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RE: Did you believe in Santa?
April 26, 2015 at 3:58 pm
Did? DID!? Blasphemy of the highest order! If Santa doesn't exist, then presents don't exist! Presents exist, therefore Santa!
Yes, I believed Santa existed. I was told he gives presents to children around the world, despite that this is a christian figure and many people don't have a gift giving mascot for the day that Jesus was supposed to be born. Eventually they tell you to stop believing it, lest you be mocked. Though my parents told me that when I stopped believing in santa, I would stop receiving presents on Christmas. I told my friends this, and that if they caused me to stop getting Christmas presents through mockery or somethign else, I would make them suffer. So I didn't get mocked much by kids from my town when I as a ten+ year old said I believed Santa was real.
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RE: Did you believe in Santa?
April 26, 2015 at 4:14 pm
(April 26, 2015 at 3:45 pm)Neimenovic Wrote: (April 26, 2015 at 3:43 pm)Aroura Wrote: I had to pick other, because you didn't put "no, no one lied to me about it in the first place" up there.
oh, yeah, my bad
I guess that's what the Father Christmas option is for 
Oh yeah! I guess that's closer to what my parents told me as a kid. Can't change my vote now though. Bleh, sorry.
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RE: Did you believe in Santa?
April 26, 2015 at 4:51 pm
(April 26, 2015 at 4:14 pm)Aroura Wrote: (April 26, 2015 at 3:45 pm)Neimenovic Wrote: oh, yeah, my bad
I guess that's what the Father Christmas option is for
Oh yeah! I guess that's closer to what my parents told me as a kid. Can't change my vote now though. Bleh, sorry.
It's alright
it's funny how santa is so iconic I didn't even think someone wasn't told to believe in him, that's kinda crazy
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RE: Did you believe in Santa?
April 26, 2015 at 5:12 pm
(April 26, 2015 at 4:51 pm)Neimenovic Wrote: (April 26, 2015 at 4:14 pm)Aroura Wrote: Oh yeah! I guess that's closer to what my parents told me as a kid. Can't change my vote now though. Bleh, sorry.
It's alright
it's funny how santa is so iconic I didn't even think someone wasn't told to believe in him, that's kinda crazy
You think it is crazy for someone to be honest with their children?
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RE: Did you believe in Santa?
April 26, 2015 at 5:16 pm
(April 26, 2015 at 5:12 pm)Pyrrho Wrote: (April 26, 2015 at 4:51 pm)Neimenovic Wrote: It's alright
it's funny how santa is so iconic I didn't even think someone wasn't told to believe in him, that's kinda crazy
You think it is crazy for someone to be honest with their children?
No, I meant that it's crazy that belief in santa is so popular that it didn't cross my mind that there are parents who don't lie to their children
It's insane that a lie is so common it's strange to hear someone wasn't lied to
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RE: Did you believe in Santa?
April 26, 2015 at 5:19 pm
I believed in Santa until I was around 4 or 5. I just worked through the story, saw the flaws (we have airplanes... how come no one has ever found his castle? Why do the toys he makes have the Hasbro logo on them? How can he deliver so many presents to so many kids in one night and not be noticed?), and came to the conclusion he didn't exist. My older brothers were a little shocked and dismayed that I figured it out so quickly, but my parents didn't care because I wasn't upset about it or anything.
I really didn't care where the presents came from. 
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RE: Did you believe in Santa?
April 26, 2015 at 5:24 pm
I was convinced he existed for a while. At some point it transitioned from me genuinely believing and me only believing because I didn't think about it. I don't know when this was, but I know it happened because in 5th grade (I think) when my mother asked me asked me whether or not Santa was real, it occurred to me that the correct answer was probably 'no'. I was a bit upset, but only because I had been lied to for all those years. The truth about the tooth fairy was generally revealed one year before that in family. We had never been told that the Easter Bunny was real, though. Mall Santas were explained as being people who reported wish lists to Santa.
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RE: Did you believe in Santa?
April 26, 2015 at 8:06 pm
Even with relativistic speed reindeer, Santa cannot possibly visit every house in 24 hours.
And with relativistic reindeer, the shockwaves, and radiated heat would DESTROY the earth's surface.
An object of appreciable size (like Santa/sleigh/reindeer) travelling at 99.99% the speed of light in earth's atmosphere would induce nuclear fusion reactions in the water vapor, nitrogen and oxygen in the air. It would be the equivalent of a very large atomic bomb detonation literally every mile of the way he travelled. The fireworks would be visible from other planets !!
The devastation would be total, the earth would be sterilized.
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RE: Did you believe in Santa?
April 26, 2015 at 8:21 pm
Of course. I was indoctrinated into Santa Clausism. I think I was in 4th grade when I heard kids talking about it, and it made sense that he didn't exist. I stopped believing, then my parents ended up telling me anyway not long after that.
God is like santa claus for adults. Except your parents don't tell you to stop believing in god, you have to be smart enough to do that on your own.
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RE: Did you believe in Santa?
April 26, 2015 at 8:30 pm
(This post was last modified: April 26, 2015 at 8:33 pm by IATIA.)
I never really believed or disbelieved in Santa. By the time I was aware enough to acknowledge the possibility, I started asking questions and the answers did not make sense (basically the same answers theists give when queried about their 'Santa'). I did, however, let my siblings continue in their belief.
(April 26, 2015 at 8:06 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: Even with relativistic speed reindeer, Santa cannot possibly visit every house in 24 hours.
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