I fucking love watching children scream.

fucken lel

I'm fucking tainted.

Just look at him.

When you're hoping it doesn't fucking snow because you have work on Sunday.

I didn't choose the responsible life. It chose me.

No compatibilist middle-ground either.

OT: I find it exceedingly difficult to take free will seriously as a metaphysical idea. I can't envisage any way in which it is correct.

Definitions:
Free will is the ability of agents to make choices unimpeded by certain prevailing factors.

Libertarianism is one of the main philosophical positions related to the problems of free will and determinism, which are part of the larger domain of metaphysics. In particular, libertarianism, which is an incompatibilist position, argues that free will is logically incompatible with a deterministic universe and that agents have free will, and that, therefore, determinism is false.

Hard determinism (or metaphysical determinism) is a view on free will which holds that determinism is true, and that it is incompatible with free will, and, therefore, that free will does not exist.

From the BBC

An arsonist set fire to a mosque in the Swedish town of Eskilstuna on Thursday, injuring five people, police said.

About 15 to 20 people were attending midday prayers in the mosque, located in the ground floor of a residential building, when the fire broke out on Christmas Day.

Local media footage showed smoke and flames billowing from the windows before firefighters put the blaze out.

The incident comes amid a fierce debate in Sweden over immigration policies.

The far right wants to cut the number of asylum seekers allowed into Sweden by 90%, while mainstream parties are intent on preserving the country's liberal policy.

"A witness saw somebody throw an object through the window of the building, which serves as a mosque, after which a violent fire began," police spokesman Lars Franzell told reporters.

He said five people were taken to hospital for treatment of injuries ranging from smoke inhalation to lacerations.

Police are treating the incident as arson but no arrests have been made so far, Mr Franzell added.

Eskilstuna, which has a large immigrant population, was the scene of clashes involving neo-Nazi groups opposed to Sweden's immigration policy earlier this year.

Poor Muslims. A lot of the time you hear about the negative impact on the native communities when it comes to immigration and multiculturalism, in relation to Islamic customs and practices (not to mention ideological fundamentalism).

But it genuinely does sadden me to see this happening to a group of Muslims who, on the whole were probably very decent people and who - regardless of if they were - the arsonist probably did it without knowing or caring.

It isn't my fault that being drunk turns you into a colossal prick, so why should I have to bear the consequences of that simply because you chose to temporary disable your inhibitions?

People, man. Fucking hell.

From Cell

I see this a lot - people blaming a president they don't like for ultimately being responsible for our generation's version of the Depression. The problem, however, was monetary policy.

People have a tendency to view various presidents as responsible because they think the financial crisis caused the recession, which is simply false. So, accordingly, they look to the flagrant and abhorrent uses of deregulation under presidents like Reagan and Clinton. I can understand why people have this confusion of causation, but it simply isn't correct.

Financial crises - at least those which accompany recessions - are usually caused by the recession itself. Financial crises, on their own, are never enough to push a country into recession. So, I'll emphasise it again - bad monetary policy caused the Great Recession.

Specifically, tight money did. The mortgage crisis would've still likely been a thing, but it would've been nowhere near as severe as we've seen. Some time in 2007, the Federal Reserve slammed on the breaks and caused a drop in the growth rate of the monetary supply - they did this in response to an oil shock. Unfortunately, this meant monetary policy was too tight in relation to the needs of the economy, and caused nominal income to begin falling.

The recession actually began about six months prior to the financial crisis (the beginning of which was marked by the failure of Lehman Brothers), but was actually pretty mild. This falling nominal income, however, makes it difficult for people to pay back loans and leads to bankruptcies and causes financial crises.

The subprime mortgage crisis likely would've been a thing on its own, without falling nominal income, but it wouldn't have been anywhere near as severe as what we've experienced. Tight money, quite seriously, exacerbated the crisis. Like I said, financial crises are usually a response to recessions, and are never enough to cause them - this has been vindicated time and time again from 1929 to 1987.

If you want to blame anybody, then it was Ben Bernanke who was chairman of the Fed at the time - although you can't really hold him to account.

Apparently there is a distinction between the two, but I honestly don't see it. A disbelief in God is exactly identical to a lack of belief in God, and doesn't necessitate a belief in God's non-existence.

At least, that's how I see it.

This one guy fucking said:

God (for obvious reasons), Jesse Ventura (for letting me think other views), my teachers (for letting me be educated), my grandparents. These are just one off the top of my head.

I'm fucking dead.

It's pretty sexy, if I say so myself.

At least he gave up the iced tea.

This is brilliant. American prisons look great.