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To: Bob J
In scrolling posts, I saw this one, and marked it for future reference:

Sounds like most men should be cutting off their penis's.

Funny story from Martin Luther. As you know, he was a celibate monk for some time and then married Katherin von Bora, who had been a nun. They produced a number of children. Luther's students lived with his family at times, and one of them began transcribing mealtime conversations, recorded as "Table Talk." Luther would talk about various topics, but one of the really funny ones (there were several) was about eunuchs, who, taking the passage about cutting off hands, literally emasculated themselves (Origen was one who did so, and Melancthon considered it....., Luther encouraged him not to). Luther broke up the table one evening when he declared "I don't understand eunuchs, who cut off their own balls. Since marriage, I wish I could sew another pair on!" to which KvB is reported to have said "things were sometimes better back in the nunnery."

413 posted on 03/30/2007 11:24:02 AM PDT by DreamsofPolycarp (Ron Paul in '08)
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To: DreamsofPolycarp

HA!


415 posted on 03/30/2007 7:05:26 PM PDT by Bob J
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