i believe in him and so does my dad and uncle
2006-12-07 06:59:42 · 17 answers · asked by joe h 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Christmas
YES!!!!!
2006-12-07 07:01:28 · answer #1 · answered by Kelly 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I do.
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
The Editor replied:
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 measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as 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 external light with 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 you 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 men that ever lived could tear apart. Only faith, 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 more real and abiding.
No Santa Claus! Thank God! he lives and lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay 10 times 10,000 years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.
2006-12-07 07:09:17 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Santa my mother told me watched me all the time. so at night once when I was five I went out back in the dark and raised my fists and told Santa I was going to beat him up for looking at me thru the window. My mother later told me he is a Spirit not a physical man. so YES! he is real. he lives in peoples hearts and as a real live Spirit who brings presents and joy to so many people. .I have noticed over the years that she was right. I am so glad that Santa is real.I hope you have a Very a Merry Christmas
2006-12-07 07:07:19 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yep. But apparently there's a different Santa Claus for rich people because they always seem to get a bit more than us poor folk.
2006-12-07 07:06:55 · answer #4 · answered by truly_insightful 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yea.
Definitely.
He brought me presents - whatever I wrote to him for every year. I think he had a relationship with my father/mother.
My father died when I was 13 years old. After that he did not care for us especially in hard times.
After I got married he has never given me anything. May be he is
jealous?
2006-12-07 07:09:41 · answer #5 · answered by mahen 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, because I am santa to lots of nieces and nephews.
2006-12-07 07:08:02 · answer #6 · answered by kate 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope, i have never ever received presents that said they were from Santa. They always said mom and dad. My parents told me at a VERY young age that their was no such thing.
2006-12-07 07:05:10 · answer #7 · answered by ♥ purrlvr ♥ 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Absolutely YES! Never saw him but heard him on my roof on several Christmas Eves. Absolutely!
2006-12-07 07:49:12 · answer #8 · answered by michael g 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not in a literal sense. But i'm an atheist and I say merry christmas, MERRY CHRISTMAS!
2006-12-09 23:36:09 · answer #9 · answered by zeroartmac 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
of course i believe in myself
2006-12-07 07:08:08 · answer #10 · answered by theessenceofrose 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
of course i do who doesn't I tell you who the rotten people who will get coal in there stockings
2006-12-07 07:38:37 · answer #11 · answered by shawn s 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋