December 2011
Seeking the elusive call of the endangered Cthulhu... →
I sometimes bump into a bloke who works aboard a submarine. He once told me that in shallowish waters, just before dawn on the surface, they’ll occasionally shut everything down. Still and silent. The whole crew then sits wherever they can find a place, and listens for half an hour to the noises that come through the hull. He called what they (sometimes, not always) hear the dawn chorus....
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Letting go of memories supports a sound state of mind, a sharp intellect—and superior recall
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Lucretius - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
He argues against the fear of death by stating that death is the dissipation of a being’s material mind. Lucretius uses the analogy of a vessel, stating that the physical body is the vessel that holds both the mind (mens) and spirit (anima) of a human being. Neither the mind nor spirit can survive independent of the body. Thus Lucretius states that once the vessel (the body) shatters (dies)...
De rerum natura - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
De rerum natura (On the Nature of Things) is a 1st century BC didactic poem by the Roman poetand philosopher Lucretius with the goal of explainingEpicurean philosophy to a Roman audience. The poem, written in some 7,400 dactylic hexameters, is divided into six untitled books, and explores Epicurean physics through richly poetic language and metaphors.[1] Lucretius presents the principles of...
Epicurus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
For Epicurus, the purpose of philosophy was to attain the happy, tranquil life, characterized byataraxia—peace and freedom from fear—andaponia—the absence of pain—and by living a self-sufficient life surrounded by friends. He taught that pleasure and pain are the measures of what is good and evil, that death is the end of the body and the soul and should therefore not be feared, that the gods do...
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