Santa?

I know very well why people are being jerks, Hank. I just felt like pointing out how ridiculous they are.

 

We take pleasure in answering thus prominently the communication below, expressing at the same time our great gratification that its faithful author is numbered among the friends of The Sun:

    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

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 you 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 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, 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 lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay 10 times 10,000 years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.

Francis P. Church, New York Sun, 1897​

 

the jokes i made had nothing to do with who started the thread and were made simply in jest so don't be so quick to paint everyone with the same brush.

 

If you don't think it applies to you, then it doesn't apply to you ... I'm supposed to call everybody out by name just so you don't get all butthurt.

My deepest apologies.

Helloooooooooo everyone, my comments did not mean to include txsportsscribe. Anyone else want to alleviate their guilty feelings?

 

Rubbish.

 

Flash's command of the less-than-fabulous search function at this site scares me more than there being no Santa.

 

LOL ... I was just about to tell the pantyhose story, when I remembered I had already last year and didn't feel like retelling it.

 

I need a good pantyhose story. Feel free to PM me the link!

 

by someone trying to say santa isn't real or by someone posting a judge reinhold photo?

 

Page 2 of the link I posted earlier!

 

I saw that the thread was about Santa not existing and stopped reading. Never would have guessed it included a pantyhose story!

 

Now, now, remember everyone. Santa's watching!

Or at least having one of his elves monitor this board.