Epicurean Gamikós (“Matrimonial”) Script

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"Matrimony is therefore an act of romantic justice. It is a peaceful pact between lovers to neither harm, nor be harmed, to work as a team in protecting shared interests, setting priorities and working to build a future together..."

I am serious about creating a resource that would allow fellow hogs to get Ordained as Epicurean Officiants who can legally oversee weddings (in most States). I partnered with Oliver Benjamin ("The Dude" of the Dudeist religion) who provides Dudeist Ordination, and I'd like to be able to provide a similar service for our own purposes.

Anyway, this is a step toward that direction, at least a publication for the books.

December 31, 2024 at 4:16 PM

Thanks for posting this Eikadistes. I was just reading the intro to this over at the site where you posted it, and I noted your comments about Ethan Allen and someone else who was a mentor. Years ago I read "Reason the only Oracle of Man" but I don't remember a lot of it, except that it was right in line (but maybe not as elegantly written) as Paine's "Age of Reason." Did you find anywhere that Allen or Young wrote specifically about Epicurus? If you did I'd like to add specific cites to our resources somewhere,
December 31, 2024 at 4:35 PM
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My knowledge of Young comes solely from Matthew Stewart's Book "Nature's God". I'll have to find some quotations, because Young's writings are fragmentary, and Allen's at that, were thought of in ill-repute, so were not widely published. Both of themwould have seen themselves as "Lucretian" (perhaps as opposed to Epicurean) inheritors of the tradition of De Rerum Natura. Both were noted as being unpleasant to the sensibilities of their Christian neighbors. They were, however, effectively outspoken, opinionated, and therefore very effective revolutionaries!

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