Cosmos sulphureus: Poverty Action wiki subject for open teaching/learning with 7 best STEM CC4 OpenCourseWare courses at present; WUaS is seeking our 2nd online undergraduate class this fall, taking potentially edX courses from home & #UBIexperiments * Appreciating too AFSC Tweet * * * Cosmic Skeptic Atheist Alex, the non-theist Oxford theology graduate student: "DEBATE: Would God Allow Evil? @CosmicSkeptic vs @InspiringPhilosophy" * * * Black Books Matter! Black Lives Matter! - Am non-harming inclined however in a NtFriendly, atheist Quaker (ahimsa) sense * * * Friends' Dalton Letter * Haiku-ish poem from Friends' Dalton Letter in 2014* * CoronaVirus: From Richard Dawkins: "Here's Why It's Taking So Long to Develop a Vaccine For The New Coronavirus" * * "Infrastructure online to develop vaccine for #CoronaVirusCOVID19 @WorldUnivAndSch ? ... Friends' Dalton Letter itself - http://scottmacleod.com/daltonletter.htm - which explicitly touches on Nontheist Friends, but which letter is much about an envisioning of love and caring, and many other aspects of love, *Loving Bliss as Friends"

Our General Secretary
@joyce_afsc
 wrote in the
@PennCapitalStar
 about why
@afsc_org
 is mobilizing our community and resources to amplify the message for moral revival and economic equality being put forward by
@UniteThePoor
. #PoorPeoplesCampaign

Our General Secretary @joyce_afsc wrote in the @PennCapitalStar about why @afsc_org is mobilizing our community and resources to amplify the message for moral revival and economic equality being put forward by @UniteThePoor. #PoorPeoplesCampaign
https://t.co/RTdopzAyeK

— AFSC (@afsc_org) June 20, 2020

https://twitter.com/afsc_org/status/1274326192968130566?s=20

which former clerk of San Francisco Friends' Meeting, Chris Mohr (https://twitter.com/chrismsf - and now Director of Friends' Center in Philadelphia), just shared. Glad the media @PennCapitalStar is focusing on the so-called 'Holy Experiment' of Penns' Woods and its current legislative developments.

NtFriendly cheers, Scott

PS

2 related Tweets: 

Poverty Action wiki subject for open teaching/learning https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Poverty_Action with 7 best STEM CC4 OpenCourseWare courses at present. WUaS is seeking our 2nd online undergraduate class this fall, taking potentially edX courses from home & #UBIexperiments https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/lotus-corniculatus-agenda-news-for.html ~

Poverty Action wiki subject for open teaching/learning https://t.co/Z3CjPBv3iK with 7 best STEM CC4 OpenCourseWare courses at present. WUaS is seeking our 2nd online undergraduate class this fall, taking potentially edX courses from home & #UBIexperimentshttps://t.co/bbGgoMBh7k~

— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) June 21, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1274783550668038144?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1274784907865100288?s=20


Appreciating too AFSC Tweet which former clerk of SFFM, @chrismsf now Director of Friends' Center in Phil) shared. Glad the @PennCapitalStar is focusing on the so-called 'Holy Experiment' of Penns' Woods & its current legislative developments. #NontheistFriends #AtheistQuakers ~

Appreciating too AFSC Tweet which former clerk of SFFM, @chrismsf now Director of Friends' Center in Phil) shared. Glad the @PennCapitalStar is focusing on the so-called 'Holy Experiment' of Penns' Woods & its current legislative developments. #NontheistFriends#AtheistQuakers ~ https://t.co/jxjOq2KjhQ

— Languages-World Univ (@sgkmacleod) June 21, 2020

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1274784528985239552?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1274785252775473159?s=20

Hi Nontheist Friends: 

Cosmic Skeptic Atheist Alex, the non-theist Oxford theology graduate student: 

Going live: https://t.co/2YKqbLW7Sa

— Alex J. O'Connor (@CosmicSkeptic) June 13, 2020

> https://twitter.com/CosmicSkeptic/status/1271850270205587459?s=20

I wrote one of my Reed College qualifying exams in Religion (with both social science focus, as well as feminist theology focus) on the so-called 'problem of evil' (an old debate from Augustine, Aquinas and more recently John Hicks' ) ... but not from an atheist or non-theist (let alone NtF Friendly/Quaker) perspective. 

Quakers have addressed the so-called 'problem of evil' eg https://jollyquaker.com/2017/05/26/finding-a-good-way-to-talk-about-evil/ and https://books.google.com/books?id=v20GDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA4&lpg=PA4&dq=theodicy+quaker&source=bl&ots=wrKIOsfm7P&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwizruCrvITqAhUVJDQIHdmwC90Q6AEwCXoECAsQAQ#v=onepage&q=theodicy%20quaker&f=false ; NtF's not yet.

But Cosmic Skeptic Atheist Alex offers new ways (for me) for addressing such questions, and potentially in a non-theistically Friendly way ... Alex's opening begins at 22 minutes. 

I find that my more current research interests focus on the ethnography of actual-virtual Harbin Hot Springs, where Harbin is also 2 churches (HCC, and NACOB) interestingly (but where actual Harbin is now closed due to the coronavirus pandemic, and before closed due to the Valley Fire of September 2015 in Lake county CA). My research focuses partly on the ethnography of meditation in warm pools - with parallels to sitting in Quaker Silent Meeting - and even with developing brain research (where philosophical theodicy questions for me are something of the past (1983)). 

Appreciating this Oxford debate philosophical thinking and structure too, (where Quakers have only engaged modestly in debates eg https://www.jstor.org/stable/2710672?seq=1 and https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/07/debate-on-god-language-doesnt-mean-all-quakers-are-losing-faith ) ... and NtFs haven't yet engaged in questions of debate that I know of (and anthropology / ethnography is a very different form of inquiry, than this kind of philosophy :).

Appreciating, too, the freedom in non-theistically Friendliness! :)

NtF cheers, 

Scott

- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/virtual%20Harbin

- https://www.amazon.com/author/scottmacleodworlduniversity

Here are some beginnings of where my further virtual Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic research may head: 

Friends' Dalton Letter

Haiku-ish poem from Friends' Dalton Letter in 2014

CoronaVirus: From Richard Dawkins: "Here's Why It's Taking So Long to Develop a Vaccine For The New Coronavirus" * * "Infrastructure online to develop vaccine for #CoronaVirusCOVID19 @WorldUnivAndSch ? in 1 #RealisticVirtualEarthForCRISPR #RealisticVirtualEarthForGenetics begin with simulation - in GooglePoly ? * * * Many thanks for sharing this Nontheist Friends' Network (in Britain) annual conference information at Friends’ House, Euston, London * * In a non-theistic yet quite friendly-vein (Friendly/Quaker as well), am exploring some of the recent developments concerning CoronaVirusCOVID19 * * Non-theist Friends Network A 2020 NFN Conference Bibliography * Thanks, Trevor, Tim Regan, and Nontheist Friends' Networks, for this conference bibliography - https://nontheist-quakers.org.uk/2020/03/01/a-2020-nfn-conference-bibliography/. 

You reminded me of my Friends' Dalton Letter's bibliography - http://scottmacleod.com/daltonbiblio.htm - and - 

Friends' Dalton Letter itself - http://scottmacleod.com/daltonletter.htm - which explicitly touches on Nontheist Friends, but which letter is much about an envisioning of love and caring, and many other aspects of love.

Loving Bliss as Friends

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