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Is Santa silly?

Arran

I'm writing this as someone who doesn't celebrate Christmas in either a religious or cultural sense. From a young age I was told that Santa doesn't exist and is just a silly hoax that parents play on their kids. It never affected me in any bad way and neither was I expecting to find wrapped presents mysteriously appear on the morning of the 25th day of December. If anybody in my family received a Christmas gift then it was usually opened on the same day. A downside to this is that even from the age of 4 or 5 I went round telling kids at school "Father Christmas isn't real, it's all made up, your parents buy Christmas presents from the shops" which often resulted in me getting into trouble whenever they got upset. I once had to report to the head teacher after completely reducing a classmate to tears.

Is the concept of Santa a silly nonsense or is it part of the joys of childhood? Do you tell your own children the truth or would you prefer to go along with the cultural norm? Is pleasing one's classmates more important than knowing the truth? What about children at school who follow different religions so do not celebrate Christmas - where do they fit in?

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  • IntenseWorld said:

    I'd be cracking up laughing at what you said if it wasn't a tad concerning that you really think like that.

    In science, there are many things that are true but that cannot be proven.  Can you see gravity?  No.  All you can see is the effects of gravity, so do we all have weakened minds because we believe in it?

    Nobody can see gravity but we can have enough evidence from scientists that it exists, thereby we can almost certainly conclude it's existence. Things that may be true but which one cannot physically see can all be judged in such ways such as when several people pick out the same suspect from a line up we can conclude that it's highly likely that the suspect committed the crime and that along with other evidence can solidify the probability and make a concrete judgement, despite not seeing the crime or the suspect it's possible to make an almost certain conclusion.

    Truth and lies are the collective consciousness of society, a society that accepts lies becomes dark, a society that does not accept lies becomes bright. Small lies may seem trivial but they are the seeds of bigger lies, therefore filling a child's head with lies is far from harmless fun.

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  • IntenseWorld said:

    I'd be cracking up laughing at what you said if it wasn't a tad concerning that you really think like that.

    In science, there are many things that are true but that cannot be proven.  Can you see gravity?  No.  All you can see is the effects of gravity, so do we all have weakened minds because we believe in it?

    Nobody can see gravity but we can have enough evidence from scientists that it exists, thereby we can almost certainly conclude it's existence. Things that may be true but which one cannot physically see can all be judged in such ways such as when several people pick out the same suspect from a line up we can conclude that it's highly likely that the suspect committed the crime and that along with other evidence can solidify the probability and make a concrete judgement, despite not seeing the crime or the suspect it's possible to make an almost certain conclusion.

    Truth and lies are the collective consciousness of society, a society that accepts lies becomes dark, a society that does not accept lies becomes bright. Small lies may seem trivial but they are the seeds of bigger lies, therefore filling a child's head with lies is far from harmless fun.

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