Is Santa Claus real

[actaeon277]

 

[IndianaSoloMcfly]

Wait..... santa isnt Really...REAL?

 

[Spear Dane]

That is awesome. Thank you.

 

[MrsGungho]

I live by that philosophy to this day.

You must believe to receive, and I explain it that way

 

[churchmouse]

Had this talk with my 11 year old G-daughter last year. When she figured out that I really did not know Santa. Up until that time she was convinced I had his number on speed dial.

 

[MrsGungho]

Had this talk with my 11 year old G-daughter last year. When she figured out that I really did not know Santa. Up until that time she was convinced I had his number on speed dial.

My father-in-law wears the long white beard and hair, year round. He dresses as Santa every year and goes to hospitals and such.

Explain that to a child who truly believes in Santa.

We told our son that Santa needs lots of helpers around the world to help him. That Grandpa is one that was chosen to dress up as Santa. Pretty big deal when your Grandpa is Santa.

 

[churchmouse]

My father-in-law wears the long white beard and hair, year round. He dresses as Santa every year and goes to hospitals and such.

Explain that to a child who truly believes in Santa.

We told our son that Santa needs lots of helpers around the world to help him. That Grandpa is one that was chosen to dress up as Santa. Pretty big deal when your Grandpa is Santa.

My sisters 1st Hubby (deceased) put on the Christmas thing at the Catholic school he was associated with. He had all the Santa gear. I did the Santa thing for a couple of years. The big belly pillow and all. It was fun. When he took sick that all ended.

 

[AGarbers]

I had to play Santa for a family when I was in my mid-20s. It was pure irony because I weighed 133 pounds soaking wet. It was fun.

 

[rob63]

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 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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"Is There a Santa Claus?" reprinted from the September 21, 1897, number of The New York Sun.

 

[BiscuitsandGravy]

I live by that philosophy to this day.

You must believe to receive, and I explain it that way

QFT. Merry Christmas.

 

[churchmouse]

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 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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"Is There a Santa Claus?" reprinted from the September 21, 1897, number of The New York Sun.

Thank you.

 

[worddoer]

Pfft...I don't know what you guys are thinking. I know Santa Claus is real. It's Tim Allen! I watched all 3 documentaries he made. They were quite educational and informative.

 

[Hatin Since 87]

That was awesome act! Even as adults we need to read and take in things like this sometimes. Thank you for sharing this.

 

[Dirtebiker]

My sisters 1st Hubby (deceased) put on the Christmas thing at the Catholic school he was associated with. He had all the Santa gear. I did the Santa thing for a couple of years. The big belly pillow and all. It was fun. When he took sick that all ended.

Yeah... pillow..... riiight!

 

[jzwhts]

Yep, he is real. I have been financing him for years!!!

 

[churchmouse]

Yeah... pillow..... riiight!

I was a much thinner version of my current self back then.

 

[melensdad]

Santa is a lot more realistic than Socialism