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Re: When Did You Stop Believing In Santa Claus or Father Christmas?
« Reply #20 on: December 12, 2007, 01:26:42 pm »
In the third grade everyone had decided there was no Santa, but me. It was weird. I was so hard headed I was not going to give up on him and incured quite a bit of riticule about it. The next year I just didn;t want to talk about it.  :'(
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Re: When Did You Stop Believing In Santa Claus or Father Christmas?
« Reply #21 on: December 12, 2007, 01:28:15 pm »
I'm just a big old Scrooge anyway.

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Re: When Did You Stop Believing In Santa Claus or Father Christmas?
« Reply #22 on: December 12, 2007, 01:29:08 pm »
I'm just a big old Scrooge anyway.

Better that than a Tiny Tim. ...
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Re: When Did You Stop Believing In Santa Claus or Father Christmas?
« Reply #23 on: December 12, 2007, 03:18:59 pm »
I still believe!!
I think the following is one of the most beautiful and meaningful things to ever come from an editorial!

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"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.

 
   
 
 
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Re: When Did You Stop Believing In Santa Claus or Father Christmas?
« Reply #24 on: December 12, 2007, 03:22:30 pm »
this is the craziest poll I ever saw...I am gonna start one that asks..."Do you believe in the sun?"

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Cute poem Lee!

And do you know i really can't remember but I still remeber to this day the beardy smeall coming from the milk I had left out for Santa - to this day i still swear it smells of beard! The memory is so vivid.
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Re: When Did You Stop Believing In Santa Claus or Father Christmas?
« Reply #25 on: December 12, 2007, 03:22:55 pm »

"I still believe a little, but I mostly don't believe.."


This sounded so cute, I voted that way.  :P


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Re: When Did You Stop Believing In Santa Claus or Father Christmas?
« Reply #26 on: December 12, 2007, 03:24:20 pm »
Oy vey!

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Re: When Did You Stop Believing In Santa Claus or Father Christmas?
« Reply #27 on: December 12, 2007, 03:48:06 pm »
I'm just a big old Scrooge anyway.

Your not that big.  :-*
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Re: When Did You Stop Believing In Santa Claus or Father Christmas?
« Reply #28 on: December 12, 2007, 03:55:51 pm »

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Re: When Did You Stop Believing In Santa Claus or Father Christmas?
« Reply #29 on: December 12, 2007, 04:24:55 pm »
Let us not forget. ...

Grandma got run over by a reindeer
Walkin' home from our house Christmas Eve.
Some folks say there's no such thing as Santa,
But as for me and Grandpa, we believe!

 :laugh:  :laugh:  :laugh:
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