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    2. Epicurean Cites on The Issue of Impossibiity of Pure Happiness While Accepting Religious Fables

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    2. Another New Book On Epicurus Coming - Dr Ben Gazur - "Epicurus And His Influence On History" 4

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    2. Memorial: Amrinder Singh's Birthday (Mon, Dec 24th 2018, 8:00 am-8:00 pm)

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    2. Richard Dawkins Channels The Spirit of Epicurus!

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    2. Fortune cookie 1

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    2. Entertaining Example of Epicurus' Reasons for Rejecting Divination (Nick Of Time - A Short Story Featuring William Shatner) 1

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    2. Nate's "First Generation Epicureans" Research

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    2. Farewell 1

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    2. Tactics In Combatting Word-Game Trickery 1

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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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    2. Happy Twentieth of May (2019)! 1

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    2. Anachronisms In Pictures

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    2. "Uninspiring Responses of the Day" Thread 1

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    2. Can You Name A Character in Movies Or Literature Who Well Depicts Epicurean Ethics? 1

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    2. Mochus (or Moschus) the Phoenician 1

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    2. Happy New Year, But Remember Also That Tomorrow Marks Something Even Bigger - Epicurus' Birthday!

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    2. Maximus of Tyre, Socrates and Epicurus 1

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    2. Living the Epicurean Philosophy

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    2. If Anyone Is Working On A Research Or Writing Post Please Be Sure To Post And Ask For Help

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    2. Epicurean Philosophical Tenets That We Can Know With Certainty 1

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    2. A scholarship for best work about Epicurus 1

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