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Here's how I read it:

"But even if the wise were tortured on a rack, they would be happy,⁴ and only the wise will have gratitude for friends both present and absent alike through both word and through deed.⁵ However, when tortured on the rack, at some…

Hi Everyone, coming up this next Monday is our First Monday Epicurean Meet-and-greet & Discussion Via Zoom. The topic of discussion this month: "Emotions in Epicurean Philosophy".

Agenda:

• Welcome and meet-and-greet: round the table greetings and

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This guy makes very interesting historical videos about the late Roman Empire, in this case life for late Pagans. (Who he said, interestingly enough, called themselves "Hellenes").

He's worth a look.

How Was Life For Pagans In The Late Roman Empire?

It happened few centuries after classical antiquity but Massacre of Verden in 782 somehow always stuck with me as a great example of Christianity spreading its love to pagans. Few people lost their heads over king Charlemagne's pious decree. Funnily, he…

PRINCIPAL DOCTRINE XIV – ANALYSIS & CONTEMPORARY APPLICATION

This work was authored by George Kaplanis, a retired notary and founding member of the Group for the Analysis and Experiential Application of Epicurean Philosophy Today (http://www.epicuros21.gr…

For those who want to comment on this article, I recommend do so in the Discussion Forum thread below, where the comments will be more easily searchable in the future:

Principal Doctrine XIV - Analysis And Application - Article By George Kaplanis Posted…

This discussion thread will serve as a crossreference to the new blog article posted by Elli.

https://www.epicureanfriends.com/wcf/blog/entry/62/

The blog feature of the forum has a place at the bottom of the article to allow for quick comments, but if…

The Uncertainty of Science and the Certainty of Faith

By Dimitris Altas, cardiologist and member of the Analysis and Experiential Application Team of Epicurean Philosophy Today [(http://www.epicuros21.gr)]



What is knowledge, and what is faith? One might…

Fanaticism and the Danger of Dogmatism in Political and Religious Thought: An Epicurean Reading

PD 40: “As many as possess the power to procure complete immunity from their neighbours, these also live most pleasantly with one another, since they have…

PRINCIPAL DOCTRINE XIV – ANALYSIS & CONTEMPORARY APPLICATION

This work was authored by George Kaplanis, a retired notary and founding member of the Group for the Analysis and Experiential Application of Epicurean Philosophy Today (http://www.epicuros21.gr…

Thank you for posting this Elli!

PRINCIPAL DOCTRINE XIV – ANALYSIS & CONTEMPORARY APPLICATION

This work was authored by George Kaplanis, a retired notary and founding member of the Group for the Analysis and Experiential Application of Epicurean Philosophy Today (http://www.epicuros21.gr…

PRINCIPAL DOCTRINE XIV – ANALYSIS & CONTEMPORARY APPLICATION

This work was authored by George Kaplanis, a retired notary and founding member of the Group for the Analysis and Experiential Application of Epicurean Philosophy Today (http://www.epicuros21.gr…

Yes I will make sure there are several different ways to find all the threads tagged with a particular doctrine number.

After the restructuring, if each discussion thread is linked on the top of its respective Wiki page then that could be a way to access the discussion.

Otherwise I foresee that it will end up being difficult to locate any specific PD or VS, because they…

I stumbled on this by chance, and not sure how safe/reliable this whole thing is but for anyone interested in work-exchange vacations, and looks like you could learn skills:

Here is a list for Europe:

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In the near future, we will eliminate the subforums currently located within the " Principal Doctrines " and " Vatican Sayings " forums. Most of these forums only have one or two threads on each item, and we will rename each thread to start with, for…

Crossreference:

As it will be relevant to this podcast series on Part 3 of Tusculan Disputations, please post any links to articles or publicly-available material relevant to Philodemus' "On Anger" in this thread below:

Philodemus' "On Anger" - General -…

Happy Birthday to jason! Learn more about jason and say happy birthday on jason's timeline: jason

Much appreciated Cassius !

Definitely the book and our podcast interview with Marcello Boeri!

Episode 197 -LucretiusToday Interviews Dr. Marcelo Boeri

Welcome!

Just finished reading the article by Jeffrey Fish and was curious if anyone had reading suggestions concerning Epicureanism and politics?

Crossreference:

Special Emphasis On "Emotions" In Lucretius Today Podcast / Tusculan Disputations - Should Everyone Aspire To Emulate Mr. Spock?

Beginning with Episode 288 of the Lucretius Today Podcast recorded today, for the next six weeks or longer we are going to be dealing with important issues as to emotions: Should emotions be considered to be "diseases," as Cicero explains is implied in…

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Welcome aboard!

Thanks and hello to everybody. I'm glad to be here with you all in this garden and I hope that this forum will give some good advice to improve myself.

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