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Does Santa exist?

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Does Santa exist?
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Does Santa exist?
July 25, 2013 at 9:04 pm
When i ask for presents and i have been good i get those presents when i don't get those presents it means i've been bad..........

thoughts, questions, concerns?

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RE: Does Santa exist?
July 25, 2013 at 9:10 pm (This post was last modified: July 25, 2013 at 9:10 pm by Tea Earl Grey Hot.)
Well, of course. Belief in Santa is a Properly Basic Belief. I have to believe in Santa in order to make sense of how the presents I get on Christmas morning got there.
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RE: Does Santa exist?
July 25, 2013 at 9:38 pm
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RE: Does Santa exist?
July 25, 2013 at 9:46 pm
Proof that Santa is real:

[Image: 275px-Twas_the_Night_Before_Christmas_-_..._17135.jpg]
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RE: Does Santa exist?
July 26, 2013 at 12:10 am
I'm a presuppositional Santa believer: you A-Santaists just don't have a coherent worldview without presupposing the existence of Santa. How can you know anything, without an all benevolent present giver at the North Pole?
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RE: Does Santa exist?
July 26, 2013 at 12:33 am (This post was last modified: July 26, 2013 at 12:34 am by Tea Earl Grey Hot.)
If Santa doesn't exist, why is it you buy presents for people when the holidays come around? Obviously it's because you know in your heart Saint Nick exists and you're trying to stay on his nice list.
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RE: Does Santa exist?
July 26, 2013 at 2:40 am
Santa is an invention by Coca Cola to market their product better, he is based on a byzantian medieval saint of the the eastern orthodox churches who lived in Anatolia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Nicholas




And that is exactly how I would explain it to a 7 year old! Big Grin
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RE: Does Santa exist?
July 26, 2013 at 2:43 am (This post was last modified: July 26, 2013 at 2:44 am by Kayenneh.)
Yes. Santa exists. I have proof.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FReZqgTjS8I

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugT9uPG51Ko
When I was young, there was a god with infinite power protecting me. Is there anyone else who felt that way? And was sure about it? but the first time I fell in love, I was thrown down - or maybe I broke free - and I bade farewell to God and became human. Now I don't have God's protection, and I walk on the ground without wings, but I don't regret this hardship. I want to live as a person. -Arina Tanemura

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RE: Does Santa exist?
July 26, 2013 at 3:39 am
Whenever I ask my wife what the hell happened to our bank accounts in December, she says 'Shhhh....Santa'. I guess that makes him real, and her his accomplice?

I can't wait to shift blame on national 'Snort Blow Off a Hooker's Ass Day' now...
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RE: Does Santa exist?
July 26, 2013 at 3:52 am
The Ontological argument. If we can imagine Santa then he has the capacity for existence and therefore he exists.

Or - if we can imagine a world with Santa then all worlds have Santa.
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