I can make myself believe in many things unquestioningly... but Santa\'s just one I can\'t make happen. I can honestly put on the exact face needed to tell a kid he\'s real, but I can\'t make myself believe it. There\'s simply too much evidence against it.
Honestly, to me he could be hiding his presence the same way aliens seem to be. They COULD be real, but it goes against so many facts with too many radical theories.

[Edited on 3-12-2004 by Heatman.EXE]

yes and no...i beleive that santa helps our parents get our gifts that we want

Im not sure what to believe...

I dont know.Some times i do and sometimes i dont so its really hard to wonder if he is real,I never knew little midgets had pointy ears.

Bah, I don\'t think so. I mean, he\'s not a real person. He\'s more like an idea, like the spirit of the modern Christmas. I won\'t ridicule anyone for believing him or run up to little kids and say stuff like \"Santa ain\'t real,\" or, \"Santa\'s fer chumps,\" or \"Hey, you know something funny about that Snta guy? Heh, yeah.\" I mean, it\'s nice to have something to embody the spirit of Christmas gift-giving into something other than commercialism.

Hrmm.... Anyways, without Santa, what would they make Christmas avatars of on online games?:D

Um... I\'m not saying I\'m right just putting out there; The one poem, I\'m sure you know it; \"Not a creature was stirring not even a mouse...\"

Yeah... I think the guy who wrote that for his daughter made up Santa and then people just went with it. I\'m inclined to say I think but I\'m pretty sure that\'s how Santa came out. Inclined to say I\'m pretty sure too....

EDIT: *Cough* I didn\'t even notice I reached 700 already. Happy 700th post.

[Edited on 3-12-2004 by Gutter Mouth]

OH MY GODS! SANTAS _NOT_ REAL!?!? WHEN DID THIS HAPPEN!!?!?!
*I reckon its obligatory for this to be said.. *

OH NOES HES RSS DEADSSS:eekkkkkkkkkkkkkkk:

I dont really belive in him,I think hes a myth.

Right now I \"believe\" in santa to get my mom to get me more presents...meh, Im evil that way...:D

I belive that santa is a figmint of your soul that give you stuff if you know you\'ve been good.But I\'m still evil though.:muha:

I don\'t believe in Santa Claus anymore. I used to, but that was years ago, when I was a child. Now I see Santa as a fictitious figment of a child\'s fantasy.

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I don\'t believe in Santa anymore..but you know, I remember when I was young and my mom forged her writing so well I really did think Santa and Rudolph stopped by.. (she put a deer hoofprint as his signature)

i believe that santa is still alive after all these years due to the result of an evil spell. (seriusly)

Oh my goodness!An evil spell,Santa is not real,Santa is real,No santa is not real.

1) No known species of reindeer can fly. BUT there are 300,000 species of living organisms yet to be classified, and while most of these are insects and germs, this does not COMPLETELY rule out flying reindeer which only Santa has ever seen.

2) There are 2 billion children (persons under 18) in the world. BUT since Santa doesn\'t (appear) to handle most Muslim, Hindu, and Buddhist children, that reduces the workload to 15% of the total - 378 million according to Population Reference Bureau. At an average (census) rate of 3.5 children per household, that\'s 91.8 million homes. One presumes there\'s at least one good child in each.

3) Santa has 31 hours of Christmas to work with, thanks to the different time zones and the rotation of the earth, assuming he travels east to west (which seems logical). This works out to 822.6 visits per second. This is to say that for each Christian household with good children, Santa has 1/1000th of a second to park, hop out of the sleigh, jump down the chimney, fill the stockings, distribute the remaining presents under the tree, eat whatever snacks have been left, get back up the chimney, get back into the sleigh and move on to the next house.

Assuming that each of these 91.8 million stops are evenly distributed around the earth (which, of course, we know to be false but for the purposes of our calculations we will accept), we are now talking about .78 miles per household, a total trip of 75-1/2 million miles, not counting stops to do what most of us must do at least once every 31 hours, plus feeding and etc.

This means that Santa\'s sleigh is moving at 650 miles per second, 3,000 times the speed of sound. For purposes of comparison, the fastest man- made vehicle on earth, the Ulysses space probe, moves at a poky 27.4 miles per second - a conventional reindeer can run, tops, 15 miles per hour.

4) The payload on the sleigh adds another interesting element. Assuming that each child gets nothing more than a medium-sized lego set (2 pounds), the sleigh is carrying 321,300 tons, not counting Santa, who is invariably described as overweight. On land, conventional reindeer can pull no more than 300 pounds. Even granting that \"flying reindeer\" (see point #1) could pull TEN TIMES the normal amount, we cannot do the job with eight, or even nine. We need 214,200 reindeer. This increases the payload - not even counting the weight of the sleigh - to 353,430 tons. Again, for comparison, this is four times the weight of the cruise ship Queen Elizabeth II.

5) 353,000 tons traveling at 650 miles per second creates enormous air resistance - this will heat the reindeer up in the same fashion as a spacecraft reentering the earth\'s atmosphere. The lead pair of reindeer will absorb 14.3 QUINTILLION joules of energy. Per second. Each. In short, they will burst into flame almost instantaneously, exposing the reindeer behind them, and create deafening sonic booms in their wake. The entire reindeer team will be vaporized within 4.26 thousandths of a second. Santa, meanwhile, will be subjected to acceleration forces 17,500.06 times greater than gravity. A 250-pound Santa (which seems ludicrously slim) would be pinned to the back of his sleigh by 4,315,015 pounds of force.

In conclusion - If Santa ever DID deliver presents on Christmas Eve, he\'s dead now

I tought Santa Claus was derived from San Niclaus, then It changed to Santa Claus

You wouldn\'t catch fire if you\'re magic like Santa.

I actually didn\'t. I got it off of Comedy Corner.

he ain\'t real.he wouldn\'t live this long if he was.

but would he be a blazing yellow ball of fire, or a red/green (to show christmas spirit) ball of fire?
:rofl:

Santa is just some made up think to please kids. Whether pr not he is based on a real St. Nick, I can\'t say, but Santa surely doesn\'t.

AirMan nearly hit it on the nose:

http://www.stnicholascenter.org/Brix?pageID=23

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