Is Santa Claus belief ever truly literal or is it more like child-grade kayfabe? I have a suspicion belief capacity starts out kayfabe and only becomes capable of sincerity at like 8 or so when consistent world-views start to cohere from fragmented contingent beliefs
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We never learn :p
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To learn that going to Temple before exams or results has no effect
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^^ not entirely true I guess because I still think a majority of adults believe this.
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The tooth fairy might have an argument about who's first.
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Spain: the Three Wise Men / the Magi (Los Tres Reyes Magos) which are the equivalent to Santa Claus but leave their presents on Jan 6 Also Pérez the Little Mouse (El Ratoncito Pérez), the Spanish equivalent of the tooth fairy.
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Realizing that as a kid, your neighbor would ask you questions about you or your family, mostly as a form of attaining information, rather than really caring about you.
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I’ve asked people I consider first principle thinkers for years what their formative event was in this regard. 50% cite Santa and 50% cite Christianity. Common element: the time you realized adults were full of shit.
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For me I think I was radicalised by discovering media bias in SG when they edited my “letter to the editor” to effectively neuter my criticism
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Listening to George Carlin speak about religion did it for me.
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