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I wonder if the very concept of FB contradicts what this place is about (may be not, I can't be sure). I too have been out of FB and all other social media for nearly 5 years and seen my level of joy and contentment increase. Having said this, Cassius in my opinion it would be very difficult to replicate epicureanfriends.com on FB by design. The very point of scale means that the messaging and content must be different - more accessible and applicable to people who don't necessarily enjoy histor…
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(Quote from Cassius) I like the idea, but to do so I feel I miss a simple and modern body of knowledge/message. Vatican collection is the closest, but even then it's archaic and requires a predisposition to reading old texts. There is little point in attempting to convey valid, strong and sensible ideas driven by facts in a language that is not accessible for most people. Most religions use the old language to package the message: ancient means wise, ancient means coming from sages or deity. Epi…
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(Quote from Don) Indeed Don, I did not mean modern interpretations of Epicurean ideas, but rather a contemporary language. That's a better word. (Quote from Don) I will not argue with that at all. The greatest impact of everything I read was that many of the questions and answers were available to us for thousands of years, and yet we chose to forget, give up, give in to tradition, superstition and brute force of bigotry. It is painful and useful to know. But now I imagine myself in front of my …
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(Quote from Cassius) Is it possible to assemble the grounding that Don is talking about in a structured, contemporary manner? I am not saying it is, just wondering. Mathematics springs to mind. There are very successful textbooks that built the whole core from basic elements all the way up. Most of that knowledge comes from 2000 years of research from India and China to Arabia, Europe etc. But students don't have to go through the originals then attempt to make the logical connections themselves…
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(Quote from Don) It did Don - same here!
