does santa claus exist?
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The Easter Bunny is real. Section 32 hid the Truth; there was no third gunman on the grassy knoll. Elvis isn't Dead, we never went to the Moon, the holocaust didn't happen and aliens didn’t visit us from another planet at Roswell, NM in 1947.
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Santa Claus, Saint Nicholas, Saint Nick, Father Christmas, Kriss Kringle, Santy, or simply Santa is a giving figure in various cultures who distributes presents to children, traditionally on Christmas Eve. Each name is a variation of Saint Nicholas, but refers to Santa Claus.\n\nFather Christmas is a well-loved figure in many countries and predates the "Santa Claus" character. Many little children are led to believe that Santa Claus is real and he is "in spirit". "Father Christmas" is similar in many ways, though the two have quite different origins. Using 'Santa' in places that predominantly call him 'Father Christmas' is often viewed as an Americanism and is quite rare, although they are generally regarded as the same character. Father Christmas is also present instead of "Santa" in Armenia ("Gaghant Baba"), Denmark ("Julemanden"), Italy ("Babbo Natale"), Brazil ("Papai Noel"), Czech Republic ("Ježíšek"), Portugal ("Pai Natal"), Romania ("Moş Crăciun"), Germany ("Weihnachtsmann" or "Nikolaus"), Ireland & Scottish Highlands ("Daidí na Nollag"), France and French Canada ("Le Père Noël"), Spain and Mexico ("Papá Noel"), Afghanistan ("Baba Chaghaloo"), Iraq and South Africa ("Goosaleh").
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Other people are trying to confuse you with their answers.  There is no Santa Claus.  No one lives at the north pole.  There is no such thing as flying reindeer or elves.  No one is watching you all the time deciding if you are good enough to get presents.  Presents under your tree from Santa are actually put there by your parents because getting those presents is part of the fun of Christmas.
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movie or cartoon? i first thought of Santa Claus is coming to town. yes, im sure thats it. thanx! now its stuck in my head!!!
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My mom told about santa not existing. I had to figure it out for myself about god not existing.
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There was just a program on the Learning Channel about the UFOs in Illinois.  Triangular shaped craft, seen by many in the law enforcement community.  It was a 1/2 hour long documentary.  Yes, there is a Santa Claus............
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Does one  exist in the first place?
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I'll give you £1 if you can give me proof that he is the real Santa.  When I saw him last year I whispered something very special in his ear.  If you can tell me what it was I will pay up the cash - otherwise you can keep him because he is not real.
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Saint Nicholas and the Origin of Santa Claus print version \n\n\n\nBishop St. Nicholas, early American St. Nick, & American Santa, from Santa Claus Comes to America, by Caroline Singer & Cyrus Baldridge, Alfred Knopf, 1942  \n\nHow did the kindly Christian saint, good Bishop Nicholas, become a roly-poly red-suited American symbol for merry holiday festivity and commercial activity?\n\nThe first Europeans to arrive in the New World brought St. Nicholas. Vikings dedicated their cathedral to him in Greenland. On his first voyage, Columbus named a Haitian port for St. Nicholas on December 6, 1492. In Florida, Spaniards named an early settlement St. Nicholas Ferry, now known as Jacksonville. However, St. Nicholas had a difficult time during the 16th century Protestant Reformation which took a dim view of saints. Even though both reformers and counter-reformers tried to stamp out St. Nicholas-related customs, they had very little long-term success; only in England were the religious folk traditions of Christmas permanently altered. (It is ironic that fervent Puritan Christians began what turned into a trend to a more secular Christmas observance.) Because the common people so loved St. Nicholas, he survived on the European continent as people continued to place nuts, apples, and sweets in shoes left beside beds, on windowsills, or before the hearth.\n\n\n"New Year's Hymn to St. Nicholas," colonial Dutch life, Albany, NY. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, March 1881\nSt. Nicholas Center Collection  \nColonists came to America after the Reformation in the 1500s. They were primarily Puritans and other Protestant reformers who did not bring Nicholas traditions to the New World. What about the Dutch? Although it is nearly universally reported that the Dutch did bring St. Nicholas to New Amsterdam, scholars find limited evidence of such traditions in Dutch New Netherland. Colonial Germans in Pennsylvania held the feast of St. Nicholas, and several accounts do have St. Nicholas visiting New York Dutch on New Years' Eve. Patriots formed the Sons of St. Nicholas in 1773, not to honor Bishop Nicholas, but rather as a non-British symbol to counter the English St. George societies. This St. Nicholas society was similar to the Sons of St. Tammany in Philadelphia. Not exactly St. Nicholas, the children's gift-giver.\n\n\nDetail from First Celebration of the Festival of St. Nicholas by The New-York Historical Society, Broadside by Alexander Anderson, December 6, 1810, commissioned by John Pintard, SY 1864-21, negative number 28883 Used by permission \nAfter the American Revolution, New Yorkers remembered with pride the colony's nearly-forgotten Dutch roots. John Pintard, influential patriot and antiquarian, who founded the New York Historical Society in 1804, promoted St. Nicholas as patron saint of both society and city. In January 1809, Washington Irving joined the society and on St. Nicholas Day that year he published the satirical fiction, Knickerbocker's History of New York, which made numerous references to a jolly St. Nicholas character. This was not a saintly bishop, rather an elfin Dutch burgher with a clay pipe. These delightful flights of imagination are the origin of the New Amsterdam St. Nicholas legends: that the first Dutch emigrant ship had a figurehead of St. Nicholas; that St. Nicholas Day was observed in the colony; that the first church was dedicated to him: and that St. Nicholas comes down chimneys to bring gifts. Irving's work was regarded as the "first notable work of imagination in the New World."\n\nThe New York Historical Society held its first St. Nicholas anniversary dinner on December 6, 1810. John Pintard commissioned artist Alexander Anderson to create the first American image of Nicholas for the occasion. Nicholas was shown in a gift-giving role with children's treats in stockings hanging at a fireplace. The accompanying poem ends, "Saint Nicholas, my dear good f
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No, Santa Claus does not have a secret identity.....He is Santa Claus!!!\nThat is the song.....Your Mom was probably so happy he came, so she\ngave him a kiss!!   Lol
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i will answer your question if you can answer yes to all questions below:\n\n1.can you afford it?\n2. did you ask santa claus permission if you can be his neighbor?\n3. do you have a reindeer that santa can borrow just in case his troops are unable to fly him to his next destination?\n4. are you fat with long white beard who is willing to substitute santa if he is busy making all those toys?\n5.are you willing to wear the red suit and come down on a chimney to deliver toys for all the children in the world?\n\nif all answer is yes, you should. with my permission.\n\nif no, you should try the south pole, maybe they have an empty lot waiting for you.
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Yes, he does exists... There is a guy in Barcelona who won the right to name himself GOD. His official name is now GOD
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No, we have historical proof that God and Jesus DO exist, we also have historical proof that Santa, Toothy and E Buny exist.
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I agree, he does exist.  It says so in the Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.  And how do I know that that book is correct?  Because the Flying Spaghetti Monster says so.\n\nRAmen!
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Santa Claus is a myth based in truth taught to children when they grow up.\n\nIt began as Nicholas Klause hundreds of years ago. Saint Nick (as he came to be known) used to make toys for children and give them out to good little girls and boys on Christmas Day. Bad little girls and boys got nothing but a lump of coal.\n\nSanta Claus is a change in name.\n\nNicholas Klause is long dead but the spirit of what he did lives on. And so his story continues to be taught.\n\nThough, in it's modern incarnation, the parents are actually the people that give out the toys and Santa Claus' name. Most children are told the truth about Santa by the time they're 10 years old.\n\nThe legend is useful for parents to keep control of their little kids behavior (after all, who wants to not get any presents on Christmas Day?) and to allow children to retain their innocence for a while and enjoy the thought that magic actually exists.\n\n:)
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Father Christmas exists in all of us. It is the spirit of the season that has its roots in the Christian miracle of Jesus' birth.\n\nIt's not so much the gifts and the decorations or the pagan Christmas tree, as much as it is the feelings of good will and charity that go along with the season.\n\nNow if we could get this spirit of Christmas to continue throughout the year, we'd have something. Can anyone say world peace?
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who doesn't?? Santa is the greatest man alive!! He gives free presents just to make us happy and to spread holiday cheer. i think that if more people started to actually take Santa seriously christmas wouldn't get as much bad press as it did last year (crimes & such):(