I am scheduled for a one hour discussion at the FGC Gathering

on Quaker terms and practices  that are suited, or could be suited, to both

theists and non-theists.   As I am not familiar with the word

"tenderizing"  which, as Scott says, is "on both sides of

theism/nontheism understandings", I thought I better ask

what other words would readers of this listserv think would

fit the description?  I have thought of "centering,""proceed

as way opens,"  "testing the depth of the waters"  (which I

think is Biblical),  and, yes, "holding in the light," and

"walking in the light."

          Margaret Conrow

:) Yes, and polysemy makes translation into a NtF lexicon even more interesting. 

My Apple dictionary suggests that "delicate" is an etymological root of "tender" -

Looks like Woolman uses the word "tender" this way - http://www.quakercenter.org/quaker-quote-archive/

And that Penington uses the word "tender" this way - https://arewefriends.wordpress.com/2014/04/21/my-favorite-quaker-quotes/

Claire, I like the Friendly phrases you wrote about which you may lead a workshop on at FGC, and here, Claire, Tim, and NtFs, are some further Friendly language, including "to be made tender" and "to become tender-hearted" - http://www.quakerjane.com/spirit.friends/spirituality-glossary.html - with much worth parsing here, as I see it, re a Friendly theistic-non theistic understandings. 

{For me, becoming tender relates to a kind of meditative "relaxation response" easing ... and is facilitated further by the Harbin Hot Springs' warm pool in terms of a further kind of connectedness/biological oneness ...  with parallels with sitting in Quaker Meeting - and a little bit different from becoming "tenderized" :) ... see my blog - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com - for "Nontheist Friend,""relaxation response,""oneness,""connectedness,""Quakers" labels}.

Glad here to be exploring NtF language that's salutary.  

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One Quaker word on both sides of theism-nontheism understandings I enjoy is "tenderizing," which might emerge from the caring community of Friends' culture/Meetings ... and has to do with moving toward a neurophysiology of caring and love out of Quaker process, as I see and experience this. The ~350 year old culture of Friends has explored tenderizing - that is "becoming tender" - in various ways (perhaps in the legacy of Quaker journals for example - is this idea both in Fox and Woodman's writings?), I think, and context is important here. 

I was trying to find in my blog some emails I shared on this list about Quaker terminology that could be understood as already "out of the box" non-theistic thanks to Quaker history. While I haven't found the particular blog entry (or two) I have in mind for this yet, here are two very related blog entries "[NTF-talk] Translating Theist Words" and particularly re "Translating Quaker Theist Words" where this context would be important.  

"Bar-tailed Godwit: Nontheist Friends, Evolutionary biology, Culture, Loving bliss, Problems of religious words for non theists" - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2011/04/bar-tailed-godwit-nontheist-friends.html

While a translation approach is interesting, World University and School seeks to create an actual Universal Translator (think of a kind of Wikipedia-ized Google Translate in 10 or 20 years with A.I., machine learning and machine translation), and context is a significant interesting challenge here as are images.  

But I'd like to find inspiring NtF correlates of the following words in a Quaker context:

God

worship

religion

spirituality 

soul

(and re http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2011/04/glaucothoe-gulf-between-evolutionary.html)

as well as re the word 

love

Here again is my Dalton letter in this blog entry (which I've shared before with NtFs) with its exploration of many words for the word love: 

And what about ...

valley of love and delight? ... 

How would NtFriends translate the above words? 

Friendly cheers, 

Scott

"Margaret Fell writes that the first 20 years of her marriage was spent seeking of the best ways to serve God which included having traveling ministers stay at Swarthmoor"

Here too is a Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy on Margaret Fell and referring first to her 1666 pamphlet "Womens Speaking Justified" http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/margaret-fell/

Here are further resources about the early Quakers' Fells ... and NtF "word" translation possibilities ... 

Margaret Fell entry in Wikipedia

Margaret, Anita, and other NtF translators, where shall we head with early Quaker pamphlets in terms of NtF lexicon translation?

(I think there's a possibility too to create further Friendly lawyers and judges - with or without gavels - and in many countries' main languages with the online law school at Friendly-Informed WUaS - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Law_School - for example).

Scott

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