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  1. General Information And Discussion - Start Here
  2. Private Section - Includes Level 03 And Above Discussions and 20th Zoom Meeting
  3. The Lucretius Today Podcast and other Projects
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  5. Physics - The Nature of the Universe
  6. Canonics - The Tests of Truth: The Five Senses, Anticipations, and Feelings of Pleasure and Pain
  7. Ethics - How to Live As An Epicurean
  8. Epicurean Historical Figures - Biographies of Epicureans from Epicurus To The Present
  9. Ancient Epicurean Texts (300 BC to 300 AD)
  10. Epicurean Books, Articles, and Videos (1500's - Present)
  11. Comparisons With Non-Epicurean Philosophies
  12. History, Locations, and Customs Relevant to Ancient Epicureans
  13. Epicurean Symbolism in Art, Music, Literature, and Poetry

    2. Episode Eight-Four - Meteorology: Thunder and Lightning - Very Very Frightning Part Two 7

      • Cassius
      • August 14, 2021 at 9:21 AM
      • Cassius
      • August 24, 2021 at 2:21 PM
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    4. Cassius

      August 24, 2021 at 2:21 PM

    2. Episode Eighty-Five - Thunder and Lightning Part Three - Why Do The Gods Send Thunderbolts Onto Their Own Temples? 6

      • Cassius
      • August 21, 2021 at 5:20 PM
      • Cassius
      • August 30, 2021 at 7:52 AM
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    4. Don

      August 30, 2021 at 7:52 AM

    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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    4. Cassius

      September 1, 2021 at 4:34 AM

    2. Episode Eighty-Six - Typhoons and Whirlwinds 6

      • Cassius
      • August 28, 2021 at 7:52 AM
      • Cassius
      • September 5, 2021 at 5:11 PM
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    4. Don

      September 5, 2021 at 5:11 PM

    2. Episode Eight-Seven - Earthquakes And The Water Cycle - The Reason The Seas Never Fill Up Over Time 5

      • Cassius
      • September 3, 2021 at 10:33 AM
      • Cassius
      • September 6, 2021 at 7:57 PM
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    4. Cassius

      September 6, 2021 at 7:57 PM

    2. Episode Eighty-Eight - The Waters of the Nile And The Sulfur Pits That Are Fatal To Birds 3

      • Cassius
      • September 10, 2021 at 12:07 PM
      • Cassius
      • September 18, 2021 at 9:23 AM
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    4. Cassius

      September 18, 2021 at 9:23 AM

    2. Episode Eighty-Nine - Unusual Geological Phenomena - Springs That Change From Hot to Cold And Back Again 2

      • Cassius
      • September 17, 2021 at 5:10 PM
      • Cassius
      • September 25, 2021 at 11:05 AM
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    4. Cassius

      September 25, 2021 at 11:05 AM

    2. Episode Ninety - Recap Of Atomism In Preparation for Details of Magnetism 17

      • Cassius
      • September 23, 2021 at 9:54 AM
      • Cassius
      • September 28, 2021 at 7:50 PM
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    4. Cassius

      September 28, 2021 at 7:50 PM

    2. Episode Ninety-One - More on Magnetism, and Introduction To Disease And Plagues 6

      • Cassius
      • September 29, 2021 at 8:59 PM
      • Cassius
      • October 10, 2021 at 6:16 AM
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    4. Joshua

      October 10, 2021 at 6:16 AM

    2. Episode Ninety-Four (Special) - General Discussion / Recap of Poem 1

      • Cassius
      • October 17, 2021 at 8:57 AM
      • Cassius
      • October 18, 2021 at 9:57 AM
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    4. Cassius

      October 18, 2021 at 9:57 AM

    2. Episode Nine - The Evidence That Atoms Exist, Even Though They Are Unseen 7

      • Cassius
      • October 19, 2021 at 2:35 PM
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    4. Cassius

      October 19, 2021 at 2:35 PM

    2. Episode Ninety-Two - The Plague of Athens, and the End of the Poem 5

      • Cassius
      • October 4, 2021 at 8:40 PM
      • Cassius
      • October 22, 2021 at 2:00 PM
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    4. Cassius

      October 22, 2021 at 2:00 PM

    2. Episode Ninety-Three: Torquatus Leads Us Forward Into Conflict Over Epicurean Ethics 82

      • Cassius
      • October 18, 2021 at 10:01 AM
      • Cassius
      • October 30, 2021 at 3:38 PM
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    4. Don

      October 30, 2021 at 3:38 PM

    2. Episode Ninety-Four: Torquatus Explains Pleasure As the Goal of Life 4

      • Cassius
      • October 28, 2021 at 7:01 PM
      • Cassius
      • November 6, 2021 at 10:18 AM
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    4. Cassius

      November 6, 2021 at 10:18 AM

    2. Episode Ninety-Five - Understanding The Paradoxical "Absence of Pain" 20

      • Cassius
      • November 5, 2021 at 9:35 PM
      • Cassius
      • November 13, 2021 at 6:29 PM
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    4. Cassius

      November 13, 2021 at 6:29 PM

    2. Episode Ninety-Six - The Proof That Pleasure (And Not Virtue) Is the Supreme Good 14

      • Cassius
      • November 10, 2021 at 10:57 AM
      • Cassius
      • November 20, 2021 at 10:02 PM
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    4. Cassius

      November 20, 2021 at 10:02 PM

    2. Episode Ninety-Seven - The Virtues as Instrumental For Pleasure: Temperance and Courage 16

      • Cassius
      • November 15, 2021 at 7:39 PM
      • Cassius
      • December 10, 2021 at 3:17 PM
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    4. Don

      December 10, 2021 at 3:17 PM

    2. Episode Ninety-Nine - The Epicurean View of Justice (Part Two) 22

      • Cassius
      • December 2, 2021 at 4:05 PM
      • Cassius
      • December 11, 2021 at 6:08 PM
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    4. Cassius

      December 11, 2021 at 6:08 PM

    2. Episode Ninety-Eight - The Epicurean View of Justice (Part One) 15

      • Cassius
      • November 26, 2021 at 1:51 PM
      • Cassius
      • December 16, 2021 at 11:50 AM
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    4. Kalosyni

      December 16, 2021 at 11:50 AM

    2. Episode One Hundred - Concluding On Justice With A Shout To Keep The Virtues In Their Proper Place 7

      • Cassius
      • December 10, 2021 at 10:43 AM
      • Cassius
      • December 18, 2021 at 8:36 AM
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    4. Don

      December 18, 2021 at 8:36 AM

    2. Episode One Hundred One - Corollaries to the Doctrines - Part One 7

      • Cassius
      • December 17, 2021 at 6:09 PM
      • Cassius
      • December 23, 2021 at 5:12 PM
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    4. Kalosyni

      December 23, 2021 at 5:12 PM

    2. Episode One Hundred Three - Corollaries to the Doctrines - Part Three 9

      • Cassius
      • December 31, 2021 at 11:02 PM
      • Cassius
      • January 8, 2022 at 7:42 PM
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    4. Godfrey

      January 8, 2022 at 7:42 PM

    2. Episode One Hundred Two - Corollaries to the Doctrines - Part Two 30

      • Cassius
      • December 25, 2021 at 9:42 AM
      • Cassius
      • January 9, 2022 at 7:07 PM
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    4. Cassius

      January 9, 2022 at 7:07 PM

    2. Episode One Hundred Four - More Torquatus and a Question: Was The Ancient Epicurean Movement A Cult? 45

      • Cassius
      • January 7, 2022 at 8:18 AM
      • Cassius
      • January 17, 2022 at 4:22 PM
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      January 17, 2022 at 4:22 PM

    2. Episode One Hundred Five - More From Torquatus On The Key Doctrines of Epicurus 10

      • Cassius
      • January 14, 2022 at 10:19 AM
      • Cassius
      • January 25, 2022 at 2:26 PM
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    4. Scott

      January 25, 2022 at 2:26 PM

    2. Episode One Hundred Six - The Epicurean Attitude Toward Fate / Fortune and the Role of Reason 22

      • Cassius
      • January 20, 2022 at 6:45 AM
      • Cassius
      • January 29, 2022 at 8:55 PM
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    4. Joshua

      January 29, 2022 at 8:55 PM

    2. Episode One Hundred Seven - The Epicurean Emphasis on Natural Science 8

      • Cassius
      • January 28, 2022 at 3:32 PM
      • Cassius
      • February 3, 2022 at 4:10 PM
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      February 3, 2022 at 4:10 PM

    2. Episode One Hundred Eight - The Benefits of A Proper Understanding of the Senses and of Natural Science 42

      • Cassius
      • February 4, 2022 at 8:31 PM
      • Cassius
      • February 13, 2022 at 6:16 AM
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    4. smoothiekiwi

      February 13, 2022 at 6:16 AM

    2. Episode One Hundred Nine - The Epicurean View of Friendship 11

      • Cassius
      • February 11, 2022 at 7:45 PM
      • Cassius
      • February 18, 2022 at 7:45 PM
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      February 18, 2022 at 7:45 PM

    2. Episode One Hundred Ten - The Epicurean View of Friendship (Part 2) 8

      • Cassius
      • February 19, 2022 at 2:51 PM
      • Cassius
      • February 25, 2022 at 3:51 PM
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    4. Joshua

      February 25, 2022 at 3:51 PM

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    2. Epicurean Philosophy In Relation To Gulags and the Rack 6

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    2. The “Absence of Pain” Problem 11

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    2. Epicurean philosophy skewing toward elements of Stoicism in the time of Lucretius?? 9

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    2. Preconceptions and PD24 42

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    2. The Use of Negation in Epicurean Philosophy Concepts 47

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