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Confirming what we've been suspecting all along, a British man is selling his entire Doctor Who memorabilia collection because he's realized that the show is the "greatest lie that Satan ever told." Apparently, that man has never seen Battlestar Galactica. More about the sale of the century below the jump.
Simon White, a 47-year old man from Wiltshire, has had a somewhat turbulent relationship with Doctor Who in the past:
I had to retire early from my job as a nurse at the Royal United Hospital in Bath in 1998 because I was suffering from bipolar disorder... I turned to drink and became an alcoholic and the Dr Who obsession was the only thing that kept me going.Saving your life doesn't count for much when Jesus is involved however; when White found God, God apparently told him to renounce all false television idols, even ones from alien planets:
God delivered me from the evil that is Dr Who, materialism and alcoholism. Through my relationship with Jesus I saw that none of this was making me happy and I was born again like Lazarus.I love that a television show is on the same level as alcoholism and materialism for this man. Somewhere in London, BBC Television executives are cackling with glee over the penetration of their work. Of course, if Doctor Who really is the work of Satan Satan Satan, then surely selling your collection of memorabilia connected to said devilish show combines the sins of passing the evil on to someone else and profiting from it. But who said that religious righteousness had to make sense?
Dr. Who Tardis On Sale On Ebay [Wiltshire Times]
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Wait, lazarus was ressurected, not born again!
But there is a grain of truth in there. Some people who collect obsessivley are trying to fill a void left by something else.
Dude, it's not that Doctor Who is the work of Satan - that would be Enterprise - it's that you have OCD and an addictive personality. Deal with it, but don't externalize your problems onto innocent TV shows.
Though, now that atheist RTD has turned the Doctor has turned into magical floaty Tinkerbell Jesus, I can kind of see his point.
A wise man who travels around, saving worlds and occasionally rising form the dead is... Satan? Really?
"I love that a television show is on the same level as alcoholism"
thats funny, cause i went to a bar last night, got drunk and then they screened an old dr who episode.
I love the quaint differences between english and English. They don't turn to drinking, they turn to drink.
That's sad. What's also sad is that I don't have the money to take advantage of the situation and get my own life sized TARDIS.
Blood Money! He better be giving all of the cash away...otherwise he's no better than dirty, dirty DeBeers!
(Link to the ebay listings, please?)
@capntim: Totally! Awesome!
From all appearances Satan needn't lie, or even say a word (no evidence he has, of course).
From reading the actual article, he built most of these things (tardis, cyberman, k-9) himself.
Only the Dalek is authentic.
All of our cash is safe.
hm, the article says it took him and a friend 2 years to build a replica of the tardis. Isn't that just a big blue box? You'd think someone could bang that out on a weekend.
It occurs to me that, if he truly believes his collection represents Satan's handiwork, then how does he ethically profit from selling it to someone else? Shouldn't he be burning it or something?
Surely someone somewhere is joking.
Or in other words... do we know he means the Biblical Lazarus as opposed to Professor Lazarus from series 3 of the new Doctor Who?
@92BuickLeSabre: No sign of the listing on ebay or ebay.uk. But there is the (Tom Baker-inspired) Duktor Who.
I was born again like Lazarus.
Sorta the mother of all mixed messages to reference one of last season's episodes like that, isn't it?
@greetings: Theirs is actually bigger on the inside than the outside. That's what took longer.
I know people who've poured their entire creative life into Doctor Who, what with fanfics and fanfilms and fanTardises and so on, much like this guy did. In that sense, it is a lot like a false idol- you know, if you buy into that sort of thing.
@Git Em SteveDave:
FTW!
If the collection was that evil why doesn't he burn it or give it away rather than profiting by the work of Satan??? Sounds like a guy and his line of BS concocted to get publicity for his auction...
@greetings: Oi! its not bloody Blue enough!! Needs more Blue!!
*can't comment* *laughing*
Oh, David Tennant... you sexy, sexy devil, you.
Dude, if you've got an unhealthy obsession with a TV show, seriously it ain't the work of the devil.
@greetings: Not if you're a drunk Jesus freak. All the booze and praying cuts into your TARDIS construction time/budget.
@capntim: What bar do YOU go to? I'm so totally there!
You've actually succeeded in making look David Tennant look handsome! Devil horns are required, obviously.
If he truly believes the stuff is evil (eeeeeviill!) then he should destroy it by burning like the Ephesians did.
/bible
Ah yes, blame the booze, not your own addiction to it. Good job. Oy.
@Seth L: a personality?
So, he's gone to obsessing over Dr Who to obsessing over the Bible...
I don't think he's actually saying that Doctor Who is itself evil or satanic -- the actual quote is that his obsession with it is Satan's "lie", and it sounds like he's just using this opportunity to make changes and free himself from an overwhelming compulsive influence in his life. It could just have easily been Alf or a collection of ceramic cows. Giving this stuff away to others isn't going to pollute them with evil or anything, as long as they don't have an unhealthy Who obsession dominating their lives.
Although if somebody were going to pick on a show for being satanic, there's a lot more basis for it in Doctor Who than most of the usual targets, what with the recurrent atheist themes and subversive religious imagery. God I love Who!
Anyway, born-again religious hooey aside, moving past an obsession in this manner might not be the most ridiculous thing ever, and maybe even a little admirable.
At least Doctor Who made sense. Now this guy is devoted to an utterly stupid fantasy that takes up all your time and money.
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