#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.

[alightinthelantern]

Epicurist parents b like "babies love ipads, therefore they r obviously good for them <3"

[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…

[hanzajesthanza]

the witcher official cookbook is good of course, but i am fully aware of myself that i bought this not for its recipes, but entirely just to read maybe like, a little less than four pages of sapkowski talking about how much he likes making soup

[lupismaris]

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

[propalahramota]

Divine Comedy is a fine subject for a slapping album but the whole Hozier discography has a strong De Rerum Natura vibe. In this essay I will...

[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!

[doomspaniels]

The Prettiest Princess is looking more adult and majestic. The Quaintise Queen? The Epicurian Empress? The Dainty Demanding Dame?

[the-good-spartan]

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

Colour engraving of 1866 by Heinrich Leutemann.

[yarnnerdally]

For Ikemen Vampire: Shakespeare teaching MC his insults, only to simp over them once he sees them laugh as they use it on Vlad

I actually almost just screamed at this. I fucking love it. Okay. Okay. Okay.

Scene: a lady most fair, companied by a pretty villain. A cart of flowers. A fated companion lingers by.

Vlad's brow furrows in confusion as you stand there, spouting nonsense. He had just been trying to sell flowers.

"There's no more faith in thee than in a stewed prune!"

"... are you trying to say you don't believe me? I was just telling you-"

"Thy sin’s not accidental, but a trade!"

Shakespeare is giggling. His little parrot, throwing insults left and right at poor Vlad.

"Really. If you're not going to buy something, you could be useless somewhere else instead of repeating Will's work to me."

A gasp is ripped from you. "Be not deaf, thou artless fustilarian!"

... wait. He never wrote that. Were you... making his words your own? He swooned.

"Mine wit marches on with the likes of epicurians! It leaps and bounds over thine: that of a fen-sucked canker-blossom. It would not be remiss to offer thy speech to thine mutt, for then it may hold merit."

Shakespeare's jaw dropped as did Vlad's, for vastly different reasons.

... I had much too much fun with this.

[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

[klapollo]

i really hate that malls are dying bc there is nothing quite like being 15 years old and experiencing the epicurian delight of an auntie anne's pretzel and a lemonade after spending all 20 dollars to your name on a shmedium invader zim tee at hot topic.............sublime. every child deserves such a joy at least once in their young lives.

[that-bluesybitch]

Epicurianism

Someone very important to me told me that he thought I should look into epicurus. I have finally gotten around to it, and I cannot share what I have learned with him for we are no longer in contact, so I shall place some things I have learned here.

Epicurianism is a hedonistic philosophy- it teaches that the highest good is pleasure, pleasure is achevied through freed of pain and tranquility of mind

when it comes to the greek/roman virtues, they are seen as useful but not the good thing in life that is to be wanted, while pleasures on the other hand should be seen as the attainable goal and virtues a mean to get them

epicurus was born in samos greece in 341 bc, he studied under a follower of decocratus

the recorded height of epicurianism was around 70 bc, it was very criticized due to being seen as opposite of roman ideal of manly virtues, later it was attacd by christians due to heretical views on god and the sould

epicirus and followers, took on many interests mostly around science and nature

pleasures can be of 2 catagories, active ( kinetic) or static (ketastimatic), active comes from actions to gain pleasure, static come from contentment or tranquility of mind, static pleasures were the real goal of epicurus and followers

physical and mental pleasures are different: physical pleasure is only concerened with the moment where as mental pleasure is concerned with the past, present and future

katestematic pleasures come in both mental and physical forms; physically when free from disturbances such as pain and hunger, and mentally when free from negative thought

since static happiness comes from getting rid of fears and fullfilling desires, epicuris catagorized desires: natural and neccessary (food, shelter, friends), natural and unneccesary( luxurious food, fine clothing, sex) , unnatural and unneccesay(power wealth and fame),

pursue to the first, be open to but cautionary of the second, and avoid completly the third,

there is much more than this to him and i have learned additional things about the philosphy. but this is just some basics to know for anyone who wants to partake or learn

[hillynotes]

An ignored lamp that shines for everyone, an epicurian garden that is loved by everyone, and the chicken lollipop I eat without the slightest regret, but only nostalgia. Sad world. (at IIT Jodhpur) https://www.instagram.com/p/CogNcQbvPY4/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=