Mountain hare: "[NTF-talk] University of Miami Establishes Chair for Study of Atheism," A, besides your helpful response to the historical-translational NtF approach I posed in the previous email thread in conceiving of this potential endowed Nontheistic Quaker Professorship job description language, What 10 NtF books might such a Professor in a NtF/Quaker Professorship be lead to write in the course of their work in this endowed chair at online Friendly-informed WUaS might be another further related query, for example?, Haverford College Human Resources' page, I'd also like to encourage a cultivation of wiki editing in all 7,943 languages with highest quality, (Nt) Friendly-thinking contributions in addition to a focus on goodness ... in addition to care and non-harming (ahimsa) as an expression of the Quaker Peace Testimony ...

Hi A and Nontheist Friends,

Perhaps NtFs could think of this new thread re - http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/21/us/university-of-miami-establishes-chair-for-study-of-atheism.html and "[NTF-talk] University of Miami Establishes Chair for Study of Atheism" - as a RfC (Request for Comment, which process goes back at least through the 1970s when TCP/IP - internet protocols, the so-called back bone of the internet - was being written, with the intent to implement such a NtF job description by hiring someone, if this then seems to make sense.

The query I'm posing in a Friendly ways is ... "What is best NTFriendly job description language for an endowing online Professorship/Chair of Nontheistic Friendly/Quaker Studies at Friendly-informed World University and School?" Here's a recent and first job description at WUaS - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2016/05/leafy-seadragon-first-wuas-job.html - for the executive director of Italian World University and School (planned in Italian and CC MIT OpenCourseWare centric), which some heads of the Italian Cultural Center in SF and its affiliated Italian language school suggested I write because they had some possible candidates they wanted to send it to, of whom there weren't any after all, by way of comparison. While this would be an administrative position at Friendly-informed WUaS, the NtF professorship/chair would be a faculty position. Here's the Haverford College Human Resources' page - https://www.haverford.edu/human-resources - with just a few science faculty positions open presently, by further way of comparison. WUaS seeks to become the MIT/Stanford/Harvard of the Internet - and in the Quaker world too - offering free CC BS/BA, Ph.D., Law, M.D. and I.B. degrees - and no Quaker college offers Ph.D., Law, M.D. and I.B. degrees that I know of. And WUaS seeks to create online Universities in all countries' main languages, which would be relevant in this NtF Professorship position language conceiving. (CC Wikipedia is in ~358 languages and CC MIT OCW is in 7 languages and CC Yale OYC is in English).

A, besides your helpful response to the historical-translational NTF approach I posed in the previous email thread in conceiving of this potential job description language, what 10 NtF books might such a Professor in a NtF/Quaker Professorship be lead to write in the course of their work in this endowed chair at this online Friendly University (WUaS) might be another further related query, for example?

Thanks for asking.

Friendly regards,
Scott

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Scott:

I'm unclear as to what you are asking of us.  Perhaps you are just sharing your thoughts.

I don't think the professorship needs to be an either/or.  It could include historical and translating areas.  It might also include the effects and/or implications of the presence of nontheists in the SOFs.

Anita 

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Hi Anita, Bill, Os, James, David Boulton and NtFs, 

Starting a new thread here ...

In thinking through how to conceive of a possible job description for an endowing online Professorship/Chair of Nontheistic Friendly/Quaker Studies at Friendly-informed World University and School, your email, Anita, made me wonder about exploring conceptually a kind of historical approach, where NTFs emerge out of the Religious Society of Friends (most recently since the 1970s) vs a translating approach, where NtFs re-connote Quakerly and other related religious traditions' key beliefs / concepts in terms especially relating to non theism / theistic schools. The value of such an approach may only be in informing a conversation that would like to a clear NtF job description at WUaS. How would NtFs think we could best develop such a job description? (I'll probably start a new thread for this as well). Thank you.

NtFriendly regards, 

Scott

From the NTF email thread - 

[NTF-talk] University of Miami Establishes Chair for Study of Atheism

Hi Bill, Anita and NtFs,

Great. While endowing a chair at Stanford or MIT could cost even more than a million dollars, for example, it might be great to start gradually and by developing an annual salary for such an online Professorship of Nontheistic Friendly Studies at Friendly-informed World University and School. World University seeks to matriculate its first undergraduate class in English in 2017 in English with 2000? students potentially from all ~204 countries in the world (accrediting on CC MIT OCW - http://ocw.mit.edu/ - and CC Yale OYC - http://oyc.yale.edu). Shall we explore forming a NtF endowment committee for this? 

Friendly regards, 

Scott

Hi, NtFs,

Thanks for sharing this, Anita!

NtFs, let's explore with time creating a Nontheist Friends' endowed chair for the study of Nontheistic Quakerism re, for example - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Nontheist_Friends_(atheist_Quakers%3F) - i.e. an online Professorship of Nontheistic Friendly Studies at Friendly-informed World University and School, as WUaS accredits further to offer online free Creative Commons' licensed best STEM (CC) OpenCourseWare university degrees (accrediting on CC MIT OCW in 7 languages and CC Yale OYC), with high schools and high school students applying this autumn - http://worlduniversityandschool.org.

Friendly regards, Scott

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch

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As such a scholar begins to study our NTF Google Group archives over 10-15 years now, as part of this new career position, I want to make a plug for a big focus on NtF loving bliss neurophysiology eliciting in such a way that in her/his writings she helps people facilitate this experientially ... George Fox's "This I know experimentally" (which meant experientially in 1656 - http://laquaker.blogspot.com/2012/01/this-i-knew-experimentally-friends-and.html; see too https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Fox) ...

I'd also like to encourage a cultivation of wiki editing in all 7,943 languages with highest quality, (Nt) Friendly-thinking contributions in addition to a focus on goodness ... in addition to care and non-harming (ahimsa - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Ahimsa_-_Nonviolence_-_Pacifism_-_To_avoid_harming - think India too) as an expression of the Quaker Peace Testimony ... 

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Drawing on my Reed College religion major, with its 4 part focus - social science, philosophy, theology and history - in the early 1980s, I wonder about exploring in this job description focusing on these for possible books, in addition to an evolutionary biological/naturalism focus (which Os Cresson has already written one NtF book about) ...

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