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    2. For Regular Users, Dark Style "ColorPlay" and Light Style "Nexus" Return To Availability Today 1

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    2. Forum Categories Update 11

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    2. Participation Level February 2023

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    2. Happy New Year 2021 / 2022 ! 9

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    2. Merry Christmas To Our Epicurean Friends! 10

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    2. New Front Page Introductory Video 4

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    2. Forum Reorganization: Questions Of "Attitudes Toward Divinity" Splitting From "Existence and Nature of Gods"

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    2. State of the Forum - Week of April 8, 2019

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    2. Advocate - New forum member badge 2

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    2. Updates May Solve Some Of Recent Issues (Such As Notifications Taking You To The Right Place)

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    2. Technical Glitch With Picture Posting Being Addressed 1

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    2. Temporary Forum Outage - Now Resolved If You Are Reading This!

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    2. Updating Trophy System 2

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    2. How To Help The Forum - Start New Threads! 4

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    2. My Epicurean plans for 2018 10

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    2. Upgrading the Lexicon To A Full Wiki

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    2. New "Site Map" Page

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    2. Added Menu Item - Wednesday Zoom

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    2. New Dark Themes Added to Site - Filed under "Ambience" With Five Color Variations.

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    2. Refiling General Discussion Threads / Forum Structure 5

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    2. Moderation Notice 1

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    2. Homepage Upgrade July 2023

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    2. Registered user private conversations 1

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    2. Two Significant Front-Page Changes

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    2. Forum Reorganization Update - Epicurean Self-Improvement 1

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    2. Alert: Potentially Significant Change in EpicureanFriends URLs Implemented Today

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    2. Forum Upgrade Issues and Downtime 12/28/23 32

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    2. Verifying membership status / deletion of inactivated accounts 1

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    2. Forum Outage of August 17, 2023 1

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    2. Current Restructuring of Forum Categories and Threads 2

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    2. Happy Twentieth of February 2023 3

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    2. Is All Desire Painful? How Would Epicurus Answer? 11

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    2. Names of Bits of Reality 4

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    2. ⟐ as the symbol of the philosophy of Epicurus 15

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