2007-12-21 02:53:44 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
Dear Simba,
Here are THE FOUR STAGES OF LIFE:
1) You believe in Santa Claus.
2) You don't believe in Santa Claus.
3) You are Santa Claus.
4) You look like Santa Claus.
Where do you want to place yourself?
I am 33 and still stage 1.
You?
2007-12-21 03:54:46 · answer #1 · answered by Mirko 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It is real only if you believe in it, do you still get presents from Santa? If you truly want to know go spy on your parents durning this time of year and you will find out. When you have kids you will be Santa to them, don't wait on Santa Claus.
I'm 19, and I no longer believe in Santa and it has been this way for the past 10 years.
2007-12-21 13:13:45 · answer #2 · answered by Cutie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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 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 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 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 may 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.
2007-12-21 10:59:54 · answer #3 · answered by conchobor2 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Saint Nicholas of Myra is the primary inspiration for the Christian figure of Santa Claus. He was a 4th century Christian bishop of Myra in Lycia, a province of the Byzantine Anatolia, now in Turkey. Nicholas was famous for his generous gifts to the poor, in particular presenting the three impoverished daughters of a pious Christian with dowries so that they would not have to become prostitutes. He was very religious from an early age and devoted his life entirely to Christianity. So in this sense, yes he was real.
2007-12-21 12:22:33 · answer #4 · answered by Rachelle_of_Shangri_La 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
yes!!!!
I'm Santa ; >
I'm Santa to my children every year.
Santa is the name of the person who willing to give and never ask for any reply.
2007-12-21 11:49:22 · answer #5 · answered by alan s 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He's real if you believe!! It's all about the magic. :-) As long as you believe that he's real, then no one can take that away from you!
2007-12-21 11:02:11 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
He was real, his spirit is still real, I am 61 and still a believer
2007-12-21 11:01:00 · answer #7 · answered by ruriksson 5 · 5⤊ 0⤋
You have to believe in what you want to believe in.....just make sure you leave a mince pie and glass of milk.......and remember to get your mum to take a bite out of it before she goes to bed!!!!!
2007-12-21 11:00:16 · answer #8 · answered by Me 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think that if you stay up on Christmas eve all night looking at your chimney then maybe you'll find out if he's real or not!
2007-12-21 10:58:01 · answer #9 · answered by Peski 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Hes real!
2007-12-21 23:39:35 · answer #10 · answered by Alex S 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋