Is Santa fake?

submitted by [deleted] from imgur.com

all 14 comments
sorted by:
top
newinsightfulfun

[–]magnora7 11 insightful - 5 fun11 insightful - 4 fun12 insightful - 5 fun -  (2 children)

I know people who work for global billion-dollar corporations, who then think humans are not capable of the organization necessary to do some of the scams we see in the world...

But like they say, it's very hard to get a man to realize the truth when his salary depends upon it

[–]C3P0 8 insightful - 9 fun8 insightful - 8 fun9 insightful - 9 fun -  (1 child)

You know people who work at Walmart?

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 4 fun3 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

Oh fuck dude, that made me bust out laughing!

[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

teaching kids that there is a santa and then eventually they find out you lied to them is a terrible tradition

we told our son and daughter the truth, and its worked out much better, we still talk about santa but they know its fake, its like a game, and my uncle wears a santa suit for them, its much more fun then lying to them, i hope everyone starts doing this

[–]whistlepig 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Yea. My parents have a high level of that mid-western honesty in them. Especially my mother, and discovering that she had lied to me really rocked my world view.

[–]jet199 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I think most kids use this experience to feel they are really smart for working it out.

Except my cousin who believed in Father Christmas until he was 13 because "my mum and dad don't earn enough money to pay for all the presents I get." I mean he wasn't wrong ...

[–]madcow-5 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah I don’t get the purpose of it.

[–]whereswhat 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I tend to agree with this approach but perhaps there is some value in the childhood experience of learning adults can lie about something like santa? I'm on the fence still I guess.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

yeah I think it's good for kids however one problem is kids at first I think are mad at their parents, the parents lied to them, not society, of course I think parents don't understand why we do this either. The santa myth was started by corporations looking to damage the parent child bond. It's slightly mixed in with christianity so parents feel like it is a good thing.

[–]Urkleburkle 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Ackchyually ... Santa Claus is based on Saint Nicolas, who was a real person. He was a cardinal in Turkey, IIRC.

(which makes him better documented than Jesus)

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

he was at the council of Nicaea, where christianity was invented, making him so famous might have been done to give free thinkers a breadcrumb to follow a rabbithole to discover the truth about reality.

[–]LaurynHill 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I see Santa everyday at the gas station out here in Ithaca

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

santa thing made me into an atheist

[–]iDontShift 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

MORPHEUS: The machines[egos] tell elegant lies.

https://gist.github.com/MSch/4f3e13343d5fc7d53c2e#file-matrix-md