Seriously CP, your probably the nicest guy i know.Caramel Frappe said:snip
So you are calling me a liar for saying no because I was able to recognize my grandfather's voice when he showed up dressed up as Santa? I never believed in god either despite being in a Christian kindergarten and my parents didn't really care about religion one way or the the other. So despite being fed Christianity I didn't accept it because it didn't make sense and neither did Santa.JoJoDeathunter said:Of-course, up until I was about seven or eight. As far as I know my little sister still believes in him.
Anyone who says no in the poll is lying or mistaken unless their parents never pretended that Santa was real since younger children are programmed to pretty much unconditionally accept whatever their parents teach them, no exceptions.
My family is not religious, but we celebrate all the common holidays. however, my parents never lied to me, about anything. "where did babies come from?", "is 'blank' real?", etc. I found out the truth to everything at 2 years. I was home-schooled til 6th grade. I played TES II Daggerfall at 8 years old. watched R rated movies, and, ironically, I'm lawful good.I Have No Idea said:Given how many atheist/agnostic/non-Christians are on the site, I'm not entirely sure that I'll get a decent response, but I'm going for it anyway (I know some people who participate in Christmas anyways, regardless of religious beliefs). My input is yes, I totally ate up the Santa thing. Great part of my childhood, with so many fun memories.
I was (and still am I suppose since I study it at uni now) very interested in science as a child so around that age I was starting to question things that didn't fit in with it. The clincher was when I was still awake at night and I saw my mum bringing in the presents, she said that he had left them at the front door for me but it was too late. :-DTheDarkEricDraven said:Only seven or eight? That's it? I believed until I was eleven...JoJoDeathunter said:Of-course, up until I was about seven or eight.
Childhood memories are notoriously inaccurate, you probably have retrospectively applied your adult-mindset into your past and forgotten when you did believe. While I don't doubt you recognised your grandfather at that point, unless your parents never attempted to trick you, you certainly would have believed in Santa sometime before then. There's no such thing as a sceptical young child as they don't have enough experience or knowledge to judge the truthfulness of a belief against, that's well-known psychology.Yopaz said:So you are calling me a liar for saying no because I was able to recognize my grandfather's voice when he showed up dressed up as Santa? I never believed in god either despite being in a Christian kindergarten and my parents didn't really care about religion one way or the the other. So despite being fed Christianity I didn't accept it because it didn't make sense and neither did Santa.JoJoDeathunter said:Of-course, up until I was about seven or eight. As far as I know my little sister still believes in him.
Anyone who says no in the poll is lying or mistaken unless their parents never pretended that Santa was real since younger children are programmed to pretty much unconditionally accept whatever their parents teach them, no exceptions.
I knew that Santa wasn't real, but it was a nice tradition and I liked the stories around it so I didn't complain. Christmas wasn't Christmas without Santa, yet I knew that it was fake.