The Last Christmas

[snopes]

Comment: Is this real? I searched your page and was unable to find
anything about it.

Dear friends:

The below is from an e-mail friend and sounds to me like an angel
encounter (and message from heaven):
__________________________________________________ ___

An employee of mine, Chelsea _______ , told me a story of something that
happened to her just this past weekend at Wal-mart. She and two of her
friends were in the toy section at our local Wal-mart here in ___________
this last Saturday night looking for some playing cards. An unaccompanied
little girl around four years old appeared on the isle and was just
staring at them smiling. They all just looked back and in the awkward
silence finally said hello, wondering where her parents were and why such
a little girl was alone. She looked at them and replied "Did you have a
good Christmas?". Chelsea and her friends smiled and kindly replied "yes
we did, did you have a good Christmas?". No answer, few seconds of
silence, and she asked the same question again, "did you have a good
Christmas?", again they answered yes and with no answer to their question,
she asked again, "did you have a good Christmas?". They thought wow, this
is getting kind of weird but again answered just yes hoping she would go
on and find her parents. The little girl just stood there staring at them
with still no expression on her face and this time said, " hope you had a
good Christmas because it was our last here on earth, we won't have
another on because God told me Jesus is coming back before then." The
girls looked at each other in amazement and tears started filling their
eyes and they looked back for the girl and she was gone. All three girls
were left there in the toy isle crying because as Chelsea said deep down
inside we felt it was true. Was she an angel I don't know, but as they say
out of the mouths of babes. Let the Holy Spirit guide your heart with
this, but to me it is just another confirmation to me that Jesus is at the
doorstep just waiting for God to hand him the key to get in.

In Jesus,

[Dropbear]

Okay - lets think about this seriously for a bit before completely ridiculing it.

An angel - disguised as a 4 yr old child - with echolalia - appears in Wal-mart - to a girl named Chelsea and two of her friends - who are shopping/browsing in the toy section - and gives them alone in all the world - a message about the impending return of Christ - despite Biblical assertions that no-one will know the time....

Okay then - go for it...

Dropbear

[kitap]

Toy isle? They were on the Island of Misfit Toys?

[TB Tabby]

Were they playing the Roadhouse Board Game?

[Mouse]

And I thought the little girl would turn out to be one of those freakish Village of the Damned kids here to subjugate the planet and ensure that this indeed would be our last Christmas.

My story's probably closer to the truth than the glurge-writer's.

[Eddylizard]

Presumably if Jesus comes back before next December 25th, then we'll have to move Christmas to whatever date that happens on. So we'll still have another Christmas.

I can't believe that someone needed to ask if this was real...

Let's assume for a moment that an encounter with a 4 year old actually happened. Why would you take the 4 year old literally and assume that there's some supernatural aspect involved? Is it possible that she's just conveying what she thinks she knows about Jesus after going to church or Sunday School?

This glurge reminds me of an article I saw on Randi's forums about Indigo Children a while back. Apparently, a boy claimed he was the "Avatar" and then went on to babble about elements and incarnations so the interviewer (and the father) now seem to think that he's psychic/special. The rest of us had a good laugh, since it seemed obvious that he had just been watching "Avatar: The Last Airbender" on Nickelodeon and the reporter was simply not familiar with the show.

Aha, here it is: Dusk, the Indigo Boy

[monkster]

Am I the only one who thought the girl had died on xmas eve and she was giving a message to enjoy xmas because she wouldn't be able to anymore, or a story to that effect?

[One-Fang]

That was my expectation. Lemonaida, what a scary story that is that you linked!

[TrishDaDish]

Originally Posted by TB Tabby

Were they playing the Roadhouse Board Game?

I have to tell you, Christmas does not officially feel "real" for me until I've sang Let's Have A Patrick Swayze Christmas.

Trish "We'll decorate the barstools and gather round and sing" DaDish

[Ryda Wong, EBfCo.]

That kid freaked me out. I expected her to start eating people.

[vison]

Dusk? Some dork actually named his kid "Dusk"?

tsk, tsk.

What IS this world coming to?

Indigo children my aunt Fanny.
How profane and vulgar can we be, here on Snopes? I mean, could I drop the F-bomb on this one?

Originally Posted by vison

Dusk? Some dork actually named his kid "Dusk"?

tsk, tsk.

What IS this world coming to?

Indigo children my aunt Fanny.
How profane and vulgar can we be, here on Snopes? I mean, could I drop the F-bomb on this one?

Did you catch that his brother was named "Day"....?

[vison]

Originally Posted by Lemonaida

Did you catch that his brother was named "Day"....?

Um, no, I didn't. I guess by then the gag reflex had kicked in.

I've come across this "Indigo children" nonsense before, of course, and have thought that it just shows there is really no limit to how stupid people can be. Particularly about their kids. Like the Little League parent who thinks his clumsy kid is the next Randy Johnson, little Dusk's Dad is delusional. What a lovely time he is going to have when Dusk and Day are teenagers.

[ToadMagnet]

I thought this was going to end up with some comment about how Wal-Mart hates Christmas so there wouldn't be Christmas at Wal-Mart anymore ... or something like that ... but then, I'm a year behind on the "War on Christmas," aren't I?

Toad"It made sense in my head."Magnet

[TB Tabby]

Originally Posted by ToadMagnet

I thought this was going to end up with some comment about how Wal-Mart hates Christmas so there wouldn't be Christmas at Wal-Mart anymore ... or something like that ... but then, I'm a year behind on the "War on Christmas," aren't I?

Toad"It made sense in my head."Magnet

You're a month late, but don't feel bad. The pCms will wage war on non-Christians again next holiday season.

[Tarquin Farquart]

Originally Posted by ToadMagnet

I thought this was going to end up with some comment about how Wal-Mart hates Christmas so there wouldn't be Christmas at Wal-Mart anymore ...

At least you didn't think it was a George Michael-themed glurge.

[Richard W]

Hmm, there was a creepy kid outside our office yesterday - for some reason, it had decided to sit on the floor in the corridor right in front of our office door with all its schoolbooks spread out, and do its homework. I had to step around it and it gazed at me vacantly. I assume it belonged to one of the people in our office.

Maybe if I'd asked about Christmas, it would also have had a creepy message from God. It's an epidemic...

[PallasAthena]

Originally Posted by Richard W

Hmm, there was a creepy kid outside our office yesterday - for some reason, it had decided to sit on the floor in the corridor right in front of our office door with all its schoolbooks spread out, and do its homework. I had to step around it and it gazed at me vacantly. I assume it belonged to one of the people in our office.

Maybe if I'd asked about Christmas, it would also have had a creepy message from God. It's an epidemic...

Just out of curiousity, why the insistence on referring to a kid as an "it"? I get that you are trying to make a funny, but this kind of thing just really hangs my munchkin. Whether or not you like children, they are human beings. Gender is the first thing that registers in a person's brain when they look at another person. Referring to a human being as an "it" is an active choice to lower them to the status of an object. It's not very nice.

/hijack

[TrishDaDish]

I think the point Richard W's joke was making is "it" may not have been a child at all, but an angel or some Being of the Damned wanting to ask you about your last holiday on Earth. To quote Split Second:

"Did you see him?"
"'Him'? 'Him'? That wasn't a 'Him', that was a nfbsking IT!"

Trish "Or as my Ma calls the film, 'Big Nfbsking Guns' " DaDish