Wisdom of the Ages

Thus spake the Wise Man:

Yea! Spare not the ice from the cola, for down this path lies the unrighteous state of lukewarm cola.

But stay also thy hand from filling the glass with ice unto its very brim before thou dost pour therein a single drop of thy cola, for thus thou wilt cause the cola to taste of mildly-carbonated water.

Treadest thou then the middle path, neither withholding clear coolness from thy liquid as the blasphemers, nor inundating it therein as the false and foolish heathen, but rather, seek solace and comfort in the offering of, say, two, or maybe three cubes, by which sign shall ye be known and welcomed amongst us as a true believer.