What's Wrong With Microphysicalism? (International Library of Philosophy)

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Microphysicalism, the view that whole objects behave the way they do in virtue of the behavior of their constituent parts, is an influential contemporary view with a long philosophical and scientific heritage. In What's Wrong With Microphysicalism? Andreas Huttemann offers a fresh challenge to this view.

Huttemann agrees with the microphysicalists that we can explain compound systems by explaining their parts, but claims that this does not entail that the parts determine the whole. At most, it shows that there is a relationship of determination within parts and wholes, but there is no justification for taking this relationship to be asymmetrical rather than one of mutual dependence. Huttemann argues that if this is the case, then microphysicalists have no right to claim that the micro-level is the ultimate agent: neither the parts nor the whole have "ontological priority." Huttemann advocates a pragmatic pluralism, allowing for different ways to describe nature.

In the course of his argument, Huttemann examines three compound theses of micro-physicalism: micro-determination (or "supervenience"), micro-government, and micro-causation. He uses examples from classical and quantum physics to illustrate various senses of micro-explanation, and discusses the likelihood of emergent phenomena or properties. He distinguishes between microphysicalism and other forms of physicalism, such as identity-physicalism, and argues that we can buy into the latter while rejecting microphysicalism.

What's Wrong With Microphysicalism? is a convincing and original contribution to central issues in contemporary philosophy of mind, philosophy of science and metaphysics.

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Recognizing "a playful spirit" as part of our human makeup, Conrad Hyers shows how laughter and humor are integral to our serious study of the Bible. He opens the joy of understanding the Bible in its fullness.

With the darker realities of the Bible -- sin, suffering, and death -- there coexists a lighter side -- laughter, humor, and playfulness. Competent biblical study requires both perspectives.

This highly readable, preachable, and teachable work gives ministers, students, lay readers a valuable tool for recovering the spirit and offers a chance to share in the celebration of life and the divine comedy of faith, hope, and love.

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A little bit dated, but a fun book to read on a rainy day.......2000-08-16

Ok I believe laughter is the best medicine, and seriously I have always seen the Bible to have intensely funny moments. This book displays the humor and the comedy in the bible in a lovely way. SO many people say 'the bible is SO boring, but this book allows you to see the fun stories, the laughter, they humor and then take that and add it to the original verses. Result: You will get more people interested in hearing about all the bible characters and stories. Definately a good book.

Wisdom of Our Fathers: Timeless Life Lessons on Health, Wealth, God, Golf, Fear, Fishing, Sex, Serenity, Laughter, and Hope

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Awesome
I never thought to ask
Fine, fine job
Inspiring book for men of all ages -- fathers or sons

Wisdom of Our Fathers: Timeless Life Lessons on Health, Wealth, God, Golf, Fear, Fishing, Sex, Serenity, Laughter, and Hope

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ASIN: 1579540414

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Have you ever looked back on an experience and thought, had I only known, it would all have turned out differently? In this inspiring book of life lessons, journalist Joe Kita asked men in their autumn years what they wish they had known 30 years ago. In the process, he gained a harvest of wisdom from the older generation, including their insights on war and peace, marriage and family, working and playing, setbacks and triumphs, and insights shared by such men as a world-class doctor, a record-holding sprinter, and even a man who traveled to the South Pole with Admiral Byrd. The result of these conversations is this thoughtful compendium of interviews and quotes on everything from courage to sex to fame.

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Delivering Promise.......2005-06-11

Joe Kita's book is an oyster overflowing with pearls. I harvested this one slowly, because it is clear how precious each one of them is. Wisdom of Our Father's does what other books try to do: it delivers on the promise of its title. Kita's essays about heroic men, deeply personal insights about his own father, and his courageous claims about what he knows team up with beautifully edited and organized information from fathers of all walks of life. And the true beauty of it is that the messages are universal. If you don't get this for your own dad for Father's Day, get it for yourself. Or your mom, wife, friends... Wisdom of our Fathers succeeds. It is a pleasure to read from endpaper to endpaper.

~~ Mark Clement, Author of The Carpenter's Notebook

Awesome.......2003-06-06

All around great book. I highly recommed it. I lost my first copy and had to buy another. This and Jimmy the bartenders book and a great combination.

I never thought to ask.......2001-04-19

Every once in a while you read something that has a profound inpact on your life's perspective. This has got to be one of those reads. The questions here are those that you never ask but wished you had. I bought this for my father and many other men in my life, because after I read this I realized that, These are the questions that you should ask but few ever do. It's well worth the price.

Fine, fine job.......2000-05-14

Lots of little, digestible bits that you'll wish you could remember. I'd love to give the book to a friend, but then I wouldn't have it as a reference. Mr. Kita's description of a bike-riding trip he and his father went on is a great two-page essay. It's May 2000 and I'm surprised I hadn't heard of the book until now (maybe that's more me than the book). I'm thinking I'll be photocopying bits and pieces of this book for years and passing them on to friends as their various crises hit. A very, very good father's day gift.

Inspiring book for men of all ages -- fathers or sons.......1999-06-16

There's a scene in the movie City Slickers where Jack Palance tells Billy Crystal that the secret to life is just "one thing." I feel like this book is a list of hundreds of that "one thing" you wished you had learned from your father or things that you should teach your sons.

You feel like you're in the garage, or on the ball field, or at the dining room table having a one-on-one conversation with a bunch of great fathers. The great thing is that it's not celebrity wisdom -- but advice from everyday fathers you probably have never heard of. It's almost like you're talking to the man down the street who always seemed to know everything, or the grandfather you never knew.

I also like that the book moves very quickly. You get one piece of advice, then move to the next one. (Which makes it ideal for bathroom reading.) Even if you don't agree with something, chances are that every one or two entries, you'll find something that inspires you, teaches you, or reinforces something you've always believed. What's best, though, is that you'll probably find one piece of advice or one quote that changes the way you talk to your fathers or sons, or even changes the way you live.

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Little new here

Dont take yourself so seriously.

Funny and touching

God Grant Me The Laughter: A Treasury Of Twelve Step Humor
Ed F.
Manufacturer: Hazelden
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ASIN: 1568380380

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The strength of our recovery is in direct proportion to our ability to laugh at ourselves. Laughter heals, particularly the laughter that comes when we understand the lifesaving difference between "how it was" before recovery and "how it is" living in sobriety. These hearty cartoons and humorous anecdotes reflect with powerful clarity how our drinking or drug-using days contrast with our lives today. Laughter helps us celebrate our recovery and it reminds us how grateful we are for sobriety and for the priceless camaraderie of people in Twelve Step programs.

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Little new here.......2001-12-23

Most likely anyone who's been around the rooms on a regular basis for more than a few months has heard most of what is in here...And that which they haven't heard is otherwise predictable. Unfortunately, most "recovery humor" is best suited to the feeble and middle brow humor of 60's and 70's Readers Digest, and this book is no exception. It's just plain corny and it's really not very funny. Addiction and recovery can be so dark and edgy; it would be nice to see some of that reflected in the literature and humor.

Dont take yourself so seriously........2001-11-04

A lot of funny items within the book.It is a really great way of carrying the AA message.

Funny and touching.......1998-05-05

I just read this book and find it not only funny but thought provoking. It made me think of some of the things that were going through my head early in my recovery. As a recovering addict/alcoholic I find it refreshing that someone besides myself can find humor in some of the past (and sometimes present) behaviors. I would highly recommend this book to other people in recovery.

God Was in the Laughter: The Autobiography of David Haxton Carswell Read

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God Was in the Laughter: The Autobiography of David Haxton Carswell Read
David Haxton Carswell Read
Manufacturer: MAPC
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000IS0JGY

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This book is a skillful weaving together of two of the Reverend David H. C. Read's most moving and sought after books, This Grace Given (1984) and Grace Thus Far (1986), both autobiographical in nature, and a moving reflection on death, on which Dr. Read was working when he died in 2001.

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Wonderful
A hilarious account of Sear's discovery of the Baha'i Faith
A boy, his grandfather, and a dream come true.
excelent book
A beautiful, moving, and witty book

God Loves Laughter
William Sears
Manufacturer: George Ronald, London
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Binding: Paperback

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Wonderful.......2005-02-26

I read this book as at about the age of 10. It is so wonderful, and i would definately recommend it!

A hilarious account of Sear's discovery of the Baha'i Faith.......2004-08-10

Born in Minnesota in 1911 of an Irish father, Sears made his father nervous from the time he spoke at six months. At 18 months he knew words that his father didn't know and had his first dream. By the time he was five he was making his father's life a misery with his inordinate interest in God so he was sent to Sunday school. "Let the boy worry Father Hogan for a while. I pay my pew-rent regularly and hardly ever use it. Let him earn the money." But this only opened up an abundance of new questions for Sears to ask his father. We follow Sears through his childhood with a laugh on every page. Much of the time he is bounced between mother, father, priest and grandfather as each give their interpretation of God, his dreams and his conviction that he would travel the world telling people about God. He started his writing career one summer before graduating from grade-school after reading a poem while having his hair cut. He sold his masterpiece for $7.50 and skyrocketed to fame.

After marrying and having two sons Sears entered a bleak period in his life when his wife died and his youngest child had to be placed in a sanatorium. He had been pushed further from his dream and more into a world that cared very little about the things of the spirit when he was offered the first of many jobs at a radio station. One day a vision of loveliness walked into studio A and five drooling men watched her through the big studio window during the interview. "It was the most wonderful lunch I ever ate. I have no recollection of the food, but her voice was Pablo Casal's cello." They went for a drive and Marguerite told him about Baha'u'llah, the founder of the Baha'i Faith. At this point the one subject Sears never cared to discuss was religion, having investigated every religion, sect, cult and belief he could find in East and West. For three years Sears had not mentioned his dream to anyone and he only told Marguerite because he wanted her to know all about him before asking her to marry him. She gave him a book - a record of the public talks given by `Abdu'l-Baha during his visit to America from the Holy Land before the First World War. Inside the fly-leaf there was a tribute to Baha'u'llah by Leo Tolstoy, who had written: "The whole world is seeking the solution to its problems. There is a prisoner in `Akka, Baha'u'llah, who has the key." "I began to read. It was about two o'clock when I found out why Marguerite had become so excited when I mentioned my boyhood dream. I felt a stab-like thrill myself as I turned one of the pages and saw the date: September 20, 1912. It was the very day and year of my first dream."

At their first Christmas, with sons now reunited, Marguerite read the words of Baha'u'llah about Christ to show that as a Baha'i she believed in Jesus: "When Christ came into the world, He shed the splendor of his glory upon all created things. Jesus it was who purified the World. Blessed is the man who, with a face beaming with light, hath turned towards Him." They stopped at Lookout Point above Salt Lake City. "A premonition of what I was about to see began to grow on me. I stepped to the ledge, and there lying below me was the magic city I had seen so clearly in my dream." When they got home, Marguerite showed him a photograph. "I looked into those same haunting, tender eyes. I saw the white beard, soft as silk, the flowing white robes, the smile of eternal kindness. I was deeply moved. This is the man." She said, "That is Abdu'l-Baha."

Sears could no longer ignore what was happening to him; he read extensively and traveled widely to discover the truth for himself. He has written the detailed story of his discoveries and the steps that led up to it in `Thief in the Night.' The title is taken from Christ's quotation about the hour of His return when, "Catching mankind unprepared and uninterested, `He shall come like a thief in the night.'" Originally he called the book `The Case of the Missing Millenium' for it turned out to be one of the most absorbing and exciting mysteries imaginable. No one had been able to solve the mystery for over a hundred years, when suddenly the answer fell into his lap. Professor Edward Granville Browne of Pembroke College, Cambridge University had written about the rise of the Bahai Faith: "I feel it is my duty, as well as pleasure, to bring the matter to the notice of my countrymen. In my eyes, the whole story seems one of the most interesting and important events that have occurred since the rise of Christianity." Professor Benjamin Jowett of Balliol College, Oxford, wrote in similar vein: "It is the greatest thing to come to the earth since the days of Jesus, the Christ. It is too great for the present to understand it, but the future will understand it." Sears had found the meaning of his dream at last and declared himself a Baha'i. He put aside a well paid television job and fulfilled his promise that "if ever I found out the truth about my dream I'd go all over the world and share the news of my discovery." But that is the story in another book "Black Sunlight."

A boy, his grandfather, and a dream come true........2003-03-16

This is a fun book, easy to read and very amusing. It is the story of William Sears, at one time a presenter of American TV sports and children's programs. His story is full of humour as the title of the book suggests. First published in 1960 it is as popular today as it was then, having been reprinted many times.

Bill Sears was an inquisitive child, growing up in a time when adults did not like to be questioned about most subjects, especially the existence (or not) of God! He sought out his grandfather and much of this book is about the special relationship and love he shared with him. He could and did talk with his grandfather about everything and was able to ask questions and receive answers which stimulated and encouraged him to pursue a boyhood dream.

Grandfather had a farm and a horse and buggy and young Bill Sears delighted in these surroundings and in his grandfather's company. Sears recounts how as a mischievous child he frequently got on the wrong side of his father! His curiosity about the Bible and his desire to read it by torchlight under the bed covers cannot but make you laugh! Grandfather was a rebel. He had time for God but not the churches. Sears grew up in the Depression in Milwaukee and struggled to make a living. He became a successful writer eventually but, as he says, he became like everyone else: get up, go to work, go to bed, die!

He felt there had to be something more to life. He had married and had two sons but his first wife died. Then he met and married Marguerite who helped him in his search for the meaning of life and the meaning of a boyhood dream in which he saw a man, bathed in light, who beckoned him to follow him. Weird or what?!

He read about the Baha'i faith and was convinced that he wanted to be part of it with his family. He had become very successful and earned a lot of money in America but life was a rush and he wanted to get off the treadmill. He did. He and his family went to live in Africa. His life changed, he found happiness, travelled all over the world and wrote this book!

I had read this book more than once and love it!

excelent book.......2003-02-12

My father read this book to me when I was a little girl. I loved the book, and I was fortunate enough to attend a lecture given by Mr. Sears before he passed away. This was a wonderfuly humerous book written by a wonderful human being, and I recommend it to everyone.

A beautiful, moving, and witty book.......1999-12-08

I love William Sears as a human being without ever having met him. Although he has passed, when I read any of his books I feel he is speaking to me as if he were in the room. God Loves Laughter was the first of his books that I read. It started me on a journey of appreciating all of the simplicity and beauty life has to offer and I will always be grateful to Mr. Sears for giving me that.

Thank you, Mana

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The Laughter of God - changed my "seeing"

The Laughter of God
Walter C. Lanyon
Manufacturer: Union Life Ministries, Inc.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
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The Laughter of God - changed my "seeing".......2000-04-14

Lanyon has a wonderful way of using every day life events to reveal what we the born-again Christian "already" have within us. He shows us in the simlpest terms with scripture as his foundation, the treasure hidden inside you. When I am in a problem, his gentle touch through words makes me see through the darkness to the light by encouraging me to know I have the "single eye" Jesus spoke about. Lanyon always points the reader to the Beloved Jesus. My view of Christianity has gone to a new level of awareness by this encounter. 30 titles are back in print right now. I want to start a Book Discussion Group in Baltimore.

Just clowning around: Sharing God's love through laughter

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Just clowning around: Sharing God's love through laughter
Janice P Petrea
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He Who Laughs Last: Having the Joyful Life God Intended (Charismatic Classics) (Charismatic Classics)

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He Who Laughs Last: Having the Joyful Life God Intended (Charismatic Classics) (Charismatic Classics)
Roy H. Hicks
Manufacturer: Harrison House
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Endorsed by ministers such as Jack Hayford and Kenneth Hagin Sr., Roy H. Hicks provides enlightening insight into the secret of maintaining laughter in daily life. His premise builds from the scriptural teaching that God is a laughing god (Ps. 2:4). By cultivating and maintaining a close relationship with God, Dr. Hicks shares that readers will gain true joy and laughter in their own lives. He stirs readers to not settle for a small amount of joy, but to develop a lifestyle of laughter. Utilizing inspiring stories and solid scriptural examples, readers will grow in their understanding of laughter as a medicine and a necessary element for endurance in their daily lives. Teaching readers to maintain their joy and laughter results in their ability to "last" through the hard times as well as the good times of life.

God Has Brought Me Laughter: Jokes for the weekly Torah portion

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Very Funny!
God Has Brought Me Laughter

God Has Brought Me Laughter: Jokes for the weekly Torah portion
Steve Sheffey
Manufacturer: iUniverse, Inc.
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Why is God Has Brought Me Laughter different from all other joke books? Some joke books are arranged by subject or theme. Some joke books are arranged alphabetically. Some joke books are arranged by author. This book is not like any of them. This book is arranged by the Torah portion of the week. Author Steve Sheffey takes you through the Torah (five books of Moses) and provides jokes inspired by the Bible itself.

Every week, in traditional Jewish synagogues, the Torah portion of the week is read. As there are 54 portions, some weeks more than one portion is read, culminating in reading the entire Torah once a year. Looking for just the right joke to illustrate a Biblical theme, or just a great joke? Look no further, for here you will find just the right joke for each weekly Torah portion.

You don't have to be Jewish or even familiar with the Bible to enjoy God Has Brought Me Laughter, although it will add to the laughter if you are. So turn to any page in this book and allow yourself some humor that is simply divine. If not now, when?

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Very Funny!.......2004-07-20

I loved this book! It was witty, intelligent and very entertaining. This book would be good for anyone, believers and nonbelievers. Would make a good gift for any occasion.

God Has Brought Me Laughter.......2004-07-19

Great, clever book, with very funny jokes. Various jokes can be good for use as a resource in developing speeches. Also, can make a good gift for many different ages. This writer is right on target and has tremendous talent. Takes a very dry subject and makes is it more interesting by adding very good humor to each topic.

Parenting with Love and Laughter: Finding God in Family Life

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Lots of great ideas of things to do with your kids

Parenting with Love and Laughter: Finding God in Family Life
Jeffrey D. Jones
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In this wise and witty book, author, youth expert, and practicing minister Jeffrey D. Jones brings to light the spiritual aspects of parenting that are often ignored by popular experts and gurus. Jones shows you how to attend to your own inner spiritual life and to the quality of your relationships within your family. By doing so we you re-envision parenting as a transformative, joyful and spiritual practice rather than merely a set of rules and regulations or tips and techniques.

Parenting with Love and Laughter is a conversation about families and parenting that is filled with inspiration gleaned from scripture, reflections on Jeffrey D. Jones's own experience of family life, and wisdom he has gathered from years of service in the ministry. In addition, this warm and wonderful book features a bonus section at the end that provides simple designs and suggestions for group meeting-perfect for retreats, workshops, adult education classes, and parenting support groups. Use this blueprint for parenting to introduce love and laughter into your family life.

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Lots of great ideas of things to do with your kids.......2002-12-28

I like the unique approach in this parenting book. Rather than giving specific advice, techniques, tricks, and tips to use on your kids, the author approaches good parenting as something that grows out of your own spiritual life. His philosophy is that if you have a strong spiritual life, and if you help your entire family develop spiritually, then good parenting will fall into place.

He has a lot of great activity ideas to help kids and parents bond, and he illustrates how the activities work by telling stories of things he's done with his own kids.

I'm going to recommend that this book be used in our church in our parenting class, because there's a great group study guide included in the book.

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