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      • November 22, 2019 at 2:20 PM
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    2. Video: The Vatican List Of The Sayings Of Epicurus

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      • October 12, 2019 at 9:34 AM
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    2. October 15 Birthday of Virgil, Date of Death of Lucretius, and Birthday of Friedrich Nietzsche (Tue, Oct 15th 2019, 11:00 am-12:59 pm)

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      • October 15, 2019 at 9:33 AM
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    2. An Example of the Translation Issues We Have To Deal With: Does The Wise Man Cry Out When On The Rack? (Answer: Yes!)

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      • October 28, 2019 at 9:06 AM
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    2. Epicurus' Birthday 2020 (Thu, Jan 2nd 2020 - Fri, Jan 3rd 2020)

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      • November 1, 2019 at 2:07 PM
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    2. Epicurus' Birthday 2021 (Wed, Jan 20th 2021 - Thu, Jan 21st 2021)

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      • November 1, 2019 at 2:09 PM
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    2. Richard Dawkins Channels The Spirit of Epicurus!

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      • December 16, 2019 at 10:08 PM
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    2. Pewdiepie Gets it Wrong - The Problem Isn't "Virtue Signaling" - The Problem is "Virtue" Itself

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      • December 17, 2019 at 1:15 PM
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    2. Happy New Year, But Remember Also That Tomorrow Marks Something Even Bigger - Epicurus' Birthday!

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      • January 1, 2020 at 7:45 AM
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    2. Poll: Confirm Or Deny This Article About Non-Believers And Pets: Do You Have Dog(s), Cat(s), Both, Neither?

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      • January 7, 2020 at 12:58 PM
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    2. Parsing The Wikipedia Introduction To Epicurus (As Of February 6, 2020)

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      • February 6, 2020 at 9:48 AM
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    2. Anachronisms In Pictures

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      • February 10, 2020 at 10:20 AM
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    2. A Welcome Sign From Shahab

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      • October 28, 2020 at 2:13 PM
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    2. New Epicurean Writing Competition - Thanks to Michele Pinto For This Information

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      • November 14, 2020 at 12:52 PM
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    2. Philosophers in the Rain (cartoon)

      • Don
      • December 23, 2020 at 10:54 AM
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    2. Article: "Epicurean Philosophy in Cicero's De Republica - Serious Threat or Convenient Foil?" (Walter Englert)

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      • May 23, 2021 at 6:23 AM
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    2. Epicurean Instagram post

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      • June 12, 2021 at 7:41 AM
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    2. Eleni Avdoulou wins the award NetoIP 2021 with a thesis about the Papyri of Herculaneum

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      • July 15, 2021 at 12:22 PM
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    2. If We Could Commission Davide Baldoni To Do More Scenes From Lucretius, What Would You Suggest They Be?

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      • August 22, 2021 at 5:50 AM
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    2. International festival of philosophy phil. Cologne 2021 (Thu, Sep 2nd 2021, 8:30 pm-Wed, Sep 8th 2021, 11:00 pm)

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      • August 28, 2021 at 5:25 AM
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    2. Goethe and Epicurus / Lucretius

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      • September 4, 2021 at 8:23 PM
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    2. Frank Rose and Narrative Thinking

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      • September 17, 2021 at 6:15 AM
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    2. The "No Need For Nihilism" Proof

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      • October 26, 2021 at 5:07 PM
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    2. Nate's Latest Graphic - "Epicurus Cannot Be Wrestled"

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    2. Addressing Cicero's Argument That Epicurean Philosophy Cannot Be Spoken In The Senate

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      • June 13, 2022 at 1:48 PM
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    2. Phantasmatic Shakespeare, by Suparna Roychoudhury

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      • June 30, 2022 at 4:50 PM
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    2. Research Assistance (Technology)

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      • September 21, 2022 at 11:44 AM
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    2. Living the Epicurean Philosophy

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    2. Great Post From Holly At Facebook Crediting Motivation From "Living For Pleasure"

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      • January 20, 2023 at 11:54 AM
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    2. Friendship Commentary By Elli (At Facebook 02/25/23)

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      • January 26, 2023 at 7:58 PM
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    2. "AI" Images

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    2. Epicurean Philosophy In Relation To Gulags and the Rack 5

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    2. The “Absence of Pain” Problem 11

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    4. Al-Hakiim von Grof

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    2. Epicurean philosophy skewing toward elements of Stoicism in the time of Lucretius?? 9

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    2. Preconceptions and PD24 42

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    2. The Use of Negation in Epicurean Philosophy Concepts 47

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