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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;manny9655, post: 8214382, member: 112417&quot;]I don&#039;t think anyone has mentioned Gyges and Croesus yet.&nbsp; Gyges was king of the Asia Minor city of Sardis from 687 to 652 B.C.&nbsp; He and his son Croesus were the first to mint gold coinage.&nbsp; Gold was panned from a nearby river.&nbsp; In antiquity, Sardis was a large and wealthy city, the capital of Lydia.&nbsp; It is mentioned in the book of Revelation in the Bible (chapter 3, verses 1 to 6).&nbsp; It was a center of the cult of Cybele, a nature goddess...celebrations went beyond sexual orgies...and that&#039;s all I&#039;ll say about it here...the city was notorious for loose living, pleasure, luxury, and decadence.&nbsp; Under Emperor Julian the Apostate (361-363 AD) the city&#039;s spiritual deadness described in the Bible was manifested; it quickly returned to idol worship; the city was later destroyed to its foundations in 716 by Arabs.&nbsp; My point here is that gold, and wealth, if taken too far, leads to decadence and destruction...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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