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    1. October 25, 2023 - Agenda - Wednesday Night Zoom - Vatican Sayings 38 and 39 1

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      • October 18, 2023 at 7:47 PM
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    1. Explaining Perspectives - Chart Of Whole Organism vs Discrete Feelings

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    1. Trebatius Testa

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      • Search and Identification of Past Epicureans, Real or Fictional
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    1. Vesuvius Challenge Press Conference 10/12/23 - Sounds Like Significant Progress Using AI 5

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    1. October 11, 2023 - Agenda - Wednesday Night Zoom - Vatican Sayings 34 and 35 1

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    1. Dealing With Friends Who Are Convinced "Prophecy Is Being Fulfilled" and "Armageddon is Around the Corner" 3

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      • Epicurean Life Strategies for Modern Times
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    1. Welcome SeqStrat 7

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    1. Episode 196 - The Epicurean Arguments In Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 06 62

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    1. Welcome Mage! 3

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    1. If Death Is Nothing To Us, Then Life Is Everything to Us 29

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    1. Episode 195 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 05 67

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    1. Practical Pleasure-Pain Perspectives: How Different is 99% Pleasure From 100% Pleasure? 13

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    1. VS33 - Exactly How Is The Man Described In VS33 Rivaling Zeus?

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      • Epicurus - The "Vatican List" of Sayings
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    1. Key Citations - Knowledge Is Possible

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    1. Key Citations - Rejection of Platonic Idealism And Aristotelian Essences

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

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      • True Divinity Is Incorruptible And Blessed
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    1. Key Citations - Nothing Is Immortal Except the Atoms - No Immortal Soul

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    1. Key Citations - The Universe As Infinite In Space - Many Worlds With Life 32

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      • The Existence of Life Here And Elsewhere In The Universe
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    1. Key Citations - Nothing From Nothing And Nothing To Nothing

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    1. The Description of Epicurean Philosophy On Wikipedia 10

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    1. Key CItations - The Limit of Quantity of Pleasure Is Reached When All Pain Is Eliminated

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      • Life Is Desirable, But Unlimited Time Contains No Greater Pleasure Than Limited Time
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    1. Key Citations For "Pleasure Is Desirable

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      • Pleasure Is The Guide of Life
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    1. Key Citations On Living In The Present

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      • Living In The Present
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    1. Key Citations On Hope

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      • Hope For The Future
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    1. Key Citations On Beneficence

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      • October 4, 2023 at 12:13 PM
      • Virtue Is Not Absolute Or An End In Itself - All Good And Evil Consists In Sensation
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    1. Key Citations On Confidence 2

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    1. Key Citations On Honesty and Frank Speech

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    1. Key Citations On Courage

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      • October 4, 2023 at 12:10 PM
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    1. Key Citations on Justice

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