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wbernys
Reaction (Post)April 19, 2026 at 11:24 PM I haven't had time to look at this but may be relevant to Lucretius references:
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Godfrey
Reaction (Post)April 19, 2026 at 10:59 PM That's a somewhat difficult question. Ancient Rome is usually credited with the first invention of what we now call public welfare, which for them was the grain dole; the 'bread' in 'bread and circuses'. In Greece, citizens that did not own land and thus… -
Godfrey
April 19, 2026 at 10:59 PM Reacted withReaction (Post)
to ReiWolfWoman’s post in the thread What would Epicurus have thought of going to the moon?.You have all collectively answered this question quite in depth and contemplatively. Would he also consider the financial cost to the government a wise use of its money? Does that depend on the possibility for that money to actually bring Epicurean… -
Cassius
April 19, 2026 at 4:17 PM Posted the thread Recent Discovery of Empedocles Material.ThreadI haven't had time to look at this but may be relevant to Lucretius references:
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Cassius
April 19, 2026 at 3:15 PM Replied to the thread What would Epicurus have thought of going to the moon?.Post[…]
As Joshua indicated the question of what an Epicurean would consider is a wide one. There is no "universal Epicurean" who would follow a single analysis, and when you extrapolate out to a government and taxation and use of tax dollars you're… -
Cassius
Reaction (Post)April 19, 2026 at 3:08 PM That's a somewhat difficult question. Ancient Rome is usually credited with the first invention of what we now call public welfare, which for them was the grain dole; the 'bread' in 'bread and circuses'. In Greece, citizens that did not own land and thus… -
Cassius
April 19, 2026 at 3:08 PM Reacted withReaction (Post)
to ReiWolfWoman’s post in the thread What would Epicurus have thought of going to the moon?.You have all collectively answered this question quite in depth and contemplatively. Would he also consider the financial cost to the government a wise use of its money? Does that depend on the possibility for that money to actually bring Epicurean… -
Joshua
April 19, 2026 at 12:17 PM Replied to the thread What would Epicurus have thought of going to the moon?.PostThat's a somewhat difficult question. Ancient Rome is usually credited with the first invention of what we now call public welfare, which for them was the grain dole; the 'bread' in 'bread and circuses'. In Greece, citizens that did not own land and thus… -
ReiWolfWoman
April 19, 2026 at 10:56 AM Replied to the thread What would Epicurus have thought of going to the moon?.PostYou have all collectively answered this question quite in depth and contemplatively. Would he also consider the financial cost to the government a wise use of its money? Does that depend on the possibility for that money to actually bring Epicurean… -
ReiWolfWoman
April 19, 2026 at 10:51 AM Reacted withReaction (Post) to Patrikios’s post in the thread What would Epicurus have thought of going to the moon?.[…]
Epicurus taught us to study Nature, day & night. How else can a human on earth study the nature of the moon, without going there in order to verify the assumptions made from the observations of our senses here on earth.
In his Letter to Pythocles,…
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