(Tokyo Night)"Sleep, and Rise Night and Day"
(Money Made European Civilization)
Without mastering money and law, you cannot be a rich man, a very rich man, or a super rich man.
But, if money and law are taken away, a rich man, a very rich man, or a super rich man has usually nothing but their mind and soul so contaminated by wealth and social status.
Nonetheless, if a matter is not of an individual but of whole civilization, you must carefully review the history of the civilization.
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In 3000 B.C., silver was used for some payment in Mesopotamia, according to a certain document excavated there.
Then, around the 7th century B.C. or 650-600 BC Lydia, situated in Asia Minor and one of four major nations in the era, started to officially produce gold coins as the first instance in the human history, and Greeks promptly imported those coins to widely use them among themselves and in overseas trade.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydia#First_coinage
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greece
Accordingly, Greece started to prosper. Ordinary citizens began to accumulate wealth in the form of money so as to buy arms for themselves. Greeks built a polis with an acropolis. And there grew the number of polleis in all over Greece. Greek citizens came to possess slaves and private lands. Accordingly, material and spiritual civilizations started to flourish in ancient Greece with various scholars such as Socrates who died 399 B.C.
Therefore, money, arms, slaves, private lands, and cities allowed for establishment and prosperity of ancient Greece.
Put simply, the ancient Greek civilization started to flourish with introduction of gold coins.
Yet, the direct descendant of the Sumerian civilization, namely ancient Judaists or Israelites, was not so materialistic. Ancient Judaists loved their God more than gold coins. It led to stark contrast between ancient Greeks and ancient Judaists in terms of ethics.
Nonetheless, the Roman Empire and modern Europe blindly and honestly followed suit of ancient Greeks.
(It is around the 7th century B.C. that ancient China started to introduce some forms of money.)
So, one of the two main element of the Europe civilization, namely the ancient Greek civilizations, was built based upon the money system.
It must be the reason why Jesus Christ never praised the ancient Greek civilization.
And, Jesus Christ also did not praise the Roman Empire that functioned based on money economy.
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The Roman Empire was not an industrial empire unlike ancient Chinese empires.
The Roman Empire purchased every necessary commodity and unnecessary articles of luxury. The Empire paid its coins to tributary nations that provided goods to Rome. Accordingly, the financial business became the main industry of Rome. However when those subject countries grew in their economy, they did not want to depend on Rome any more. The needs for Roman coins disappeared. Consequently no more goods were sent to Rome.
This is another phase of truth of the fall of the Roman Empire.
And, after the fall of the Roman Empire, the Christian churches ruled Europe with the teaching of Jesus Christ: "Do not love gold, silver, and money."
This is another phase of truth of the Middle Age of Europe.
Accordingly, when the money economy began to be revived in Western Europe, the sinless medieval times also came to an end. And, Spain and Portugal started to advance to the world looking for gold and silver, followed by France, Holland, England, and so on. They actually found huge gold and silver mines in American continents, Africa, and Asia to make them their own, with approval of the Vatican, to our surprise.
Since then, no one has recalled the teaching of Jesus Christ, "Do not love gold, silver, and money," in Europe till today.
That is why I am telling the Pope to let the Holy Seat of Jesus Christ go back to Jerusalem, since I am sure that Vatican agents are observing EEE Reporter.
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As for Japan, the Japanese civilization was built on rice crop.
Even till the last half of the 19th century, tax to the samurai Government was officially paid by rice, though money economy was highly flourish not only in the samurai administration but also in daily life of people.
(As for America, the American unique culture was originally built on some doctrine of Christianity and fire arms rather than money, though the American unique culture is based on the European civilization.)
That is why I am telling Japanese economists and American economists that they are yet to sense the existence of some effective factors in the Japanese economy that do not simply comply with any Western economic theory or principle, since Japanese people or consumers expect something different in any given financial circumstances.
It also means Japan is not so sinful as Europe and America are in terms of ethical or Christian codes on economic activities.
Japan is more Christian in this context, to your astonishment, though money made the European civilization.
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Now have you come to hate gold, silver, and money, Darling, since they do not glitter under the sun?
(La nuit dit rien, car vous êtes un étranger pour la nuit. No one can be a friend of the Goddess of Night, in my view, since she looks so cool like an invisible enemy...
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Mar 4:26 And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground;
Mar 4:27 And should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how.
Mar 4:28 For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear.
Mar 4:29 But when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he putteth in the sickle, because the harvest is come.