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    1. Roman Felicitas And Its Relevance to "Happiness" 1

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      • January 13, 2026 at 9:37 AM
      • Happiness Is The Goal Of Life - Happiness Is A Life In Which Pleasure Predominates Over Pain
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    1. Welcome JLPENDALL! 2

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      January 11, 2026 at 6:30 AM
    1. Episode 316 - "Happiness Is The Goal Of Life - Nothing Good But Pleasure" To Be Recorded (Sixth Year Podcast Anniversary) 2

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      • January 10, 2026 at 7:44 AM
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    1. Updating Of EpicurusToday.com 8

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    3. TauPhi

      January 11, 2026 at 7:02 PM
    1. Why Epicurus Railed Against Atheists And Questioned Their Sanity 5

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      • January 7, 2026 at 10:23 AM
      • True Divinity Is Incorruptible And Blessed
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      • January 12, 2026 at 8:41 PM
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    1. Welcome KevinC! 1

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    1. Episode 315 - TD 42 - Preventing Pain From Destroying Happiness 2

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    1. New Posting Of A Video By Raphael Raul "Our Journey From Atoms To Consiousness"

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    1. Welcome Claire46! 6

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      January 6, 2026 at 9:29 AM
    1. Welcome Hyakinthos! 12

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    1. Video: "Reverse Goalsetting"

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      • December 30, 2025 at 5:01 PM
      • Productivity and Time Management
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    1. Episode 314 - TD41 - Cicero Challenges Epicurus: Can Pleasures Really Overcome Pains? 2

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      • December 27, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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    1. How Should We Evaluate Abstractions? 2

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      • December 26, 2025 at 9:58 PM
      • Canonics - General Discussion
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      • December 27, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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      December 27, 2025 at 1:53 AM
    1. Episode 313 - TD40 - Diagnosing When Words Are Empty Of Meaning 4

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      • December 20, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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    1. Freyr and Gullenbursti (and other pigs In Western mythology)

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      • December 20, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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    1. Welcome D Campbell! 8

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      December 20, 2025 at 7:29 PM
    1. Cicero Rejects The Swerve But In The End Sides More With Epicurus Than With The Stoics As To "Fate"

      • Cassius
      • December 18, 2025 at 1:30 PM
      • There Is No Necessity To Live Under the Control of Necessity
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    1. "The Eyes Cannot Discover The Nature of Things" (Lucretius 4:379)

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      • December 18, 2025 at 10:56 AM
      • All Sensations Are True - The Nature of Truth
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    1. The Existence Of The Swerve Does Not Mean That "Anything Is Possible"

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      • December 17, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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    1. The Intersection Between The Epicurean Movement And Hanukkah 1

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      • December 17, 2025 at 7:32 AM
      • Epicurus vs Abrahamic Religion (Judaism, Christianity, Islam)
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    1. Episode 312 - TD39 - Word Games Are No Substitute For Reality 2

      • Cassius
      • December 14, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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      • December 21, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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    1. Latest Article by Elli Pensa - The Epic of Epicurus - Ithaca and the Garden - Dialectic and The Canon 3

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      • December 15, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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    1. Welcome JCBlackmon 8

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    1. Apollo vs Dionysus - The Philosophical Issues and Where Epicurus Fits In 2

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      • December 9, 2025 at 8:23 PM
      • Uncategorized Discussion (General)
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      • December 10, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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    1. Welcome EdGenX 17

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    1. Episode 311 - Is Pain The Only Reason We Should Be Concerned About Any Aspect Of Death And Dying? 2

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    1. More Renovations -- Updates to "Map" View To Make Topics Easier To Find 3

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      December 5, 2025 at 4:00 PM
    1. Happiness As Not Requiring Complete Absence of Pain 1

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      • December 4, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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      December 4, 2025 at 11:30 AM
    1. Episode 310 - TD38 - Neither Happiness Nor Virtue Are Binary States 4

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      • November 29, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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      • December 5, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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      December 5, 2025 at 10:57 AM
    1. "Clinamen Vitae - The swerve toward lived experience, where life is worthy of being lived" - Blog post by Elli

      • Cassius
      • November 27, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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