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    I posted this last year, and the year before that. I thought i'd do it again because i kinda dig it. I thought about just bumping the last year thread, but that just doesn't make sense. That was a wish for last years merry christmas, not this years...

    Anyway... on to something i hold close to my heart this time of year.

    The following appeared in, at the time, New York city's primo newspaper... Just read it.


    Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.
    Editorial Page, New York Sun, 1897
    Editor: Francis Pharcellus Church


    We take pleasure in answering thus prominently the communication below,
    expressing at the same time our great gratification that its faithful author is
    numbered among the friends of The Sun:

    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 sceptic al age. They do not believe except 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 external 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 you 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 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,
    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 lives forever. A thousand years from
    now, Virginia, nay 10 times 10,000 years from now, he will continue to make glad
    the heart of childhood.


    Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!!!




    The New York Sun, September 21 1897





    Merry christmas, to all... regardless of night.

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    MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY

    map that was so beautiful,
    If you want the present to be differant from the past, study the past.
    Baruch Spindza

    It is what it is, not what you want it to become, that's important -- at least for now. Today, remember that things worth having are worth waiting for!
    The Stars

    Minds are like parachutes: They only function when open.
    Thomas Dewar

    Dont throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water.
    Swedish Proverb

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    awww. I'm so glad for that letter to the editior/response. How well put. I wish I lived in a gentler, kinder time. I've always been fascinated by xmas and santa, the trees are the best, and lights!!! I guess, b/c I only got to watch, not participate.

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    You know, the guy that wrote it (Francis Pharcellus Church) was on the verge of suicide over his dead wife, when they gave him the job. He didn't.

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    A very Merry Christmas to you too Madcap
    ...and everyone!
    Fools laugh at others. Wisdom laughs at itself...Osho

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    Hey, you. A message from the doghouse.

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    Happy Holidays!



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    Merry Christmas, everyone!
    Or, if you're not a Christmas person, happy Festivus!
    Hope that everyone has a wonderful holiday!
    "The definition of status: buying things you don't want with money you don't have to impress people you don't like." ~Jodie Foster

    "Men are those creatures with two legs and eight hands." ~Jayne Mansfield (ain't that the truth?)

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    Thanks Madcap! I hope you, as well as everyone here has a wonderful holiday!


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    Merry Christmas...evry one!

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    Merry christmas every body! Wishing you all a blessed day!


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    Merry Christmas. Hope you all get what you want under that tree.

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