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The Morality of Epicurus and its Relation to Contemporary Doctrines

This year's Panhellenic Symposium of Epicurean Philosophy in Athens was, of course, in Greek, but you are able to see the English or Spanish language captions if you click on Settings (the wheel, at the bottom of the screen) > Subtitles/CC > choose English or any other language

"The youthful part of yourself, in regard to its salvation, guard that part of life and preserve all of those things..." (Epicurus, Vatican Saying 80)

Superstition ain't gonna help us outta this mess.

I received from a friend: "Greetings from the Athenian Epicureans. We are pleased to share the program for the 16th Symposium. Please note that the event will be held in Greek."

The Sculpted Word: a Synopsis and Commentary

We've translated 'On Geometry' by Dēmḗtrios of Lakonía. The largest sections of the fragments are devoted to an analysis of the relational qualities of an isosceles triangle. We have attempted to reconstruct the visual diagram that Dēmḗtrios provides. Read it HERE!

Enjoy this new (and only available) translation of Demētrios of Lakonía's 2nd-century BCE text "On the Size of the Sun". Be well and live earnestly, from the atomic prophets.

Enjoy the ONLY English translation of the ancient Epicurean philosopher Karneískos' letter to his friend Philístas. She was remembered as a model Epicurean who lived each day to the fullest.

Happy Eikas! Please enjoy my latest essay: “Rhetoricians might flatter flies with honey, but politicians feed flies bullshit.”

Commentary on the method of multiple interpretations open.substack.com/pub/hiramcre...

Epicurus is my co-pilot. 😎✈️

There goes Mon Mothma, calling out MAGA again.

Greetings, friends! We have created a new Discord server to host a forum associated with TWENTIERS.COM. Be well and live earnestly!

Io Saturnalia! Please enjoy my latest essay: www.epicureanfriends.com/thread/4868-... (I PROMISE the title isn't clickbait.)

Io Saturnalia! Indeed, the Romans were celebrating the winter solstice with lights, gifts, and garland hundreds of years before Christians held midnight mass, and thousands of years before Macy's hosted parades and window displays.

Stay warm this Winter with Dionysus in your heart. 🥰

Jesus wasn't the first. 🎅

Io Saturnalia! I present a tacky holiday sweater to those for whom a potlet of cheese is not enough.

It is impossible to separate thought from matter that thinks. - Frederick Engels

#Goddess #Spirituality in Lucretius hiramcrespo.substack.com/p/goddess-sp... #polytheism

Happy Eikas! Please enjoy this essay on Epicurean theology, knowing "the god" to be a representation conditioned by memory, piety to be a function of psychology, prayer, a psychiatric practice, the divine nature, an expression of happiness, and heaven, a colorful inference of the human mind.

"In truth, stoic masculinity often functions as an anti-ethical force: it justifies moral disengagement, sanctions emotional neglect and isolates men from the relational core of our shared humanity."

"Epíkouros loyally observed all the forms of worship and enjoined upon his friends to observe them..." (On Piety)

Imagine living in the first era in human history where we can actually view recorded images of the isolated particles that comprise reality (particles once ridiculed by Epicurean opponents as being fictions from a bad philosophy)... ...but still thinking particle physics is bunk.

Thank Zeus It's Friday! Take a break from politics and take your mind for a stroll through the worlds of Theravada Buddhism and Epicurean Philosophy as we explore similarities and dissimilarities between the two traditions. Be well and live earnestly: societyofepicurus.com/dhammapada/

#ΜEΓΑ Make Epicurus Great Again

F r e e y o u r m i n d.

Weekly reminder that no matter what our government mandates, or what Congress legislates, or what the dictator dictates, the constitution of Mother Nature is immune to the petty opinions of people. Her spectrum is far too vast for the simple binaries of American politics.

Greetings hogs and Happy Eikas! This Twentieth, please enjoy my reflection on psychedelic spirituality as it relates to Epicurus' theory of images. Then have a gyro on me: societyofepicurus.com/holy-shit-th...

"For nobody can prove that in one sort of world there might not be contained, whereas in another sort of world there could not possibly be, the seeds out of which animals and plants arise and all the rest of the things we see." (Epicurus, Letter to Herodotus)

"[O]ne cannot live pleasantly unless living practically, and properly, and peaceably; and that one cannot live practically, and properly, and peaceably, without living pleasantly; for the virtues coalesce with living pleasantly, and living pleasantly is inseparable from them." (Epicurus)

Epicurean students, scholars, sympathizers, and enthusiasts, I have organized a list of all Herculaneum papyri fragments penned by Epicurean authors. I hope you find it to be useful. Do well and live earnestly.

“They cannot even enjoy a public spectacle because of their anger, or a bath or drinking party or a trip with any sort of people whatever or any of the things considered pleasurable, but in everything their irritations are mixed in because of a nod, a whisper, a laugh…” (Philodemus, Col. 25.15-35)

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