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    2. Episode 258 - There Is No Necessity To Live Under the Control of Necessity - Part 2 (Conclusion) 3

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      • November 18, 2024 at 2:07 PM
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    2. Episode 257 - There Is No Necessity To Live Under Necessity - Part 1 12

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    2. Episode 256 - Epicurean Gods: Real, Or Ideal Thought Constructs? 3

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      • November 18, 2024 at 2:05 PM
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      November 26, 2024 at 5:31 PM

    2. Episode 254 - The Skeptic Asks: Does Not Epicurus Undermine Religion As Much As Any Outright Atheist? - Cicero's OTNOTG 29 13

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    2. Episode One Hundred Forty - The Letter to Menoeceus 07 - Completion of the Letter 18

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    2. Episode 253 - How The "Riddle Of Epicurus" FIts Into the Epicurean View of The Gods - Cicero's OTNOTG 28 14

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      • October 27, 2024 at 11:13 AM
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    2. Episode 252 - Why Reverence The Epicurean Gods? 6

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      • October 26, 2024 at 11:09 AM
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      October 29, 2024 at 11:02 AM

    2. Episode 251 - Cicero's OTNOTG 26 - How Niagara Falls Helps Us Understand the Flux, the Heap, and the Epicurean Gods 15

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      • October 18, 2024 at 3:54 AM
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    2. Episode One Hundred Forty-One - Proclaiming Epicurus To The World: Diogenes of Oinoanda (Part One) 37

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    2. Episode One Hundred Forty-Three - Diogenes of Oinoanda (Part 3) The Superiority of The Epicurean Viewpoint on "Gods" 3

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      • October 5, 2022 at 10:51 AM
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      October 27, 2024 at 1:20 AM

    2. Episode 250 - Cicero's OTNOTG 25: The Relationship of "Images" To All Human Thought - Not Just To "The Gods" 5

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      • October 12, 2024 at 5:38 AM
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      October 14, 2024 at 2:54 PM

    2. Episode One Hundred Twenty-Three: Letter to Herodotus 12 - Events and Time 10

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    2. Episode One Hundred Eighteen - Letter to Herodotus 07 - "Images" - There's More To Them Than Meets The Eye 29

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      October 10, 2024 at 9:08 PM

    2. Episode 248 - Cicero's OTNOTG 23 - Cotta Pushes The "Argument By Design" Against The Epicurean View That All - Including Gods - Is Natural 2

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      • September 28, 2024 at 3:27 PM
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      October 2, 2024 at 4:09 PM

    2. Episode 247 - Cicero's OTNOTG 22 - Cotta Continues To Attack The Epicurean View That Gods Are Natural Living Beings 9

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      • September 19, 2024 at 3:07 PM
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      September 29, 2024 at 4:50 PM

    2. Episode 246 - Cicero's OTNOTG 21 - Examining Epicurean Evidence-Based Reasoning 15

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      September 19, 2024 at 10:30 AM

    2. Episode 245 - Cicero's OTNOTG 20 - Right, Wrong, Or Incomplete? 10

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      September 15, 2024 at 3:59 PM

    2. Episode 244 - Cicero's OTNOTG 19 - Zeno's Paradoxes - Profundity Or Gaslighting? 18

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    2. Episode 243 Cicero's OTNOTG 18 - From "All Sensations Are True" to Reasoning By Similarity And Analogy 9

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      • August 23, 2024 at 9:34 AM
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    2. Episode 242 - Cicero's OTNOTG 17 - Is Truth A Matter Of Logic? 11

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    2. Episode 241 - Cicero's OTNOTG 16 - A Common Thread Between The Epicurean View Of "The Gods" and "The Good" 36

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    2. Episode 235 - Cicero's OTNOTG - 10 - Velleius Explains the Epicurean Proleptic View Of Divinity 5

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    2. Episode 240 - Cicero's OTNOTG 15 - The False Allegation That "General Assent" Was The Epicurean Basis For Divinity 7

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    2. Episode 239 - Cicero's OTNOTG 14 - The Dishonesty Of Academic Skepticism vs. Epicurus' Commitment To Truth 7

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    2. Episode 238 - Cicero's OTNOTG 13 - Velleius Erupts Against Stoic Fate and Supernatural God-Making 10

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    2. Episode 237 - Cicero's OTNOTG - 12 - Isonomia And The Implications of Infinity 34

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      July 17, 2024 at 2:01 PM

    2. Episode 236 - Cicero's OTNOTG - 11 - Lucretian Support For Velleius' Views of Epicurean Divinity 4

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    2. Episode 234 - Cicero's OTNOTG - 09 - Dealing With Marcus Aurelius And The Canonical Basis For the Epicurean View Of Divinity 80

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    2. Episode 226 - Cicero's On The Nature of The Gods - Epicurean Section 01 - Introduction 16

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      June 21, 2024 at 5:40 PM

    2. Episode 233 - Cicero's OTNOTG - 08 - An Epicurean Attack On The False God Of Stoicism 9

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      • June 21, 2024 at 1:49 PM
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