#epicurianism

[buggbuzz]

hey guys taking an ancient western history class. please tell me the greek philosophy fandom has already agreed that epicurus would've LOVED weed.

[deweybertolini]

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Reading Burnt Books: The Vesuvius Challenge 2023 Grand Prize As A Minor Renaissance

Mock clay tablets all you want, but at least when you burned ancient Mesopotamian libraries it made their collections more durable, not less. If you tried to read the carbonized scrolls from the library of Herculaneum, the above result—a pile of cinders—was all you would receive. Until now. Not a lot about AI gets me excited; ChatGPT is fun to play with, but may be a slow-moving academic…

[lupismaris]

In a bizarre act of adulthood I finally have a beer/wine/oddities fridge

[widdersins]

re. the epicurian "paradox"... how can u assume that an infinite eternal omniscient being has the same morality as u? bro u cant even agree with yrself abt what right n wrong are, it depends on how much sleep u got. arrogance. u can tell when ppl who have never tasted the divine try n comprehend it, its genuinely easier to understand an 11 dimensional hyperprism than it is to take reason to god

[aokozaki]

Amane Devil Survivor be like "hey solve the Epicurian Paradox"

[divinityunleashed]

"People don't seem to realize that I am an Epicurian!"

"I prefer only the finests tastes and combinations of ingredients that actually compliment each other. The rest of you heathens wolf down Big Macs like Tic Tacs."

[pelleas-at-castle-nox]

Ancient Forest/Leather

It was common knowledge that the woods of the Demesne were holy ground, and nobody, not the Denizens, and certainly not an outsider like you, were welcome in them. It was also fairly common knowledge that it was an old superstition, grounded in fear of a particularly powerful dragon who had long since stopped patrolling these woods. You didn't know which story to believe, and maybe it was some self destructive urge that saw you wandering in past the treeline, but you were here now.

The beauty of the forest was unlike anything you'd seen in your home world, never before seen plants, strangely evolved animals, and of course, the delicious fruits that you discovered every step of the way. You'd purchased a field guide and it hadn't steered you wrong so far. You even showed self restraint, avoiding the ones marked as poisonous even if you dreamed that maybe something tantalizing would lie in the poisons of this place, and yet you knew whatever magical effect they would have on you, it would be notably less fun to experience if no one ever came to look for you, which no one would.

You'd been exploring all day and your clothes and hands were sticky from the ripe fruit you'd been devouring. While you'd thought far enough to prepare for the hike, you certainly didn't plan for an overripe peach looking thing to splatter you with deliciously sticky juice. Try as you might to kick yourself clean, it just wasn't working, and the guidebook did say it was dangerous to go around emanating certain scents for fear of predators, and not the fun kind either.

You suddenly froze in your tracks when you came upon a clearing, with a beautiful spring that glowed mysteriously. You'd seen plenty of other things reminiscent of video games in your time here, so throwing caution to the wind, you went with the first instinct such a specific sight brought you, a healing spring! The way little motes of light danced around it like fairies only reinforced the idea as you shrugged off your pack. Whatever kind of spring it was, it probably wouldn't help to soak your entire inventory too. You looked down with a blush at the way your light armor conformed around your middle, having grown stuffed from your epicurian taste testing session. You decided it's probably best to leave the clothes behind too, and hand wash the juice stains out once you're no longer an insect attractant yourself.

Stripped down like this, you check the coast once more to ensure nobody's around, and slowly dip your toes into the tranquil water. In an instant, all the aches and pains your feet had accrued from carrying you around the forest all day melted away. This confirmed your theory, there wasn't any other explanation. You began to walk further towards the center, though to your surprise the decline of the shore was quite steep. You'd scarcely taken five steps before the water was up to your thighs, and a few more steps saw the water rising up to your pleasantly stuffed abdomen.

When the water began to soothe your overburdened belly, you felt a burning hunger take the place of satiated fullness. It was a surprisingly intense emotion, one that wasn't unpleasant, but was certainly filling you with desires. The previous experience had left you wanting more of course, but the desire to plunge deeper was nothing compared to the roaring inferno of desire that your hunger was becoming. Still, you'd come in here with a mission, and your will was strong enough that a bit of existential hunger wasn't going to stop you from fully submerging.

Rather than continuing deep enough to submerge, you decided you were. content to just splash yourself and head back to the shore for a snack. You cupped your hands and drew a deep draught to your lips, drinking it down without a second thought as the excess water spilled over your form. The juice washed away remarkably easy, but that drink certainly didn't seem to fix whatever hunger was burning inside you. Cautiously you took a few more sips, your throat clearing of any dryness. It felt wonderful, all of it was pleasurable beyond your understanding, except for that hunger. You cautiously turned around, and began to carry yourself out of the water, only to find your legs having a hard time responding. This only prompted you to struggle harder as you began to lift your feet and stomp them back down heavily. You didn't know what was surprising you more, the fact that as your thighs left the water, they were puffed out to Titanic proportions, or the fact that you were no longer alone.

Approaching from the distance was an astonishingly tall and fat dragon with scales as dark as the night. It plodded along silently, the forest seeming to know to not quake under its massive footsteps. From your angle, you gauged that it was roughly 8 feet tall, even if it was exactly 8 feet tall. Its odd eyes were piercing you, and suddenly you felt even more silly to be standing in this spring naked with newly acquired thunder thighs. You wanted to flee, but indecision gripped your mind. You couldn't go back into the water, not with your new knowledge, and yet the only way forward was past this blubber ball of scales. It didn't matter that it outsized you by several factors, the fact of the matter was it looked to be in complete control.

You took a few more steps forward, the bloated nature of your lower legs more obvious as you were forced into an exaggerated waddle. For a brief moment, you entertained the idea of just running past it, even with your current condition, the dragon was exceedingly fat, its belly hanging down to kiss the forest floor even with its unnervingly perfect posture. Such hopes that this butterball was docile and incapable of catching prey were squashed when it took an interest in your pack. You hoped to take advantage of that, run past while it was distracted trying to bend over far enough to pick your items up, but all it did was reach a fat paw out and the pack rose up to meet it, ferried along on a vine that sprouted from the ground.

The dragon looked over the contents with a bored expression, throwing your things out behind it before settling on some of your rations, which it devoured without a second thought. It began to waddle closer, and you figured if nothing else, you should get out of the water. You trudged further, your fattening feet unable to clear the water's surface, water dripping off your glistening fat rump, your belly puffed out to slap on those bloated thighs. Just when you were about to clear the water, the dragon met you at the shoreline, its piercing gaze not leaving your eyes.

"You look silly.

You should not have drank the water.

You belong to me now."

Rising up into the air on a stump that rose to lift up the fat dragon's enormous ass, it planted its feet directly into your face, the only thing remotely thin left on you. You got to enjoy the oddly sensual and delicate touch for a moment, before you fell backwards into the water. The spring seemed to react, unwilling to let its prey go twice as you began to fatten all over, the water having its way with you completely. Larger and rounder you swelled, more equal now that you were submerged, but all your top half could do was play catch-up with your ballooning bottom half.

Your adventure seems like it wouldn't continue after this, you fell victim to the Lord of the forest. Perhaps it would roll you back to the nearby village when it was done with you, perhaps it would keep you as a plaything, all you knew was that for now, you were insatiably hungry, and the water you were gulping down wasn't satisfying that hunger.

[jkl-fff]

What are your adjectives? ✨

Besides eccentric, irreverent, and hermetic?

Hmm ...

Egalitarian, stoic-by-reflex-but-epicurian-by-deliberate-choice (thank the gods for hyphens), and sardonic. Thanks!

[the-good-spartan]

"Ancient Greece: In the Gymnasium. Platonists, epicurians, cynics & wrestlers."

Colour engraving of 1866 by Heinrich Leutemann.

[florasvenus]

About Me ⋆.˚ ☀️

“𝓛𝓮𝓽 𝓾𝓼 𝓵𝓲𝓿𝓮 𝓵𝓲𝓴𝓮 𝓯𝓵𝓸𝔀𝓮𝓻𝓼...

𝓦𝓲𝓵𝓭 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓫𝓮𝓪𝓾𝓽𝓲𝓯𝓾𝓵 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓭𝓻𝓮𝓷𝓬𝓱𝓮𝓭 𝓲𝓷 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓼𝓾𝓷”

– 𝓮𝓵𝓵𝓮𝓷 𝓮𝓿𝓮𝓻𝓮𝓽𝓽

Hi ! You can call me Camélia. Or just Calla for my moots 💕 I am 20 years old girl with a Neuroatypic Mind and Personality ☺ Yep

My everyday favorites : Watching Sunsets, looking at the stars, eating food, listening to calm and peaceful nature sounds

My hobbies : Painting, drawing, cooking (any kinds of food), reading, watching movies, going for a walk, poetry, writing

My favorite foods : I love asian foods and actually every savory food in the world ! I am an epicurian girly ☺ If I have to say something it would be ramen🍜, tea, butter chicken, fresh fruits 🍓 and veggies, pumpking soup and layer cakes! 🍰And Macaroons !!! I obviously don’t love them.

My comfort Books/ Movies and TV shows : Anne d'Avonlea, The little prince, Maxime Chattam Book series, How to train your dragon, Avatar 1/ 2 (James Cameron)

⭒₊ ⊹ 🌕 ₊ ⊹⭒ Some random facts about me :

I love using emojis, I hate coffee, I find the nature elements fascinating, I enjoy rainy weathers as much as sunny days (but hey! Don't get me wrong. I would rather choose a warm day), I have a slug phobia (they disgust me behond imaginable. Childhood trauma hello 😬😆), I adore the wind, I am obsessed with the harmony of life and the universe and I am in love with the flowers, the sun and the world in general :)

INFP-T / Scorpio

Sings (Lyric, pop, Jazz) ⤹˚˖ 𝅘𝅥𝅯 ୭

I listen to the Silk Sonic Album and Classical Music way too much (Bruno Mars and Anderson.Paak). It's just too good ngl.

I am French and German (Fun fact : I am only 17% Egyptian, but don't look as much European).

I enjoy : Writing, reading (75% of my time), playing video games (contemplative games), eating (Savory and sweet foods) and decorating rooms, ...

I love : Cuddles/ hugs/ snuggles (My boyfriend breathes approximately 50 % a day | Joking of course. Not so much oops) I am weak for those things I swear, landscapes, nature, birds, meditation, jazz, the universe, hiking, drawing/ painting, watching movies/ going to the cinemas, hanging out, silence, the universe, the sun, ...

So if you enjoy my atypic and bit weird personality or you just want to hang out and read horny fluffy fics, you are of course, welcome ! 💞

Warm hug and love to you, smooch 🌸✨

© FlorasVenus 2023

[the-sunflower-spaceman]

PEOPLE IN THE NOTES KEEP SAYING THIS IS JUST EPICURIANISM AND HEDONISM IS SOLELY ABT OVER INDULGENCE: NO!!!! Classical hedonism is about indulgence to the satisfaction of one’s own needs!!! It’s about how pleasure motivates more than pain and how we have a moral obligation to maximize pleasure for all!!!! Ours is a society largely influenced by Christian asceticism which values suffering and self denial above all else and villanizes pleasure!

hedonism is good actually rich people just suck at it

[ramrodd]

COMMENTARY:

Paul is NOT the earliest written record of Jesus. The proposition that the Gospel of Mark is, in any way, derivative of Pauline Theology is the Marxist dagma of the Jesus Seminar and Bart "Giggles" Ehtrman's Apostasy buiness model. Boh are based on the existentially unanchored sophistry made possible with Post Moden Historic Deconstruction (not incidentally, Post Modern Historic Deconstruction enforces the glass ceiling for women lingering from the era of the Playboy Philosophy).

Pilate's euangelion to Tiberius, cited by Tertullian in Book V of his Apology, is the earliest written record of the Talking Cross featured in the Gospe; of Peter. The Talking Cross is the Tidings of Joy Pilate reports to Tiberius, The covenant between the Jewish god and the centurions of the Italian Regiment of the Praetorian Guards, represneted by Conrnelius, is big medicne, Cornelius is Pilate's Command Sergeant Major, Chief of Staff and currator of Quelle. which are the intelligence files on Jesus and John the Baptist assembled by the 10th legion before Jeuus was arrested.

Josephus empoyed Quelle to draw his protrait of John the Baptist.

I mean, if you insist on claiming to be looking for the historicity of Jesus, you need to use all the history of the period, which includes Roman history, In particular, the apperance of the codex technology should be the dispositive archelogical artifact establishing the organic nature of the Gospel of Mark to the republican enterprise of Rome.

Cornelius was in the room with Pilate during the interrogation of Jesus. Cornelius in the common denominator in all four Gospels and Acts. Cornelius is Luke's connection to Theol\philus, who is part of the Equistrian strata of the Preatorian Guard in a role more or less equialent to George Smiley's role at MI6 in the LeCarre novels. Theophilus is Cornelius's direct report in the Italian Regiment.

Both Cornelius and Pilate were appointed to their positions by Sejanus,. Pilate was on the same diplomatic/military career path as Juius Caesar and it is likely that Cornelius had sought out the polistion in Judea as his final duty post before retireing. He was obviously putting down substanial roots and it ws common for centurions of the Praetorian Guard to retire from Rome and fill a command/Staff role where they wouldn't be supernumerary.

In terms of Romans 10:2, Luke understood Christianity far better that Paul did The idea that Paul is a superior metaphysical philosopher is a joke: if Paul had employed the Parable of the Prodigal Son on Mars Hill, he wouldn't have been laughed out of Athens by truly serious philosphers. It must be inferred from Dale Martin's Yale course on the New Testament that Colossians and Ephesians was added to the Epistles because Pual didn't know shit about Arristotle, whose Method is the verticle axis to the horizontal axis of Plato's Principle.

Th inclusion of Colossians and Ephesians elevates Pauline Theology to the Cartesian Coordinate System in which Plato is the X axis, Aristotle the Y axis and the Here/Now of Salvation being the Y axis, Without the method of Aristotle, Pauline Theology is little more Campus Crusade for Christ and the Jesus Seminar.

Like the rest of them, Dr. Fredriksen needs to put the Philosophy back into her PhD.

The difference between the 13 Episltes of Paul and Hebrews is the differnce between the Epicurian aesthetic of the Mediterranean

basin and the stoic culutre of the Italian Regiment of the Roman Republic

And Tertullian.

[sleepy-owl-nella]

i am sorry

i come from a very religious family, so asking anything will result in getting into endless circle of yelling, so ANY debate on the internet would be more civilised than that

some questions i really, really, really want to ask cristians to answer me without using bible to prove bible, 'have faith' bs, and avoiding answering by 'may you be blessed', and with something i can answer with "follower of every religion says that" 1- where are all of the remains of victims of the great flood? all earth was flooded, which means all people, animals and plants were submerged and now we should be able to come across a massive strata or marker horison that depicts flood and massive extinction, specifically with human remains? yet nothing. 2-how old is earth? how old is sun? how old are stars? how far are stars? just curious. tried to read some articles, but after circling around virtually two verses got to the authors question "should we doubt god?" and no even approximate answer to the original question 3-some of the bible verses vere recognised by church as obsolete. what makes you think others are not? and how can one determine the obsolete ones, or choose which to obey or not. 4- do you believe in christian god because you chose to? or because parent/friends/any other person/society told you to. if you were in a society where you could not access bible, and just heard of this god, would you believe 5- your beliefs and/or lifestyle is dictaded by religion or faith? is there a difference? do you understand the difference between religion and faith? 6- your thoughts on epicurian paradox? Problem of evil - Wikipedia - explanation 7-what differs your religion from being a cult?

8-if a man once came and claimed to be jesus, would you believe him? how do you know the ones that claimed before to be god/jesus/any holy figure incarnation were actually not? 9- why do you need to pray if everything is a part of the plan? and how does free will fits here? 10- when did all prphets dissapear? also why? and why bible were not continued? why god did not decide to tell someone to write something? 11- can pope be considered as a false prophet? he is chosen by people, not by god. 12-“You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below….” , so the cross, statues, icons and any depictions of god are sins, so everyone are going to hell? 13- do you know what dna is? do you believe in creationism theory?

[geeko-sapiens]

The Epicurian paradox assumes God has exactly the same standards of ethics that the philosopher does. Perhaps God only considers free will meaningful if it includes the possibility of doing evil, and to create free will without capacity for evil would be like creating a square circle - a logical impossibility which, if it were to exist, would definitionally only exist in a different kind of reality than ours where it is possible. Perhaps God considers that alternate reality to be worse than ours because it lacks the possibility for evil and therefore the possibility of good resisting evil.

STOP TELLING ME ABOUT GOD I DON'T CARE. SHOUTOUT TO MY BOY EPICURUS

[thehandwixard]

its so over for me i legitimately am doing philosophical reads of kingdom hearts to justify my darkness stan behavior (does not need justifying) anyways i think epicurianism is fun