I did. I remember even when it sounded absolutely absurd to me, I kept believing for a few years because I figured it was not worth losing out on presents.
Poll: Did you believe in Santa Claus?
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Yes I used to believe in Santa, I was raised christian and lived it up with my idea of santa until age about 7.
I also believed in god until age about 17. Now when I hear someone talking about how they still believe in god I hear the same thing that I did on the playground all those years ago. Its quite comical.(when I tell people I'm atheist they feel a need to justify themselves to me)
I also believed in god until age about 17. Now when I hear someone talking about how they still believe in god I hear the same thing that I did on the playground all those years ago. Its quite comical.(when I tell people I'm atheist they feel a need to justify themselves to me)
I didn't, then again my parents never tought me he was real that info only came from TV.Daystar Clarion said:
well when you call somebodies beliefs "comical", it's not only uncalled for and rude, but you put them on the defense. You could try being like a civil person and not mocking everybody who has an opinion on the divine that you don't agree with.Echo Delta said:
I never did. My parents told me a whole lot about the historical saint instead. I still watched movies about Santa anyway, so I never really felt left out, except when everybody was talking about how they still believed in him in school. I actually just let people go on believing in him too. I was a pretty nice kid I guess.
Also, my dad is a minister, so I guess that puts me in a bit of a weird category in the OP's opinion, considering he imagined that the people raised to believe in Santa would be irreligious. I guess I might be a statistical outlier.
Also, my dad is a minister, so I guess that puts me in a bit of a weird category in the OP's opinion, considering he imagined that the people raised to believe in Santa would be irreligious. I guess I might be a statistical outlier.
Yup still do.
Santa is a better being to believe in tha God, Alah, Jesus, or whatever. No plagues, no dying for sins, no suicide bombers, nothing bad. The worst you get with Ol' St. Nick is coal for being a jerk.
What's so bad about believing in a fat man who brings children presents one night a year. It's not any different than Jesus, the Tooth Fairy, God, Bigfoot, Zeus, or the Jersey Devil.
I'll take Kris Kringle over any other mythical figure.
Santa is a better being to believe in tha God, Alah, Jesus, or whatever. No plagues, no dying for sins, no suicide bombers, nothing bad. The worst you get with Ol' St. Nick is coal for being a jerk.
What's so bad about believing in a fat man who brings children presents one night a year. It's not any different than Jesus, the Tooth Fairy, God, Bigfoot, Zeus, or the Jersey Devil.
I'll take Kris Kringle over any other mythical figure.
Throughout my childhood, I never realized that it was my father who dressed up as Santa.
However, he chose to do so by means of the cheapest of cheap-ass Santa costumes available, complete with a slightly creepy cardboard mask with a bit of cotton fluff hanging off it because anything that actually resembled a beard would likely have doubled the cost of the whole getup. I never suspected a thing - I simply KNEW, right from the start, that it was SOMEONE in a disguise.
I had never been told any of that jazz about him living on the North Pole and using flying reindeer and so on. My parents settled for the more basic explaination that Santa was a guy who brought presents every Christmas - so I just figured he was a municipal employee of some sort.
Seriously, why not? There were people who come over and empty our septic tank once a year, there was a man who cleaned out our chimney once a year - it made perfect sense that there might be a man somewhere on some municipal payroll whose duties included donning that weird red uniform once a year, hiding his identity with a mask (which clearly couldn't have been designed for any other purpose), and making gift deliveries to local households.
I was a kid, remember. I understood that poop had to be transported off the premises, I understood that presents had to be transported onto the premises, and I understood that there had to be people who made these things happen.
Yeah. My idea of Santa Claus was a mysterious masked delivery guy employed by the local government.
However, he chose to do so by means of the cheapest of cheap-ass Santa costumes available, complete with a slightly creepy cardboard mask with a bit of cotton fluff hanging off it because anything that actually resembled a beard would likely have doubled the cost of the whole getup. I never suspected a thing - I simply KNEW, right from the start, that it was SOMEONE in a disguise.
I had never been told any of that jazz about him living on the North Pole and using flying reindeer and so on. My parents settled for the more basic explaination that Santa was a guy who brought presents every Christmas - so I just figured he was a municipal employee of some sort.
Seriously, why not? There were people who come over and empty our septic tank once a year, there was a man who cleaned out our chimney once a year - it made perfect sense that there might be a man somewhere on some municipal payroll whose duties included donning that weird red uniform once a year, hiding his identity with a mask (which clearly couldn't have been designed for any other purpose), and making gift deliveries to local households.
I was a kid, remember. I understood that poop had to be transported off the premises, I understood that presents had to be transported onto the premises, and I understood that there had to be people who made these things happen.
Yeah. My idea of Santa Claus was a mysterious masked delivery guy employed by the local government.
I believed it up until in hit the big 10. I really started to question "magic exists, he can go to every house in the world overnight" theory at that age.
I had the same thing. My mom taught me and my sister about Saint Nicholas (the historical basis for Santa Claus) but never told us that he would come every Christmas to give us presents, provided that we had been good all year. Though she did tell us not to tell other kids that Santa didn't exist.Revnak said:
Nope. We didn't even find out what the guy in the red suit that popped up all over the place on ads and banners was supposed to be until I asked, and mum told me that some parents tell their kids that he brings the Christmas presents from the North Pole, but she didn't see any reason to lie and tell us that.
Yes I believed. And I remember being a smug little bastard when I figured out he wasn't.
I went to my mother, and with one conspiratorial eyebrow raised, asked her "If Santa Claus was really real."
She then proceeded to say that he was real in the hearts and minds of etcetera. And I was all, "Yeah, but he's not, you know, really real, is he. I mean, you can tell me. I think I deserve the truth."
I thought I was the king of the universe for deducing such a thing all by myself. Oh, to be even younger, stupider and more arrogant than I am now.
[small]And thank-you, Escapist, for not getting all high-and-mighty, "as if I would be stupid enough to believe that religious indoctrination" and so on. That gets bloody tedious sometimes.[/small]
I went to my mother, and with one conspiratorial eyebrow raised, asked her "If Santa Claus was really real."
She then proceeded to say that he was real in the hearts and minds of etcetera. And I was all, "Yeah, but he's not, you know, really real, is he. I mean, you can tell me. I think I deserve the truth."
I thought I was the king of the universe for deducing such a thing all by myself. Oh, to be even younger, stupider and more arrogant than I am now.
[small]And thank-you, Escapist, for not getting all high-and-mighty, "as if I would be stupid enough to believe that religious indoctrination" and so on. That gets bloody tedious sometimes.[/small]
I never believed in Santa Clause for some reason. I find it hard to believe others did, even if they were very young.