M7ck, 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, M7ck, 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. Yes, M7ck, there is a Relix. 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 Relix! It would be as dreary as if there were no M7cks. There would be no childlike faith then, no cheesecake, no overclocking 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 Relix! You might as well not believe in fairies. You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the cheesecake shops to catch Relix, but even if you did not see Relix eat the cheesecake, what would that prove? Nobody sees Relix, but that is no sign that there is no Relix. 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 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, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, M7ck, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding. No Relix! Thank God! he lives and lives forever. A thousand years from now, M7ck, nay 10 times 10,000 years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.
I knew the reference would go over the heads of most people here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes,_Virginia,_there_is_a_Santa_Claus
Amen. Now let us all bow our heads in payment (of cheesecake) The Church O'Relix - Probably the best tithe plate in world.
Did you actually read the info in that link? Ignore the USA and Canada bit. I'm in Australia and even I've heard of it here.
Bit-Tech has damaged me in many ways, but none more deeply than my cholesterol. /cuts slice of cheesecake
Interesting factoid, in the TV series Lost when Sawyer says Sonofa ...... he is actually meant to say SonofaRelix, but Lost was already confusing enough without adding cheesecake-side-slides to the whole thing, /true story.