My siblings are saying that Santa is true.But I don't really know.PLEASE HELP ME!!!!
2006-12-08 14:12:06 · 25 answers · asked by Kellen M 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
Here is one of the most famous newspaper editorials in history, form the New York Sun in 1897:
We take pleasure in answering thus prominently the communication below, expressing at the same time our great gratification that its faithful author is numbered among the friends of The Sun:
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
Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a sceptical 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 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.
2006-12-08 14:23:25 · answer #1 · answered by dmb 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You want proof? What kind of proof do you want. There is proof all around you this time of year.
Look at the excitement in the children's eyes as you go through your daily duties.
Watch how strangers are willing and able to help each other out.
The beauty and wonderment are all around you.All of the smiles and love going around these days. Who else but Santa could make all this happen?
I was watching the movie Polar Express with my grandchildren the other day. At the end of the movie one of the Tom Hanks characters says something to the effect that as long as you believe in Santa Clause you will be able to hear the sleigh bells. Once you stop believing, you can no longer hear the sleigh bells.
I still hear them every year.
2006-12-08 22:29:57 · answer #2 · answered by nana4dakids 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Its all in what you believe in your heart to be true. Being the mom of a 20 year old, that no longer believes in Santa, I keep telling him that there is. Santa may not be fat and jolly, nor does he have to live in the Northpole. In my town, we do in fact have a real Santa. Every year he collects toys, and on Christmas Eve, he puts on his red suit and delivers toys to children that are less fortunate. So, you see, I know that Santa is real, and he does exists, because I have had the pleasure of being one of his helpers.
2006-12-08 22:21:56 · answer #3 · answered by bugoff26 2 · 6⤊ 0⤋
Thats a silly question. I say yes I believe in the spirit of christmas and santa claus.
2006-12-08 22:23:15 · answer #4 · answered by mom363546 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
my 7 year old is standing next to me and would like to know if your silly for not believing. she said yes there is a Santa clause and Mrs. clause. and the elf's helps Santa to give little children the toys. and he wont give us no toys if you don't believe in Santa clause and Mrs. clause. and my mom says Santa is real. and i like Santa and Mrs. clause. this is out of the mouth of a baby. 7 year old girl.
2006-12-08 22:44:52 · answer #5 · answered by loretta 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
santa claus used to live and give gifts to the poor in a town or small city. now, hes dead cuz that happened in a long time ago. hes a good ghost that decided to stay as a ghost to help the poor.
2006-12-09 10:20:00 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
People are quick to participate in this Santa thing even if they don't believe in him. But what is strange, is as real as Jesus is, not many are willing to go along with Him.
2006-12-08 22:15:46 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋
I set up a camera and caught my dad eating the cookies and drinking the milk
2013-12-25 06:20:04 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, St. Nicholas was real.
He left small toys in poor children's socks that were hanging out to dry at night.
2006-12-08 22:14:48 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Is there proof that there's NOT a Santa?
2006-12-08 22:19:12 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 8⤊ 0⤋