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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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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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That Rama and other gods were not vegetarians but meat eaters, I know a lot of people (including non-vegetarians) who haven't swallowed this red pill yet.
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