Is he real or do your parents buy you presents then hide them and say its from santa?
2006-12-23 04:03:03 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Other - Holidays
How can you beat Barkley hound's answer......
2006-12-23 04:20:23 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Is There a Santa Claus?
From the Editorial Page of The New York Sun,
written by Francis P. Church, September 21, 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:
"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 scepticism of a sceptical age. They do not believe except 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 child-like faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal 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, 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, 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, Virginia, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.
2006-12-23 04:06:17 · answer #2 · answered by Barkley Hound 7 · 9⤊ 2⤋
Santa Claus represents the spirit of giving. People buy you presents but it's the spirit that makes them do so, so yes Santa is real.
2006-12-23 04:06:13 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 3⤋
Sorry but Santa is definitely not real😄
2014-08-17 11:18:15 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 4⤋
I don't think he's real. But I've got gifts in the past, so I really can't say he's not real for sure... Even if I condemn the idea of parents lying to kids, I like the spirit of giving. Merry Christmas!
2006-12-23 04:20:22 · answer #5 · answered by Silver 3 · 3⤊ 3⤋
well most peple don't believe in santa but some do, i believed in santa until about a couple of years ago when i found a list of all the gifts we were getting from my parents, but i still want to believe because it is really what the holiday spirit is about, thats how santa flies his sleigh, but it is really up to the person to BELIEVE or NOT BELIEVE, (watch polar express you will think twive about the question?)
2006-12-23 04:31:52 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
He's very real. It's him that gives you the presents. His elves make some of them, but if it's certain name brand products or if there is an over demand on a certain toy, he'll place orders with toy companies, he has good partnerships with Mattel and Hasbro from what I understand.
2006-12-23 04:12:11 · answer #7 · answered by nimo22 6 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Santa Claus exists but ít's just not him who brings the presents to us.
2006-12-23 04:15:25 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 4⤋
Santa Claus is real!
Wait for the christmas eve...
He shall come to gift you the sweetest gift of all seasons...
and to make you smile...
Dashing through the snow
In a one horse open sleigh
O'er the fields we go
Laughing all the way
Bells on bob tails ring
Making spirits bright
What fun it is to laugh and sing
A sleighing song tonight
Oh, jingle bells, jingle bells
Jingle all the way
Oh, what fun it is to ride
In a one horse open sleigh
Jingle bells, jingle bells
Jingle all the way
Oh, what fun it is to ride
In a one horse open sleigh
A day or two ago
I thought I'd take a ride
And soon Miss Fanny Bright
Was seated by my side
The horse was lean and lank
Misfortune seemed his lot
We got into a drifted bank
And then we got upsot
Oh, jingle bells, jingle bells
Jingle all the way
Oh, what fun it is to ride
In a one horse open sleigh
Jingle bells, jingle bells
Jingle all the way
Oh, what fun it is to ride
In a one horse open sleigh yeah
Jingle bells, jingle bells
Jingle all the way
Oh, what fun it is to ride
In a one horse open sleigh
Jingle bells, jingle bells
Jingle all the way
Oh, what fun it is to ride
In a one horse open sleigh
WISH YOU A HAPPY CHRISTMAS*
AND A WONDERFUL NEWYEAR
2006-12-23 04:07:06 · answer #9 · answered by music_lover 3 · 7⤊ 3⤋
Santa is very real.
2006-12-23 09:15:39 · answer #10 · answered by simple_james 1 · 4⤊ 2⤋
sorry hun but hes not real but his spirt is!!!
Good Luck!
Happy Holidays!
~Santa's Personal Shopper~
2006-12-23 04:12:23 · answer #11 · answered by ♥Rae♥ 3 · 1⤊ 3⤋