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Ideas
"Like traditional Friends, nontheist Friends are actively interested in realizing centered peace, simplicity, integrity, community, equality, love, joy, and social justice in the Society of Friends and beyond" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nontheist_Friend), particularly love and happiness.

Publish my article in a WUaS academic journal in this subject
Open Journal Systems. 2012. Open Journal Systems. Public Knowledge Project.

Subject-related wiki, blog, etc.

Select Blogs
MacLeod, Scott. 2010. Nontheist Friend Blog Entries - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/nontheist%20Friend +.

Select Book Groups, Study Groups, Musical Groups, etc.
Begin a Google + Hangout: https://plus.google.com/u/0/108179352492243955816/posts

Calendar: https://www.google.com/calendar/

Select Book Reviews
Fager, Chuck. 2010. Quaker Theology #13 Winter 2007 - Godless For God’s Sake: Nontheism In Contemporary Quakerism ... Reviewed by Chuck Fager. quest.quaker.org/Issue13

Select Books
Atran, Scott. 2004. In Gods We Trust: The Evolutionary Landscape of Religion (Evolution and Cognition Series). Oxford. ISBN 0195178033

Boulton, David (ed.). 2006. Godless for God's Sake: Nontheism in Contemporary Quakerism. Dent, UK: Dales Historical Monographs. ISBN 0951157868.

Select Communities, Email lists, etc.
(See also editable World University and School's 'You at World University' page: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/You_at_World_University).

Select Libraries, Archives, Collections, etc.
(See also editable World University and School's Library Resources' page: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Library_Resources).

Select Museums
(See also editable World University and School's Museums' page: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Museums).

Select Programs, Applications, Software
Attend unprogrammed Quaker Meeting here on Sea Turtle Island in Second Life: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Sea%20Turtle%20Island/197/17/27

Select References
AFSC Board of Directors. 1994. AFSC Mission Statement. June 19. (afsc.org/mission-and-values). Philadelphia, PA: American Friends' Service Committee.

Allott, Stephen. 1989. Quaker Agnosticism. The Friends Quarterly, 25(6): 252-258

Allott, Stephen. 1994. Is God Objective Fact? The Friends Quarterly, 28(4): 158-166

Alpern, Robin. 1997. Why Not Join the Unitarians? Universalist Friends, (28): 23-28. Also at http://www.universalistfriends.org/alpern.html

Amoss, Jr., George. 1999. The Making of a Quaker Atheist. Quaker Theology 1: 55-62. Online at http://www.quaker.org/ quest/issue1-4.html Also see James and Amoss (2000), below.

Antony, Louise M. 2011. Good Minus God. December 18. New York, NY: opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com.

Boulton, David. 1996. A Reasonable Faith: Introducing the Sea of Faith Newtwork. Loughborough, England: Sea of Faith Network. Also at http://www.sofn.org.uk/sof/reasonable_faith.html

Boulton, David. 1997. The Faith of a Quaker Humanist (Pamphlet #26). London: Quaker Universalist Group

Boulton, David. 1999. Gerard Winstanley and the Republic of Heaven. Dent UK: Dales Historical Monographs

Boulton, David. 2002. Real Like the Daisies or Real Like I Love You?: Essays in radical Quakerism. Torquay, Devon, England: Quaker Universalist Group with Dales Historical Monographs

Boulton, David. 2002. Facing Up To Diversity. The Friend, 2002

Boulton, David. 2005. The Trouble with God: Building the Republic of Heaven. Ropley, Hampshire, England: John Hunt Publishing

Britton, David. 2010. Knowing Experimentally. Friends Journal, October, 56(10), 5

Cadbury, Henry J. 1936/2000. My Personal Religion. Universalist Friends, (35) Fall-Winter: 22-31, with corrections in (36): 18 Online at www.universalistfriends.org/UF035.html

Cadbury, Henry J. 1966. Quakerism and/or Christianity. Friends Bulletin, 35(4), 1-10

Cresson, Osborn. 2003. Quaker in a Material World. Quaker Theology 5(1), Spring-Summer, 23-54. Also at http://quest.quaker.org/issue-8-cresson-01.htm, or www.nontheistfriends.org

Cresson, Osborn. 2006. Quakers from the Viewpoint of a Naturalist. Friends Journal, 52(3) March, 18-20

Cresson, Osborn. 2009. On Quaker Unity. Friends Journal, July, 55(7): 5; also in “Notes on Quaker Unity,” expanded version online at www.nontheistfriends.org

Cresson, Os. 2007. Roots and Flowers of Quaker Nontheism. NontheistFriends.org. Jan 23. Accessed online: Dec 30, 2008. http://nontheistfriends.org.

Cresson, Osborn. 2010. Roots and Flowers of Quaker Nontheism. Unpublished manuscript, online at www.nontheistfriends.org Drake, David E. (2003). Confessions of a Nontheistic Friend, Friends Journal, 49(6): 18-20

Crom, Scott. 1972. "The Trusting Agnostic." Quaker Religious Thought. Vol. 14(2): 1–39. Includes two carefully thought out replies and Crom's response.

Durham, Geoffrey. (ed.). 2010. The Spirit of the Quakers. (http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=9780300167368). (Contains a nontheistic Friends' perspective by Robin Alpern). New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

Fager, Chuck (2007). Review of Godless for God’s Sake: Nontheism in Contemporary Quakerism. Quaker Theology, vol. 13, online at http://www.quaker.org/quest/Issue13-7.htm

Foucault, Michel. 2002. "Course Summary" in 'The Care of the Self.' The Hermeneutics of the Subject: Lectures at the College de France 1981—1982. Picador.

Earp, Charley, 2011. Dialogue Across the Divides: A Report from the Quaker Theological Discussion Group 2011 Annual Meeting. November 25. Chicago, IL: leftistquaker.wordpress.com.

Holmes, Jesse (1928/1992). To the Scientifically-Minded. Friends Intelligencer, 85(6): 103-104; reprinted in Friends Journal, (1992) 38(6): 22-23. Short version online at http://media.swarthmore.edu/bulletin/wp-content/archived_issues_pdf/Bulletin_2000_03.pdf

Holmes, Jesse (2003). ‘Our Christianity’? Universalist Friends, 39 (Fall & Winter, 2003): 15-22

Jackson, Kenneth T. 2007. A Colony with a Conscience: This republic owes its enduring strength to a fragile, scorched and little-known document known as the Flushing Remonstrance. Dec. 27, 2007. Accessed online: December 27, 2007. New York: New York Times online.

James, Edward and George Amoss Jr. (2000). An Exchange: Quaker Theology Without God? Quaker Theology, Issue #2, 2 (1), spring 2000. Also at http://www.quaker.org/ quest/issue2-6.html

Johnson, Eric (1991a). Why I Am an Atheist. Friends Journal, 37(1): 17; also in Quaker Universalist Fellowship (1991), Variations on the Quaker Message (Pamphlet #201). Landenberg, Pennsylvania: (author)

Johnson, Eric (1991b). Atheism and Friends (letter to the editor). Friends Journal 37(5): 6

Linton, John (1979/1986). Quakerism as Forerunner. Friends Journal, 25(17): 4-9; reprinted as Quakerism as Forerunner (Pamphlet #1) (1979). London: Quaker Universalist Group; also reprinted in Quaker

Loukes, Harold & H. J. Blackham (1969). Humanists and Quakers: An Exchange of Letters. London: Friends Home Service Committee.

Manoussos, Anthony. (2008). Is It Time to Lay Down God? (editorial and replies). Western Friend.

Miles, Thomas R. (1998). Speaking of God: Theism, Atheism and the Magnus Image. York, England: William Sessions Ltd.

Morgan, Arthur (1954/1998). Should Quakers Receive the Good Samaritan Into Their Membership? (QUF Pamphlet). Landenberg, Penna.: Quaker Universalist Fellowship

A nontheist Friends' email list correspondence exists from at least 2006. Please join the NTF Google Group by subcribing at this address - nontheist-friends@googlegroups.com - to access it.

Peters, Matt and respondents. 2010. Non-theist Quakers?. December 8. Annapolis, MD: Think Atheist.

Regan, Tim. 2011. Report from “What Next for Quaker Nontheism”, a workshop organised by Miriam Yagud and David Boulton at Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre from 18-20/2/11. February 28. Cambridge, UK: Tim's Zen Blog of Spareness.

Riemermann, James. 2006. What is a Nontheist? Sep 20. Accessed online: July 17, 2007. http://nontheistfriends.org.

Russell, Bertrand (E. Haldeman-Julius, ed.). 1927. On Why I Am Not a Christian: An Examination of the God-Idea and Christianity. Accessed online: July 17, 2007. Little Blue Book No. 1372.

Williams, Jonathan. 1975. My Quaker-atheist friend (who has come to this meeting-house since 1913) smokes & looks out over the Rawthey to Holme Fell. Larry and Ruby Wallrich Publishing. ASIN: B0007AHBQO

Rush, David (2002). They Too Are Quakers: A Survey of 199 Nontheist Friends. The Woodbrooke Journal, 11, Winter 2002. Also at http://www.universalistfriends.org

Seeger, Daniel A. (2010). Why Do the Unbelievers Rage? The New Atheists and the Universality of the Light, Friends Journal, (56) January: 6-11

Swayne, Kingdon. 1980. Confession of a Post-Christian Agnostic. Friends Journal, 26(3): 6-9. Also in Quaker Universalist Fellowship (1990), Variations on the Quaker Message. Landenberg, PA:

Workshop for Non-Theistic Friends. 1976. Report From The Workshop for Non-Theistic Friends. Unpublished report, Friends General Conference Gathering at Ithaca NY, June 26-July 3, 1976

Universalist Fellowship (1991), The Quaker Universalist Reader Number 1: A Collection of Essays, Addresses and Lectures. Landenberg, Pennsylvania: (author)

Nontheistic Friendly delight, bliss, loving bliss

MacLeod, Scott. 2008. Loving bliss and practices to elicit this. Canyon, CA: scottmacleod.com/LovingBlissPractices.htm

MacLeod, Scott. 2008. Loving bliss as friends. Canyon, CA: scottmacleod.com/LovingBlissFriends.htm

See Scott MacLeod's blog - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/loving%20bliss - and also click on 'nontheist friend,' 'Nontheist Friend,' 'Quaker,' & 'Quakers labels.

Select Video and Audio
Boulton, David and Chuck Fager. 2010. The Theist-Nontheist Conversational Smackdown of 2008. (Posted by Zach Alexander on Jul 17 2008). nontheistfriends.org/page/2/

Dawkins, Richard. 2002. An Atheist's Call to Arms. Monterey, CA: Ted Talks.

Dennett, Daniel. 2006. A Secular, Scientific Rebuttal to Pastor Rick Warren. Monterey, CA: Ted Talks.

Select Websites
Nontheist Friends' Web Site. 2010. http://www.nontheistfriends.org Nontheistfriends.org.

Hughes, Ian. 2011. Evolution and Faith. October 16. Australia: mag.yerin.info/?p=54

Select Wikis
Nontheist Friend. 2010. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nontheist_Friend. Wikipedia.

World University and School Links
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Religious Studies: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Religious_Studies

Academic Press at World University and School
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Access to Live, or Email, University Technical Expertise
Ask a question in a specific discipline, or find, for example, a Robotics' or Computer programmer, or Translator, easily and freely.

Admissions at World University and School
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Flyer seeking degree-oriented, WUaS students: 'Quaker-informed World University & School seeks friendly, undergraduate students for free, online, MIT OCW-centric, bachelor’s degrees to apply in the autumn of 2013, for matriculation in autumn 2014' - http://scottmacleod.com/WUaSFriendsFlyerforProspectiveStudentApplicants.pdf - and accessible here, also - http://scottmacleod.com/WUaSNoticeArchive.html. WUaS holds open, electronically-mediated, hour-long, monthly business meeting on the second Saturdays at 9 am Pacific Time, in the manner of Quakers - email worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com if you'd like to participate.

Blog at World University and School
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Bookstore / Computer Store (New & Used) at World University and School
Bookstore / Computer Store (New & Used) at WUaS: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Bookstore_/_Computer_Store_%28New_%26_Used%29_at_WUaS

with educational electronics, as well; with musical instruments; value pricing ... 2% below market, consistently; available via mail and electronically;

Calendar (Schedule what you'd like to teach)
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Careers
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Counseling
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Coordinates
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Credits
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Digital To Do
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Brainwave device / Headset

Broadcast to radio frequency

Broadcast to TV

Create EMail group for page

Digital Text to Audio file format (Browse Aloud / Read Aloud?)

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Print

Publish to DVD

Recommend

Send to phone

Tablets

Translate

Videophone

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In Google Earth
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In Virtual World
Active Worlds Educational Universe (AWEDU). 2012. http://www.activeworlds.com/edu/

Alice. 2012. http://www.alice.org/index.php?page=what_is_alice/what_is_alice Minecraft. 2012. www.minecraft.net

OpenSim. 2012. http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Main_Page (http://www.scribd.com/doc/57959626/OpenSimulator-School-Quick-Start-Guide)

Open Croquet. 2012. http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?OpenCroquet

Open Wonderland. 2012. http://openwonderland.org/

Quest Atlantis. 2012. http://crlt.indiana.edu/research/qa.html (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZoT3pilNPI).

ScienceSim. 2012. http://www.sciencesim.com/wiki/doku.php. Research, teach, learn and share ideas - in voice or in type chat.

Second Life - Harvard's virtual island. 2012. http://slurl.com/secondlife/Berkman/115/53/25 - and teach, learn and share ideas - in group voice chat, or in group type chat, and via building.

Unity3D. 2012. unity3d.com/

Add a learning-oriented virtual world here:

Travel to this virtual island to learn building:

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Justin TV - http://www.justin.tv

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Video Communication
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Free video conferencing

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Skype - http://www.skype.com/

Free, group video conferencing

AnyMeeting - http://l.anymeeting.com/homepage/

Google + Hangout - https://tools.google.com/dlpage/hangoutplugin

Zoom.us - Cloud HD Video Meetings - http://zoom.us/

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PB Works - http://pbworks.com/

Wet Paint - http://wikisineducation.wetpaint.com/

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