Epicurean Techniques for Better Living

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November 16, 2020 at 1:36 PM

The Lexicon entry for "Techniques for Better Living" is taking shape and is at least now in outline form with a working table of contents. Please feel free to insert your own entries, or if you prefer, post some suggestions as comments to this thread and I will work them in myself. Check out the framework here: Epicurean Techniques for Better Living

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November 16, 2020 at 2:25 AM

OK now I finally see how the "version" system works. Anyone making an exit should make a "Change comment" which is a separate box at the bottom of the edit box. That comment then serves as a title for the changes in the log of changes, which can be viewed by clicking "changelog" at the bottom of the page.
November 16, 2020 at 2:00 AM

I am thinking to get this started I will just post some general categories to start a general outline. Everyone with write access feel free to add new categories and also fill in approaches to deal with each.
November 15, 2020 at 10:57 AM

PD1

Describe the technique(s)

Link to source material explaining PD1


PD2

Describe the technique(s)

Link to source material explaining PD2


Etc
November 15, 2020 at 2:42 PM

Tim that's an interesting method of organization to do it by PD. And immediately I am on the fence as to what to do! There is NO DOUBT but that we will eventually profit by organizing any list of techniques against the 40 doctrines. However I also think there is NO DOUBT but that we will eventually want to rank them by "order of daily importance" or otherwise by "category." So we'll definitely want a "matrix" where we can organize them from different viewpoints.

The question is probably at the moment "Which format will people find easiest to use?"

I am thinking that Godfrey and Don and Brett and perhaps others already have "lists" that they are ready to "dump" into the hopper for consideration.

I think maybe from a practical viewpoint this: Whoever has a list ready to go to dump into the article should probably go ahead and do it using their form of organization, and then we can rearrange either into "Order of Daily importance" or by PD or by some other as yet undefined category.

So @Don or @Godfrey or @bdws (or anyone) if you are so inclined please feel free to make a first stab. Tim added this as a "comment" but I think each of you can edit the main text directly.
November 15, 2020 at 4:46 PM

Great idea!
We could put the lists in a spreadsheet. And maybe make a database and even an app of some sort.
November 15, 2020 at 5:06 PM

My list consists of a sequence of phrases that I made up to try to both describe the philosophy and contemplate as a practice. That seems different from what we're doing here and I think it's a good idea to have a list of ideas for practice directly from the texts, as we're doing here.

If anyone wants to add to, comment on or modify my list, that would be great! Adding quotes from relevant texts would make it a much more useful resource. But I think that material is best developed in a separate thread/lexicon.
November 15, 2020 at 7:44 PM

Yes Godfrey's comment sounds correct based on what he's posted already.

And definitely Tim this is what I am thinking: "We could put the lists in a spreadsheet. And maybe make a database and even an app of some sort."

Has someone tried yet to edit the main text? I think I'm still not sure that the shared editing is working so hopefully someone will try something , even if short, to be sure this is working.
November 16, 2020 at 5:51 PM

hi all


I had fully intended to spend some time on this this weekend, but life got in the way :-).


giving some thought to organization, it would be great if we could use tags to either sort by ‘issue’ or by source material.


for example, I noted today that several of the PD’s and VS directly address gratitude. If we had a gratitude practice, and used tags, we could tag the practice with the # PD or VS.


I really like the idea, the more I think about it, of organizing like Cassius has above and the either tagging with source or listing the source below.


brett

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