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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. Merry Christmas To Our Epicurean Friends! 10

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    2. Major Renovation In Use of Tags At EpicureanFriends.com 2

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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 Podast #291 Is Now Available - Epicurus Pushes Back Against "Expect The Worst And You'll Never Be Disappointed."

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

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    2. Logo Placement

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    2. Light - Dark Theme Changes

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    2. Latest Podcast Posted - "Facts And Feelings In Epicurean Philosophy - Part 1"

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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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    2. Latest Lucretius Today Podcast - Episode 293 - Cicero Accuses Epicurus Of Evasion In Calling "Absence of Pain" a Pleasure

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    2. Latest Article by Elli Pensa - The Epic of Epicurus - Ithaca and the Garden - Dialectic and The Canon 3

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    2. Implement A Roadmap Or 'User Ranking According To Texts Read" System? 15

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    2. Homepage Upgrade July 2023

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    2. Highlighting User Contributions to EpicureanFriends.com

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    2. Happy Epicurean New Year

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    2. Happy Birthday Elayne! 4

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    2. Forum Restructuring & Refiling of Threads - General Discussion Renamed to Uncategoried Discussion 8

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

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    2. Forum Reorganization Update - Epicurean Self-Improvement 1

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