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| Author | : Matt Fore |
| Publisher | : NewBookPublishing.com |
| Total Pages | : 182 |
| Release | : 2010 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0982947631 |
Is it ok to laugh during your devotions?If not, you should stay away from Matt Fore's "The Truth Shall Make You Laugh."Filled with hilarious tales and humorous wit, this twist on your quiet time surprises you with encouragement and delights you with practical insights from God's Word.From a father who had to instruct his son to stop responding to the alter call every Sunday to an uncle who was outsmarted by a mule, "The Truth Shall Make You Laugh" is proof that real-life is funnier than fiction.Be blessed by a running theme of God's provision and protection. Encounter real-life accounts of angelic protection, divine healing, miraculous provisions, an experience at the fringes of heaven and other evidence of a supernatural God."Matt hits the head and the heart with his devotions! Matt's not just a funny man, he's a minister that touches your soul... And that's why you will be blessed with a smile. So get a cup of dark roast and feed your soul for a while."Dr. Dennis "The Swan" Swanberg, Minister of Encouragement
| Author | : Hub Zwart |
| Publisher | : Peeters Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 222 |
| Release | : 1996 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 9789039004128 |
We participate in moral debate, instead of taking established morality for granted, because of our discontent with the moral discourse already existing. We feel that something is distorted or concealed, that something remains to be said. One of the strategies to expose the deficiencies of established discourse is critical argument, but under certain specific historical circumstances, the apparent self-evidence of established moral discourse has gained such a dominance, has acquired such an ability to conceal its basic vulnerability, that its validity simply seems beyond contestation. Notwithstanding our discontent, we remain unable to challenge the established truth effectively. Then, all of a sudden, its vulnerability is revealed - and this is the experience of laughter. Moral criticism is preceded by laughter. In fact, all crucial transformations that emerged in the history of morality were accompanied by and made possible by laughter and moral criticism is basically and originally a comic genre. After drawing an outline of the present moral regime in chapter one, the moral significance of laughter is recovered with the help of four 'philosophers of laughter' in chapter two, namely Bakhtin, Nietzsche, Bataille and Foucault. Laughter allows reality to appear in a certain light, it contains a basic truth, it is a philosophical principle in its own right that cannot be reduced to or identified with the truth of science. In the subsequent chapters it is shown how three crucial moral transformations, occuring in the fourth century B.C., the sixteenth century A.D. and the nineteenth century A.D. evolved out of an experience of laughter, articulated by three outstanding protagonists of laughter presented in this book: Socrates, Luther and Ibsen. Finally, the significance of the experience of laughter in view of the present is discussed.
| Author | : Gail Finney |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 378 |
| Release | : 2014-07-10 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 1134304730 |
First Published in 1994. Look Who's Laughing belies the notion that in a joke the only place for a woman is in the butt, Rather than analysing women's humor in isolation, Gail Finney and twenty scholars map the terrain that the genders share and the areas that each hold exclusively. Their essays investigate witty heroines, sexual parodies, domestic humor and romantic power. They focus on comic drama and fiction, stand-up comedy, cartoons, and film describing the roles gender has played in the creation, reception and interpretation of comedy from the sixteenth century to present. They consider works by Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, Zora Neale Hurston and Virginia Woolf, whilst discussing characters such as V.I. Warshawski, Molly Bloom and Elizabeth Bennet. The book's emphasis on comedy's diverse sources uncovers critical prejudices and defines new contexts enabling men and women to understand more about each other's attitudes towards humor, its means and ends.
| Author | : Denis Johnson |
| Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| Total Pages | : 241 |
| Release | : 2014-11-04 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0374709238 |
Denis Johnson's New York Times bestseller, The Laughing Monsters, is a high-suspense tale of kaleidoscoping loyalties in the post-9/11 world that shows one of our great novelists at the top of his game. Roland Nair calls himself Scandinavian but travels on a U.S. passport. After ten years' absence, he returns to Freetown, Sierra Leone, to reunite with his friend Michael Adriko. They once made a lot of money here during the country's civil war, and, curious to see whether good luck will strike twice in the same place, Nair has allowed himself to be drawn back to a region he considers hopeless. Adriko is an African who styles himself a soldier of fortune and who claims to have served, at various times, the Ghanaian army, the Kuwaiti Emiri Guard, and the American Green Berets. He's probably broke now, but he remains, at thirty-six, as stirred by his own doubtful schemes as he was a decade ago. Although Nair believes some kind of money-making plan lies at the back of it all, Adriko's stated reason for inviting his friend to Freetown is for Nair to meet Adriko's fiancée, a grad student from Colorado named Davidia. Together the three set out to visit Adriko's clan in the Uganda-Congo borderland—but each of these travelers is keeping secrets from the others. Their journey through a land abandoned by the future leads Nair, Adriko, and Davidia to meet themselves not in a new light, but rather in a new darkness.
| Author | : Rose Zwi |
| Publisher | : Spinifex Press |
| Total Pages | : 208 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9781876756215 |
The characters in these eleven stories range from a political activist, in the apartheid years, released from a South African jail into a seemingly uncaring world, to a child of immigrant parents living between two cultures; from the daughter of a tribal chief who returns from the city to her arid homeland in the heart of Africa, to the tragic love of a Rabbi and his wife in an East European shelter; from a dingo pursued to its inevitable end by the people of a small Australian town, to a South African farmer who allows his land to revert to its natural state. In her struggle to arrive at the truth of a situation, Rose Zwi's stories are leavened with humour and humanity. In the story which gives the name to this collection 'To Speak the Truth, Laughing', a politically inexperienced white woman joins an illegal march into a black township to protest against the arrest of black schoolchildren who have rebelled against the system. In another story, 'Conquest of America', a writer arrives in New York in search of a literary agent. Her present agent has axed her. "You must know lots of people in New York," he says as he bundles her into a taxi with her dog-eared manuscripts. "Not a soul," she replies. "Lovely," he says in a distracted manner. "Let's have coffee sometime." International award-winning author Rose Zwi has penned a joyous collection of stories bringing together Australian and South African lives.
| Author | : B. J. Gallagher |
| Publisher | : Conari Press |
| Total Pages | : 160 |
| Release | : 2008-01-01 |
| Genre | : Animals |
| ISBN | : 9781608100033 |
Laughter is an Instant Vacation is 160 pages of pure, unadulterated...FUN. It has over 250 great quotes, and many funny photos that'll make you laugh out loud. This gift is terrific for anyone, because in today's world, who do you know that won't appreciate a good reason to laugh! Studies show we need 12 laughs a day to stay healthy. Consider this book a gift of good health! You will laugh out loud at the quotes and photos that bring them to life. A great gift for any occasion.
| Author | : Mordechai Gordon |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 109 |
| Release | : 2013-08-13 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 331900834X |
This book is a philosophical investigation of the significance of humor and laughter, examining its relation to other human phenomena including truth, nihilism, dreams, friendship, intimacy, aesthetic experience, self-transcendence and education. The author addresses the relative neglect of humor and laughter among philosophers of education with this volume, where the focus is on the significance of humor and laughter for human flourishing. Central questions are threaded through this work: What does the study of humor and laughter bring to philosophy and specifically to philosophy of education? How is humorist thinking different from other modes of human knowing? What might happen if we were to respond to the absurdity of human existence with humor and laughter? What insights can be learned from a philosophical investigation of humor in relationship to other human phenomena such as dreams, friendship, intimacy, aesthetic experience and self-transcendence? And, finally, how can humor and laughter enhance human existence and flourishing? The author presents groundbreaking insights into what can be gained from a study of humor and laughter about human existence in general and flourishing in particular. This work will be of interest to philosophers, especially philosophers of education, as well as to teachers and educators. Its unique blend of philosophical investigation and humorous discourse is both a rigorous and accessible analysis of humor.
| Author | : Surazeus Astarius |
| Publisher | : Lulu.com |
| Total Pages | : 672 |
| Release | : 2017-03-14 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 1365807142 |
"My American Harp" presents 1,169 poems written 2010-2014 by Surazeus that explore what it means to be an American in the modern world of an interconnected global civilization.
| Author | : Shu Chen Hou |
| Publisher | : KOKOSHUNGSAN® |
| Total Pages | : 30 |
| Release | : |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : |
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| Author | : Lee Siegel |
| Publisher | : Motilal Banarsidass Publishe |
| Total Pages | : 528 |
| Release | : 1989 |
| Genre | : Indic wit and humor |
| ISBN | : 9788120805484 |
