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    2. Discussion of Article: Living For the Pleasures Of The Moment Isn't Epicurean, It's Lunacy

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      • July 17, 2026 at 3:07 PM
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    2. New Article By Eikadistes on Twentiers Site -- Fragments from Philodemus "On Gods"

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    2. Welcome WilliamJ! 4

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    2. Discussion of the thread - Against Katastematic Supremacy - Pleasure Is A Unified Whole And Not A House Divided - Forum Editorial Policy 12

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    2. What would Epicurus have said about Homer's Odyssey?

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    2. Marriage, Children, & Personal Relationships - Greater Difficulties and Risk Can Make Them Harder Than Ever. Epicurean Perspectives on Remedies 1

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    2. Welcome Luzveraz 2

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    2. Episode 342 - EATAQ24 - Were Our Minds Designed To Be Good At Pursuing Knowledge? 1

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      • July 14, 2026 at 10:38 AM
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    2. Experiental Avoidance of Pain / Aversion to Pain 7

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    2. Instances of the Sage breaking the law? From Plutarch 2

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    2. The Relationship of Happiness and Blessedness 20

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    2. During the time of Epicurus, who could read well enough to study philosophy? 25

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    2. Athenian Epicurean Program on Thomas Jefferson And Epicurus 3

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    2. What is the difference between friendship and a friendly relationship between you and strangers? 5

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    2. World's Worst Epicurus Videos 5

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      • July 15, 2026 at 6:32 PM
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    2. Episode 341 - EATAQ23 - Is It True That No One Dies For A Lie? 1

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      • July 10, 2026 at 9:33 AM
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    2. Quotes of Metrodorus.

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      • July 1, 2026 at 7:15 PM
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    2. Lesser known quotes by Epicurus. 2

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      • July 1, 2026 at 10:08 PM
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    2. Quotes by Hermarchus

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    2. Quotes by Polyaenus of Lampsacus.

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    2. Quotes of Metrodorus, Polyaenus, and Hermarchus. 6

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      • July 1, 2026 at 7:38 PM
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    2. Rebuttal to a Stoic who stated that "flourishing" would be a "better" goal of life than Pleasure 14

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      • July 2, 2026 at 5:09 PM
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    2. Welcome DJRAZORBACK! 1

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      • June 30, 2026 at 9:16 AM
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    2. Welcome Max Duboff 104

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      • July 14, 2026 at 2:56 PM
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    2. Episode 340 - EATAQ22 - The Fatal Flaw in Socratic Skepticism 3

      • Cassius
      • July 2, 2026 at 5:01 AM
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    2. Infinitism in epistemology

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      • June 26, 2026 at 3:03 PM
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    2. Your Experience with Philosophical and Practical Contemplations Through the Lens of Epicurean Philosophy 3

      • Kalosyni
      • June 26, 2026 at 1:19 PM
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    2. New Advancement on Reading Herculaneum Scrolls 4

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      • July 10, 2026 at 4:49 PM
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    2. There is One Reality but it is "Perspective Dependent" 1

      • Don
      • June 25, 2026 at 2:43 PM
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    2. What Would Epicurus Say To Someone Who Said To Him That The Value of Being Dead and Being Alive Are Equal? 23

      • Cassius
      • July 8, 2026 at 9:31 AM
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    2. Updates To Participation Level Designations

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      • June 20, 2026 at 5:09 PM
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    2. Episode 339 - EATAQ21 - Stoic Views of Knowledge And The Emperor's New Clothes 1

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      • June 25, 2026 at 4:39 PM
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    2. Epicurus As A Community Organizer/Activist Rather Than Isolated Thinker/Writer

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      • June 20, 2026 at 8:57 AM
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    2. Happy Twentieth of June 2026!

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    2. $toicism, Broicism, and stoicisM 1

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    2. Stoic After-school Programs?? 2

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      • June 13, 2026 at 11:55 AM
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      June 13, 2026 at 11:55 AM

    2. Episode 338 - EATAQ20 - Are Knowledge And Wisdom Available Only To Gods? 1

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      • June 19, 2026 at 2:31 PM
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    2. Prolepsis and the Epicurean Gods (discussion split from earlier thread started by Titus) 39

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      • June 17, 2026 at 9:32 PM
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    2. Sadler Recommended Epicurean Reading List 2

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      • June 11, 2026 at 11:35 AM
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    2. Welcome AutoAtaraxic! 6

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      • June 21, 2026 at 8:43 AM
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    2. Video on Nietzsche's Criticisms of Kant

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      • June 9, 2026 at 5:08 AM
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    2. Epicurus vs Schopenhauer - Orientation Discussion 5

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      • June 12, 2026 at 7:59 AM
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    2. Welcome AlteFrau! 5

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      • June 9, 2026 at 9:15 PM
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    2. Comparing Modern Ideas vs Epicurean Ideas on Well-being and Joy 3

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      • June 24, 2026 at 1:47 PM
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    2. Episode 337 - EATAQ19 - Confidence In Knowledge And The Epicurean Attitude Toward Pascal's Wager 1

      • Cassius
      • June 12, 2026 at 10:31 AM
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    2. Lucretius on the emotions

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      • June 6, 2026 at 2:04 PM
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    2. On the Nature of the Soul According to Epicurus 1

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    2. Welcome CelestineEyes! 2

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    2. Discussion of Blog Article: "Living For Pleasure, Or Dying For Relief From Pain?" 3

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      • June 5, 2026 at 9:13 PM
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    2. Suavity - General Discussion 12

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    2. New Article By Eikadistes on Twentiers Site -- Fragments from Philodemus "On Gods"

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    2. Discussion of the thread - Against Katastematic Supremacy - Pleasure Is A Unified Whole And Not A House Divided - Forum Editorial Policy 12

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    2. What would Epicurus have said about Homer's Odyssey?

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    2. Marriage, Children, & Personal Relationships - Greater Difficulties and Risk Can Make Them Harder Than Ever. Epicurean Perspectives on Remedies 1

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    2. Welcome Luzveraz 2

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    2. Episode 342 - EATAQ24 - Were Our Minds Designed To Be Good At Pursuing Knowledge? 1

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    2. Experiental Avoidance of Pain / Aversion to Pain 7

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    2. Instances of the Sage breaking the law? From Plutarch 2

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Atoms and Void - Properties, Qualities, Emergence, and Rejection of Atomic ReductionismEpicurean Methods of Reasoning And Determining TruthPleasure As the Highest Good
Epicurean Gods And Life Elsewhere In The Universe(1) Five SensesVirtue As Instrumental To Pleasure
The Impossibility of Life After Death(2) Feeling - Pleasure and PainThe Relationship of Pleasure To Absence of Pain And Disturbance
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