Today is the birthday of Epicurus (341-270BCE).
Epicurus was an Greek philosopher who advocated simple living, building strong friendships, and enjoying good food and pleasant outdoor living. His school in Athens, called The Garden, was open to women and slaves.
He asked his friends to remember him on his birthday, 10 Gamelion on the Attic Calendar. Today is that day.
If you want to have more and better friendships, and mindfully appreciate good simple things, today is a good day to start.
Epicurus was an Greek philosopher who advocated simple living, building strong friendships, and enjoying good food and pleasant outdoor living. His school in Athens, called The Garden, was open to women and slaves.
He asked his friends to remember him on his birthday, 10 Gamelion on the Attic Calendar. Today is that day.
If you want to have more and better friendships, and mindfully appreciate good simple things, today is a good day to start.
Evan Prodromou
•- Don't fear gods
- Don't fear death
- Good things are easy to get
- Bad things can be endured
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal_Doctrines?wprov=sfla1
Principal Doctrines - Wikipedia
Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)Deus
•Evan Prodromou
•Stoicism emphasizes public service even if it causes personal misery and harm.
Epicureanism emphasizes a withdrawal from public engagement and concentration on personal relationships and enjoyment.
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•Evan Prodromou
•ThatAuntie
•Evan Prodromou
•https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron_diffraction
wave nature of electrons
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•Bert
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•Pauline von Hellermann
•Poor 'Possum
•Years later, as work started to feel just as fruitless a pursuit as academia, the #IWW and #antiwork notion that we all deserve lives that support "leisure and the pursuit of the finer things in life" Epicurus seemed like an obvious core influence. What good is toil if it doesn't allow you to enjoy yourself from time to time? To idle away an afternoon in a scene plucked from Wind in the Willows: you and a close friend on a lazy bike ride to a picnic spot on a river bank where you can idle away an afternoon with a good, simple spread, perhaps a line in the water or a kite in the sky, just watching the world move around you as you engage in pleasant conversation?
@faktoider
•e. hashman :kittyfied:
•Jewish term cited in the Mishnah, referring to one who does not have a share in the world to come
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•it's called Epicurus the Sage, by Sam Kieth (artist) and Willian Messner-Loebs (writer)
its a lot of fun!