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  • Santa Claus is real. Period!

    Santa Claus is real. Period!

    We have been hearing some awful rumors lately. .Apparently children are ending their timeless belief in Santa Claus in some big numbers. .

    Perhaps it is the loss of hope. The lack of love.. the dying of light during the darkness of seasons..

    It is unfortunate that so many are losing their age-old eagerness to forgo the earthly credences. Magic used to be alive during this season! You recall, it right?

    You were young once (or are now) ..

    Those childhood moments when the chill in the air felt more like an zealous burst of energy to your soul! When first snowflakes would fall, it would be true seasonal enchantment in the air..

    But we have been informed by sources that overall belief in Santa is hitting an all-time low. Officials report that children, most under 10 years of age, are still able to believe but doubt Santa at a much earlier age as time goes on.

    By 11 or 12, they are completely done with leaving cookies and milk and instead think their parents or guardians leave gifts under the tree..

    Kids even stop giving carrots for Rudolph at an earlier age..

    Hopefully we can out some facts out there about this waning tradition.

    TRADITIONS CHANGE

    So we wrote the intro to this post with some fun.. We know the truth about Santa, as do you .. deep down, you know. You really know.

    You know he is as real as the screen you are reading this on! After all, is anything real?

    But all joking and jest aside, yes.. Santa is real.

    Some facts you need to read

    The USPS believes in Santa.. so he is real.

    Operation Santa, according to the USPS’s site, originated in 1912. About 100 years ago, the USPS started receiving letters to Santa Claus and in 1912, Postmaster General Frank Hitchcock decided to allow USPS employees — along with volunteers — to respond to the children’s letters. Now, you don’t even have to physically be at one of these regional post offices to select a letter — you can “adopt” a letter online, write back, and even give children gifts.

    You have to write out a formal address to Santa, which is 123 Elf Road, North Pole 88888. (And yes, you still need to use a stamp!)

    The science

    Let’s cut to the chase..
    Back in 2016, a science video showcased the physics behind Santa and why he could exist.. it is great education!

    Another video from 2014 gave us another very scientific answer as to whether Santa exists:

    Linda Harden—formerly known as The Human Neutrino, outlined her rationale of the existence of Santa Claus:

    No known species of reindeer can fly. BUT there are 300,000 species of living organisms yet to be classified, and while most of these are insects and germs, this does not COMPLETELY rule out flying reindeer which only Santa has ever seen.

    There are 2 billion children (persons under 18) in the world. BUT since Santa doesn’t (appear to) handle the Muslim, Hindu, Jewish and Buddhist children, that reduces the workload to 15% of the total – 378 million according to Population Reference Bureau. At an average (census)rate of 3.5 children per household, that’s 91.8 million homes. One presumes there’s at least one good child in each.

    Santa has 31 hours of Christmas to work with, thanks to the different time zones and the rotation of the earth, assuming he travels east to west(which seems logical). This works out to 822.6 visits per second. This is to say that for each Christian household with good children, Santa has 1/1000th of a second to park, hop out of the sleigh, jump down the chimney, fill the stockings, distribute the remaining presents under the tree, eat whatever snacks have been left, get back up the chimney, get back into the sleigh and move on to the next house. Assuming that each of these 91.8 million stops are evenly distributed around the earth (which, of course, we know to be false but for the purposes of our calculations we will accept), we are now talking about .78 miles per household, a total trip of 75-1/2 million miles, not counting stops to do what most of us must do at least once every 31 hours, plus feeding etc.

    This means that Santa’s sleigh is moving at 650 miles per second, 3,000 times the speed of sound. For purposes of comparison, the fastest man- made vehicle on earth, the Ulysses space probe, moves at a poky 27.4 miles per second – a conventional reindeer can run, tops, 15 miles per hour.

    The payload on the sleigh adds another interesting element. Assuming that each child gets nothing more than a medium-sized lego set (2 pounds), the sleigh is carrying 321,300 tons, not counting Santa, who is invariably described as overweight. On land, conventional reindeer can pull no more than 300 pounds. Even granting that “flying reindeer” (see point #1) could pull TEN TIMES the normal anoint, we cannot do the job with eight, or even nine. We need 214,200 reindeer. This increases the payload – not even counting the weight of the sleigh – to 353,430 tons. Again, for comparison – this is four times the weight of the Queen Elizabeth.

    353,000 tons traveling at 650 miles per second creates enormous air resistance – this will heat the reindeer up in the same fashion as spacecrafts re-entering the earth’s atmosphere. The lead pair of reindeer will absorb 14.3 QUINTILLION joules of energy. Per second. Each. In short, they will burst into flame almost instantaneously, exposing the reindeer behind them, and create deafening sonic booms in their wake.The entire reindeer team will be vaporized within 4.26 thousandths of a second. Santa, meanwhile, will be subjected to centrifugal forces 17,500.06 times greater than gravity. A 250-pound Santa (which seems ludicrously slim)would be pinned to the back of his sleigh by 4,315,015 pounds of force.

    And even paranormal radio hosts got into the mix.

    Back in 2011, Clyde Lewis spoke about a conversation he had with deceased but still famous physicist Stephen Hawking in a show entitled ‘Quantum Santa‘

    Lewis said,

    The Santa Claus metaphor would mean nothing to most people but to me it struck me as rather odd considering a meeting I had with physicist Stephen Hawking. Hawking spoke to a crowd at the University of Utah in the 1990’s and I happened to know someone who knew his assistant while he was staying in Utah. Upon meeting Hawking I was a little nervous about telling him what I did for a living. I told him I worked in the media and that I was a talk show host and news reporter. He asked me what kind of topics I covered and I told him I talked about aliens and Conspiracy theories. He was not at all critical of my interest in such things and spoke to me about all kinds of possibilities in the Universe.


    He brought up Santa Claus as a model for things that are credulous. However he did make it clear that he was very serious about the issue. He said that in the ether that both Santa and Mickey Mouse can be very real and to a child –the thought is a very powerful agent. Santa Claus is impossible using classical physics, but in a quantum sense Santa can be very real.
    I was completely beside myself, here I was in the presence of a genius and all we could discuss is possible proof of Santa Claus.


    With the usage of paralleled processing it can be theorized Santa has the ability to do the job he is said to do simultaneously. It is done in the same manner as sending an e-mail to multiple recipients at the same time. Years ago this was unthinkable, today in a split second you can deliver an e-mail to millions of people simultaneously without even having to leave your chair. How can anyone track the speed of that? The possibility to us is limited to the technological practice we take for granted.
    There are fewer varieties of toys in the world than e-mail recipients and yet we can’t wrap our minds around the fact that in some future time line the simultaneous appearance of matter cannot be accomplished and yet an e-mail is a thought electronically sent and it is very possible that people in all time zones can receive it.


    Fax machines a rarely used today, but there is an argument that can be made about one piece of paper being inserted in a machine in one place and having millions of copies coming out in offices all over the world received by people.
    Now, if the next logical leap of science is to take that knowledge of parallel processing and bring it out of the computer and into our material world we can now see that the old traditional Santa Claus model is flawed but the new scientific progress can make the new Santa hypothesis closer to reality

    So yeah. All that.

    When the idea of Santa not being real comes up to my now 11-year-old son, I answer honestly. As a matter of fact, just the other night in the car he began to press me hard on whether Santa was real and how he could be.

    I told him the truth, as I know it from research and science: We live in a multiverse. All things are possible and likely. So Santa, in this multiverse, exists as well. Magic is real on Christmas and, even if we don’t see him or he does bring gifts this year, he is very real.

    And by the way.. if he is real, so is Krampus. So be good.. or those ringing bells will bring coal and scorn from the Christmas demon.

    So hear’s to keeping it real at Christmas!
    Magic exists if you believe.
    And since Santa is real, there is no reason magic can’t be either.

  • The creepy last night of summer: Blame the winter of 1994 for the early start

    The creepy last night of summer: Blame the winter of 1994 for the early start

    Depending on your school district, this is it..

    For us here in Northeastern PA, we are ready. School clothes purchased. Ayden is “eagerly” “anticipating”.. It all begins..

    Buses are being primed and shined for another year. Educators are lamenting the speed at which these summer months vanish. Parents are erratically pondering where school shopping should occur.. Kids, oh the kids.. they are suffering the most.

    Watching those last minutes of the calendar tick away.. While on TikTok.

    x x x

    This is it, folks!

    The final week of summer in most areas. School seemingly is beginning earlier than normal every year right?

    There are old timers who often talk about their school days dazes.. when they went back AFTER Labor Day weekend!!

    Now we have a bias on the Northeastern part of the United States. It may very well be different where you are.

    We researched this and we found a number of previous news articles from decades past when school really did start after Labor Day.. It wasn’t until the late 90s that things changed–and it appears that the winter of 1994 can be blamed for all of it!

    Back in that time frame, there were a LOT of school closings. The blizzard of 93 was one thing, but the winter of 1994 was cold. Snowy..Really really cold. Really really snowy with storm after storm after storm.

    I recall it fondly, as Mr. Shappell in 7th grade Immaculate Heart became angered more and more each time another snow storm was predicted.. (winters after became largely warm for the final half of the 90s after the blizzard of 1996) ..

    But that winter of 94 really messed with school planning.

    An August 30th 1995 editorial in the Pottsville Republican seemed to suggest that the school calendars were completely torn to shreds by the previous winter. As a matter of fact, the fishwrapper reported that the summer of 1995 was hot (I remember this kindly sorta not really fondly.. grass was so dry it crunched like chips) .. The editorial penned, or at that time, typed:

    “The pre-Labor Day start of classes is as result of the Winter of 1994, when a seemingly endless series of snow and ice storms wrecked school calendars and forces sessions to continue into late June.”

    And so it was written.

    Harrisburg also had one of its snowiest winters of all time..

    Once schools went pre-Labor Day one time, it seemed like it continued, earlier and earlier each year.

    IT WASN’T ALWAYS LIKE THIS

    At one time in history, children did NOT have the summers off. Read that again. Yes. No summer vacation… no traveling. No Hershey Park. NO beach. No Mount Rushmore.

    The public education system started in the 1800s..

    Based on the location you lived in, calendars varied. In cities, schools were open all year–240 days!

    In rural America, farming and the land forced schools to open for 5 months, or two sessions, in the winter and the summer.. In the fall, school closed so kids could help harvest.. Spring time they helped plant.

    It was not until the early 20th century that urban and rural districts combined their efforts and created the 180-day school year. It started AFTER labor day and ended in June.

    It continued that way for decades. By the 1990s, pre-Labor Day schooling began.. It has increased the ability to build in longer vacations for Christmas and Easter, but depending on snow days those days off start getting chipped away at during colder times.

    I STILL BLAME THE WINTER OF 1994 FOR ALL OF IT

    It seriously is when it all changed.

    So let me take you back. . . I was in grade school.. and yes, like all dorky kids like me, watching winter patterns and watching Weather World on PBS at the time. Oh those fond memories of my strange childhood.

    I was also loving Rooftop Weather on WYOU with Barry Finn while all the other adults were glued to Tom Clark.

    Barry Finn was extraordinary that year, he was rare. He loved winter. He loved the snow. Other forecasters pooh-poohed it while Barry just shivered on the rooftop up at the Scranton studios giving Northeast PA their daily dose of scary blizzard forecast in 1994.

    As a matter of fact, Barry Finn warned people in September of 1994–back when kids still started school after the Ashland ABA parade.

    The TIMES LEADER wrote this on September 3, 1994:

    Coat the East Coast in nasty ice storms.
        “Oh, you don’t want to know,” said psychic Peg Verity Barber of
    Wilkes-Barre. “It’s going to be a devastating winter, not snow as much as ice.
    It’s because of global changes, and the tilting of the earth’s axis.”
       
    Wallop the region with snow.
       
    “Meteorologically speaking, there’s no way to know,” said Barry Finn, chief
    meteorologist at WYOU-TV in Scranton. “But I’m going out very soon to buy a
    snow blower.”

    Vince Said it Would Be Like This Sweeney also got an honorable mention with this quote:

    Weatherman Vince Sweeney of WBRE-TV dismisses the hoopla. “I’ll tell you
    about this winter: it’s coming,” he said. “If you don’t like the weather,
    move.”

    So that is it..

    A winter in memory to blame for what we have now? Sure some will surmise it has to do tiwh tourism, jobs.. whatever.

    It has to do with weather. Weather changes us culturally and economically. And in 1994, it changed when children’s melodrama of nightmares would begin.

    May God bless the students about to journey into a new school year.

    And may God forever bless the soul of our dearly departed Barry Finn, who passed away in 2020..

  • The horror weekend before school

    The horror weekend before school

    Saturday night. The final burst of childhood freedom and stress free hours for parents. Sunday shopping better occur if you didn’t already.

    Morning bus schedules in full swing Monday.

    It is the best of times and the worst of times..

    These images from Nightmare on Elm Street part 2 always bring back that nostalgic horror of the final weekend of summer ..

  • It was a beautiful day at the Mütter Museum!

    It was a beautiful day at the Mütter Museum!


    Sunday was a mid-summer hot and beautiful day at the Mütter Museum..

    The location officially boasts that it is “America’s Finest Medical History Museum.” .. And that is very true.

    It is highly recommended you go next time you’re in or around Philadelphia.

    You will not be sorry, if of course you’re like us an into that macabre and creepy sort of thing.

  • A burst of colors during the season of darkness

    A burst of colors during the season of darkness

    Another Halloween season is here, and with it comes the traditional photo of my son in front of the Ferris wheel at Knoebels in Elysburg Pennsylvania..

    Some other imagery from the October night..

  • WE BELIEVE: MERRY CHRISTMAS 2017

    WE BELIEVE: MERRY CHRISTMAS 2017

    The lights that adorned this page have  been taken down. Christmas, a white one this year with a fluffy inch or so on the grassy surfaces, is ending..

    The annual buildup and energy to the biggest holiday of the year is finished.

    365 more days to go until the next budget busting seasonal fanfare.

    The whirlwind amount of unwrapping makes the hours worth of work seem futile.

    But this year, my son still believes. His honest and true 6-year-old heart is beautiful. The joy he brings his family is incredible. The youth and vigor in which he faces like is inspiring.

    I hope you have inspiration as these 535,600 minutes of 2017 come to an end..
    And in ’18?
    I hope we all experience a season of love.

    And believe…..
    Hope.
    Hope springs eternal.

  • Sudden strange shifts in reality

    Sudden strange shifts in reality

    Ever have one?
    That kind of reality shift that really causes your head to spin.. almost get dizzy..

    While I often talk about the Mandela Effect this time I am not. Instead I am exploring those real moments–on this timeline–where you see something for what it is.. So evident in front of you that your brain has no ability to process what you are living through.. no ability to conjure up a meaning to the reality you’re existent in, but instead your whole being is just pointed in an immediate right direction. Or at least a direction you never expected to travel to..

    Let me explain without going into personal gory details.

    The other night I was involved with a small gathering of friends. One friend turned fiend when he decided to blatantly opine about my life. Advice is on thing. Chalk it up. But criticism and almost condemnation in quite another. It took me a bit to even process what was occurring while it was happening. Things got fuzzy.. suddenly nothing seemed balanced, nothing seemed real.

    At the same moment–almost exact–my son was injured while playing. He hit his head and we ended up a few hours later in the ER .. a slight concussion was diagnosed and life went on. He is fine now, of course we are vigilant for further signs of problematic symptoms.. In the mean time he is eating, smiling, and the kookiness of his initial brain bump has subsided.

    But I did a deep amount of soul searching on this… very deep.

    A few days prior, while watching one of those self help videos on YouTube from Ralph Smart (Infinite Waters diving deep once again) I came across an older video where he explained that nothing is coincidental. Nothing should just be ignored. Instead, it flows together like a beautiful mighty river of life. Like Billy Joel’s the River of Dreams..

    Nothing is coincidence. Nothing just happens for no reason.

    So my parental opening and Ayden’s head bump seemingly occurring at the same time cannot be ignored. Instead, both incidents were horrible. My head was spinning from outright condemnation. His head was spinning from injury.. Simultaneously occurring as the hands of time spun into infinity.. Something seemingly shifted immediately.

    Like the scene in THE SHINING when the ghost bartender tells Jack Torrance how to deal with Danny. Something shifted..

    I am prone to conspiracy analysis.. Not necessarily theory. But the study of the theory is so often what fascinates me!

    …but I don’t think coincidence meaning something else deeper is conspiracy theory. Instead I believe it to be a long-running stream of consciousness …

    Yes indeed. A reality shift occurred.
    Real faces were shown.
    Real people. Real things. As real as Judge Judy herself.

    Perhaps it’s all this diving deep I so often do. Maybe, finally, my pineal gland is opening wide and I am seeing the REAL world for what it is. And it sure ain’t pretty…….

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  • The wrasling days are back again. At least in my house.

    The wrasling days are back again. At least in my house.

    Ratings may be down. But in my house? ….rising again

    It finally arrived! The special moment when my son and I could attend a professional wrestling match together.
    The venue: Wilkes Barre.. The moment: Magical!

    My soon to be 7-year-old became an immediate fan. He knew little of the matches or wrestlers prior.. but during and after became completely immersed in all that is professional wrestling.

    Wrestling is one of those things that I avoided over the past several years. When I was younger it was a must watch. During my teenage years when Stone Cold was stunning Vince McMahon weekly, I had and attended RAW parties every Monday night. Always fun times.

    But as you age, as you grow.. (some would say as you mature) you neglect those old battles. You look back with a nostalgic tear at the memories and fun times. Such as when I saw Ric Flair live… or when my father used to take me to the local cable company to pick up the little box to hook on the TV for the quarterly pay per view events–everything now is different.

    The thing that is not different however is professional wrestling: It is almost reassuring that you can figure out who will win, who will lose.. it is amazing to watch a TV production live, to see how truly staged everything is.. The number of times stagehands en masse change the mat and draping around the ring during the televised RAW program.

    My son went wild for Roman Reigns. Really wished he could have seen the Undertaker wrestle.. but was in awe when the Big Show took part in a really quick tag team match.

    Professional wrestling is taking a massive ratings hit right now. I can see why.. The soap opera drama is too much, and not fun. Besides the Miz, there isn’t much humor like years gone by. There is no big star right now.

    This, however, is so often what happens with wrestling. The Hulk Hogan years led to the Stone Cold years, which led to the Rock years.. Vince McMahons needs that larger than life star to drum up ratings again..

    And it is cyclical.
    I stopped watching.
    My son will start.. and most likely me again as well, at least enough to support his newfound love of the entertainment…

    I have said before and will always argue this: Horror movies and professional wrestling exemplify pop culture of the day. The types of horror people see, and the types of stars people choose in wrestling, tell a whole bunch about pop culture of the time. The moral 80s with Hulk Hogan taking vitamins and Jason Vorhees killing sexy drug addicts… the 90s with Stone Cold stunning the system and GhostFace mocking horror. The 2000s? ….chaos! turmoil! Wrestling run amuck.. SAW films killing without mercy. The newer generation of both? Horror back to the roots again. Wrestling has to do the same.
    If it does my son and I will be tuning in every Monday night with popcorn in hand. And attending the next live event..

  • First Creepy Communion Mass with Running Water

    First Creepy Communion Mass with Running Water

    From MY OWN Personal vault of strangeness today..

    While my family and I were guests of another whose son was receiving first holy communion–a Catholic mass–my own son whispered to me that he had to use the restroom.. We quickly walked to the back of the church where the bathroom was located. When we arrived, someone was just leaving..

    We quietly walked in attempting to not disrupt any of the prayer thoughts taking place way in the back of the church (where most people are anyway) … While my son was using the bathroom, the sink behind us turned on by itself. Or at least starting running cold water.. 

    My 6-year-old, a bit startled, told me matter-of-factly that the person before us just forgot to turn it off.. I stopped for a brief moment, and … well.. to not cause fear, agreed with him. 

    Mind you, this was a bathroom for one. A tiny little closet-ish area…

    Unfortunately for logic, I turned the knob a few times on and off.. Each time realizing that when I turned it on it made a squeaking noise. The squeaking noise was the same exact noise I heard when the water turned on by itself in the first place.

    ….leaving the bathroom was quick.. but ever since, the thoughts of what made the water turn on has not left my mind..

  • Good move from SONY: HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA 3 bumped to summer 18

    Good move from SONY: HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA 3 bumped to summer 18

    Sony Pictures Animation has booked Hotel Transylvania 3 on a new prime summer release date of July 13, 2018. The pic previously was scheduled on September 21 that year..

    Good move. Kids out of school.. people more inclined to go see a children’s movie that time a year as opposed to the third week of the school season.

    My own son will be the prime age for a theater visit with this film. He (and I) loved the first two movies.. No doubt the third will be just as well done..