Do you still believe in Santa?
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Well, I guess it time I tell about the first time I met Santa, it a long story though.\nIt all started on this dark and lonely road, oh, about 10 years ago. There was snow a foot deep that year. I remember it well. It was about 1:00 a.m. on Christmas morn. There was a full moon that night (never did figure out who that woman was mooning people at one in the morning). Anyway, there was this wild commotion comming from the woods. A lot of hollering and weird sounds like a horse or something. Oh! My God!!! It was Reindeer and they were headed straight for me!!! There was this chubby old man with a white beard and wearing a red suit, doing his best to stay in the sleigh and hold on to the reins. He was hollering something about Donner/Blitzen somebody (sounded like a cuss word). I tried to move to the left when I tripped over another chubby dude with a beard, he wasn't over four feet tall. It must of really scared him. He hollered something like "She Hit" and took off running through the woods. When I turned around from watching him there it was................tha' biggest pair of "horns" I ever did see (never did figure out who that topless woman was either). The Reindeer were upon me and all hope seemed lost. When out of nowhere something that looked like a big dog with this glowing red nose slammed into the side of the lead reindeer. The reindeer and sleigh went to the right and the old man went to the left, and I was standing there thinking, "what the she-hit"? Then this big red bag full of whatever hit me and knocked me to the ground. I was a little dizzy and I heard the old man groaning over in this briar patch. He kept saying something about a Ho! Just kept repeating it, Ho! Ho! Ho! I thought he was looking for his wife (maybe she had been driving at first). Finally he jumped up out of the briars and ran over to check the reindeer. Then he turned and looked at me. He was laughing; that's what the Ho! Ho! was, a laugh, I seen his smile in the moonlight. His eyes twinkled, his nose was red from the cold. He took off his white gloves and walked over and helped me up. He said, "you o.k. Sam?", he knew my name!!! Still a little shaken I said; "yea, how are the reindeer?" He told me they ran into this all the time taking the short cut through the woods, just, did not expect to see me in the way. That is when he introduced himself, said he was Santa. Tears came to my eyes, I was standing in front of the man many never believed exsisted. Santa was holding my hand and trying to get the red bag I was hiding behind me. That's when I learned to cook. He grabbed this Iron Skillet out of the bag and hit me on the head with it. He dropped the Skillet (My first gift from Santa)! Then he grabbed the red bag with both hands and ran, jumped in the sleigh and took off, turning up the road! So, every year I go down to that spot at 1 a.m. in the morning on Christmas Eve and rain, sleet or sunshine (at night)? There he comes barreling out of the woods, hollering something about Donner/Blitzen somebody. Then he hollers something about "get tha' bells outta' my way" He throws a toy at me, hits me in the head everytime, even when I duck. Man he has good aim, but, I always get a toy! Then he turns and disappears up the road! I write to him at the North Pole and thank him for my gift. He always writes back in some foriegn language, looks like #*F-ing^! %Idiot$& don't know what it says, but, I know he must love me! ;-D
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Mysterious Santa brings cheer to lonely in nursing homes, hospitals\n\nJohn C. Atkinson, 70, will be in a nursing home on Christmas.\n\nAnd he'll be loving it.\n\n"You get a good, hearty feeling out of it altogether," he said. "It makes you feel so good."\n\nAtkinson will spend Christmas morning at Riverview Health and Rehabilitation Center, handing out gifts and goodies to some 200 residents. Other volunteers with the century-old Savannah tradition called Mysterious Santa will deliver some cheer to other nursing homes and hospitals.\n\nFor some nursing home residents, the visit itself is a rare thing.\n\nMore than 50 percent of nursing home residents have no close relatives, and 46 percent have no living children, according to the National Center for Health Statistics. At Riverview, interim administrator Janet McKay estimates about half the residents never get a visitor.\n\nNot even on Christmas.\n\n"That's how this program got started in 1902," said the current Mysterious Santa, whose identity remains confidential. "Eugene Smith was in the hospital Christmas Day, and he had no visitors. He made a promise: Lord get me well, and I won't let this happen to anyone else."\n\nThe Savannah businessman made good on his promise the next year.\n\nThe tradition has been growing bigger ever since - first with Smith, then with a string of other Santas carrying on the tradition.\n\nThis year, the Mysterious Santa and his bevy of volunteers will set out about 6:30 a.m. Christmas morning and visit nearly 3,000 patients at 27 locations, including hospitals and nursing homes. Each of the children will be given a toy, while the adults will get some fruit.\n\nThe volunteers reap something even more valuable.\n\n"It's worthwhile just seeing the people's faces when we come in," Atkinson said. "You get hugs, and people holler out, 'Here comes Santa Claus, ho ho ho.'\n\n"I just get a good feeling out of it."
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Well I assume Santa still knows if I've been naughty or nice.  In THAT case, I doubt if I get anything but a lump of coal!   lol
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I hate to bring this to you but.\nThere is not really a Santa Claus.
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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):(
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sure, but I also believe in Santa clause and the Easter bunny....
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I know what it is that I want...   Seems to be on my mind all of the time !    But as I grow older (& I do), I realize that even good old Santa cannot be called upon for wishes such as mine. Some things you gotta do for yourself. (wow!, my answers are slipping)\nps: I hope Santa got the word on you hoodie & hoops.
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How sacreligious you are!!! The bunny and Santa are make believe. God is real and true and He is my Heavenly Father. I hope you come to know Him and trust one day.
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Santa a Hasid? LOL Where are his payot?? That's a good one, though ho ho ho!!
949806
Of course there is a Santa. He represents the magic that is in the air at Christmas time.That has to explain how all the things seem to get done.
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If I believe in the tooth fairy, the Easter bunny and SAnta Claus (not to mention Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer), would you think the less of me?
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hahahahaha.. I don't.  But there are loads of people who do.  They point at this book, and say everything is in there, that proves Jesus exists.  Even when scholars show that it was mistranslated over the centuries or that what it meant then is not what it means now.\n\nThat's why Santa Claus doesn't do better.  He doesn't have a book that tells lies, only some movies and songs.
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Well Santa Claus isn't an idea. He's real, he was born into a wealthy family in Italy, and his name was Saint Nicholas, when he was born his mother died in birth. and he lived with his father. His father died when he was a teenager, and from then he would travel Europe spreading Peace and joy, back in his home town in Italy, he heard about this man that was going to put his daughters into prostitution to pay for taxes. So on every night of Hanukah(not sure about the spelling) he take a bag of money and toss it through the window of this man house. On the first night the man was curious of who was giving him the money, so on every nighthe would wait u for the bag then try to see who through the in the window, until the night when  he saw Saint Nicholas and thanked him dearly for  the money. And when Saint Nicholas died they put his remains in a tomb in Bary(i think thats the proper name) which is in Turkey. And also thew Blood of Saint Nicholas still runs in some of us. So right now we dont Know if He lives in Greenland at the North Pole or if he's still in Italy you never Know. Like my question i just askes about 15 minutes ago ; Where did god come from, what was before god? , trust me it's tricky, but only some questions can be answered.
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To tell you the truth, I never let my child believe in santa, the tooth fairy, easter bunny or anything.  He is five years old, and he is mature for his age.  I want my son to know that although he may be lied to by the world,  he will never be lied to by his parents.
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When I lost my first tooth. My mom slipped $1 under my pillow. How deceiving she was. And hey I still believe in Santa. He sends me what I want, only in husband form........ hey I think I need to look into that one too. Seems like there are alot tricky people around here pulling the wool over my eyes.?????
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Well, kind of. I believe that, he is really the spirit of Christmas, but not that he is an actual person, you know what i mean? if not thats all right i guess. yeah, well thats all ive got. ttyl
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I out-grew the present receiving in my teen years learning that it is better give then to receive. I don't look for presents and haven't for many years but yet I still receive presents from my children and also give to them. I retain the family tradition of giving presents to my grand-children but stop giving once they graduate from High School.\n  Christmas to me is my religious teaching that it is the birth of Christ, and that still remains my thoughts of the celebration, and other religions celebrate in their own ways.\n  So it is not just another day to me but the day we worship the birth of the Christ child.