Hey guys! I'm 9 years old, ans i don't know if Santas real. Is he?
2006-12-20 05:01:17 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Christmas
if you believe he is then he is real to you...
but if you really want to know
ask your parents
2006-12-20 05:03:44 · answer #1 · answered by Sarah 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Editorial Page, New York Sun, 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.
2006-12-20 13:20:56 · answer #2 · answered by BuddhaDaddy 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Coming from a 24 year old YES Santa is real!
2006-12-20 13:28:03 · answer #3 · answered by ♥ purrlvr ♥ 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Actually I'm 19 and I still have a small part in my mind that he might be real, but so far he isn't, My parents told me when I was 9 so I think by now they should tell you that there might not be one, but if you believe that he is real be like me and believe even when some say he isn't.
2006-12-20 13:53:25 · answer #4 · answered by eclipsefreak 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Santa is real if you believe he is real. IF you are able to believe in magic and if you are able to just believe in something then Santa is real. I am 25 and I still believe in the magic and the spirit of Christmas.
2006-12-20 13:07:36 · answer #5 · answered by Karla K 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
He is based on St. Nicolaus who lived in Turkey centuries ago. St Nicolaus was very generous to everyone around him and he lived a devout life. He was especially kind to children, to unmarried women and the poor. He is responsible for many miracles before and after his death.
"Santa" means saint. A saint is anyone that has been admitted to heaven because they lived such a good life on earth.
There was never any such thing as red coated man in sleigh giving gifts to everyone. It is a childhood fantasy.
The true meaning of Christmas is remembering how Jesus Christ took on an earthly body so that he could save us all from evil.
2006-12-20 13:17:42 · answer #6 · answered by Think.for.your.self 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Santa is as real as you want him to be and as you make him to be.
2006-12-20 13:16:10 · answer #7 · answered by Church Music Girl 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
of course he's real! i was a lil sceptic too but im possitive now. the magic of Christmas lives in us all but it comes out of hiding for those who believe. like me and you. MERRY CHRISTMAS!
TIP- don't give out presonal info on the web. just a tip from your uncle larry!
2006-12-20 13:50:23 · answer #8 · answered by **Lizz** ♥ 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes he is. Do an internet search since your parents allow you to surf..and use Yahoo questions
2006-12-20 13:09:24 · answer #9 · answered by nikogal2006 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course he is real! Why do you kids keep asking? Just believe!
2006-12-20 13:04:14 · answer #10 · answered by Agent99 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
he was, he was for europe and then after a while he got old and died but a lot of people take one the memory of his gift giving ways and brought the idea to america so that is why we have thanx giving..... i mean christmas and the other stuff too
2006-12-20 13:29:43 · answer #11 · answered by Kristina S 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋