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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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  • "oh what a tangled web we weave when we first practise to decieve" - and nothing is more fitting of that than the father christmas lie.

    This lie just grows and grows as parents seek to cement the false belief in their childrens minds by lying more and more to cover up the initial lie.

    multiple lies and the questioning mind of a rational child.

    Santa comes down the chimney - How can he get in we don't have a chimney / it's blocked up ?

    Santa eats a mince pie in every house he goes to - Surely thats impossible, he would be really really fat and also sick after eating so much.

    Santa reads your letter you sent to the noth pole - and knows when you've been good or bad - But there are many many children all over the world, how can he know me or even have time to read all those letters.

    Santa's sleigh is driven by reindeer - but how can reindeer fly ?

    Santa delivers presents to all the children in the world in one night - how can he fit all those presents onto the sleigh ? How can he get round every single house in just one night ?

    All the toys are made by elves at the north pole ? But how come my playstation says made in China ? Did eleves really make it ? how ? It's made by sony ?

    Talk about messing with childrens minds. I fear for the rational thinking of anyone who cannot see why filling childrens heads with these lies interferes with their rational thinking.

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  • "oh what a tangled web we weave when we first practise to decieve" - and nothing is more fitting of that than the father christmas lie.

    This lie just grows and grows as parents seek to cement the false belief in their childrens minds by lying more and more to cover up the initial lie.

    multiple lies and the questioning mind of a rational child.

    Santa comes down the chimney - How can he get in we don't have a chimney / it's blocked up ?

    Santa eats a mince pie in every house he goes to - Surely thats impossible, he would be really really fat and also sick after eating so much.

    Santa reads your letter you sent to the noth pole - and knows when you've been good or bad - But there are many many children all over the world, how can he know me or even have time to read all those letters.

    Santa's sleigh is driven by reindeer - but how can reindeer fly ?

    Santa delivers presents to all the children in the world in one night - how can he fit all those presents onto the sleigh ? How can he get round every single house in just one night ?

    All the toys are made by elves at the north pole ? But how come my playstation says made in China ? Did eleves really make it ? how ? It's made by sony ?

    Talk about messing with childrens minds. I fear for the rational thinking of anyone who cannot see why filling childrens heads with these lies interferes with their rational thinking.

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