tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19795707.post2552288144750167961..comments2024-03-22T16:09:48.895-04:00Comments on Beggars All: Reformation And Apologetics: Luther said to his dog, "Be thou comforted, little dog, Thou too in Resurrection shall have a little golden tail"James Swanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16136781934797867593noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19795707.post-2653740440657563482015-04-08T16:34:46.391-04:002015-04-08T16:34:46.391-04:00Interesting analogy.
The only thing I didn't ...Interesting analogy.<br /><br />The only thing I didn't check were key German words like "golden" "tail" "little dog" etc. (obviously translated into German!) in the Tischreden. That would really settle it for me if nothing pops up. It really does sound like if it is authentic, it's a Table Talk statement (and even then, something only purported to have been said). <br /><br />I'm not completely convinced the quote is spurious yet. It doesn't appear to me that the quote came from any of the early English editions of the Tabletalk. <br /><br />It may be that if the quote is real, someone snagged it from that edition of the Tischreden put together by Walch in the mid 18th Century, which, if I recall, spans multi-volumes. James Swanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16136781934797867593noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19795707.post-1131369180502581322015-04-06T18:27:16.232-04:002015-04-06T18:27:16.232-04:00James,
These quotes that Luther never said do se...James, <br /><br />These quotes that Luther never said do seem to spread like wildfire. Maybe your list of dubious quotes and their dates could be analyzed as gossip was treated in the <i>Big Bang Theory</i> comedy, "<a href="http://bigbangtheory.wikia.com/wiki/The_Herb_Garden_Germination" rel="nofollow">The Herb Garden Germination</a>, when Amy told Sheldon, "Meme theory suggests that items of gossip are like living things that seek to reproduce using humans as their host.... We need to fabricate a tantalizing piece of gossip."<br /><b>Sheldon</b>: "And a second non-tantalizing piece to use as a control."<br /><b>Amy</b>: "Then we’ll track its progress through our social group and interpret the results through the competing academic prisms of memetic theory, algebraic gossip, and epidemiology."<br /><br />In a follow-up experiment, Amy tells Penny she's carrying Sheldon's child and she is getting orthotics. Walking down the stairs, Amy runs into Leonard who, glancing up from a cellphone text message, expresses shock that Amy is pregnant. <b>Amy</b>: "Wow. Is there anything on there about orthotics?"Carl Vehsehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00348831096001668813noreply@blogger.com