Santa Claus

EveningStar

EveningStar

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I was a rather bright little nipper, so I knew it made no sense that flying reindeer ran on some sort of invisible road in the sky. No, they would have wings. And not bird wings with feathers, for they were mammals. We're talking large batlike wings. And with eyes that could see in the dark. Red glowing eyes. So there was this fat man who entered people's houses when they were asleep and knew where all the naughty children lived. A man that said, "You better be good. You BETTER not cry. You better not pout...I'm telling you why. SANTA CLAUS IS COMING TO TOWN!"

Is it any wonder why as a child I spent Christmas Eve night under the bed with a flashlight and a cricket bat?

This is a place for us to share our fears of Jolly Old Saint Nick. Father Christmas is coming to YOUR HOUSE soon, and the time to prepare yourself is NOW.

Of course in looking back on things I realize that Santa is the Scourge of the Poor. See in my neighborhood people were so poor they would force their kids to misbehave so they could get coal to cook Christmas breakfast. In my case the supply would last through New Years.
 
EveningStar said:
I was a rather bright little nipper, so I knew it made no sense that flying reindeer ran on some sort of invisible road in the sky. No, they would have wings. And not bird wings with feathers, for they were mammals. We're talking large batlike wings. And with eyes that could see in the dark. Red glowing eyes. So there was this fat man who entered people's houses when they were asleep and knew where all the naughty children lived. A man that said, "You better be good. You BETTER not cry. You better not pout...I'm telling you why. SANTA CLAUS IS COMING TO TOWN!"

Is it any wonder why as a child I spent Christmas Eve night under the bed with a flashlight and a cricket bat?

This is a place for us to share our fears of Jolly Old Saint Nick. Father Christmas is coming to YOUR HOUSE soon, and the time to prepare yourself is NOW.

Of course in looking back on things I realize that Santa is the Scourge of the Poor. See in my neighborhood people were so poor they would force their kids to misbehave so they could get coal to cook Christmas breakfast. In my case the supply would last through New Years.
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Too funny! I always thought it was pretty hysterical that the real St. Nicholas was known for beating up the heretic
Arius at the Council of Nicea. I bet Arius got coal in *his* stocking that year :D.
 
Inkling said:
Too funny! I always thought it was pretty hysterical that the real St. Nicholas was known for beating up the heretic
Arius at the Council of Nicea. I bet Arius got coal in *his* stocking that year :D.
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Perhaps eventually :D. However, the immediate consequence was "coal" for Nicholas, who was unseated from his bishophric for conduct unbecoming. Made him no less of a saint, though.

It's interesting to note that yesterday was the Feast of St. Lucy, which for many Scandinavian countries has the same import as the Feast of St. Nicholas did for the Dutch peoples. When Advent was a more pronounced penitential season and people did fasts & such, the bright spot of some favorite saint's feast day was a welcome break. How St. Nicholas (Dec 6th) came to be associated with Christmas was an accident of literature, but St. Lucy's feast was a celebration of virginity and martyrdom.
 
We celebrate St. Nicholas on the sixt of December, and this year i got a guitar!!! When i didn't know about it yet, i tried to make explanations for certain things that couldn't be real. Like the fact that St. Nicholas could be in two toy stores at the same time... I didn't want to believe the truth, that was so obvious when you thought about it. It's a bit like believing in Narnia, it's so good it has to be true, but there's nobody there to tell you that Narnia doesn't exist...
 
Santa was really till about 5th grade when I guess my imagination cloesed on that part. Other things like Dwarves and Fauns became really around 6ht grade so Fatehr Christmas was pushed to the back. My cousin was actually afriad of Santa for a long time. It was 'Frosty' who came to visit not santa :p LOL
 
I was told from the very get go that there was no Santa, but part of me always wondered that if he did exist in some place, would he look like those clay puppet things that they had for those Christmas specials? 0.o....
 
Inkling said:
Too funny! I always thought it was pretty hysterical that the real St. Nicholas was known for beating up the heretic
Arius at the Council of Nicea. I bet Arius got coal in *his* stocking that year :D.
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Oh yeah, I love that story!!! My dad, who's a pastor, preached a sermon with that story in it once... :D
 
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