I cannot offer you anything that will spare you from death, which is what you want. Death is inevitable. This is as hard a fact as there will ever be. Death is inevitable. That is the truth whether you like it or not. Death is the fate of everyone, that is not some arcane pontification in some old book, that is an everyday reality. It is undeniable. To deal with this discomforting fact you've grasped onto some ancient mythology, the dominant one of your culture as many others have to ease your anxieties. Which is well enough, if it makes you feel better, believe whatever you wish. But you have doubts, I can tell, which is why you are so insecure about it. If other people believe the same you would feel more confident about what you believe, but the trouble is that many people --intelligent people even -- don't believe. These people exacerbate your anxieties so you lash out at them.

Deuteronomy 32:22

For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.

Sounds to me like Hell is clear in the Torah.

In Hebrew the verse says SHEOL, not Hell. Sometimes the KJV translates Sheol as 'grave' and sometimes as 'Hell'. The Jews believed that EVERYONE goes to Sheol at death even the righteous, thus it cannot be considered synonymous with the Christian Hell, despite what deceptive translations might have you believe.

Why do you bother talking to me?

That's a good question.

It was that blatant gender discrimination that I wished to dispute. Too often I've seen the fact of a wage gap asserted as itself being evidence of systemic gender discrimination, especially vocal among those in the universities (with the infamous 77 cents figure which is a bit deceptive for the reasons I've already outlined). Of course dating preferences, career choices, and individual choices have their own alliance of causal factors, but they are different factors and call for a different sort of assessment. If there are those on the left who echo my sentiments, I have not heard them, but I welcome them nonetheless.

It supports the claim that there is a gap, and it disputes the oft-implied cause of the gap: systemic gender discrimination.

Interesting how there is no Hell anywhere in all of the Torah, no mention of it whatsoever. The Jews had no concept of hell whatsoever until they came into contact with the Greeks. In fact almost all of the early works just called it Hades. The term 'Hell' etymologically stems from the Germanic-Norse pagan underworld HEL, notice it has only one 'L'. In Norse Tradition Hel was not only the realm of departed souls, it was also the name of the Goddess who ruled over it. This Hel predated the Christian Hell by a few centuries. This borrowing of ideas and language is what social scientists call Cultural Diffusion.

The concept of Hell is distinctly pagan in origin.

You don't get the message......I'm not interested in your insistence that you are as god or better than God.

You are losing your grip on reality, you have this penchant for imagining me saying things and then criticizing the things you imagined me saying.

I tried to be nice to you, that worked for about a minute

I'm not sure I know what you mean by "worked", but if you want to convince someone of some proposition try providing supporting facts and arguments. Being nice while appreciated is not going to convince anyone of anything, and as you've learned nor is being an intolerable cunt. Glad to see that being nice is just a ploy for you to get what you want.

you have been nothing but a jerk as if being a jerk

Yes, generally, I am not kind to those who are not kind to me. I don't know why you think you can insult my family and still expect me to be nice to you. Didn't anyone ever tell you to not poke the Tiger?

Why do I even bother? You are incapable of staying on topic.

This is just becoming sad and pathetic.. Your behavior is becoming more and more childlike as time goes on.

This is just becoming sad and pathetic..

Ah yes...salvation! The invisible, unmeasurable, unobservable, cure for the invisible, unmeasurable, unobservable, disease. How dare I not believe the superstitions of old men from antiquity on face value? God must be outraged!

So the transitional species weren't ways of life..? Fucking brilliant. Your ability to spout incomprehensible nonsense is unparalleled.

Out of curiosity how many nonbelievers on this website have you been able to "save" ?

What is your problem?

I don't have a problem. I'm on a debate website, debating.

Just because you can't justify your life

I have no need nor desire to 'justify my life', least of all to you. I think what gets under your skin is that I don't agonize over my rejection of Christianity. It is just one of hundreds of religions. I have encountered no especially convincing reason to think it is any more true than the innumerable other religions that you dismiss outright without so much as a second thought. This seems to bother you. The only reason I have even given it as much consideration as I have is because it is the dominant religion of my culture, and for literally no other reason. I am in fact quite happy and content with my current philosophical and theological predilections.

For now I'll call you Bob. It keeps my mind fresh to remember I'm leaving you behind due to your incorrigibility.

And yet, your activity here shows anything but. You continue to spam all of my posts with sometimes as many as 4 -6 replies to the same post. Does that sound like leaving me behind?

You made me laugh, so I'm giving you a point.

What it boils down to is this, a heterosexual woman seeking a mate will strongly prefer males in lucrative careers. However heterosexual males on the other hand, while they may still consider income of a female mate, it is not nearly as large of a factor for them. One study found:

"“For men there is no amount of income that the woman in the bottom ten percent in terms of appearance can earn to make men prefer her over women in the top 10 percent. That is, looks really matter to men relative to income. For women though, if the man in the bottom ten percent in terms of looks earns more than $248,500, they will prefer him over the more attractive guy earning $60,000.” http://bigthink.com/dollars-and-sex/do-women-really-value-income-over-looks- in-a-mate

.

.

.

This effect is amplified in nations with skewed Male-to-female sex ratios. In China for instance, a survey from a popular Chinese dating website found that 72% Chinese women preferred a mate that had nearly double their own salary. In fact the gender wage gap is worse in China than it is in the United States. This creates a tremendous social incentive for men to aggressively snatch up all the high paying careers they can, and indeed that's exactly what happens. It is very unlikely the gender wage gap will go away without imposing draconian "Equality of outcome" policies, or re-engineering the social fabric of society. The gender wage gap is the result of the differing mate-selection strategies employed by the sexes, there is no fact in my OP that can't be explained by this reality.

I don't know why you insist on calling me Bob. It has been pretty well established, that despite your warrantless accusation I am not smilingbob. Smilingbob and I don't even hold the same opinions. The only thing we even appear to agree on is that creationism is bullocks.

so dispute the facts presented.

Don't plagiarize your sources and I will. As you've seen numerous times already, when I present an argument you are unable and unwilling to address it, and you've admitted yourself that you don't want me to respond and have no intention of giving any sort of rebuttal when I do, so this is merely empty remonstration.

Crying "bias" is not putting up an argument

I'm not "crying" about bias, I'm "crying" about plagiarism, in so far as pointing something out equals crying.

I could easily reword it all and claim it as my own

If you were to explain the concept in your own words, then it would in fact be yours. The reason you don't do this is because you don't understand the subject matter well enough to sound like you know what you're talking about.

Why bother?

Integrity?

and try to assassinate my character

You do a well enough job of that yourself.

You insult the source I copy and pasted as "biased"

No, I was merely postulating why you wouldn't cite your source. After all, if you can copy and paste multiple paragraphs then you can copy and paste a url.

yet you totally fail to dispute even the tiniest of the points I presented

I had no intention of doing that. My intention was to chide you for plagiarism and I did exactly that, did I not? To express in fine detail how all of the facets of your plagiarized piece epitomizes a fundamental misunderstanding of geology would not be difficult at all, albeit a bit more time consuming than what I've said here.

Hiring professionals to build a home costs more than buying one. How does that lessen the financial need for a mortgage?

they are not "transitional species", they are bones of individual animals.

As opposed to?

The Torah (Old Testament) was written in Hebrew with a few chapters -- Daniel and Ezra -- written in Aramaic. The new testament was written in Greek. I know for Roman Catholics almost everything is done in Latin, not as much anymore..

For Muslims Arabic is a bona fide holy language. That is, if the Quran isn't Arabic then it's not really the Quran, though that may perhaps be the more traditionalist view. In fact many translations will have the original Arabaic, juxtaposed to the translation. This view of the Holy Language may not necessarily extend to other religions. Christians by and large don't recognize any holy language in any similar manner except maybe roman Catholics or Greek Orthodox, perhaps. Whether orthodox Jews view Hebrew in a similar way, I cannot say.

Before I was born my father had sold the house that he and my mother were living in, he bought some property and he and my Grandfather started construction on a house on the land. Both of them had Construction experience, but no experience with house-building specifically. My grandparents at the time were foster parents for the state and my grandfather had enlisted the help of some of the foster boys to help build the house. It took a few years and they finally completed construction. The house was 'different' from other houses, it had plumping, electrical, and other things a house would normally have, but you could tell whoever built it had no experience house-building. It was worse quality than the house they sold so that they could build it. There were a number of serious mistakes that were made during its construction. I have no doubt had my father had built a few more houses he would have gotten much better at it. Years later when someone bought the property they had the house demolished.

Keep in mind this was with 7 people or so, two of whom had construction experience, and a couple years construction time. I can only imagine how it would have turned out with one person with no construction experience.

I dont even know where it came from

Sure you don't. It came from Answersingenesis.

If you are so stupid that you think I'm tyring to pass that off as my own composition

What you're doing is called plagiarism. This is done intentionally because you know your source is incredibly biased.