Gold Buys Enlightenment

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The new religion began to grow 'by leaps and bounds.' It seemed that the progression was almost exponential (although in those days few people knew much about mathematics). Twenty years later the New Religion began to be noticed by a large portion of the populace. Whereas at first the 'noseless ones' (as the people of this new religion were called) were laughed at, as they became more and more common this fact synergized the spread of what eventually became a wildly popular new idea.

Within a hundred years almost all of the people (boom) were noseless.

The Great Prophet died in the interim, of course, not realizing that he had literally changed an entire culture. He died rich, of course, too, because as his religion became more and more popular, more and more people were willing to contribute their gold to the central idea that 'gold buys enlightenment far beyond mere nasal considerations.'