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Out of context: Reply #2257
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- _niko2
"Non fui, fui, non sum, non curo"
-I was not; I was; I am not; I do not care
-Epicurus
- yup. i quote this often.renderedred
- I developed this philosophy throughout my life and just now found the Epicureans. A lot of what Sam Harris believes is based on their philosophy too._niko
- Humanists and Athiets in general can trace their beliefs back to this rationalist philosophy_niko
- Yupmonospaced
- I have not thunk, therefor I cannot amGnash
- @_niko Sam Harris is accidentally right on occasion, but isn't this an obvious point to begin with?garbage
- rumors are that the translation of non curo into I do not care is not accurateuan
- garbage i don't think it is obvious to a large portion of the world's population. The portion that believes in an afterlife and a divine and cruel creator._niko
- His point, 2500 years ago is that a big source of our unhappiness is the fear of death and the fear of punishment from god. His point is that it's all bullshit._niko
- A stopped clock is right twice a day. Sam Harris is a boring moron that is nowhere as smart as he thinks he is.garbage
- He makes atheists look like douchebags, but that's emblematic of almost everyone that identifies with the IDW.garbage
- could be, comes of as pompous for sure, and probably borrowed most of his ideas elsewhere like Epicurus' Trillema which he frequently talks about_niko
- this wasn't something Epicurus said, it was the epitaph that his followers has on their grave stones. They don't care because they are now dead.sarahfailin