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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Edwarda who wrote (70581)1/4/2000 9:00:00 AM
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Interestingly, according to Lucretius, in De Rerum Natura, which is the most complete text expounding Epicurianism that we have, the sect professed belief in the gods, only supposed that they were indifferent to humanity. Also, the Epicurians had a kind of quantum theory, the supposition of a degree of indeterminacy in matter that permitted a kind of free- will. Sextus Empiricus, who wrote the definitive text on skepticism, classified Epicurians as "dogmatists" because they positively asserted the doctrine that there is nothing but atoms and the void......
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