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Wise Words by an Man who lived over 2300 years ago (i.imgur.com)

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[–]david12scht 2 points3 points ago

Repost, still brilliant though.

[–]wizzrobe30 2 points3 points ago

Pretty much shatters the Christian God view as he cant' be omnibenevolent or can't be omnipotent. So God is a dead-beat dad, a weakling, or both.

[–]corpsen999 2 points3 points ago

Epicurus...EVEN THE NAME IS BADASS!

[–]SuddenAlsatian 0 points1 point ago

Although I can't remember the quote from the top of my head (it's quite a long discussion, actually), I found Augustine's strange, almost geometrical approach to answering this question in his Confessions really interesting. I highly recommend at least a quick perusal (you can skip his incessant whining).

[–]unprofessional1 0 points1 point ago

Not epicurus misquote from some internet user circa 2004. Also repost #124

[–]LucifersCounsel 0 points1 point ago

Not quite:

This argument was a type favoured by the ancient Greek skeptics, and may have been wrongly attributed to Epicurus by Lactantius, who, from his Christian perspective, regarded Epicurus as an atheist.[14] It has been suggested that it may actually be the work of an early skeptic writer, possibly Carneades.[15] According to Reinhold F. Glei, it is settled that the argument of theodicy is from an academic source which is not only not epicurean, but even anti-epicurean.[16] The earliest extant version of this trilemma appears in the writings of the skeptic Sextus Empiricus.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epicurus#Pleasure_as_absence_of_suffering

[–]iamnotdoctorwho 0 points1 point ago

This quote is David Hume is paraphrasing Epicurus. Neither men were atheists, btw.

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[–]LucifersCounsel 0 points1 point ago

Epicurus did not really comment on God since he died before the concept of God (at least in the Judeo or Christian view).

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Epicurus (Greek: Ἐπίκουρος, Epikouros, "ally, comrade"; 341 BCE – 270 BCE)

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Epicurus' technically hedonistic views and philosophical teachings, though opposed to the Hedonists of his time, countered Jewish scripture, the strictly monotheistic conception of God in Judaism and the Jewish belief in the afterlife and the world to come.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epicurus

The Second Temple was an important Jewish shrine which stood on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem between 516 BCE and 70 CE.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Temple

[–]tonybobbins 0 points1 point ago

he cured, epically.

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