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Thread ID: 143129	2016-11-26 19:39:00	Oh No!!! Don't tell me now......	kenj (9738)	PC World Chat

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1429221	2016-11-26 19:39:00	After all these wonderful years of Santa worship, some prick tells me it is not true....... www.stuff.co.nz Ken 🤐	kenj (9738)
1429222	2016-11-27 03:45:00	I am totally gutted.:( Next thing it will be the tooth fairy.	Marnie (4574)
1429223	2016-11-27 03:48:00	And Sasquatch :(	Zippity (58)
1429224	2016-11-27 04:02:00	In rebuttal, I say, bah, humbug: “YES, VIRGINIA, THERE IS A SANTA CLAUS” Eight-year-old Virginia O’Hanlon wrote a letter to the editor of New York’s Sun, and the quick response was printed as an unsigned editorial Sept. 21, 1897. The work of veteran newsman Francis Pharcellus Church has since become history’s most reprinted newspaper editorial, appearing in part or whole in dozens of languages in books, movies, and other editorials, and on posters and stamps THE EDITORIAL DEAR EDITOR: I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa says, ‘If you see it in THE SUN it’s so.’ Please tell me the truth; is there a Santa Claus? VIRGINIA O’HANLON. 115 WEST NINETY-FIFTH STREET. VIRGINIA, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men’s or children’s, are little. In this great universe of ours man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge. Yes, VIRGINIA, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus. It would be as dreary as if there were no VIRGINIAS. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished. Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies! You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas Eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if they did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that’s no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world. You may tear apart the baby’s rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, VIRGINIA, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding. No Santa Claus! Thank God! he lives, and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood. Merry Christmas Ken :)	WalOne (4202)
1429225	2016-11-27 10:44:00	Santa is not only real, John Key is betting the farm that Santa is as good at sleight as he is with Sleighs. Speights need not enter into this, it's needed elsewhere for those slightly sleighted. ;)	R2x1 (4628)
1429226	2016-11-27 18:24:00	I never told son the santa story. SIL, one year, had a problem, she couldn't afford the kids requests and they kept saying what had they done wrong? Easy with son, if it was expensive we told him so and he'd adjust his request. He was pretty good, didn't comment to those kids he knew who did believe it. "Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies! You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas Eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if they did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that’s no proof that they are not there. " That's what I'd expect from a county that is so religious, same thing, invisible beings in the sky controlling everything.....	pctek (84)
1429227	2016-11-27 19:28:00	SIL, one year, had a problem, she couldn't afford the kids requests and they kept saying what had they done wrong? SIL made that problem for herself. Looks to me as though she may have used Santa as a disciplinary threat ("if you don't do this/that, Santa won't bring you any pressies") Easy with son, if it was expensive we told him so and he'd adjust his request. Way to go. :thumbs: "Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies! You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas Eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if they did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that’s no proof that they are not there. " 120 years later, still a brilliant piece of prose, written with all the right motives in mind. Lighten up pctek lest we give you the nickname Wicked Witch of the West. Oops, that was another device engineered to enforce discipline :lol:	WalOne (4202)
1429228	2016-11-27 19:28:00	I bet you don't believe in the Easter Bunny either pctek :) Ken	kenj (9738)
1429229	2016-11-27 23:03:00	No need to worry, it will all be over within 10 years. HERE (www.stuff.co.nz) :crying	B.M. (505)
1429230	2016-11-28 01:38:00	No need to worry, it will all be over within 10 years. HERE (www.stuff.co.nz) :crying Not only that, but before then Santa's workshop at the North Pole will have sunk without trace when the ice melts.	Terry Porritt (14)
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