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    • Eikadistes
    • June 16, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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    Greetings, friends!

    I'm just noting for my own, future reference locations at which I have uploaded a translation:

    Academia
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    Society of Friends of Epicurus

    I'll make primary updates on twentiers.com/biography, but I've uploaded static copies elsewhere.

    Nothing new lately. I hope everyone is well. <3

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    Greetings, all!

    I'm centralizing some of the Epicurean art, merchandise, and related paraphernalia I've created in the Epicurean Emporium. My wife was previously hosting some of the material – including her historical portraits and digital illustrations – on Etsy and RedBubble, but we've made some changes, so it is now available through https://twentiers-shop.fourthwall.com/.

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    PhiloSophos: Philosophical Connections by Dr Anthony Harrison-Barbet

    A great resource for anyone interested in Western Philosophy. It contains interlinked profiles of 126 philosophers with 'connections' at the end of each profile. And these connections are the real gems of this web site. They show philosophers' influences, which ideas they shared, which ideas they opposed and which ideas they modified. It's a very clear way to see the development and interconnectedness of Western philosophy.

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    First of all, hello (again)! I joined more than a year ago but have been fairly quiet since.

    Eikas got me wondering whether there were other practices, observances, or rituals that ancient Epicureans followed, perhaps on a daily basis. If so, what might these have been? What might the typical day of an Epicurean in 3rd-century Athens (or 1st-century Herculaneum) have been like, and how would they have incorporated Epicureanism into it?

    As 21st-century Epicureans, how do you integrate it into your daily life? Is there any particular structure or set of practices involved?

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    Admin Edit: We have now added a new weekly meeting on Sunday afternoons 12:30 ET. For more info go here.

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    This thread is for discussing the potential of adding a regular Zoom for those who want an introductory level approach.

    Our current meetings are as follows:

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  • Words of wisdom from Scottish comedian Billy Connolly

    • Don
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    I couldn't find the exact source of this quote, so this may be more paraphrase than quote. There's also this article from 2019:

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    The Scots and the Irish – Connolly is of Irish stock as his surname tells you – have a deep cultural quirk of respecting death, but never taking it too seriously. Connolly will be keeping up that tradition. He’s told his wife Pamela Stephenson that when he dies he wants an epitaph in tiny writing so visitors will have to step close to his gravestone to read it. When they can finally see it, they’ll discover it says: “You’re standing on my b***s”.

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  • ⟐ as the symbol of the philosophy of Epicurus

    • michelepinto
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    I received an email from a reader of epicuro.org who prefers to remain anonymous with an original proposal that immediately thrilled me. Here is his email:

    Epicurean philosophy is among the greatest movements of thought in history, on a par with the most common religions.

    Unlike religions (e.g. Christianity) and other more recent movements (e.g. Communism), it does not have a symbol with which it can be identified around the world.

    I therefore thought of a symbol that could condense the main points of Epicurus' thought, in a graphic that is as minimalist as possible.

    The result is this: ⟐

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    The point, on the other hand, represents the Democritean atom at the basis of Epicurean physics and the key concept of clinamen, the random movement of atoms.

    This symbol corresponds to the UNICODE U + 27D0 standard so it is copyright free.

    What do you think?

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    I recently made a discovery I wanted to share:

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    It was mentioned in the regular Wednesday chat that the new AI assisted scanning techniques found this information.

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