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

      • Cassius
      • August 1, 2020 at 1:02 PM
      • Cassius
      • August 10, 2020 at 9:45 PM
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      August 10, 2020 at 9:45 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
      • Cassius
      • October 18, 2020 at 12:15 PM
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    4. Don

      October 18, 2020 at 12:15 PM

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

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

      September 2, 2020 at 11:58 AM

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

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

      September 15, 2020 at 1:57 PM

    2. Episode Thirty-Eight: Start of Book Three - Epicurus Our Guide Who Dispels The Darkness of Error and Fear of Hell 6

      • Cassius
      • September 26, 2020 at 10:23 AM
      • Cassius
      • September 1, 2021 at 4:34 AM
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    2. Episode Thirty - Only A Limited Number of Combinations of Atoms Is Possible 21

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

      August 10, 2020 at 11:27 PM

    2. Episode Thirteen - Properties, Qualities, And the Trojan War 8

      • Cassius
      • March 29, 2020 at 11:05 AM
      • Cassius
      • April 10, 2020 at 4:30 PM
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    4. Don

      April 10, 2020 at 4:30 PM

    2. Episode Ten - The Void And Its Nature 5

      • Cassius
      • March 9, 2020 at 11:11 PM
      • Cassius
      • July 31, 2021 at 9:13 AM
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    4. Cassius

      July 31, 2021 at 9:13 AM

    2. Episode Sixty-Two - The Perils of Romantic Love (Part 2) 11

      • Cassius
      • March 12, 2021 at 10:06 AM
      • Cassius
      • March 24, 2021 at 10:27 PM
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    4. Don

      March 24, 2021 at 10:27 PM

    2. Episode Sixty-Three - The Perils of Romantic Love (Part 3) 1

      • Cassius
      • March 17, 2021 at 10:01 AM
      • Cassius
      • March 25, 2021 at 8:14 PM
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      March 25, 2021 at 8:14 PM

    2. Episode Sixty-Six - The End of All Things (But Not Of The Universe Itself!) 7

      • Cassius
      • April 14, 2021 at 10:47 AM
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    4. Cassius

      April 14, 2021 at 10:47 AM

    2. Episode Sixty-Seven - Did The Gods Wake Up One Day To Create The Universe? 23

      • Cassius
      • April 11, 2021 at 5:35 PM
      • Cassius
      • April 24, 2021 at 11:58 AM
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    4. Cassius

      April 24, 2021 at 11:58 AM

    2. Episode Sixty-One - The Perils of Romantic Love (Part 1) 5

      • Cassius
      • March 15, 2021 at 8:27 PM
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    4. Don

      March 15, 2021 at 8:27 PM

    2. Episode Sixty-Nine - The End of Our World 1

      • Cassius
      • April 27, 2021 at 10:22 PM
      • Cassius
      • May 8, 2021 at 1:01 PM
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    4. Cassius

      May 8, 2021 at 1:01 PM

    2. Episode Sixty-Four - Due To His Accomplishments, Epicurus Should Be Thought Of As Godlike 1

      • Cassius
      • March 25, 2021 at 8:18 PM
      • Cassius
      • March 30, 2021 at 9:10 PM
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      March 30, 2021 at 9:10 PM

    2. Episode Sixty-Five - Introducing A New Panelist (Don) and Recapping the Opening of Book Five 14

      • Cassius
      • March 30, 2021 at 9:33 PM
      • Cassius
      • April 10, 2021 at 11:57 AM
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    4. Bryan

      April 10, 2021 at 11:57 AM

    2. Episode Sixty-Eight - This World Was Not Made By The Gods For Humanity 1

      • Cassius
      • April 19, 2021 at 11:32 AM
      • Cassius
      • April 27, 2021 at 9:48 PM
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      April 27, 2021 at 9:48 PM

    2. Episode Sixty - Dreams and the Mind's Use of Images 34

      • Cassius
      • February 27, 2021 at 9:07 AM
      • Cassius
      • March 3, 2021 at 10:39 PM
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    4. Cassius

      March 3, 2021 at 10:39 PM

    2. Episode Sixteen - The Atoms Are Un-Destroyable And Provide Continuity To All Nature 1

      • Cassius
      • April 26, 2020 at 6:09 AM
      • Cassius
      • April 27, 2020 at 10:32 AM
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      April 27, 2020 at 10:32 AM

    2. Episode Six - Step One: Nothing Comes From Nothing 2

      • Cassius
      • February 13, 2020 at 6:24 PM
      • Cassius
      • February 19, 2020 at 8:36 PM
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    4. Cassius

      February 19, 2020 at 8:36 PM

    2. Episode Seventy-Two - Alternative Explanations in Science, and The Size of The Sun 7

      • Cassius
      • May 27, 2021 at 10:31 AM
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    4. Don

      May 27, 2021 at 10:31 AM

    2. Episode Seventy-Three - More on The Sun, The Moon, And Related Astronomical Questions 5

      • Cassius
      • June 7, 2021 at 4:58 PM
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    4. Joshua

      June 7, 2021 at 4:58 PM

    2. Episode Seventy-Six - The Rise of Humans and Early Human Society 5

      • Cassius
      • June 28, 2021 at 5:28 PM
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      June 28, 2021 at 5:28 PM

    2. Episode Seventy-Seven - Formation of Language and Early Societies 1

      • Cassius
      • July 2, 2021 at 3:44 PM
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    4. Cassius

      July 2, 2021 at 3:44 PM

    2. Episode Seventy-One - The Formation Of the World (Our Part of the Universe) 20

      • Cassius
      • May 20, 2021 at 7:33 AM
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    4. Don

      May 20, 2021 at 7:33 AM

    2. Episode Seventy-Nine - The Cause of the Arising of Belief In Gods 1

      • Cassius
      • July 16, 2021 at 7:20 AM
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      July 16, 2021 at 7:20 AM

    2. Episode Seventy-Four - Eclipses, And The Beginnings of Life on Earth 1

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      • June 8, 2021 at 9:16 PM
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      June 8, 2021 at 9:16 PM

    2. Episode Seventy-Five - The Rise of Life On Earth, And Which Forms Were Possible And Impossible 1

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      • June 17, 2021 at 9:20 PM
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      June 17, 2021 at 9:20 PM

    2. Episode Seventy-Eight - Ethical Issues Arising In The Formation of Societies 2

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      • July 10, 2021 at 5:59 PM
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      July 10, 2021 at 5:59 PM

    2. Episode Seventy - More On The End of The World 2

      • Cassius
      • May 15, 2021 at 8:04 PM
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      May 15, 2021 at 8:04 PM

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    2. Does The Wise Man Groan and Cry Out When On The Rack / Under Torture / In Extreme Pain? 4

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    2. New Translation of Epicurus' Works 1

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    2. Superstition and Friday the 13th 6

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    2. Epicurean Emporium 9

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

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