@ChannelAwesome tells us Why We Need to Let Santa be Real | Putting the #ize & #ation into #Realization - #Realize #Realizing #ise
That truth is an important "Realization." 'That word' is built on an even-deeper source ... something crucial that firms the foundation upon which the our lexicon stands ...
The word “Realization” is built on “|Actual” (Bring into Existence, |Make Real in the Mind, Understand |Clearly, |Obtain, |Amass).
The suffix "-ize" is built on the Foundation of a Word-Forming Element denoting "|Doing" the Noun or Adjective to which it is attached (that's the Greek spelling, as opposed to the French/Latin/Middle-English ending "-ise").
The suffix -#ation is (since ancient times) an ending that makes an |Action into a |Noun (-ate, -ion).
Reminds me of 'how I prove that God exists'—because God's not "some guy who lives in the clouds and grants wishes," but rather God is ... something more than that—the way America is not 'Uncle Sam,' but Uncle Sam is* the image that pops into their heads when they hear that 'America' is going to help.
... also reminds me of 'the letter written to a little girl who wrote to The Sun because her daddy said they knew the truth':
We take pleasure in answering at once and thus prominently the communication below, expressing at the same time our great gratification that its faithful author is numbered among the friends of THE SUN:
VIRGINIA, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, VIRGINIA, whether they be men's or children's, are little. In this great universe of ours man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.
I am 8 years old.Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa says, "If you see it in The Sun, it's so."
Please tell me the truth, is there a Santa Claus?
Virginia O'Hanlon
115 West Ninety Fifth Street
Yes, VIRGINIA, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus. It would be as dreary as if there were no VIRGINIAS. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance, to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.
Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies! You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas Eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if they did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not; but that's no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.
You may tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, VIRGINIA, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding.
No Santa Claus! Thank God! he lives, and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, VIRGINIA, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.
*At least Uncle Sam is "America's image" according to 'the stories we're taught in public schools,' but I don't even know if there's a common 'face' that foreigners have imagined since antiquity (the way Christians all imagine God is 'a white-bearded elder') when they think of America. ...
Or maybe I'm looking at it wrong—that's one reason
Our Father God said "It is not good for the man to be
alone": "Because the man'll think he's right until someone else shows
Our Father God said "It is not good for the man to be
alone": "Because the man'll think he's right until someone else shows
him why he's not"—Won't you show me
if I'm right-or-wrong in the comments below?
if I'm right-or-wrong in the comments below?
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