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Since we
last saw our trio they were headed back to their
homes in far away places. Each wise man started
promoting the yearly celebration to every gentile
person they ran across. Now
after almost a year of promoting this Christmas idea
to the gentiles the excitement was rising as the day
of celebration approached. In just a few short
months these wise guys had become very successful
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The Wisest Wise Man
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The wisest wise man had opened a gift shop
and was selling trinkets as fast as he could
make them. Ah, business was good. He marked
up the prices of the trinkets before the
celebration knowing he could unload them
after the event at discounted prices. Yes,
these gentiles were as gullible as they had
thought, and they did spend money left and
right. Over time he noticed that many of the
gentiles did not have enough money to pay
in-full at the time of purchase so he
devised a plan he called credit. He made a
fortune charging them 80% on each shekel; as
a matter of fact this led him into opening a
business that he called the banking business
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He started a trinket production facility with a
production line where parts were assembled as they
were handed to the next underpaid worker. Henry Ford
later improved on the process but that was many
years later. |
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The Youngest Wise Man |
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The youngest wise man also had spread the
news to the gentiles in the area of his
hometown and the idea immediately took hold
there. He went into the butchering business
selling ham to the gentiles, and because
eating pork was against Jewish Law pigs were
in abundance. After a marketing study of the
eating habits of the gentiles he began
buying and raising turkeys to sell at his
market. The study showed they also like
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cranberry sauce which were hard items to come by in
the Middle East. This led him to get into the import
business and then later he started exporting
turkeys. His store became so large he started
selling discounted items along with the food
products. Most people don’t know this but this young
wise man was the forerunner of chain stores that
would later influence Sam Walton. |
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The Dumbest Wise
Man |
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The dumbest wise man came up with the idea
of decorating a tree in celebration of the
upcoming first Christmas ever. He tried
decorating a fig tree but it did not look
right to him. Then he hung some things on a
pine tree and it looked just right. At that
time pine trees were in abundance in the
Middle East so he cut them to sale. As a
matter of fact over the next thousand and a
half years so many of them were cut the area
eventually became desert (a lesson your
geography teacher probably never taught
you). He was the one who came up with the
idea of dying his beard white, stuffing a
red and white costume with pillows and
charging kids 1 talent of silver to sit on
his lap with a wish list. He charged them 4
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artist rendering of the child and the fat man
together. Many poorer kids could not afford to pay
for a rendering but hey, this is Christmas. Generations later his offspring not only
developed the camera but also came up with the idea
of the Easter bunny and Halloween, and went into the
costume and stuffed animal business. |
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Well we are finally nearing the end of the story...
I know
you are saddened by this but good stories can't go
on forever, I'm also running out of lies to tell.
Please turn
the page to Chapter 3, the Final Chapter
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