Gods Have No Attributes Inconsistent With Blessedness and Incorruptibility

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    2. Key Citations - Nothing Is Supernatural - No Gods Over Nature

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    2. About This Subforum - Everyone Please Read! 3

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    2. Which (Epicurean) God ...? 4

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    2. Under the Sliding Signs of Heaven-Lucretius' Poetic Echoes 2

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      • August 25, 2019 at 2:30 PM
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    2. Thoughts on Reverence, Awe, and Epicurean Piety 10

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      • October 28, 2020 at 9:03 PM
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    4. Cassius

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    2. The Real Impact of Epicurus saying the celestial bodies weren't gods! 1

      • Don
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    2. The Epicurean Gods As A Standard To Which To Aspire 6

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    2. The Argument In Favor of a Supernatural God Based On Alleged Issues With Concept of Infinity

      • Cassius
      • November 26, 2017 at 7:30 PM
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    2. Satisfying the Conditions of an Epicurean "god" 6

      • Joshua
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    4. Cassius

      August 16, 2019 at 1:15 PM

    2. Reverence and Awe In Epicurean Philosophy 164

      • Susan Hill
      • October 23, 2020 at 9:06 AM
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    2. Reasonings about Philodemus’ On Piety

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      • May 18, 2015 at 11:28 AM
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    2. Realism matters 4

      • Cassius
      • December 28, 2019 at 4:34 PM
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    2. Pros and Cons Of Considering Epicurean Philosophy To Be A "Religion" 119

      • Cassius
      • January 22, 2024 at 9:24 AM
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    2. Prioritizing By Popularity The Arguments For Intelligent Design

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    2. Philodemus On Piety 33

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    4. Eikadistes

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    2. Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 215 22

      • Don
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    2. Other Short Fragments and Testimonia

      • Susan Hill
      • October 28, 2020 at 3:15 PM
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    2. On the nature of a god 4

      • Michael
      • November 2, 2019 at 10:47 AM
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    2. On Deism, and Getting it Wrong 1

      • Joshua
      • August 15, 2019 at 7:57 PM
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    2. Notes On Non-Religious-Based Objections To Darwin And Their Relation to "Evolution" Sections of Lucretius 3

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      • May 30, 2020 at 11:09 AM
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    2. Notes on "Epicurus and His Gods" by A.J. Festugiere 4

      • Godfrey
      • October 23, 2020 at 6:49 PM
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    2. More Thoughts on The "Idealism vs Realism" Question About the Epicurean "Gods" 4

      • Cassius
      • April 19, 2019 at 10:02 AM
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    2. Long and Sedley, Hellenistic Philosophers, "Gods" 25

      • Don
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    2. Knowledge of the Gods as "Manifest" 22

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      • December 12, 2022 at 3:57 PM
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    2. Isonomy 13

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      • January 22, 2018 at 1:53 PM
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    2. Introductory Video on Epicurean Gods and the Three Responses 13

      • Susan Hill
      • October 29, 2020 at 7:07 AM
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    4. Don

      October 29, 2020 at 10:11 PM

    2. Hidden Brain podcast: Suggested Episodes on the Gods & Religion 7

      • Don
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    2. Hesiod’s Theogony 1

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    2. From the Pen of the Master: Epicurus 1

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    2. From Philodemus 4

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

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    2. The Use of Negation in Epicurean Philosophy Concepts 47

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