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There Is No Necessity To Live Under the Control Of Necessity

Epicurus identified Determinism as a demoralizing and self-contradictory falsehood, pointing out that our power over the ultimate choice in life proves we are not slaves to necessity.
Cassius
August 25, 2026 at 8:15 AM
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Death Is Nothing To Us

Since consciousness cannot survive the body, death holds no punishment or reward to fear -- a realization that frees us to focus entirely on making the best use of the life we have.
Cassius
August 25, 2026 at 8:14 AM
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True Divinity Is Incorruptible And Blessed

Reasoning from Nature's own patterns, Epicurus concluded the universe contains blessed, deathless beings worthy of the name "gods" -- beings we have nothing to fear from.
Cassius
August 25, 2026 at 8:13 AM
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Nothing Comes From Nothing Or Goes To Nothing Supernaturally

Epicurus deduced the existence of atoms from the observation that nothing arises from nothing and nothing is destroyed to nothing -- the starting point for rejecting all supernatural creation.
Cassius
August 25, 2026 at 8:10 AM
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Epicurean Responses To The Intelligent Design Argument

Intelligent Design Introduction: A Very Old Argument The intelligent design argument is one of the oldest and most persistent claims in the history of human thought. In its simplest form it says: the world we observe is
Cassius
April 27, 2026 at 8:00 PM
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The Continuing Vitality of Epicurean Physics

The Continuing Vitality of Epicurean Physics Introduction: A Story About the Sun That Is Really About Everything In a recent scholarly essay, T.H.M. Gellar-Goad takes up one of the most ridiculed positions in the history
Cassius
April 19, 2026 at 8:00 PM
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You Have Been Deceived!

You Have Been Deceived! \n You have been deceived. If you are hearing these words in the early years of the twenty-first century, then you have already wasted much of your life dealing with nonsense. If you are surrounde
Cassius
November 23, 2017 at 4:53 PM
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