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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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  • Paull said:
    Also if you cannot offer your own words to the debate and just keep on copying and pasting things from other sources then what does that tell people about your own level of wisdom.

    Clearly you have no awareness of the saying "stood on the shoulders of giants".  How do you think anyone got anywhere without learning from the information of others pray tell?

    If you seriously think that quoting others shows unintelligence then there is less hope for you than I thought before (and that was barely any!).  Every scientist who cites other sources must be such dimwits by your logic.

    I surmise it says a lot more for my intelligence that I am both humble and enquiring enough to seek sources of wisdom from others, than that of someone who glaringly and pointedly ignores parts of posts that he cannot answer and cherry picks to repeat the same tired (and incorrect) sentences whilst ignoring every source of information presented to him.

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  • Paull said:
    Also if you cannot offer your own words to the debate and just keep on copying and pasting things from other sources then what does that tell people about your own level of wisdom.

    Clearly you have no awareness of the saying "stood on the shoulders of giants".  How do you think anyone got anywhere without learning from the information of others pray tell?

    If you seriously think that quoting others shows unintelligence then there is less hope for you than I thought before (and that was barely any!).  Every scientist who cites other sources must be such dimwits by your logic.

    I surmise it says a lot more for my intelligence that I am both humble and enquiring enough to seek sources of wisdom from others, than that of someone who glaringly and pointedly ignores parts of posts that he cannot answer and cherry picks to repeat the same tired (and incorrect) sentences whilst ignoring every source of information presented to him.

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