2007-12-23 04:07:38 · 25 answers · asked by ♥Anna♥ 3 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
just because something is not right in front of you ...does it mean its not real? just because you have never seen it before doesn't mean it is real...just like say that you have never seen a million dollars...does that mean that it doesn't exist..
you believe in what you want to believe in and not what others want you to......
2007-12-23 06:24:00 · answer #1 · answered by 1 UnIqUe InDiViDuAl 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Santa was based on an actually person. Does Santa give you gifts? No. Does Santa fly on reindeer's? No. Is Santa the a Jolly big ole guy? No. The real Santa died a long time ago. All the other Santa are inspirations of the real Santa.(St. Nicholas)
2007-12-23 12:13:31 · answer #2 · answered by bunnygrl43 5 · 7⤊ 0⤋
IS SANTA REAL
Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus
By Francis P. Church, first published in The New York Sun in 1897. [See The People’s Almanac, pp. 1358–9.]
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
Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical 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 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.
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2007-12-23 13:52:39 · answer #3 · answered by Barkley Hound 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Santa Claus is a mix of stories, some real and some unproven, legends, myths, and cultural beliefs, that have become so intermingled that it is difficult to sort them out anymore. While I don't know of any Biblical backing for believing in the big guy, I don't see any harm in it either. Santa is a great idealized icon for kids of all ages to believe in. In kinda the same reasoning of "I think, therefore I am", maybe there is room for "I believe, therefore he is". He may not be an individual person, but a ideal that
we all can use to help us tap into our more kind and generous natures at Christmastime.
I cast a vote for real.
2007-12-23 12:29:38 · answer #4 · answered by michaelsmaniacal 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Although Santa isn't real, I believe that Santa is part of the spirit of Christmas.
2007-12-23 12:58:20 · answer #5 · answered by Music Addict ♪♫ 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, Santa is real.! Santa is in your heart and will remain there forever more.
2007-12-23 12:39:50 · answer #6 · answered by Tigger 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yeah anyone can be a "Santa". Believing is what makes Christmas fun.
2007-12-23 15:11:06 · answer #7 · answered by kelsi~ 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes Virgina, there is a Santa Clause. Santa did at one time exist. Research it. You'll be surprised.
2007-12-23 12:14:18 · answer #8 · answered by ? 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
well no one knows after the great crash of santa's sleigh, in 1986
2007-12-23 12:13:53 · answer #9 · answered by sgt. pepper 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I think he is real! You just have to believe. Seeing is believing.
2007-12-23 13:52:48 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋