God was playing tricks on me again. I checked the fridge again to see if I missed anything. But all that remained was an old pair of blue jeans my grandma stitched up for me as a birthday present. I flushed the toilet and put down my food on the floor before raiding the house.
I checked the dishwasher first, hoping I might find some butter residue somewhere, but she told me to go back to bed on the couch. No good!
I checked the pantry, hoping to find some morsel of butter that I had forgotten to put away. But, to my dismay, my pet roaches had already eaten anything, if there was any to eat to begin with. I bid them farewell as I searched for that spread of Heaven.
But it was all in vain. For nowhere in the house was butter to be found. The chunky milk on the counter, as I found out the last time this catastrophe happened, was no substitute for the good stuff. I returned to the bathroom, ashamed and defeated. The slices of bread stared up at me from the floor. They knew. They knew of my troubles. I don't know how, but they knew. I picked them up with tears in my eyes, apologized, and proceeded to spread the entire ButterStick on one slice while flushing the other down the toilet.
"I'm sorry." I cried.
5/5
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I'm going to pray about this and answer your poll tomorrow.
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One means splurging and displays lack of self control
Two means you have control and are more likely to live a longer prosperous life.
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An insufficient amount of spread is worse than no spread at all.
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Two servings.
As far as taste goes, having a bigger serving does not increase the enjoyment of taste, it only allows the meal to last a little longer. If I were one to cling to wishing or holding onto to something for as long as possible, I would have the spread all in one serving. However, because I'm a forward thinker and don't live to wish in the past, I plan for the future and prepare myself in the present. In this sense, having two servings is not a sign of "being too careful" but of pragmatism.
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normal sized serving; pick up more at the store
i think it might be more interesting if
A. you only have enough for one serving, but can't get any more until the day after so you have to choose between eating a regular sized portion now, or trying to split that into two [assuming splitting it into two portions negatively impacts the amount of enjoyment you get out of it ie only a hint of the taste, or like not enough peanut butter for adequate coverage (whatever that means to you) for a piece of bread etc.]
B. you have less than one serving, and you cant get any more until the day after, so you have to choose between eating a less than ideal sized portion, assuming that your normal serving is an "ideal portion" ie maximizes enjoyment while minimizing use of spread, and going without the next time, or trying to split an already inadequate supply of spread into an extra day.
C. considering something essential rather than a luxury: imagine the above scenarios but rather than spread on crackers it was a total amount of food, and rather than enjoyment you are looking at satiety, as well as energy levels, mood, etc. also you can consider something like sleep.
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Epishade is the best!!! Greatest story ever
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You basically ask whether duration or intensity have a greater impact on a certain total amount of pleasure. This is a fair question, but it already rests on a few assumptions that you take for granted, which themselves are much more interesting when it comes to approaches to life. For one, by stating your either/or proposition you assume that we should prioritize the option that will maximize our pleasure, presumingly because maximizing our pleasure is somehow good, and you yourself make your choice based on the rationale that it will maximize pleasure. But the really interesting alternative approaches to life emerge when you start questioning those basic assumptions.
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