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Facing Fear of Death: Skills for Anxiety and Fear of Death and Dying
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How to beat the fear of death and dying!

I remember when I was a kid growing up in the 1970’s at about the age of 7, I asked my father what happened after we died.  He went quiet Continue Reading

Posted On : 28th June 2023 Published By : Comicus Muo
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‘Negate to liberate’ is the motto of the happy nihilist! Most people seeking the meaning of life never stop to consider that perhaps there never was one to begin with. Continue Reading

Posted On : 12th May 2022 Published By : Comicus Muo
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What is philosophy for?

Let’s begin by saying something bold, philosophy is first and foremost about using the rational faculty that all human beings possess to determine personal happiness.  In order to find happiness, Continue Reading

Posted On : 20th February 2022 Published By : Comicus Muo
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Introduction to naturalist philosophy

  What is this philosophy called naturalism all about? Curious you spare some time to learn by hoping for an overview or maybe you probably already know what it is Continue Reading

Posted On : 30th September 2020 Published By : Epicurus Of Albion
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Why is there suffering in the universe?

Of all of the questions that philosophers commonly get asked this one keeps on coming up time after time, after time. People ask ‘why is there suffering in the universe?’ Continue Reading

Posted On : 28th September 2020 Published By : Comicus Muo
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Happy Hedonism.

Like most young men, I used to like to go out and get drunk with friends after a hard week’s toil in my dead-end job. Drinking doesn’t suit me, it’s Continue Reading

Posted On : 9th August 2020 Published By : Comicus Muo
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The Chief Good

  Introduction In this article we will explore the epicurean notions of wellbeing my primary source is book one of Cicero’s De Finibus in which Lucius Torquatus delivers a broad Continue Reading

Posted On : 30th January 2019 Published By : Epicurus Of Albion
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On The Nature Of Things

    Introduction The star of this article is Lucretius, a Roman poet living within 1st BCE Republican Rome. What makes this poet extraordinary and quite unique is that he Continue Reading

Posted On : 18th February 2018 Published By : Epicurus Of Albion
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Pessimism of Birth by Lucretius

    A Human Baby’s like a sailor washed up on a beach    By the battering of the surf, naked, lacking the power of  speech, Possessing no mean of survival, Continue Reading

Posted On : 13th February 2018 Published By : Epicurus Of Albion
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Then I will be happy! Fame and being Insulted

    I wrote this article about three miscellaneous themes we encounter in life. Namely, goal directed behaviour (then I will be happy), fame and being at the receiving end Continue Reading

Posted On : 22nd January 2018 Published By : Epicurus Of Albion
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The Poem of Eternal Death by Lucretius

      Death has no loopholes. All of us must meet it in the end. We go through the same motions in the same old place. No measure Of Continue Reading

Posted On : 2nd January 2018 Published By : Epicurus Of Albion
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On Birth, Death, History and the Restoration to Non-Existence

 Just like fire we have our kindling and our extinguishing       If you’re looking for hard-hitting contemplations tugging on your sense of impending mortality then you’re in the Continue Reading

Posted On : 22nd November 2017 Published By : Epicurus Of Albion

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