[kaiten123]

What would happen if we tried to create a santa for adults? I mean if we literally took the reason for the santa myths and tried to create an equivalent version for adults. What would we end up with? This post will only be a brief start for you to build off of so try and think of your own ideas while reading.

First, lets think about what purpose santa is supposed to serve. The santa myth makes it pretty clear that it is a tool for controling children. They behave well and they get presents, behave poorly and they only get coal, etc.

Now, what parts of the myth prevent it from working on adults? Well, one simple reason is the fact that it is falsifiable, you could explore enough of the north pole and essentially show the myth to be false. To fix this lets try moving him somewhere unreachable. We could move him to space, but we might eventually explore enough to show he isn't there so another universe, an alternate plane of reality, or something equally unreachable would be better.

Another, perhapse easier, way to falsify it would be to simply stay up on christmas and wait for the delivery of the presents/coal to show that santa never came. To fix this, we'll need to make it impossible to tell whether or not he delivered the reward/punishment. There are a few ways to do this, but the most obvious is to simply delay the reward/punishment so long that they never get it anyway. We simply make the reward/punishment come after death.

Our last solution is wonderful, but it creates another smaller issue. Most people probably wouldn't alter their entire life to get a toy after they die. This problem has an obvious solution. We simply make the reward better and the punishment worse. How good/bad do we make them? well, they never get it anyway so why not infinitely good/bad?

This is far from finished, but so far we have Santa in an unreachable place who gives you an infinitely good/bad reward/punishment after your death based on whether you've been good or bad.

What do you think? Any ideas on how to make sure that our santa cannot be falsified? How about ideas to ensure a lot of epople believe it? Maybe you have a better solution to an earlier problem than the one i provided.