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wbernys
April 8, 2026 at 4:57 PM Replied to the thread Welcome ReiWolfWoman!.Post[…]
Trust me Eikadistes that may be for the better.
I had a class on Ancient Greece and we talked about the philosophies of the time briefly. The professor was rather great aside from this but man he was really bad with Epicureanism. As you can imagine… -
m.dango
April 8, 2026 at 4:53 PM Has solved the quiz Basic Epicurean Ethics.Quiz -
Eikadistes
April 8, 2026 at 4:46 PM Replied to the thread Welcome ReiWolfWoman!.Post[…]
I'm curious about others' experience with undergraduate Philosophy programs.
The program at Florida Gulf Coast University was built around Aristotle. One professor called him "the smartest person who ever lived". The senior thesis class at the college… -
wbernys
April 8, 2026 at 4:43 PM Replied to the thread Welcome ReiWolfWoman!.PostWelcome ReiWolfWoman ! -
Cassius
April 8, 2026 at 2:59 PM Replied to the thread Welcome ReiWolfWoman!.PostGlad to have you ! -
Cassius
April 8, 2026 at 2:59 PM Replied to the thread Welcome ReiWolfWoman!.PostReiWolfWoman tells us:
My background in Epicurus is that I was first exposed to him in an undergrad philosophy class, where we read some of his remaining work and that of Lucretius. Then in an online community where we discuss philosophy and improving… -
Cassius
April 8, 2026 at 2:58 PM Posted the thread Welcome ReiWolfWoman!.ThreadWelcome ReiWolfWoman
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Cassius
April 8, 2026 at 7:04 AM Replied to the thread How to argue against the Kalam Cosmological Argument?.PostAs to the work of Steve Patterson outside the video, I can save people some time about where he stands:
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Cassius
April 8, 2026 at 6:50 AM Replied to the thread How to argue against the Kalam Cosmological Argument?.PostOK i have watched the video and now I have another way of asking my last question:- Lamar_44 thinks the Patterson video is "good" and useful.
- Martin thinks the Patterson video is a "bad" and a waste of time.
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Cassius
April 8, 2026 at 6:33 AM Replied to the thread How to argue against the Kalam Cosmological Argument?.Post@Lamar_44 I note Martin's comment and as soon as I have time will watch that myself.
What conclusion do you reach based on that video?
The entire question of imagination and thought experiments definitely has interest for some people. If Zeno wants to… -
Cassius
April 8, 2026 at 6:12 AM Replied to the thread Welcome Lamar!.PostLAMAR__44 thank you for your posts in the forum so far. You have asked some good questions that are asked regularly, so I am glad we've had the opportunity to discuss them.
However I note that you have not said much about your own positions or… -
Martin
April 8, 2026 at 3:01 AM Replied to the thread How to argue against the Kalam Cosmological Argument?.Post[…]
No, it is a bad video which you should not waste your time to watch (unless you are into refuting nonsense statements on mathematics and reality.) Moreover, it is far out of the scope of our site.
Steve Patterson presents a string of truthful… -
LAMAR__44
April 7, 2026 at 9:40 PM Replied to the thread How to argue against the Kalam Cosmological Argument?.Post[…]
Yes, I am going to use the universe to refer to “the all that exists”.
Well I guess I’m going to introduce wordplay that people who believe the Big Bang in the beginning do, so forgive me haha.
But I guess we could say that there was never a time where… -
Cassius
April 7, 2026 at 9:05 PM Replied to the thread How to argue against the Kalam Cosmological Argument?.PostPresuming first that we are communicating as to "universe" meaning "the all" and not just "our universe" then I'd go back to the very first part of your first post.
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I doubt Epicurus would go much past that without stating that "the universe / the all"… -
LAMAR__44
April 7, 2026 at 8:43 PM Replied to the thread How to argue against the Kalam Cosmological Argument?.PostI feel as this situation is different to Zeno’s paradox. I believe Zeno’s paradox is actually true, in the sense that if you agree with the premise that space is infinitely divisible, then motion is impossible, however, clearly motion is possible, so… -
Cassius
April 7, 2026 at 5:33 PM Replied to the thread How do we know that we only get one life?.PostOf course "arrangement of atoms" is clearly just a shorthand, and calling something "emergence" is just slapping another label on it. But I am wondering if there are others ways to describe the process that help distinguish it from "randomness" -
Cassius
April 7, 2026 at 5:17 PM Replied to the thread How do we know that we only get one life?.PostI think what I am considering is whether it is the best we can do to say that -for example - memory is simply a very precise arrangement of atoms.
Again not implying that it is anything non-natural, but there are many things which clearly CAN be that. I… -
Eikadistes
PostApril 7, 2026 at 5:10 PM Our friend Leonidas from the Garden of Athens has taken the time to translate the Timeline of Epicurean Philosophy hosted at Twentiers into Greek! You can find his translation ΟΙ ΕΠΙΚΟΥΡΕΙΟΙ ΣΤΗΝ ΑΡΧΑΙΟΤΗΤΑ ("THE EPICUREANS IN ANTIQUITY") here.
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Patrikios
April 7, 2026 at 4:47 PM Replied to the thread How do we know that we only get one life?.Post[…]
Cassius
I don’t see how ‘emergence’ plays out in recreating the same exact experience when it is a different time or place. I also don’t see it as a question of “past lives” from a previous time.
Those reunited “atoms” never caught the same… -
Cassius
April 7, 2026 at 4:05 PM Replied to the thread How do we know that we only get one life?.PostPatrikios I wonder if "emergence" is not part of this answer too. I think it's reasonable to say that if we were taking an atomic reductionist point of view that the "atoms" of our current forms could in fact be reunited in exactly their same positions… -
Don
April 7, 2026 at 4:00 PM Replied to the thread How to argue against the Kalam Cosmological Argument?.Post[…]
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Eikadistes
April 7, 2026 at 3:58 PM Replied to the thread New "TWENTIERS" Website.Post -
Patrikios
April 7, 2026 at 3:17 PM Replied to the thread How do we know that we only get one life?.Post[…]
LAMAR__44
Interesting question of how would we know. To “know” something requires a brain with memory. Our brains contain volatile memory, with neuron cells. But when the blood flow stops, the brain’s power supply (oxygen, glucose) are cut… -
Eikadistes
April 7, 2026 at 11:26 AM Replied to the thread How do we know that we only get one life?.PostAlso, my bad (upon reflection) for demonstrating my point with mythic narratives.
Read the citation Cassius shared for a proper, Epicurean defense. -
Eikadistes
April 7, 2026 at 11:25 AM Replied to the thread How do we know that we only get one life?.Post[…]
The future animal that looks like you will have different friends.
To be the same, you'd also need the same context, the same culture, the same language, the same fashion, the same laws, the same relationships, the same experience that guarantees an… -
Cassius
April 7, 2026 at 11:20 AM Replied to the thread How to argue against the Kalam Cosmological Argument?.Post[…]
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And I agree with Eikadistes there Lamar_44. Eikadistes is using what is apparently the current terminology. I use the terminology I grew up with - "universe means everything - the all." As I read it we end up in the same place.
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Eikadistes
April 7, 2026 at 10:57 AM Replied to the thread How to argue against the Kalam Cosmological Argument?.Post[…]
This point is consistent with Epicurean physics, which teaches that each kósmos is temporary.
In the Epistle to Herodótos, Epíkouros describes the creation of a kósmos: "concerning the intercepting of the amalgamations out of [the] beginning of these … -
Cassius
April 7, 2026 at 9:27 AM Replied to the thread David Sedley's "Epicurean Theories of Knowledge From Hermarchus To Lucretius And Philodemus".PostIt appears for some reason that this thread was closed in error, as I don't see another one treating the same article by Sedley. It's directly relevant to issues of knowledge and probability so I am bumping it for reference in current discussions. -
Cassius
April 7, 2026 at 7:49 AM Replied to the thread How to argue against the Kalam Cosmological Argument?.PostSound to me like that's a variation of the Zeno argument that you cannot move or walk across the room because there are infinite steps in between.
Someone else ( Joshua ) probably can state the response better than me, but Epicurus rejects the argument… -
Cassius
April 7, 2026 at 7:40 AM Replied to the thread How do we know that we only get one life?.Post[…]
Perhaps Tau Phi's post mentions this (haven't read it yet) but your specific question is addressed by Lucretius. His answer is as you indicate, that our exact atoms could reassemble in the future, but that we would have no memory of it so it would not…
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