Ah, glad to know I'm not the only one who was confused by the parable.
Thank you, Gilda, for analyzing along with me.
I don't know if I made this clear earlier, but I agree with Mal that BigBen (and ratbastid) expressed some beautiful stuff...
I just didn't quite jive with the quoted parable thingy.
...hell, it's my job to analyze texts, what did you expect?