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2. Welcome GBSolution!
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  - Welcome to Our New Members!
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2. Episode Sixty-Nine - The End of Our World 1
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  - The Lucretius Today Podcast
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2. New Annual Event - The "Bread And Water Multimedia Award" - Nominations for 2021 Award (to be selected in December) Now Open! 10
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  - Epicurus on the Internet, Analysis
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2. Welcome Adrien!
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  - Welcome to Our New Members!
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2. Thanks to Nate For The Recent Meme Additions 7
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  - Uncategorized Discussion (General)
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2. Bust Of Epicurus Reconstructed - Great Video Shared by Elli! 7
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  - Iconography of Epicurus - Past and Present
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4. Eikadistes
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2. Welcome SeekingSelf!
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2. Nietzsche's Condemnation of Stoicism - Existential Comics Version
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  - Frederic Nietzsche
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2. Was The Epicurean Theory of Images Meant By Epicurus To Take The Place of Conventional Views of "Memory" As A Storage Mechanism? 12
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  - "Images" And Their Significance
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2. Is There A Relationship Between "Anticipations" and "Instinct"? 58
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  - Anticipations / Preconceptions / Prolepsis
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2. Episode Sixty-Eight - This World Was Not Made By The Gods For Humanity 1
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  - The Lucretius Today Podcast
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2. Thomas Jefferson's Epicurean Outline 3
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  - Thomas Jefferson
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2. On The Question: "How Long Should We Desire To Live?" 12
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  - Dealing With Death, Dying, And Old Age
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2. Social Media - Discord 3
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  - Technology, Social Media, and Internet Activism
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2. Social Media - Fediverse 2
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  - Technology, Social Media, and Internet Activism
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4. Charles
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2. The Gallery Feature Here At EpicureanFriends.com
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  - Memes and Images - Gallery Discussion
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2. Websites: EpicSwerve.com
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  - Other Epicurean Organizations
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2. Social Media - Instant Messaging (Telegram, Matrix, Threema) 23
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2. Social Media - PixelFed
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2. Social Media - Odysee
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2. Social Media - Youtube
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2. Social Media - Instagram
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2. Social Media - Gab
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2. Social Media - Minds
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2. Social Media - Twitter 9
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2. Was There For Socrates a Particular Greek God of Reason / Rationality / Or Specifically "Wisdom"? 3
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  - Epicurus vs. Socrates, Plato, and the Academics
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2. "The Sculpted Word" - Cover and Excerpts 2
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  - Bernard Frischer's "The Sculpted Word"
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2. An Unfortunate Article Suggesting That Katastematic Pleasure is "Necessary" and Kinetic Pleasure is "Unnecessary" 5
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  - The Term "Pleasure" Means The Same As "Absence of Pain," And Includes All Experience Which Is Not Painful Not Painful
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Is There A Relationship Between "Anticipations" and "Instinct"? 58

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