How did you find out Santa wasn't real ?

slade_x

when the chimney sweeper came and got the sweep stuck in the chimney

sdanseo

A conversation with my Dad when I was 10 or 11 where strong hints were dropped and I wasn't a tool so I figured it out. Tbh, I reckon I lost belief 2 years before that.

WoollyRedHat

Written in the New York Sun, September 21 1897

"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 [what] 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."

Yes Boardsies, there is a santa claus.

CrazyRabbit

I doubt there is an 8 year old today who could read and understand most of that....

How times have changed.

I guess it points out the fact that like God, it doesn't matter if Santa really exists. It's the concept that's important and gives comfort to so many.

Closed ac

I saw this thread title..

OutlawPete

DKZ wrote: »

I saw this thread title..

Well, that's what you get for using Mommy and Daddy's PC ..

Drodan

Lol at above.

I was 8, heard my a rediculous amount of noise out my window on Christmas Eve night when I was asleep but woken up, looked out my window to see my dad carrying in the bike i was getting. Parents told me he was bringing in a golf cart.

Funglegunk

I found out at 7 years old when this muppet

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/45342000/jpg/_45342304_terry.jpg

blabbed about it on The Word on Channel 4. Let that be a lesson not to let your kids watch late night TV.

OutlawPete

Funglegunk wrote: »

I found out at 7 years old when this muppet

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/45342000/jpg/_45342304_terry.jpg

blabbed about it on The Word on Channel 4. Let that be a lesson not to let your kids watch late night TV.

The plus side is though, that when you seen L7 play you got to see a woman's pussy for the first time

Caprisun

a girl i was friends with figured it out when she was 6. how tragic is that?

renko

SANTA'S NOT REAL?!?!?!?

I suppose someone's done that one already.

Funglegunk

OutlawPete wrote: »

The plus side is though, that when you seen L7 play you got to see a woman's pussy for the first time

I don't think I would have appreciated it at the time but yayyy, just youtubed that.

Luno

Caprisun wrote: »

a girl i was friends with figured it out when she was 6. how tragic is that?

Is that girl me ? I found out when I was about 6 but only because my best toy was probably every cupboard and place that would be perfect for hiding presents. Didn't hit me till I was about 8 though

PFJSplitter

How did you find out Santa wasn't real ?

Not Real?

enniscorthy

pikachucheeks wrote: »

My parents told me when I was about 11, so I could help pick out presents for my brother and sister.

We're 21, 18 and 16 now ... and they still give us Santa presents. It's excellent!

This strange man, who was about fourty (I mention age because he should have known better than to say what he said) started talking to me on the bus a few weeks ago...
Got in to a conversation about Christmas being "only five weeks away"
Then, he told me the following...

Him: You have to hear this! This is the funniest story ever! Listen to my story!
Me: Ok, what's the story?
Him: Last Christmas, right? I told my five year old neighbour Santa wasn't real! You should have seen the look on his face! PRICELESS! His mother nearly killed me!

... then he started cackling and laughing like a lunatic.

Poor child.

:eek:

hehehehheeahahahahahahahahehehehahahahohohoho it was 1 of those days sorrryyy heheheh

Princess Zelda

When I found a book hidden that I was getting for Christmas and had it read before Christmas morning....kinda guessed then