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Martin
Reaction (Post)July 3, 2026 at 3:50 AM Ηello to all epicurean friends,
Dear Raphael, sorry but your whole text is a measurement of turmoil, not pleasure. You count taxes, cost of living, politics, technology, decline, demographics, robots, migration, feminism, MGTOW, Schopenhauer, Augustus,… -
Martin
Reaction (Post)July 3, 2026 at 3:48 AM Epicurus’ Political Revolution Without Bloodshed
In On the Education of Children, Plutarch begins with a series of “moral” recommendations that Epicurus would immediately classify as empty beliefs. These are external social norms that have nothing to… -
Martin
July 3, 2026 at 3:44 AM Reacted withReaction (Post)
to Cassius’s post in the thread Rebuttal to a Stoic who stated that "flourishing" would be a "better" goal of life than Pleasure.Thank you Matt. We have had a very good team of people rotate through over the years, and I am convinced that the material there is some of the best we produce. I've now gotten most all of them converted over into text transcripts which are all… -
Cassius
PostJuly 3, 2026 at 3:42 AM Thank you for that post Elli!
I am sure someone will ask about this:
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Is this an actual quote for which there is a citation, or is this exhortation a paraphrase? -
Cassius
Reaction (Post)July 3, 2026 at 3:40 AM Epicurus’ Political Revolution Without Bloodshed
In On the Education of Children, Plutarch begins with a series of “moral” recommendations that Epicurus would immediately classify as empty beliefs. These are external social norms that have nothing to… -
Elli
PostJuly 3, 2026 at 3:24 AM Epicurus’ Political Revolution Without Bloodshed
In On the Education of Children, Plutarch begins with a series of “moral” recommendations that Epicurus would immediately classify as empty beliefs. These are external social norms that have nothing to… -
Matteng
July 3, 2026 at 12:19 AM Reacted withReaction (Post)
to Cassius’s post in the thread Rebuttal to a Stoic who stated that "flourishing" would be a "better" goal of life than Pleasure.Thank you Matt. We have had a very good team of people rotate through over the years, and I am convinced that the material there is some of the best we produce. I've now gotten most all of them converted over into text transcripts which are all… -
Bryan
Reaction (Post)July 2, 2026 at 11:00 PM Has any one here used Epicurus as their Higher Power in a 12 step setting, or know of anyone who has?
(I would hope no one simply points out that the Tetrapharmakon contradicts the many mentions of a God in the 12 Steps. In practice, many atheists apply… -
Bryan
Reaction (Post)July 2, 2026 at 11:00 PM […]
Nope, sorry. My father has quit cigarettes after a long time though. I think the first tenet that we are powerless over out addiction would be completely rejected and is actually harmful. Recognizing that we do have power over our lives is…
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