Sunday, January 15, 2006

On Holiday Representatives

Caleb: is it wrong to tell a child that santa isn't real
Caleb: and if he was..... he'd be dead

Nat: santa's a spiritual creation
Nat: santa's as real as people want him to be
Nat: I see it as a completely different creation than the easter bunny



later, different computer:



Nat: what was I talking about
Nat: oh yea
Nat: no santa has a meaning completely separate from the function of the holiday he's associated with, but unlike the easter bunny, manages to maintain the basic ideals of the primary figure in spite of that fact
Nat: basically, jesus and santa share goals
Nat: so the meta existence of santa is acceptable
Nat: whereas the easter bunny is useless

Caleb: so we eat him

Nat: well he is made out of chocolate
Nat: you'd think he'd learn ot take a different form

Caleb: I know right

Nat: if the angels that appeared to talk to mary about jesus's coming had been made of chocolate, do you think she would have listened?
Nat: maybe to their screams of pain
Nat: so that's like 2 against the easter bunny
Nat: irrelevance AND delectability

Caleb: HAHA
Caleb: but they make santa out of chocolate too

Nat: well see
Nat: the point of santa is not consumption of chocolate
Nat: sure in your stocking you'll get choclate coins and uhh
Nat: icecicles
Nat: and some other stuff
Nat: and sometimes even chocolate santa false idols
Nat: but santa exists to say "hey, look, you people watch this: I'm going to be senselessly nice to everyone, you should try the same"
Nat: you'll notice nowhere in that mission statement is "consume chocolate representations of myself such that thou might be glad"
Nat: **
Nat: senselessly nice to everyone who was ince
Nat: I guess santa really doesn't like bad people
Nat: that makes him more like old testament God than Jesus

Caleb: well

Nat: maybe that's why germans came up with him

Caleb: he gives you a chance to do good

Nat: put a friendlier face on old school God

Caleb: Old testament God just kills you

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