Santa Claus for adults?

[boomakuaku]

Is this an obvious attempt at what I think it is? Personally I think you are alluding to Christianity or some other religion, though I could be wrong.

I find it hard to answer any of your questions because you are trying to create a lie and just have people believe it by making the circumstances of its origin unknown and the promise of its myth, good or bad, an unknown.

Assuming we can't change the parameters you gave us, getting a lot of people to believe something actually isn't that hard. Making it last through time as something like a tradition, that I think is entirely different and much more difficult.

Though to combat the original question, I'd say Santa is as much for the adults as it is for the kids. I guess I'm actually referring to Christmas in general. Not everyone does the whole Santa thing. Some families exclude him, some families literally go out of their way to play the part.

Before I go on any further I am going to wait for others to post. I am having trouble constructing thoughts when my views of Santa,er, the ones I had as a child and I guess as an adult are much different than yours. For instance my parents did push the Santa myth on me, but never mentioned anything about how I behave will determine the outcome of what I get as a present.