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This may be a bit off-topic, but I must say the title is a bit misleading with the “activism” in it. Perhaps I’m mistaken but for me it connotes political and or social change-seeking activities. Other than that, I can only complement by sharing that it’s noteworthy for me that you didn’t include the Dewitt's thread as one of the places to engage more in order to have more of the dabbling Epicureans dive deeper. Also, the Lucretius podcast is a lot of fun, but it is indeed (and I think you may h…

(Quote from Cassius) (Quote from Don) That's what I was going to propose; looking if Dewitt proposed something. (Quote from Don) This came to mind as well. But I do think that, while evangelism has been used more often in secular contexts (it's even used in the to talk about the promotion of consumer products), it does have a religious load within it that may deter some people who would otherwise get interested and benefit from these "teachings towards living a good life". Having said that, we d…

(Quote from Cassius) As I see it, this is the "base camp" for the "strain" of Epicurean Philosophy you're promoting. I use "strain", because, [apparently to me] like it or not, this is an alternate path from the popular consensus, and from the academy; this comes from my yet-very-poor knowledge about this "strain". But if I were wrong (and I've already found the thread about Epicurean documents - from Charles - that makes me think that perhaps I am), this could be the "base camp of Classical Epi…

(Quote from Cassius) Looking back at what we wrote lines above... I don't think we did a good job at addressing your question. I think a better word would, in this case, would be "collaboration". "Opportunities for collaboration". All of the said things about evangelism still stand, but the opportunities are not for "evangelization", but rather for collaboration towards that "evangelical" effort.

(Quote from Cassius) Hi Cassius! Is this an active project? I followed the link but encountered an error.

(Quote from Cassius) In terms of marketing, or promotion, I heard a guru a while back say that it's always a great idea to promote by referencing to the popular thing (brand, product, whatever). People have an easier way getting to you when you connect the path to your thing to a place they already know about.

(Quote from Cassius) Yes, please count me in; I'd love to join one of those.

(Quote from Cassius) I'd say the wiki, if it's collaborative, could be a great resource to start gaining terrain against the popular confusions. If it's active, I'd bet it would start to pop up more often in the first page of the search engine results. Also, it could help to tackle the most common confusions with pages that tackle them specifically/directly.

(Quote from Don) Oh my... I just spiraled down the wiktionary rabbit hole again. If you search for the etimology of messenger you don't get to "angelos", but to th latin "missaticum" which comes from the verb "mitto" (to send) and "atticum" (the later as I understood it is just a suffix to indicate pertinence to the verb. Perhaps we could create our own word "eumittization"?

(Quote from Cassius) I have been liking Epicureanism so far because it's been serving me as a way to more easily identify what's right and what's wrong, without overcomplicating things. I still have the hope that this is possible. But it's also shown so far to be a bit problematic. When you talk to someone and try to make them see your point of view from the perspective of what makes sense (generally, no particularly you) in terms of pain or pleasure, they start to answer with mental constructio…

(Quote from Cassius) Perhaps what you've summed up here includes what I'm about to say... but it's been kind of revelatory for me now that I'm reading DeWitt. Once I read about the acceptance that Socratic, and then Platonic, thought got out of their rhetorical ability, it's started to become more evedient the extent to which "Plato's 'forms'" (or whatever you want to call these unnecessarily-complex, undefinable-definitions) have permeated everything in our world. I see plenty of conflict cause…

(Quote from Cassius) For me the answer to the free will/determinism debate perhaps won't have a concrete answer, but I compare it to something I read in my Epicurean explorations about whether or not we should care about some gods that, if they exist, don't actually show godlike qualities, at least not in a way beneficial for us to care... similiarly, if free willl doesn't exist, the illussion is so real, that it actually doesn't matter.