# Beeblebrox, what is your problem? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 28, 2002, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beeblebrox-what-is-your-problem/100522 "2002-03-28T05:54:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Newton\_meter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/57b2e6/32.png) [@Newton\_meter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Newton_meter)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2002, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beeblebrox-what-is-your-problem/100522/21 "2002-03-29T16:03:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by LiquidLobotomy \* > \*\*But seriously, who is the creationist? \*\* The creationist is the windmill. ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2002, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beeblebrox-what-is-your-problem/100522/22 "2002-03-29T16:05:21Z")
If you even glanced at the threads in question, you’ll know it sure as shit isn’t **Ben**. FWIW, attempt at levity or no, I wouldn’t have found the Quixote comment funny had it been directed at me, especially from someone with whom I already had a “history.” ---
**Author:** ![LiquidLobotomy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/898d66/32.png) [@LiquidLobotomy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LiquidLobotomy)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2002, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beeblebrox-what-is-your-problem/100522/23 "2002-03-29T16:19:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by andros \* > \*\*If you even glanced at the threads in question, you’ll know it sure as shit isn’t **Ben**. > > FWIW, attempt at levity or no, I wouldn’t have found the Quixote comment funny had it been directed at me, especially from someone with whom I already had a “history.” \*\* Many apologies. I have seen the errors of my ways. I shall return to areas where I know the facts… hmmm… I don’t seem to have anywhere to go… ---
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2002, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beeblebrox-what-is-your-problem/100522/24 "2002-03-29T17:10:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by andros \* > \*\*Actually, **Wring** , I think it’s pretty clear that the “Quixote” dig was _not_ the reason **Ben** opened the thread. He sees a pattern of harassment on **Beeblebrox** ’s part, the latest comment being only, well, the latest. \*\* That’s the thing, though. I _haven’t_ been harrassing the guy. I think he is still pissed at me for when I was a newbie and insulted him in my Evolution Mechanics thread (the second link **ben** posted). I apologized profusely in the same thread. Apparently he has never forgiven me. That was eight months ago. Later on in a thread that I can’t seem to find, I tried to explain to **ben** that when debating with religous people, a theological take is more effective than talking about some esoteric scientific point about geology or ribosomyl DNA and saying “HA!” when they don’t understand you. There are plenty of things in Genesis itself that contradict creationist arguments. He wouldn’t listen to this, prefering to feed his ego by basking in the knowledge that he knows an obscure piece of information that others don’t. That ain’t fighting ignorance, it’s self aggrandizement. Shortly afterward he opened his Atheist FAQ (the third link). In that thread, I found what appeared to be an apparent contradiction and asked him to explain it. I also told him that if all his argument was going to consist of was “read this web site I wrote a few years ago”, then all he was doing was feeding his ego. Hence it would be a “vanity thread”. This peeved him to no end. Apparently, he is _still_ bristling from this criticism even though I wasn’t the only one to chide him about not answering anyone’s questions. It’s also ironic that he should call me out on that thread because after I asked him to elaborate on his OP, he posted this: > [@](#): > > _originally posted by ben_ > \*\*I’m a little troubled by the fact that you’d describe Beeblebrox as “wise.” I felt that his post wasn’t worth replying to, because I assumed no one could possibly take it seriously. \*\* This, at least in my mind, is closer to an insult than “Ben Quixote” That was last November. Finally, I threw the “Ben Quixote” barb in when I answered **Urban Ranger’s** “huh?” (a question many of **Ben’s** OP’s elicit). It was supposed to be a small jab, almost good-natured (but not quite). It wasn’t anything I expected to wound. After this thread I’m kinda glad it did. **Ben** , I have not harrassed you. I think you are an oversensitive lab rat fucker too pleased with his own intellectual masturbation to see the forest for the trees in most arguments, but I have not harrassed you. If you must view 4 or 5 mild rebukes in eight months as “harrasment” then you are a pitiable, spineless little man with glass for skin. But you know what? You win. I will not post in any of your threads again. I used to hope that you would see that your crusade against creationists was a bit obsessive and that you were going about it the wrong way anyhow. I have given up on that hope. I used to have some respect for you, but that is gone as well. I will stop wasting my time with you. Good bye and fuck off. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beeblebrox-what-is-your-problem/100522.md?page=1)