| Poll: Did you believe in Santa Claus? This poll is closed. |
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| Yes, I was convinced he existed | 14 | 41.18% | |
| Yes, but I didn't think too much about it | 8 | 23.53% | |
| I don't remember | 2 | 5.88% | |
| No, but I didn't pay much attention to it | 2 | 5.88% | |
| No, I always knew it was all lies | 3 | 8.82% | |
| It's Father Christmas, heretic!! Die!! | 0 | 0% | |
| Other | 5 | 14.71% | |
| Total | 34 vote(s) | 100% | |
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Did you believe in Santa?
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Santa is kindness and love. Santa is real.
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Santa is a much more plausible story than certain other ones that are circulating.
I know we "did" Santa, but I can't remember if I actually believed it. Probably I did. I don't remember very much about my childhood. Feel free to send me a private message.
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About the hunt for presents, we would always go to my grandma's for Christmas and so all the presents were there and she would always, and I mean ALWAYS put them in the same spot, year after year
and each year she'd be all 'go look for the presents!' and me and my brother would always find them in the same dang place, no fun seriously, grams, like you're not even trying 
No kidding, I saw this around the time I was in first grade, and I knew Santa was BS.
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 RE: Did you believe in Santa?
April 26, 2015 at 1:31 pm
(This post was last modified: April 26, 2015 at 1:33 pm by Red Economist.)
Voted "Other". I think a kid at primary school told me Santa wasn't real; I didn't believe him but I wasn't sure. So on Christmas Eve I took a ball of string and sellotape and wrapped the string around my room to create a trap to catch Santa, so I'd have proof and more importantly PRESENTS!
 My parents told me to take the 'trap' down as they thought "Santa" wouldn't give me any presents otherwise. I think I must have known he wasn't real after that point. It also helped that I knew which Cupboard my parents hid my birthday presents in. 
It's a very good thing believers in Santa don't have the death penalty for not believing. There would be nobody left alive. Then again, the fear of a punishment for not believing might encourage a loads of people to remain believers.
Other for me. I sort-of believed in him, but couldn't get my head around flying reindeer. I kind of knew it was scientifically impossible, in my 4 year old sort of way. By the time I'd reached 8 or so, I was a non-believer. Jesus and his various make-believe homies followed suit swiftly after
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I had to pick other, because you didn't put "no, no one lied to me about it in the first place" up there.
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― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead  (April 26, 2015 at 12:14 pm)Neimenovic Wrote: Well, did you? No. (April 26, 2015 at 12:14 pm)Neimenovic Wrote: And how did you find out the truth? And how did it make you feel? My mother was not a liar, so I was never lied to about this (other than by people out in the world, who I did not believe, as my mother told me the truth about this). I felt fine about that, that my mother was not a liar who would intentionally mislead me. Seeing how other people were raised did make me think bad thoughts about their parents, that they were a bunch of untrustworthy liars. I remember seeing children cry when they found out the truth about this. Some were extremely upset by it, and it was needless suffering that was inflicted upon them by their parents. It is no wonder that so many grow up to hate their parents, given what so many do to their children. (April 26, 2015 at 12:14 pm)Neimenovic Wrote: I'm asking because I guess I never really did, but my parents didn't go to any length to convince me Why would it make you sad? Do you mean that you would be sad that other people had liars for parents, or that you would be alone in the beliefs you had as a child? "A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence." — David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
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