How did you found out Santa wasn't real?
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I asked my mom at age 9. Also found out about the tooth fairy and the easter bunny the same day, from the same conversation.
Thankfully I had an older brother deadset on blowin the lid off the Santa conspiracy from a very young age... thankfully I'm also naive.
As far as I'm concerned I've never stopped believing in Santa Claus; his name has just come to mean something else. Sure there was the year when I crawled to the top of the stairs and saw my parents decorating the tree, but by that point I was quite certain that a mystical red elf didn't slide down our woodstove chimney and magically pull exactly what I had asked my parents for out of his bag.
To me Santa is prosperity: a symbol drawn upon the late 19th century image of the robber baron, yet unlike his Gilded Age character model, he is benevolent with his wealth, instead choosing to bless those that still believe in the good of mankind. And as long as I can feed my family and provide for them in every way that I can, then I have no shame in admitting that I do play that role in keeping the spirit of St. Nicholas alive.
As far as I'm concerned I've never stopped believing in Santa Claus; his name has just come to mean something else. Sure there was the year when I crawled to the top of the stairs and saw my parents decorating the tree, but by that point I was quite certain that a mystical red elf didn't slide down our woodstove chimney and magically pull exactly what I had asked my parents for out of his bag.
To me Santa is prosperity: a symbol drawn upon the late 19th century image of the robber baron, yet unlike his Gilded Age character model, he is benevolent with his wealth, instead choosing to bless those that still believe in the good of mankind. And as long as I can feed my family and provide for them in every way that I can, then I have no shame in admitting that I do play that role in keeping the spirit of St. Nicholas alive.
Yeah, I still believe in Sanat. He's a pretty cool guy.SeanTheSheep said:
As for me, my parents never did it. They didn't want to lie to me.
Always knew it was just some dude (usually one I knew) dressed up as Santa, and never really understood why they bothered with it. I got my chocolate anyway, why all the fuss?
eh...nothing special. Friend told me, didn't believe it at first, but eventually I just gave in. However, I tried to convince my grandparents I still believed out of fear that if they knew I didn't believe, "Santa" would stop bringing me presents.
It turned into one of my "dammit, I know it isn't real, but I wish it was" things...much like magic in general =_="...and incidentally Pokemon at one point.
"Common sense" and "reality" is a dull, boring *****...
It turned into one of my "dammit, I know it isn't real, but I wish it was" things...much like magic in general =_="...and incidentally Pokemon at one point.
"Common sense" and "reality" is a dull, boring *****...
Well that is just rudaolph that doesn't exist. Santa can fly you know!liveslowdiefast said:For me it was when ruldolph didn't eat the carrot i left for him
My parents felt guilty about lying to me about Santa and so took the initiative to flat out tell me the truth.
Honestly, this whole Santa thing is more of a trap for the adults looking to please their kids than it is the kids themselves.
Lets have another thread about when we found out when God wasn't real...
... no, on second thought, lets definitely not do that.
Honestly, this whole Santa thing is more of a trap for the adults looking to please their kids than it is the kids themselves.
Lets have another thread about when we found out when God wasn't real...
... no, on second thought, lets definitely not do that.
