> [SA previously]
> > I don't know what you mean by "he's not quite
> > what he appears to be", but...
[Peter]
> I meant that she had probably seen a man dressed as
> Santa at the shops and
> thought that the beard looked weired.
Oh...
[SA previously]
> When I was young, I really believed I heard him
> > one Christmas Eve downstairs. He was as real as I
> am real. My niece the other day said she heard him
> one Christmas Eve. She got up, but saw her brother
> was sleeping in his bedroom still, so were her
> parents, and Santa Claus just left for the presents
were
> under the tree. No wonder a man can become a duck!
And
> I can't doubt Santa Claus or ghosts exist even
> today.
[Peter]
> You mean they exist as ideas in the social mind?
[SA currently]
Social mind... I guess. Other people convinced
me of Santa Claus being in the north pole and such.
Santa Claus seems to be in the same place as the ghost
of reason where scientific laws exist.
[SA currently]
> I know when I dream sometimes, my dreams are as
> real as real can get, I sometimes get so scared I'll
moan
> and wake myself up, look around, and as Zhaungzi
once
> > said, 'I then wondered if I was dreaming the
> butterfly or the butterfly was dreaming me.'
[Peter]
> I sometimes wake up from a powerful dream and the
> emotion stays with me for
> a while as if the dream really happened.
[SA currently]
Yes.
[SA previously]
> the little elves did it again,
> > Santa Claus has all the gifts ready to go,
[Peter]
> Sorry SA, but I think when kids ask for the truth
> you should give it to them
> as you see it. I don't like it when parents think
> they should encourage
> children to believe that fairy tales are true.
[SA currently]
The same fairy tales as the ghosts of reason?
What's true to you? I know scientific laws can be
inferred in tests, but we don't put the laws in the
microscope and say, 'Hey there's a law of gravity.',
but did I make these laws up? The truth can be found
in any good fiction, just as the truth can be found in
any nonficition. It depends on what your looking for.
SA
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