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Episode Eight-Four - Meteorology: Thunder and Lightning - Very Very Frightning Part Two 7
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August 14, 2021 at 9:21 AM
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Episode Eighty-Five - Thunder and Lightning Part Three - Why Do The Gods Send Thunderbolts Onto Their Own Temples? 6
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Episode Thirty-Eight: Start of Book Three - Epicurus Our Guide Who Dispels The Darkness of Error and Fear of Hell 6
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September 26, 2020 at 10:23 AM
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Episode Eighty-Six - Typhoons and Whirlwinds 6
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Episode Eight-Seven - Earthquakes And The Water Cycle - The Reason The Seas Never Fill Up Over Time 5
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Episode Eighty-Eight - The Waters of the Nile And The Sulfur Pits That Are Fatal To Birds 3
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Episode Eighty-Nine - Unusual Geological Phenomena - Springs That Change From Hot to Cold And Back Again 2
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Episode Ninety - Recap Of Atomism In Preparation for Details of Magnetism 17
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September 23, 2021 at 9:54 AM
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Episode Ninety-One - More on Magnetism, and Introduction To Disease And Plagues 6
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Episode Ninety-Four (Special) - General Discussion / Recap of Poem 1
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October 17, 2021 at 8:57 AM
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Episode Nine - The Evidence That Atoms Exist, Even Though They Are Unseen 7
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March 6, 2020 at 3:48 AM
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Episode Ninety-Two - The Plague of Athens, and the End of the Poem 5
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October 4, 2021 at 8:40 PM
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Episode Ninety-Three: Torquatus Leads Us Forward Into Conflict Over Epicurean Ethics 82
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October 18, 2021 at 10:01 AM
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Episode Ninety-Four: Torquatus Explains Pleasure As the Goal of Life 4
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October 28, 2021 at 7:01 PM
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Episode Ninety-Five - Understanding The Paradoxical "Absence of Pain" 20
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November 5, 2021 at 9:35 PM
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Episode Ninety-Six - The Proof That Pleasure (And Not Virtue) Is the Supreme Good 14
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November 10, 2021 at 10:57 AM
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Episode Ninety-Seven - The Virtues as Instrumental For Pleasure: Temperance and Courage 16
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November 15, 2021 at 7:39 PM
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Episode Ninety-Nine - The Epicurean View of Justice (Part Two) 22
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Episode Ninety-Eight - The Epicurean View of Justice (Part One) 15
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November 26, 2021 at 1:51 PM
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Episode One Hundred - Concluding On Justice With A Shout To Keep The Virtues In Their Proper Place 7
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December 10, 2021 at 10:43 AM
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Episode One Hundred One - Corollaries to the Doctrines - Part One 7
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December 17, 2021 at 6:09 PM
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Episode One Hundred Three - Corollaries to the Doctrines - Part Three 9
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December 31, 2021 at 11:02 PM
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Episode One Hundred Two - Corollaries to the Doctrines - Part Two 30
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December 25, 2021 at 9:42 AM
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Episode One Hundred Four - More Torquatus and a Question: Was The Ancient Epicurean Movement A Cult? 45
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January 7, 2022 at 8:18 AM
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Episode One Hundred Five - More From Torquatus On The Key Doctrines of Epicurus 10
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January 14, 2022 at 10:19 AM
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Episode One Hundred Six - The Epicurean Attitude Toward Fate / Fortune and the Role of Reason 22
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Episode One Hundred Seven - The Epicurean Emphasis on Natural Science 8
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Episode One Hundred Eight - The Benefits of A Proper Understanding of the Senses and of Natural Science 42
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Episode One Hundred Nine - The Epicurean View of Friendship 11
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Episode One Hundred Ten - The Epicurean View of Friendship (Part 2) 8
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February 19, 2022 at 2:51 PM
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Beyond Stoicism (2025) 16
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August 12, 2025 at 5:54 AM - Epicurus vs. the Stoics (Zeno, Chrysippus, Cleanthes, Epictetus, Seneca, Marcus Aurelius)
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Immutability of Epicurean school in ancient times 11
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July 28, 2025 at 8:44 PM - Uncategorized Discussion (General)
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Recorded Statements of Metrodorus 11
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