2007-12-21 09:59:19 · 25 answers · asked by Bad Liberal 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I always believed in S but I ALSO secretly knew it was my parents... from the start.
Now that I am 'grown up' I now realize that the fact that I had two contradictory beliefs at the same time was a valuable lesson in how people can delude themselves into believing the most outrageous things.
2007-12-22 09:04:10 · answer #1 · answered by Citizen Justin 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No. I think I already suspected. I slept by the tree one christmas and saw mom putting the presents under the tree. After which I got up and checked to see what was there and it was the same the next morning. I didn't really feel disappointed so I guess I had already figured it out. But kids did make fun of other kids and say cruel things about them being bad when their parents were too poor to buy them anything. Kinda the way rich people who call themselves 'christians' do to poor people and tell them it's their own fault. Another insult to GOD'S good grace. The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away.
2007-12-21 20:26:34 · answer #2 · answered by Constitution 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Maybe I was lucky. Maybe I wasn't. It all depends on your perspective.
As kids, we always opened our presents on Christmas Eve and so, I never believed in Santa Claus. Because Santa never visited my home and my parents told me that Santa wasn't real. Their reasoning was that they didn't want us to doubt God, by thinking that something we believe in later is found to be fake.
I really got my Kindergarten teacher angry because I told the class that Santa was not real.
She got even with me. She told the entire class that I was lying and the principal came in and told the class that Santa was real and gave presents to all the good boys and girls.
Then I was really upset. Because that meant I was never good enough to get a gift from Santa Claus. When I asked the teacher why Santa never visit my house - ever she didn't have an answer.
Maybe that's one reason why my kids open presents on Christmas morning and we do let them believe in Santa Claus.
2007-12-21 18:07:06 · answer #3 · answered by Searcher 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
NO actually. My parents never told me that Santa was real. They told me from the start the it was a lie. They had a good reason behind this. My family is very religious, and before my older sister was born, one of our family friends had just told their son Santa was not real. His reply was "Well if you say that Santa isn't real and I can see him, then you must be lying to me about God because I cant see him." That kid refused to go to church again. My parents didn't want that happening, and they didn't want to lie to me and my sisters, so they just "killed" the whole Santa story for us. I am grateful, because I have a better relationship with my mom then most of my friends, and I think that might have something to do with her not lying to me.
2007-12-21 18:11:25 · answer #4 · answered by marissa 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
No, because to me, Santy was my neighbor and I loved him year round. We all know him as "Chub."
Chub would dress up as Santy Claus and bring a bag of presents to me and my brothers. When my brothers pointed out that Santy was wearing Chub's glasses, it all became clear to me.
I remembered the line in the book, "A Visit From St. Nicholas" that read, "He was CHUBBY and plump..."
I felt so smug knowing that all the other kids thought that Santa lived at the North Pole, but I knew he really lived just a few houses down from me and was the dearest Grampa figure during his "off" time.
2007-12-21 18:12:31 · answer #5 · answered by thezaylady 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
*cries* wel it all happened when i was 8 i was at my aunts (as i am for every christmas) and they put all the kids in a room while "santa" gets ready so i walked out to go to the bathroom and i saw my uncle dressed up as santa putting on his beard so then being the oldest other than myt other cousins who were like 17-21 at the time i rode one of my horses with reindeer antlers ect with my uncles sliegh hooked up filled with toys (the sliegh was older my uncle collects antuiques) and i dressed up as an elf every year i am 12 and i still do!
2007-12-21 21:35:41 · answer #6 · answered by Roxy 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In a way I feel left out. My mother would always tell us the hard facts of life no matter what age. She hated the idea of Christmas was (can somebody say Grinch here?) and we never even had a tree in the house that time of year. In time we came to realize that she was right, but as kids we resented her for that.
2007-12-22 03:47:03 · answer #7 · answered by Starjumper the R&S Cow 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
my mum still tells this story to this day ( to our embarrassment )
when my sister and I were 15 and 16
mum called us into the living room and told us to sit down , as she had some bad news
we prepared for the worst and my sister had tears in her eyes as she expected someone to have died or something
then my mum proceeded to tell us that she had been lying to us for years and that Santa wasn't real
gggrrrr silly woman .... messing with our heads like that lol
she has a weird sense of humour
we really weren't told Santa wasn't real when we were younger , we just kinda figured it out for our self when we were about 8
2007-12-21 18:04:13 · answer #8 · answered by ☮ Pangel ☮ 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
What, Santa is not the one who leaves all the presents? Then who is it? And who eats the cookies? And why else would I have to be good all year?
2007-12-21 18:05:26 · answer #9 · answered by Jen 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No...I knew that already. The whole story was so obviously false, I had to call my mother on it pretty early on in the game because I just couldn't believe it.
Ow, wow - may the force's answer - that's horrible. If you want, we can get together and sue the principal for the intentional infliction of emotional distress...
2007-12-22 16:57:32 · answer #10 · answered by Godless AM™ VT 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋