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Would You Rather Live For A Week As (1) Epicurus During the Last Week of His Life or (2) An Anonymous Shepherd Laying In The Grass In The Summertime With No Pain At All? 104
- Cassius
September 6, 2023 at 2:36 PM
- Cassius
October 22, 2023 at 3:28 PM
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Top Ten Recognizable Epicurean "Slogans" 6
- Cassius
March 25, 2024 at 9:19 AM
- Cassius
April 12, 2024 at 9:33 AM
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So You Want To Learn Ancient Greek Or Latin? 47
- burninglights
November 17, 2023 at 8:20 PM
- burninglights
March 17, 2024 at 7:30 PM
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Practical Pleasure-Pain Perspectives: How Different is 99% Pleasure From 100% Pleasure? 13
- Cassius
October 5, 2023 at 12:06 PM
- Cassius
October 6, 2023 at 10:24 AM
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Opportunities for Activism And Collaboration Here At EpicureanFriends.com 33
- Cassius
April 2, 2020 at 9:59 AM
- Cassius
August 25, 2021 at 12:16 AM
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New Users Please Read Here First
- Cassius
November 22, 2019 at 2:20 PM
- Cassius
November 22, 2019 at 2:20 PM
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Maximum pleasure as absence of all pain: a philosophical question concerning neuroscientific and Epicurean outlook toward the feeling of pleasure 10
- shahabgh66
January 20, 2024 at 4:26 AM
- shahabgh66
January 26, 2024 at 7:24 PM
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Major Herculaneum Scroll News: "In the closing section of the text our author takes a parting shot at his adversaries, who 'have nothing to say about pleasure, either in general or in particular, when it is a question of definition.'” 12
- Cassius
February 5, 2024 at 12:08 PM
- Cassius
March 16, 2024 at 7:39 PM
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Is All "Ataraxia" Equal? 30
- Cassius
November 18, 2023 at 7:47 PM
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February 19, 2024 at 12:29 PM
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Compassion in Epicurean Philosophy 42
- Joshua
February 7, 2022 at 12:20 AM
- Joshua
February 9, 2022 at 9:55 PM
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Cassius' Latest Single Page Outline Of Epicurean Philosophy 11
- Cassius
December 6, 2023 at 11:09 AM
- Cassius
December 10, 2023 at 5:41 PM
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Can You Provide A Simplified Outline of The Most Important Principles Of The Epicurean System?
- Cassius
December 9, 2018 at 10:54 AM
- Cassius
December 9, 2018 at 10:54 AM
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An Epicurean Understanding of Pleasure 96
- Kalosyni
October 4, 2021 at 1:39 PM
- Kalosyni
October 10, 2021 at 4:36 PM
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A Draft of A Pie Chart Presentation of Basic Concepts In Epicurean Pleasure 7
- Cassius
November 30, 2023 at 2:21 PM
- Cassius
December 2, 2023 at 3:27 PM
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"Setting Before the Eyes" 49
- Don
January 28, 2022 at 6:15 PM
- Don
February 3, 2022 at 10:32 PM
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"Absence Of Pain Is Pleasure" - How Would You Articulate That To Someone? 30
- Eoghan Gardiner
November 15, 2023 at 9:32 AM
- Eoghan Gardiner
December 2, 2023 at 12:47 PM
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Thanks y'all for this forum and the podcast 2
- Randall Moose
May 20, 2023 at 4:45 AM
- Randall Moose
May 20, 2023 at 8:01 AM
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Thanks to Nate For The Recent Meme Additions 7
- Cassius
April 25, 2021 at 7:07 AM
- Cassius
April 26, 2021 at 5:09 PM
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Test Thread - Please Use This Thread for Test Posts 2
- jbaker
December 17, 2018 at 2:08 PM
- jbaker
December 17, 2018 at 2:10 PM
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Ten (10) commandments 22
- Mathitis Kipouros
November 17, 2022 at 6:55 PM
- Mathitis Kipouros
November 22, 2022 at 1:36 AM
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Temporary Forum Outage - Now Resolved If You Are Reading This!
- Cassius
November 22, 2023 at 11:37 AM
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November 22, 2023 at 11:37 AM
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Technology Question - How Best To Create "Video" With Speech Matched To Scrolling Text 37
- Cassius
October 10, 2019 at 4:08 PM
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October 12, 2019 at 4:21 AM
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Taking The Temperature Of A Six Year Old Forum 12
- Cassius
June 9, 2021 at 11:19 AM
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June 25, 2021 at 8:48 AM
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Take It Easy (CBS Sunday Morning)
- Don
April 28, 2024 at 5:18 PM
- Don
April 28, 2024 at 5:18 PM
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Tactics In Combatting Word-Game Trickery 1
- Cassius
July 17, 2019 at 10:39 AM
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July 17, 2019 at 7:00 PM
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Table Of Key Tags Added to Front Page 1
- Cassius
June 20, 2023 at 6:22 AM
- Cassius
June 20, 2023 at 2:33 PM
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Swerve some luck my way. 1
- Matthaios
February 21, 2021 at 7:57 PM
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February 22, 2021 at 5:52 AM
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Sweetness and Light 9
- Joshua
May 30, 2019 at 9:35 AM
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June 4, 2019 at 3:34 PM
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Supernatural and the Senses 63
- Matt
January 13, 2022 at 3:05 PM
- Matt
January 16, 2022 at 9:11 AM
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Summarizing Epicurean Philosophy vs Objectivism 10
- Cassius
July 5, 2019 at 6:48 PM
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July 7, 2019 at 12:13 PM
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Suggestions for Free PDF Greek - English Dictionary? 1
- Cassius
February 28, 2019 at 9:10 AM
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February 28, 2019 at 11:35 AM
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Starting Point Questions
- Cassius
May 9, 2019 at 11:48 AM
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May 9, 2019 at 11:48 AM
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Starting a Garden in the digital era
- Hiram
April 13, 2019 at 4:40 PM
- Hiram
April 13, 2019 at 4:40 PM
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Star Conclusions of Epicurean Theory 1
- Cassius
October 24, 2018 at 9:09 AM
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October 26, 2018 at 7:10 PM
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Sports are fun but is exercise really something Epicurus would have lauded? 5
- Peter Konstans
March 14, 2024 at 1:33 PM
- Peter Konstans
March 31, 2024 at 10:51 AM
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Somerset Maugham on Epicureanism over one hundred years ago 4
- Jon M
May 23, 2020 at 4:44 PM
- Jon M
May 24, 2020 at 8:41 AM
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Someone Who Understands What Makes Epicurean Philosophy Unique. 3
- Cassius
December 2, 2019 at 9:19 AM
- Cassius
December 2, 2019 at 10:47 AM
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Some Thoughts on “The Family”, and How the Doctrine of Determinism is Used By Christian Extremists 1
- Hiram
August 25, 2019 at 2:00 PM
- Hiram
September 4, 2019 at 10:31 PM
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Some notes on Plato’s Republic (actually on the Cliffs Notes thereof) 6
- Godfrey
April 23, 2020 at 8:34 PM
- Godfrey
April 24, 2020 at 3:40 PM
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Some Epicurean conclusions 7
- Stan85
May 19, 2018 at 7:23 PM
- Stan85
May 25, 2018 at 4:38 AM
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Society of Epicurus now has a sub-reddit 1
- Hiram
November 9, 2018 at 12:20 PM
- Hiram
November 9, 2018 at 1:54 PM
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So, this is what we're up against... 8
- Don
August 8, 2021 at 2:39 PM
- Don
August 13, 2021 at 7:21 AM
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Skype Conference Call (Sun, Jul 28th 2019, 10:00 am - 11:00 am)
- Cassius
July 7, 2019 at 11:53 AM
- Cassius
July 7, 2019 at 11:53 AM
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Six Key Assertions of Epicurean Thought
- Cassius
September 30, 2019 at 2:25 PM
- Cassius
September 30, 2019 at 2:25 PM
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Site Usage Feedback - February 2023 3
- Cassius
February 16, 2023 at 5:00 PM
- Cassius
February 16, 2023 at 5:44 PM
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Sir William Temple, "Upon the Gardens of Epicurus", 1685 5
- Joshua
March 11, 2022 at 8:41 PM
- Joshua
July 20, 2022 at 3:28 AM
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