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    2. Episode Forty-Six - Conclusion of the Argument That the Mind and Soul Cannot Survive Death 1

      • Cassius
      • November 21, 2020 at 12:06 PM
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      • November 28, 2020 at 7:32 PM
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    2. Episode Forty-Five - Further Arguments For the Mortality of the Soul 1

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      • November 13, 2020 at 8:05 PM
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      • November 20, 2020 at 8:25 PM
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      November 20, 2020 at 8:25 PM

    2. Episode Forty-Four - The Mind Cannot Continue to Exist Separately From The Body After Death 1

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      • November 7, 2020 at 11:02 AM
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      • November 13, 2020 at 8:02 PM
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      November 13, 2020 at 8:02 PM

    2. Episode Forty-Three - The Mind is Born, Grows Old, and Dies With the Body 1

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      • October 30, 2020 at 10:12 PM
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      • November 7, 2020 at 9:55 AM
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    2. Episode Forty-Two - The Mind works through the senses; it is a relatively small part of the body; the Mind has more power than the "spirit," but both mind and spirit are mortal 1

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      • October 24, 2020 at 2:48 PM
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    2. Episode Forty-One - The Nature of the Mind and Spirit Is Complex; Sense is Not a Property of The Elements That Make Them, But An Event of Their Combination And Motions 2

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      • October 17, 2020 at 12:00 PM
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      October 25, 2020 at 1:44 PM

    2. Episode Forty - The Mind and Spirit Are Bodily, Composed of Very Fine Atoms 7

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      • October 8, 2020 at 7:27 PM
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      • October 18, 2020 at 4:08 PM
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      October 18, 2020 at 4:08 PM

    2. Episode Thirty-Nine - The Mind And Spirit Are Not Supernatural But Parts of A Man Just Like The Head and Foot 11

      • Cassius
      • September 29, 2020 at 6:08 PM
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      • October 18, 2020 at 12:15 PM
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    4. Don

      October 18, 2020 at 12:15 PM

    2. Episode Two - The Achievement of Epicurus 28

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      • January 11, 2020 at 12:04 PM
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      • October 3, 2020 at 10:20 PM
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      October 3, 2020 at 10:20 PM

    2. Episode Thirty-Seven: End of Book Two - The Earth Too Was Born, and It Will One Day Die 1

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      • September 14, 2020 at 9:33 AM
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      • September 26, 2020 at 8:26 PM
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      September 26, 2020 at 8:26 PM

    2. Episode Thirty-Six - No Single Thing of A Kind: Earth Not The Only Home of Life 1

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      • September 12, 2020 at 9:00 AM
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      • September 19, 2020 at 1:51 PM
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      September 19, 2020 at 1:51 PM

    2. Episode Thirty-Five - More Reasons Why The Atoms Cannot Possess The Faculty of Sense 2

      • Cassius
      • August 30, 2020 at 9:27 PM
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      • September 15, 2020 at 1:57 PM
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      September 15, 2020 at 1:57 PM

    2. Episode Thirty-Four - The Atoms Do Not Possess A Faculty of Sensation 18

      • Cassius
      • August 29, 2020 at 12:41 PM
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      • September 2, 2020 at 11:58 AM
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      September 2, 2020 at 11:58 AM

    2. Episode Thirty-Three - More on The Implications of the Colorless Atoms 21

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      • August 21, 2020 at 5:07 PM
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      • August 28, 2020 at 9:13 PM
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      August 28, 2020 at 9:13 PM

    2. Episode Thirty-Two: The Atoms Are Colorless, But the Implications Are Not 17

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      • August 1, 2020 at 1:02 PM
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      • August 25, 2020 at 3:58 PM
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      August 25, 2020 at 3:58 PM

    2. Episode Thirty - Only A Limited Number of Combinations of Atoms Is Possible 21

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      • August 10, 2020 at 11:27 PM
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    4. Don

      August 10, 2020 at 11:27 PM

    2. Episode Thirty-One - Continuation of Episode Thirty / Polyaenus 9

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      • August 1, 2020 at 1:02 PM
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      • August 10, 2020 at 9:45 PM
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      August 10, 2020 at 9:45 PM

    2. Episode Twenty-Nine - The Earth As Allegorical Mother of All 8

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      • August 2, 2020 at 8:06 PM
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      August 2, 2020 at 8:06 PM

    2. Episode 31 - Continuation of Episode 30, And the Polyaenus Example

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      • August 1, 2020 at 1:02 PM
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    2. Episode Twenty-Eight - The Number of Shapes of Atoms Is Not Infinite, But Innumerable 5

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      • July 16, 2020 at 10:27 AM
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      July 20, 2020 at 9:22 AM

    2. Episode Twenty-Seven: There Is A Limit To The Size of Atoms 3

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      • July 11, 2020 at 11:23 AM
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      • July 18, 2020 at 6:04 AM
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      July 18, 2020 at 6:04 AM

    2. Episode Twenty-Five - The Swerve Part II - As the Basis of Human Agency 1

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      • July 3, 2020 at 6:55 PM
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    2. Episode Twenty-Four: The Swerve Part One: As A Producing Force of Nature 2

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      • June 27, 2020 at 9:18 AM
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    2. Episode Twenty-Three - The Motion Of The Atoms Continues Without Resting Place, and At Great Speed 1

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      • June 24, 2020 at 8:29 AM
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    2. Episode Twenty-Two - Book Two - Epicurean Philosophy As The Only Way To Defeat Fear of Death And Other Errors As To The Goal of Life 3

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      • June 21, 2020 at 11:15 PM
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      June 21, 2020 at 11:15 PM

    2. Outline of Episodes - Serves As An Outline of the Poem As Well!

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    2. Episode Twenty - The Universe Is Infinite In Size 1

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      • May 30, 2020 at 12:16 PM
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      May 30, 2020 at 12:16 PM

    2. Episode Eighteen - All Things Are Not Made of Earth, Air, Fire, and Water 4

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      • May 18, 2020 at 2:02 PM
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    2. Episode Seventeen - All Things Are Not Made of Fire, And Heraclitus Was A Fool 2

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      • April 27, 2020 at 10:44 AM
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    2. Episode Fourteen - Atoms Are Solid And Indestructible, and Constitute the Seeds of All Things. 6

      • Cassius
      • April 28, 2020 at 5:06 PM
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    2. Immutability of Epicurean school in ancient times 11

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    2. Recorded Statements of Metrodorus 11

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