2006-10-16 08:44:53 · 32 answers · asked by sam g 1 in News & Events ➔ Current Events
YES AND HE LIVES AT THE NORTH POLE.
LIVE WITH MRS CLAUS AND ALL HIS BABY ELVES
2006-10-17 04:35:56 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, Sam, there is a Santa Claus. As stated in the New York Sun to 8 year old Virginia:
Eight-year-old Virginia O'Hanlon wrote a letter to the editor of New York's Sun, and the quick response was printed as an unsigned editorial Sept. 21, 1897. The work of veteran newsman Francis Pharcellus Church has since become history's most reprinted newspaper editorial, appearing in part or whole in dozens of languages in books, movies, and other editorials, and on posters and stamps.
"DEAR EDITOR: I am 8 years old.
"Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus.
"Papa says, 'If you see it in THE SUN it's so.'
"Please tell me the truth; is there a Santa Claus?
"VIRGINIA O'HANLON.
"115 WEST NINETY-FIFTH STREET."
VIRGINIA, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except [what] they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men's or children's, are little. In this great universe of ours man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him, as measure by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.
Yes, VIRGINIA, there is a Santa Claus. He exists certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! How dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus! It would be as dreary as if there were no VIRGINIAS. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.
Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies! You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas Eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if they did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that's no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.
You tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest man that ever lived, could tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, VIRGINIA, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding. No Santa Claus! Thank GOD! He lives, and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.
2006-10-16 09:01:38 · answer #2 · answered by suz2345 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Define "real"? Santa Claus is a real archetype. A real idea. A real character in a real myth. Does he have a corporeal body? well... I don't suppose he needs one.
Santa Claus is real the way that Hamlet is real, or Romeo and Juliet, or Odysseus, or any other famous character that has helped to shape our ideas and our literature. He's certainly more real than I am -- after all, no one knows who I am, and everyone knows who he is.
2006-10-16 08:50:58 · answer #3 · answered by threskiorn 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
realistically No. But even as adults it is still fun to believe in something so pure and honest as Santa Claus. With all the negativity in the world it is fun to get "caught up" in the holidays with children that still have that belief and wonderment of Christmas.
2006-10-16 08:51:11 · answer #4 · answered by cherteddie 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Out of all these answers why didn't anyone give the question a rating?? Just wondering......
Our world is screwed up enough, please don't tell me there is no Santa Claus. Between that and just hearing our beloved president on CNN I think I am going to be sick.........................
2006-10-17 08:03:24 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
well someone called St Nicholas (who santa claus is based on) once lived, however the fat man in red and white clothes who flies around delivering presents in a sleigh does not exist
2006-10-16 08:47:52 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Of course he is.....Santa lives in your heart....all of my kids will tell you the same thing. They are 25, 23 and 19 years old. We always sit together and watch Christmas shoes..cartoons and all and I will teach my 4 year old grandson the same thing....
2006-10-16 08:50:13 · answer #7 · answered by lisa46151 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Is the Easter Bunny real?
Is God real?
Is George W. Bush real?
Is St. Patrick real?
Is Captain Crunch real?
I guess it's all in what you want to believe! -RKO-
2006-10-16 08:52:49 · answer #8 · answered by -RKO- 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
of course he is..intill you reach the age of 8 that is or myby 10 at a push
or he could be real lol just like god is real(no chance)
its all a myth
2006-10-16 08:48:36 · answer #9 · answered by rusty red 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
He was a bishop who lived in Turkey the 600's, and later became a saint.
"His charity became legend when a man lost his fortune and found himself incapable of supporting his three daughters, who would not be able to find husbands as they lacked dowries. This man was going to give them over to a life of prostitution; however, St. Nicholas provided them with gold, enabling them to retain their virginal virtues and marry."
2006-10-16 08:47:19 · answer #10 · answered by Earth Queen 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋