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[Misc] How Old Were You When You Stopped Believing In Father Christmas ?
- Thread starter Eeyore
- Start date
Yep.So you're not just a miserable old git .... you were a miserable young git as well.
Perhaps I should have specified 'Father Christmas' rather than just Christmas, but my point still stands. If they can't stop themselves from spoiling Christmas for a lot of kids they should go and do something useful. After all, in spite of wokish pressure from some quarters, most schools still have their nativity plays to tell children the other story of Christmas, without the need to bring in a gormless and unthinking priest to preach it.
There is much of Christmas which is secular anyway - all the commercial side for a start - but to say that vicars shouldn't speak out to kids not to believe in Father Christmas is secularising Christmas is, well...
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Pleased you got over your fear of men with beards, unless you don’t look in the mirror
BigBod
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- Dec 12, 2014
- 383
Christmas for me as a kid was pretty shit, I'm just glad I managed to make it so magical for my daughter. She's 17 now and absolutely loves Christmas and has many fond memories from when she did believe. We still try to make it a special time in our house.
Greg Bobkin
Silver Seagull
- May 22, 2012
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The youngest Bobkin Jnr is just shy of 11 and I think they WANT to believe it but, in reality's, the game's up.
Me? I can barely remember yesterday (thankfully), let alone when I found out.
Me? I can barely remember yesterday (thankfully), let alone when I found out.
- Oct 20, 2022
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But you didn’t say that did you though, you said this:
I was specifically responding to what you actually said, not what you subsequently decided you meant to say after seeing my initial response and making up a new point.
- but to say that vicars shouldn't speak out to kids not to believe in Father Christmas is secularising Christmas is, well...
Er … Where did I say that ‘suggesting vicars shouldn’t bust the myth of Santa to young kids was secularism’ ?
That’s ridiculous and not what I said at all - I actually think they shouldn’t disabuse kids of Santa Claus and most vicars don’t.
Not only have you now completely changed the original meaning of your post I originally replied to but made up a whole new response to your new post and attributed the comment to me (which I never made) and had the cheek to use a head in hands emoji as if I was the one who misinterpreting what you are posting
- Oct 12, 2022
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Someone else posted this on a different thread, but I think given the ultimate truth of it, those involved in any religion should be extremely careful about pissing all over other irrational belief systems.
The Clamp
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I never believed in him. And more importantly, I never will.
Indeed. I stopped believing at 5. It was about March, and my neighbour at the time, a much older boy, (about 9), out of the blue asked me If I still believed in Father Christmas. I just nodded shyly. He then told me, quite authoritatively that he wasn't real and that it was my mum and dad. I remember thinking "Yes, that makes much more sense." However I went on pretending to my parents that I still believed as I realised it was part of the Christmas fun for them.
My grandson (5), still believes and I want to keep it going as long as possible.
- Jul 10, 2003
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I had the discussion with my mum last Xmas and she said if I didn't believe, then I wouldn't get anything same as she's always said. She's now 92 and I'm 64
- Oct 20, 2022
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Can you prove God doesn’t?
Can you prove Santa doesn’t?
Ironically we were bought up to believe in hobgoblins, trolls and elves and the fairies that made toadstool circles in the woods but not fat men forcing themself into the house in the middle of the night - perhaps in some strange way, my parents thought elves and hobgoblins were less threatening than the idea of a house invasion.
(My parents were Grimm’s Fairytale fans, we didn’t do snowflakes and sugarcoating
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Perfidious Albion
Well-known member
I was never able taught to believe in Santa. My parents thought it was wrong to mislead us. My wife has said that after she found out that it was all a lie , she was angry to learn that adults had been having her on. She said she never really trusted what her Mother said , after that …..
Cheshire Cat
The most curious thing..
The Way Through the Woods
Rudyard Kipling1865 – 1936
They shut the road through the woods
Seventy years ago.
Weather and rain have undone it again,
And now you would never know
There was once a road through the woods
Before they planted the trees.
It is underneath the coppice and heath,
And the thin anemones.
Only the keeper sees
That, where the ring-dove broods,
And the badgers roll at ease,
There was once a road through the woods.
Yet, if you enter the woods
Of a summer evening late,
When the night-air cools on the trout-ringed pools
Where the otter whistles his mate,
(They fear not men in the woods,
Because they see so few.)
You will hear the beat of a horse’s feet,
And the swish of a skirt in the dew,
Steadily cantering through
The misty solitudes,
As though they perfectly knew
The old lost road through the woods.
But there is no road through the woods.
Behind Enemy Lines
Well-known member
Sad that you missed out Clamp. To believe in Father Christmas was one of the best things about being a very small kid. It didn't last long but I loved it. Well played my dearly departed parents.