Live while you are alive
Epicurus, who likely lived with young boys like all his male contemporaries did, had the right idea it seems. Scientists now say that humans live longer if they have more social interactions. Studying fruit flies Chun-Fang Wu and Honyu Ruan at Iowa University found that mutant fruit flies, sharing a home with young fruit flies …
It is a given that an important part of being an Epicurean is consideration for others, imagination and empathy. So may I risk boring readers with my current struggle? I bet you can quite easily guess that it involves a computer! Yes, software degrades (why? by now they should have the technology to make it …
Grow accustomed to the belief that death is nothing to us, since every good and evil lie in sensation. However, death is the deprivation of sensation. Therefore, correct understanding that death is nothing to us makes a mortal life enjoyable, not by adding an endless span of time but by taking away the longing for …
In the U.K local Councils have been urged to address a “chronic shortage” in the number of allotments being allocated by urban developers as demand for the plots of land reaches unprecedented highs. Allotments are small plots that were originally made available at small cost during the First World War to help people grow their …
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"Parsons always seem to be especially horrified by sunbathing and naked bodies, but don’t mind poverty and misery nearly as much". (Susan Ertz, quoted from Jonathon Green, The Cassell Dictionary of Cynical Quotations) In ancient Greece athletes competed completely naked. But then they were not expecting to answer for themselves at the pearly gates. Epicurus …
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