They serve the purpose of giving dummies hope that their horseshit is true.  As has been noted, believers do not need credible explanations for their beliefs.  Any old piece of shit explanation will do and then they wipe their brows and go "whew...that was close."  And it does not really matter how stupid the explanation is.  They don't care.

I've got a ring on my finger. Therefor Lord of the Rings happened.

(October 11, 2015 at 12:21 pm)robvalue Wrote: I've got a ring on my finger. Therefor Lord of the Rings happened.

Yes, but does your ring say
?

I'll check brb

Even the Bible says that you shouldn't believe Jewish fairy tales. I'll bet that if there was a Jewish fairy tale that said that the Sun was a cube dummies would swear that it's true.

(October 11, 2015 at 1:31 pm)robvalue Wrote: I'll check brb

O noes, the Witch King got him!

(October 11, 2015 at 11:39 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:

(October 11, 2015 at 1:31 pm)robvalue Wrote: I'll check brb

O noes, the Witch King got him!

Ha ha ha! I thought the same thing.

I have a ring like the one ring.  Sadly it doesn't turn me invisible.  I did however get it as a present from my husband find it in a volcano.

Actually despite being a History Teacher, I never really thought about this.  Though to be fair I don't teach that far back. One would think there would be sufficient evidence.  I'm curious, is there even any evidence that the jews were enslaved in Egypt at all?

(October 12, 2015 at 12:58 am)Cecelia Wrote: I have a ring like the one ring.  Sadly it doesn't turn me invisible.  I did however get it as a present from my husband find it in a volcano.

Actually despite being a History Teacher, I never really thought about this.  Though to be fair I don't teach that far back. One would think there would be sufficient evidence.  I'm curious, is there even any evidence that the jews were enslaved in Egypt at all?

Not only no evidence, it actually conflicts with a lot of what we do know about Egypt in that time period, not the least of which is that Egypt owned the territory to which the Israelites supposedly fled during the conquest of Joshua, at the time when the story is claimed to have happened. It would be a bit like saying "We fled the United States and went to Alaska". 

There were definitely workers of semitic origin throughout the region, as we have some inscriptions possibly dating back as far as 1700 BCE that use a proto-alphabet system loosely modeled on the Egyptian Heiroglyphs, which would later be developed into the Canaanite/Phonecian script that became our modern alphabet, but that in no way demonstrates that the workers were Hebrew, let alone an enslaved whole population of them.

(October 11, 2015 at 11:39 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:

(October 11, 2015 at 1:31 pm)robvalue Wrote: I'll check brb

O noes, the Witch King got him!

He did! But I managed to escape. When things are dire in Lord of the Rings, all you need to do is enter the cheat code (up, up, left, X, Y, X, select). Then these massive eagles turn up and just get you out of any danger you are in. If you watch the films in slow motion, you can see the characters entering these codes.

OK, well I was analysing my ring while in captivity and although the writing is similar it's not exactly like that. I've telepathically sent you all an image to see if you can figure out what it is. I'm thinking it's one of the rings given to humans, maybe?