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    2. New Subforum: Epicurean Advice On Living Independently / Self-Reliantly / Simply / In the Country 2

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    2. Are There Epicurean Role Models?

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      • March 11, 2017 at 4:00 PM
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    2. Could Epicurean Involvement In Politics Have Prevented The Fall of Greco-Roman Civilization?

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      • March 11, 2017 at 4:02 PM
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    2. Should Epicurean Philosophy Be Considered An "-ism"

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      • March 11, 2017 at 5:35 PM
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    2. Tell Me About Epicurean Self-Sufficiency

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      • March 11, 2017 at 6:04 PM
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    2. Did Ancient Epicureans Live In Communes? Should We Try To Do That Today?

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      • March 11, 2017 at 6:12 PM
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    2. Euthanasia And Epicurean Philosophy

      • Cassius
      • March 11, 2017 at 6:31 PM
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    2. Not "Where Are We Going" But "Who Or What Will Be Our Guide?"

      • Cassius
      • January 18, 2018 at 2:38 PM
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    2. How to Talk to Those Raised on Religion / Virtue 1

      • EricR
      • January 24, 2018 at 7:21 AM
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    2. The Process of Pulling Out Of Facebook 10

      • Cassius
      • March 24, 2018 at 6:56 AM
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    2. Practicing Epicureanism 6

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      • August 2, 2018 at 8:59 AM
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    2. Using The Discretion of A Goat In Choosing Friends

      • Cassius
      • August 29, 2018 at 2:20 PM
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    2. On The Need For Scientific Knowledge 1

      • Cassius
      • October 12, 2018 at 9:45 AM
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      • October 12, 2018 at 3:03 PM
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    4. Elli

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    2. Personal Finance from an Epicurean Viewpoint 13

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      • January 30, 2019 at 4:15 PM
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    4. Hiram

      February 5, 2019 at 10:02 AM

    2. Son has a question 16

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      • March 12, 2019 at 6:39 PM
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    2. Hygge and the Landscape of Pleasure: a Book Review 1

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      • March 15, 2019 at 10:55 AM
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    2. Is the art of fashion worthy of the attention of an epicurean? 8

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      • June 5, 2019 at 1:11 AM
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    2. What Would An Epicurean Use In Their Toolkit For Making Their Hedonic Calculus? 39

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      • July 10, 2019 at 11:11 PM
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      • July 18, 2019 at 3:41 PM
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    2. "The Canon of Epicurus In Everyday Life" - An Article by George Kaplanis 15

      • Cassius
      • August 1, 2019 at 5:38 AM
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    2. The Hedonistic Calculus - explained through an equation 4

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      • November 4, 2019 at 10:12 AM
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    2. Practical Daily Pleasure-- Creating Pleasurable Habits 23

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      • November 11, 2019 at 11:05 PM
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    4. Joshua

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    2. Daily Practices 9

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      • March 29, 2019 at 11:51 AM
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    2. The Epicurean Guidebook (Outline) - A project by Gardner and I 1

      • Charles
      • March 21, 2020 at 5:32 PM
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    2. Dicussion of Elli's Article: On The Ill Health of Epicurus vs. The Insanity Of The Modern World 3

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      • March 19, 2020 at 3:27 PM
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    2. "Choice" and "Avoidance" 7

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      • February 28, 2020 at 3:14 PM
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    2. Life support literature based on Epicurean philosophy 3

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      • August 9, 2020 at 3:41 PM
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    2. Questions on daily routines 4

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    2. Retirement (Financial Independence, Early Retirement, etc.) 18

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    2. Philosophy as a Way of Life by John Sellars

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    2. Ruminating on desires and on the absence of pain…. 9

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    2. Epicurean Emporium 8

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    2. The Religion of Nature - as supported by Lucretius' De Rerum Natura 1

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