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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Happy Eikas!

Take your mind off of the terrors of Washington and enjoy a trip to the City of Dis, furnished with iron walls and guarded by ferocious monsters.

Epicurus encourages a life of calm, estranged from egotistical ambitions, indifferent to accolades, unburdened by popular opinion, unimpressed by affluence, uninspired by opulence, liberated from vain beliefs about fame, too blissfully unremarkable to appear on the turbulent pages of history.

He anticipated quantum indeterminism by 2,300 years. Maybe ... hear him out.

This is why I love Epicurus. The philosopher who nailed Brownian motion and quantum indeterminism also nailed pre-historic epochs and extinction. The methodology of Epicurean Philosophy is an exceptionally fruitful and reliable means to discern the nature of things.

The most frequently used words employed in extant Epicurean texts include "pleasure", "nature", "friendship", "fellowship", "tranquility", "philosophy", "joy", "courage", "security", "self-sufficiency", "choice", "avoidance", "incorruptible", "peacable", "practical", "proper", and "wise"

We feel, therefore, we exist. Our feelings are not simulated. The idea that the Universe is a simulation is nonsense, literally, “non-sensible” in that it dismisses (as being unreal) the very senses that disclose reality. Without our senses, we have no way to test against a false belief.

"I have prepared for you, Fate; and I monitor each of your exploits [...] but when a [life] of affairs has been reduced [for] us, then, we are to live having embraced great [inevitability]. And [...] we recede from [life] with beautiful [grace] loudly exclaiming that, [for] us, 'I have lived well.'"

"I mean for this meditation to act as an instrument of hope, a confident reminder of the importance of education, the value of advancement, and the significance of perseverance. When faced with death, Mētródōros indicates that we should continue to live with confidence and cheer..."

You cannot escape yourself.

We count Birthdays among Holidays. Celebrate your unique thingness. 🥳