Good story, Wolfgang!

I suspect the Bible parable had to do with non-material considerations, in which case it might might much better sense. Depends on what it's about.

Yeah. Okay, I took a look at it. Here's what I get out of it.

The various workers toil in the vineyard (of life). The vineyard is embodied life as we know it, and we all toil in it, but some harder than others, and some longer than others. People (whose love is conditional) expect favoritism and practice it...so those who toil harder or longer expect a greater allotment of Divine love for having done so...a bigger reward. And they will get a bigger reward from other people, for sure, because people's love is conditional. The ones who worked harder and longer also expect to get to lord it over those who didn't, and form heavenly hierarchies accordingly...of the more righteous and the less righteous, and so on. You see people doing this everywhere in Earthly life, specially in religious orders.

In this respect they are quite unlike the Divine, which does not love conditionally but simply loves, period, and in an equal fashion. Divine love is not divisible...because it's complete love.

One simple parable or demonstration of that is that when the sun shines it shines equally on everyone without prejudice. It doesn't reserve itself for the rich man, the saint, the local preacher, etc. Likewise, when the rain falls it falls equally on everyone.

In such a situation, the "important" man feels vexed, because he figures that he, of all people, ought to get a special dispensation from the "powers that be"...but he doesn't! He gets exactly the same dispensation everyone else does. He gets Divine Love, in full measure, which is his penny for the day's work. Same as everyone else. He gets equality. In such a system the last appear (by contrast to the usual human state of affairs) to come first, and the first last.

That's Love.

It is also, curiously enough, the basic notion underlying pure socialism...but it's efficacy is greater limited by the spiritual maturity of a populace and their leaders, which usually isn't that high. Capitalism is the antithesis of that, being based on self-interest, inequality, and competition (a form of war). Both socialism and capitalism have a useful part to play in human development, but socialism is essentially more egalitarian in its nature. That has not prevented it from being hijacked by some of the most vicious dictators and police states in history, however. People are clever creatures. They can ruin anything, given half a chance.

What humans call "love" is mostly just a form of conditional negotiation. ("I'll give you what you want if I get what I want.")

Since God doesn't want (meaning "lack") anything...there are no conditions to be negotiated. The Divine loves everyone in a complete fashion. Whether they recognize it, are open to it, or accept that love is an entirely different matter! Many (all, in fact) are called. Few step forward and answer (because they don't hear the call in the first place...they're too busy with other matters that concern them). Those who do not step forward and answer cannot be chosen, because it is on them that the choice depends.

All of this, of course, may strike you as utter tripe and fantasy. If so, feel free to go on enjoying your usual concepts of reality. That's what we all do.

- LH