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Martin
July 28, 2026 at 5:34 AM Reacted withReaction (Post)to TauPhi’s post in the thread "Healthy Hedonism - Why Feeling Good Is Good For You" - Book By Erica Oberg.
Thank you Godfrey for your posts about Healthy Hedonism. I have to admit these are worth more to me than all the recent innumerable threads and posts about all kinds of pleasure and the attempts to fragmentise, categorise and prioritize the broken… -
Godfrey
July 28, 2026 at 12:04 AM Reacted withReaction (Post)to TauPhi’s post in the thread "Healthy Hedonism - Why Feeling Good Is Good For You" - Book By Erica Oberg.
Thank you Godfrey for your posts about Healthy Hedonism. I have to admit these are worth more to me than all the recent innumerable threads and posts about all kinds of pleasure and the attempts to fragmentise, categorise and prioritize the broken… -
Lowri834
July 27, 2026 at 11:13 PM Reacted withReaction (Post)to TauPhi’s post in the thread "Healthy Hedonism - Why Feeling Good Is Good For You" - Book By Erica Oberg.
Thank you Godfrey for your posts about Healthy Hedonism. I have to admit these are worth more to me than all the recent innumerable threads and posts about all kinds of pleasure and the attempts to fragmentise, categorise and prioritize the broken… -
TauPhi
July 27, 2026 at 10:08 PM Replied to the thread "Healthy Hedonism - Why Feeling Good Is Good For You" - Book By Erica Oberg.PostThank you Godfrey for your posts about Healthy Hedonism. I have to admit these are worth more to me than all the recent innumerable threads and posts about all kinds of pleasure and the attempts to fragmentise, categorise and prioritize the broken… -
Cassius
Reaction (Post)July 27, 2026 at 9:54 PM These are undeniably terrible... the videos and, it seems, the stations themselves are robot generated... -
Bryan
July 27, 2026 at 6:53 PM Replied to the thread World's Worst Epicurus Videos.PostThese are undeniably terrible... the videos and, it seems, the stations themselves are robot generated... -
Bryan
July 27, 2026 at 6:46 PM Reacted withReaction (Post)to Martin’s post in the thread Modern cosmologists and theoretical physicists who think the universe is spatially infinite.
Both Andrei Linde and Alan Guth appear to be off the main stream and partly contradict my understanding. "It became hot only later, when this vacuum-like state decayed" does not make sense to me. Spatial infinity is agreeable to me in the sense that the… -
Bryan
July 27, 2026 at 6:45 PM Reacted withReaction (Post)to Kalosyni’s post in the thread Modern cosmologists and theoretical physicists who think the universe is spatially infinite.
Thoughts today after picking up a fallen pear...prolepsis--->Letter to Herodotus--->the infinite universe...
Here are some modern cosmologists and theoretical physicists who think that the universe is spatially infinite (models of cosmic inflation that… -
Kalosyni
July 27, 2026 at 3:08 PM Reacted withReaction (Post)to Godfrey’s post in the thread "Healthy Hedonism - Why Feeling Good Is Good For You" - Book By Erica Oberg.
Kalosyni I agree with your thoughts on these points, that we each are the sole arbiter of the concepts expressed by these words. "Meaningful" is a particular problematic word, for me, as it implies some vague universal standard which, as we know, is a… -
Godfrey
July 27, 2026 at 3:04 PM Replied to the thread "Healthy Hedonism - Why Feeling Good Is Good For You" - Book By Erica Oberg.PostKalosyni I agree with your thoughts on these points, that we each are the sole arbiter of the concepts expressed by these words. "Meaningful" is a particular problematic word, for me, as it implies some vague universal standard which, as we know, is a…
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