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Everybody early on does learn the "wisdom of King Solomon" and the story of the baby to be cut in half, one half for each mother who did claim the baby.
But Jesus Christ (peace and prayer be upon him) put in some zingers of wisdom also.
In the parable of the vineyard & laborers,
(Matthew 20:1-16)
a boss tells them laborers
who worked all day
to stand in the back of the line,
while the laborers who only worked one hour are to stand in the front of the line,
where they all were to receive two coins, the same amount of money,
from the paymaster,
whether they worked one hour or whether they worked twelve hours.
Why?
Because
if else
the laborers who only worked one hour
did wait at the back of the line,
then
they would have assumed they were tricked,
and the boss had no money to pay them,
then they who only worked one hour or half a day,
would have left, before they did get up into the front of the line ,
where the paymaster had plenty of money.
The laborers who worked all day were told to stand at the end of the line,
where they did imagine
a vain thing
about how they would get paid
twice as much, or
ten times as much money,
or more money,
as compared against the laborers at the front of the line,
who only worked one hour or
part of the day.
But the laborers at the end of the line,
who worked all day,
received the exact same pay as
everybody else,
just as the boss did count ahead of time
and deliver.
So it is easy to imagine
if the laborers who worked only one hour
had stood at the end of the line
then they one hour workers would have imagined just as much a vain thing,
as the 12 hour laborers,
who really did stand at the back of the line,
but the one hour laborers
would have had a reverse, opposite, vain fantasy,
about how
they would be paid nothing,
because they were tricked.
After all,
only a crazy boss
would pay the same wage
onto someone who worked all day,
as onto someone who only worked an hour or part of the day.
But the real wage paid
was enough to
buy a meal,
for one day,
for an average family.
The boss did want to make sure
that the family
of every worker had enough money to eat that day,
whether the worker worked one hour or twelve hours.
"Give us this day our daily bread."
If else?
That is not Pascal,
that is just pseudocode, and worse.
Mock nonprogrammers?
A vain thing
; ; ; ; .
allah u akbar
I read and reread this and come up with ??????????????
It's not Pascal. It's just pseudo code. What's so difficult for you to decode that?
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