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How can we make adults believe in Santa?

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How can we make adults believe in Santa?
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RE: How can we make adults believe in Santa?
March 23, 2015 at 12:49 pm
(March 23, 2015 at 9:30 am)Nestor Wrote: [

But who's going to play devil's advocate? (Fun fact since Christopher Hitchens was mentioned by Nutter: The Vatican invited Hitch to play devil's advocate at Mother Teresa's beatification in 2002).

Wow, talk about letting the Lion into the sheep's pen! Did he feast or famine?
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RE: How can we make adults believe in Santa?
March 23, 2015 at 1:16 pm
(March 21, 2015 at 11:47 am)robvalue Wrote: Maybe some public executions of asantists.

How about we all just drown them in the world's biggest pool:
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RE: How can we make adults believe in Santa?
March 23, 2015 at 1:50 pm
(March 23, 2015 at 1:16 pm)Judi Lynn Wrote:
(March 21, 2015 at 11:47 am)robvalue Wrote: Maybe some public executions of asantists.

How about we all just drown them in the world's biggest pool:
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Where is that?
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RE: How can we make adults believe in Santa?
March 23, 2015 at 2:33 pm
The San Alfonso del Mar resort in Algarrobo, Chile, is home to the Crystal Lagoon, otherwise known as the world’s largest pool.
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RE: How can we make adults believe in Santa?
March 23, 2015 at 2:43 pm
(March 23, 2015 at 2:33 pm)Judi Lynn Wrote: The San Alfonso del Mar resort in Algarrobo, Chile, is home to the Crystal Lagoon, otherwise known as the world’s largest pool.

I like how the design of the pool reflects the pattern of the waves coming onto the beach. Of course that just reflects my personal preference...no judgement is implied...Cool Shades
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RE: How can we make adults believe in Santa?
March 23, 2015 at 2:53 pm
That's one hell of a pool.
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RE: How can we make adults believe in Santa?
March 23, 2015 at 3:46 pm
We could set up critical thinking tests for children. Any scoring more than 25% are possessed by that mental anti-Santa demon thing and must be destroyed in front of the other children as a message of the danger of thinking about stuff.
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RE: How can we make adults believe in Santa?
March 23, 2015 at 4:45 pm
(March 23, 2015 at 3:46 pm)robvalue Wrote: We could set up critical thinking tests for children. Any scoring more than 25% are possessed by that mental anti-Santa demon thing and must be destroyed in front of the other children as a message of the danger of thinking about stuff.
They should be caned with a candy cane Wink
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RE: How can we make adults believe in Santa?
March 23, 2015 at 5:45 pm
Spare the cane, spoil the child.
Poe's Law: "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing."

10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason...
http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/

Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50

A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh.
http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html

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RE: How can we make adults believe in Santa?
March 23, 2015 at 9:45 pm
Make donating to Santa tax deductible. Adults will buy into it for purely financial reasons. Then their children will grow up praising Santa, and bam, you've got adults believing in Santa.

Starting a new religion, how hard can it be? A bunch of sheep herders did it.
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