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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. For New Users - A General Comment About Posting At EpicureanFriends 1

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    2. Tomorrow Is the 20th 1

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    2. "Easter Sunday 2018" - Epicurean Philosophy Doesn't Start And End With "Pleasure" 1

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    2. New Posting Of A Video By Raphael Raul "Our Journey From Atoms To Consiousness"

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    2. Description of Member Levels

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    2. Recent Blog Posts By Elli

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    2. Updates To Side-By-Side Lucretius Page

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    2. Side By Side Velleius Explaining Epicurus' Position On The True Nature of Divinity

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      • October 28, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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    2. Side By Side Torquatus Defense of Epicurus

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    2. Preparing A Public Domain Audio Version of Lucretius From The Best Available Sources

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      • October 16, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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    2. Latest Podcast Posted - "Facts And Feelings In Epicurean Philosophy - Part 1"

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      • September 12, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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    2. Update To Tau Phi's PDF of Diogenes Laertius Book X (Biography of Epicurus)

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      • September 8, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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    2. "Artificial Intelligence And Epicurean Philosophy" Subforum

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    2. Latest Lucretius Today Podcast - Episode 295 - Plutarch's Absurd Interpretation of Epicurean Absence of Pain - Make Sure It's Not Yours!

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      • August 19, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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    2. Latest Lucretius Today Podcast - Episode 293 - Cicero Accuses Epicurus Of Evasion In Calling "Absence of Pain" a Pleasure

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      • August 6, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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    2. Added: Web Version of Boris Nikolsky's "Epicurus On Pleasure" Examining the Kinetic / Katastematic Question

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    2. Note On Upcoming Episodes Of Lucretius Today Podcast

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      • July 26, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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    2. Lucretius Today Podast #291 Is Now Available - Epicurus Pushes Back Against "Expect The Worst And You'll Never Be Disappointed."

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      • July 25, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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    2. Registration Process Update

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    2. Posting Transcripts of Lucretius Today Episodes ("Fighting Back Against the Anti-Epicureans")

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      • July 18, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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    2. Lucretius Today Podcast Episode 290 Is Now Posted - "Tiptoeing Around All Disturbance Is Not Living"

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    2. Lucretius Today Episode 289 Posted - "Epicureans Are Not Spocks!"

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      • July 10, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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    2. News And Announcements Box Added To Front Page

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    2. Subforum Merger (Consolidation of Ethics Forums, and Encouragement to Post in "The Big Three" When Possible)

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