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    2. New Users Please Read Here First

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    2. Fun with Ambigrams 3

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    2. An Epicurean Understanding of Pleasure 96

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    2. Finding Cultural / Artistic / Musical Variations on Four Key Epicurean Themes 7

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    2. Meme Creativity Requested! 4

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    2. Multiple Components Comprise the Epicurean Life 30

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    2. "satisfactory to the epicurean" 2

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    2. The "One and the Many" Question - Do You Fancy You Have Found Treasure of Wisdom In This? Do You Puzzle Your Friends And Even Your Dog About It? What In the World Is Socrates Talking About? 18

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    2. Brutus' Appeal to Fate? (A Note to Analyze This At Some Point In the Future) 2

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    2. The "No Need For Nihilism" Proof

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    2. Romantic Materialism, Materialist Romanticism 2

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    2. "For Life Has No Terrors . . . " 15

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    2. The Amazonian Tribe That Won't Believe in God 2

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    2. Nate's Compilation of Alternative Translations of the Principal Doctrines 12

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    2. Kαλά εὐχαριστία! 6

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    2. Why I hate Pantheism 6

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    2. A "Daily Epicurean"? 16

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    2. You Have Been Deceived (Video) 6

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    2. Tim O'Keefe's "Epicurean Guide To Christmas" (An Article And Responses) 27

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    2. Essentialism? 3

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    2. Why Parrhesia is Necessary 5

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    2. Would An Epicurean Hook Himself Up To An "Experience Machine" or a "Pleasure Machine" If Possible? 27

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    2. Joshua's "Only The Beginning" Observation 23

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    2. Epicurean kèpos in Autun - France. 7

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    2. Supernatural and the Senses 63

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    2. A thought on duty to the whole world, and why virtue must be an instrument to happiness. 9

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    2. Updated Alternative Timeline of Epicurean History 1

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    2. Participants' Epicurean Book and Artifact Collections 16

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    2. New Audio Version of Torquatus' Presentation of Epicurean Ethics - Read By Joshua 8

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    2. Historical References on the School of Epicurean Philosophy - Notable Epicureans From The Ancient World To Today 5

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    2. Argumentation Theory of Stephen E. Toulmin 5

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    2. Daily life of an ancient Epicurean 2

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    2. ⟐ as the symbol of the philosophy of Epicurus 93

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    2. "All Models Are Wrong, But Some Are Useful" 5

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    2. Analysing movies through an Epicurean lens 16

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    2. Is All Desire Painful? How Would Epicurus Answer? 24

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