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Hello all, I just wanted to keep you updated on the recent seizure diagnosis, i hope Cassius will allow this post, as i have really used and wanna express how Epicureanism has helped me, so I am taking an EEG experiment (sucks by the way), and they detected signs of what's called absence seizures and generalized epilepsy which can transition into a traditional seizure. Might be a genetic thing from my grandma.

I wanna be clear these procedures absolutely suck, I can't get up and walk around without assistance, can't bathe without having the door propped open, can't even use the bathroom without someone in the next room. Before that I was stuck to an IV machine I had to drag around, which made me pee constantly. I also have had similar incidents a few months ago and lost my cat around my birthday, so it's been a shit few months.

As Epicurus might say "these months are lacking nothing in their natural severity" but in all these things I am being kept going by six simple things.

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The Tantalizing Possibility Of Locating Consciousness In The Brain | NOEMA

Few discoveries would be more consequential than identifying the specific neural structures responsible for subjective experience.

www.noemamag.com

Not sure if this article was shared previously but, to my eye, it seems there are many overlapping Epicurean points to be made here

The Stoicism Scam

Exposing a Colossal Bait and Switch Trick

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A Pyrrhonist on Substack joins in the "Stoics aren't Stoics" debate head-on in some blunt language.

I do think a number of items in his list are either Epicurean in source or Epicurean in practice.

I had also not seen $toicism before, but evidently it was coined my Massimo Pigliucci?

Building an After-School Stoic Philosophy Club

By Russell Holt and Midori Holt, with Vivienne Le

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By Zeus! With the fact that modern Stoics are actually much more Epicurean than they like to admit, these kinds of evangelism/marketing are such missed opportunities. Granted, the "Stoics" have a much bigger head start and a much larger public awareness campaign, but still

Reading Recommendations for Epicurean Philosophy

which books and authors are key for studying this classical philosophical school?

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Dr. Gregory Sadler has posted a recommended reading list of Ancient Epicurean Texts. Some I had forgotten about, so it's handy to have in one place (although I realize all these are likely posted somewhere around here)

I also posted a comment about the new MFS Oenoanda inscription text.

https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A50012.…1;view=fulltext

Wasn't sure if there was a link to this text anywhere yet.

The divine Epicurus, or, The empire of pleasure over the vertues compos'd by A. LeGrand ; and rendred into English by Edward Cooke.Le Grand, Antoine, d. 1699., Cooke, Edward, fl. 1678

ADMIN EDIT BY CASSIUS 05-29-26: Don set up this thread initially, and I think him for bringing this to our attention. As the thread has grown in scope i am updating the title to reflect that this thread will be devoted to the ongoing discussion of the Gedney blog. As such, a number of different substack articles will be referenced here. The best understanding of the flow will come from following the discussion from start to finish rather than trying to set up new threads for separate substack articles as they occur. It will be appreciated here that if posters mean to reference only a single article that they include a link to that article in their respective threads.

Scholar Spotlight: Tim O’Keefe

Don't take it from me: good work on Epicurean ethics

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Not sure who Jack Gedney is, but this new Substack account looks worth following. He likes Emily Austin's book and references Dewitt.

A happy hog in the herd of Epicurus.

Thx again to Bryan for his gift.