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List Of Frequently Used Forums
  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
  4. EpicureanFriends Zoom Meetings, Outreach, and Activism
  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-Three - Meteorology: Thunder and Lightning Part One 2

      • Cassius
      • August 6, 2021 at 5:19 PM
      • Cassius
      • August 14, 2021 at 9:13 AM
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    4. Cassius

      August 14, 2021 at 9:13 AM

    2. Episode Eighty-Two - The Opening Of Book Six - Restatement of the Goal of the Poem 5

      • Cassius
      • August 6, 2021 at 11:02 PM
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    4. Don

      August 6, 2021 at 11:02 PM

    2. Popularizing The Lucretius Today Podcast 10

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      • August 2, 2021 at 5:16 PM
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    2. Episode Eighty-One - Development of the Arts - The End of Book Five 23

      • Cassius
      • August 2, 2021 at 10:53 AM
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    4. Cassius

      August 2, 2021 at 10:53 AM

    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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      July 31, 2021 at 9:13 AM

    2. Episode Twenty-One - The Universe Has No Center 5

      • Cassius
      • July 28, 2021 at 7:41 AM
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    4. Cassius

      July 28, 2021 at 7:41 AM

    2. Episode Nineteen - All Things Are Not Made of Tiny Pieces of The Same Thing, Or Of All Things (Anaxagorus' Homoeomery) 4

      • Cassius
      • July 27, 2021 at 7:40 AM
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      July 27, 2021 at 7:40 AM

    2. Episode Twelve - Nothing But Combinations Of Matter And Void 7

      • Cassius
      • March 22, 2020 at 6:46 PM
      • Cassius
      • July 24, 2021 at 3:34 AM
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    4. Paquin

      July 24, 2021 at 3:34 AM

    2. Episode One - Venus / Pleasure As Guide of Life 15

      • Cassius
      • January 11, 2020 at 11:58 AM
      • Cassius
      • July 22, 2021 at 10:59 AM
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    4. Don

      July 22, 2021 at 10:59 AM

    2. Episode Seven - The Evidence That Nothing Comes From Nothing 7

      • Cassius
      • February 19, 2020 at 5:23 PM
      • Cassius
      • July 22, 2021 at 7:22 AM
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    4. Paquin

      July 22, 2021 at 7:22 AM

    2. Episode Eight - Step Two: Nothing Goes To Nothing 5

      • Cassius
      • February 24, 2020 at 7:59 AM
      • Cassius
      • July 22, 2021 at 5:13 AM
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    4. Cassius

      July 22, 2021 at 5:13 AM

    2. Episode Four - Recap of Opening Sections of Book One 12

      • Cassius
      • January 26, 2020 at 8:53 AM
      • Cassius
      • July 20, 2021 at 10:01 AM
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    4. Paquin

      July 20, 2021 at 10:01 AM

    2. Episode Eighty - The Development of Metallurgy And the Art of War 3

      • Cassius
      • July 18, 2021 at 10:44 PM
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    4. Cassius

      July 18, 2021 at 10:44 PM

    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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    4. Cassius

      July 16, 2021 at 7:20 AM

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

      • Cassius
      • July 10, 2021 at 5:59 PM
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    4. Godfrey

      July 10, 2021 at 5:59 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-Six - The Rise of Humans and Early Human Society 5

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

      June 28, 2021 at 5:28 PM

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

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

    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-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-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-One - The Formation Of the World (Our Part of the Universe) 20

      • Cassius
      • May 20, 2021 at 7:33 AM
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      May 20, 2021 at 7:33 AM

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

      • Cassius
      • May 15, 2021 at 8:04 PM
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    4. Don

      May 15, 2021 at 8:04 PM

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

      • Cassius
      • April 27, 2021 at 10:22 PM
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      • May 8, 2021 at 1:01 PM
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    2. Episode Sixty-Eight - This World Was Not Made By The Gods For Humanity 1

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      • April 19, 2021 at 11:32 AM
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    2. Episode Sixty-Seven - Did The Gods Wake Up One Day To Create The Universe? 23

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      • April 11, 2021 at 5:35 PM
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    2. Episode Sixty-Six - The End of All Things (But Not Of The Universe Itself!) 7

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      • April 14, 2021 at 10:47 AM
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    2. What Kinds Of Podcasts Should We Target First? 3

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      • July 29, 2019 at 10:38 AM
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    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

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    2. ⟐ as the symbol of the philosophy of Epicurus 94

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    2. Daily life of ancient Epicureans / 21st Century Epicureans 19

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    2. "All Models Are Wrong, But Some Are Useful" 5

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    2. Analysing movies through an Epicurean lens 16

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    2. Is All Desire Painful? How Would Epicurus Answer? 24

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