Member Announcements
Latest Lucretius Today Podcast 308: "The Error Of Basing Happiness On The Alleged Divinity Of The Human Mind" | Things To Know When First Reading Epicurus: The Epicurean Paradigm Shift | Featured Videos | Community Standards And Posting Policies |
We are now requiring that new registrants confirm their request for an account by email. Once you complete the "Sign Up" process to set up your user name and password, please send an email to the New Accounts Administator to obtain new account approval.
Regularly Checking In On A Small Screen Device? Bookmark THIS page!
Please Use This Timeline for Short-Term Announcements. Please useThe ForumsFor Long-Availability and Philosophical Discussion.
Recent Activities
-
Godfrey
Reaction (Post)November 26, 2025 at 8:50 PM I need to state for the record that I have no problem with life-saving and life-enhancing medical science. Treatments and therapies like prostheses, vaccinations, surgery under anesthesia, cochlear implants, MRIs, pacemakers, and all the others that… -
Martin
November 26, 2025 at 7:49 PM Reacted withReaction (Post)
to Pacatus’s post in the thread Food, desire, and pleasure: What role should food take in an Epicurean lifestyle?.I have always been a bit of an over-indulger when it comes to food and drink. With regard to drink, I decided by middle age that overindulgence brought more pain than pleasure, and modified my behavior accordingly. With regard to food, it has been age… -
Kalosyni
November 26, 2025 at 7:23 PM Reacted withReaction (Post) to Pacatus’s post in the thread Food, desire, and pleasure: What role should food take in an Epicurean lifestyle?.I have always been a bit of an over-indulger when it comes to food and drink. With regard to drink, I decided by middle age that overindulgence brought more pain than pleasure, and modified my behavior accordingly. With regard to food, it has been age… -
Pacatus
November 26, 2025 at 6:09 PM Replied to the thread Food, desire, and pleasure: What role should food take in an Epicurean lifestyle?.PostI have always been a bit of an over-indulger when it comes to food and drink. With regard to drink, I decided by middle age that overindulgence brought more pain than pleasure, and modified my behavior accordingly. With regard to food, it has been age… -
Cassius
November 26, 2025 at 5:07 PM Replied to the thread Episode 309 - The Error of Basing Happiness On The Alleged Divinity Of The Human Mind.PostEpisode 309 of the Lucretius Today Podcast is now available. This week our episode is entitled: "The Error of Basing Happiness On The Alleged Divinity of The Human Mind"
[media]https://www.spreaker.com/episode/68762679/media -
Cassius
November 26, 2025 at 2:13 PM Replied to the thread Episode 309 - The Error of Basing Happiness On The Alleged Divinity Of The Human Mind.PostAnother note: In the first half of this episode, we take up Cicero's gross contradiction - which he calls out himself (!) between what he wrote in "On Ends' and what he is advocating here in "Tusculoan Disputations."
The basic point is this:
- In On Ends,… -
kochiekoch
November 26, 2025 at 2:09 PM Reacted withReaction (Post) to Martin’s post in the thread Epicurean strategies for dealing with bad habits and urges..Here are examples of what has worked for me:
Chocolate mousse:
In the past, I splurged on chocolate mousse at a buffet restaurent where I ate about once per week. Eating a lot of chocolate mousse was certainly a bad habit because of the high sugar content.… -
kochiekoch
November 26, 2025 at 1:58 PM Reacted withReaction (Post)
to Kalosyni’s post in the thread Food, desire, and pleasure: What role should food take in an Epicurean lifestyle?.Here are the slides that I presented in today's Zoom:
-
Adrastus
Reaction (Post)November 26, 2025 at 1:49 PM I need to state for the record that I have no problem with life-saving and life-enhancing medical science. Treatments and therapies like prostheses, vaccinations, surgery under anesthesia, cochlear implants, MRIs, pacemakers, and all the others that… -
kochiekoch
Reaction (Post)November 26, 2025 at 1:47 PM I need to state for the record that I have no problem with life-saving and life-enhancing medical science. Treatments and therapies like prostheses, vaccinations, surgery under anesthesia, cochlear implants, MRIs, pacemakers, and all the others that…
News And Announcements
-
- Title
- Replies
- Last Reply
-
-
-
-
- Replies
- 4
- Views
- 927
-
November 20, 2025 at 3:42 AM
-
-
-
-
-
- Replies
- 0
- Views
- 281
-
-
-
-
-
- Replies
- 8
- Views
- 804
-
November 8, 2025 at 11:05 AM
-
-
-
-
-
- Replies
- 0
- Views
- 224
-
Finding Things At EpicureanFriends.com
What's the best strategy for finding things on EpicureanFriends.com? Here's a suggested search strategy:
- First, familiarize yourself with the list of forums. The best way to find threads related to a particular topic is to look in the relevant forum. Over the years most people have tried to start threads according to forum topic, and we regularly move threads from our "general discussion" area over to forums with more descriptive titles.
- Use the "Search" facility at the top right of every page. Note that the search box asks you what section of the forum you'd like to search. If you don't know, select "Everywhere." Also check the "Search Assistance" page.
- Use the "Tag" facility, starting with the "Key Tags By Topic" in the right hand navigation pane, or using the "Search By Tag" page, or the "Tag Overview" page which contains a list of all tags alphabetically. We curate the available tags to keep them to a manageable number that is descriptive of frequently-searched topics.