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The Magic cup Paradox

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A man who found a magic cup and learned  that if he wept into the cup, his tears turned into pearls.  But even though he had always been poor,  he was a happy man and rarely shed a tear.  So he found ways to make himself sad so  that his tears could make him rich. As the  pearls piled up, so did his greed grow.  The  story ended with the man sitting on a mountain  of pearls, knife in hand, weeping helplessly into  the cup with his beloved wife's slain body in his arms. "Well," he said, "if I may ask, why did the  man kill his wife? In fact, why did he ever have  to feel sad to shed tears?  Couldn't he have just smelled an onion?" There could be other solutions to our problems than just sorrow.