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Re: Theos-World Einstein again

May 29, 2004 09:06 AM
by Mauri




Seems to me that a somewhat relevant consideration might be the size of that "one stein" at the Beer Gardens, especially as Einstein was into relativity. I don't know, but if he had a reputation for downing big steinfulls at each visit ... and if he then went on to formulate the theory of relativity, just afterwards ... ^:-/ ... Does anybody know?

Speculatively,
Mauri

stevestubbs wrote:
We have all these Einstein experts here so I would like to get some feednack on a story I heard years ago. I don't remember but think I heard this on a television show. Anyway, they said Einstein was a nickname which he got because he was not much of a drinking man. He'd go to the Beer Gardens in Bavaria and after one stein he'd be done for the evening. One Stein in German is Ein Stein, so everyone started calling him Einstein. If he'd had three beers instead of just one they would have called him Drei Stein.

The people who put on the show seemed to know so much about Einstein (or however many steins it was) that I hoped they would say something about THE SECRET DOCTRINE as well, but there was nothing about Theosophy in the show.

My personal suspicion is that he did not tipple at all and that his real ame was NeinStein.

Does anyone know?





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