response 1 of 38:

Oct 24 22:10 UTC 1995

Two questions:  How much are the tickets and is it reserved
seating?  It really bugs me to pay lotsa bucks and then
have to get there an hour early to get a good seat.

response 3 of 38:

Oct 26 10:04 UTC 1995

<if you want someone to answer seriously, put the item
in a serious conference.  this is NOT a serious conference.>

My problem being, of course, I can't figure out which god
I want to see.  Athena, obviously, but then who?  If I
pay a visit to Wotan, will Amaterasu think I'm cheating on her?
And what will happen if she does?

And what if I decide I want to see every single god on the
planet?  How much vacation time will I need to take?

response 5 of 38:

Dec 23 16:31 UTC 1995

Has anyone ever heard the song "One Of Us" by Joan Osborne <sp?>?

response 7 of 38:

Dec 26 17:28 UTC 1995

Very much so. I find it interesting that local listeners that heard this song
on my favorite radio station wanted to have it banned from the play list
because it "denounced God" and I just thought that was absurd!! I've always
thought that song was a sort of social comentary. "If God had a face, what
would it look like and would you want to see, if seeing meant that you would
have to believe... ?" I think it poses a very interesting question. One that
I don't think my faith is strong enough to answer.

response 9 of 38:

Jan 29 15:51 UTC 1996

I've seen enough of my own deities, thanks.

response 11 of 38:

Jan 30 02:26 UTC 1996

I've wondered about the whole "meek shall inherit the Earth" thing.
Isn't it found in the same book of the Bible that features the
Four Horsemen? That'd be some Earth to inherit. :P

response 13 of 38:

Feb 1 23:53 UTC 1996

Anything to get close to Athena, right Robh? >8)

response 15 of 38:

Mar 21 14:16 UTC 1996

If god were so powerful and we rreally saw how powerful he/she/it was then
I for one would wnat that power and by that blasphemy be sent straight to
hell.  So no, but being atheist if I see an angel i'll grabn onto them so fast
they won't know what hit theor holy a***es (cos eternal death is uncool even
though it pry is true)

response 17 of 38:

Aug 10 14:09 UTC 1996

God is supposed to be a *spirit* without form or mass...so how can you see
him?  Or her...?  Whatever.
(Sometimes being Pagan is sooooo much simpler>  =)  Right Rob?

response 19 of 38:

Oct 30 12:11 UTC 1997

It's been more than a year since someone appended his response here.
Anyway, your question reminded me of the Song "One of Us". The song 
itself says a lot of things about our relationship with God, and in
fact, the way I see it, it talks about the past, present, and "possible"
future understanding of GOD. "Possible", because the song gives us a
situation, that is, if GOD IS one of us, if we are able to see HIM, if
He becomes visible to our naked eye.  From that point, it  puts us in an
even  deeper situation, and a  harder question. What would your reaction
be ?  But then, again, I would like to think that the song isn't talking
about something unrealistic, a situation that is impossible to happen.
Rather, I view it this way: 
   There are agnostics and atheists. There are Christians, but sometimes
   even Christians themselves doubt God's existence (though that doesn't
   make them less Christian that any of us. I think, we have to accept
   that some of us experience low points in our belief).  Now, for me,
   what this song tries to tell me is that  you don't really need to see
   ( through our eyes ) God to believe Him. < "If seing meant that
   you'll believe in heaven and....." > God is with us right now,  you
   could see God in each of us, and eventually, what the songs tries to
   tell me is that we should love other people the way we love God. 

response 21 of 38:

Nov 2 02:54 UTC 1997

Cecille - For the most part, I agree with what you have to say.  (I also have
been away from this thread for a while, so bear with me if I repeat previous
points or drift a bit)  However, it seems in your response that you are
assuming that 'God' means the God of Christianity.  There are those among 
us - myself included - who belive as strongly as you do, who have as great
a desire to see, and who love other people just as much, but what we belive
and what you belive aren't the same.  I have no objection to your beliefs,
and I think what you've said is beautiful, but...I'd appreciate it if you'd
realize that some of the 'belivers' here aren't Christian.

response 23 of 38:

Jan 7 01:30 UTC 1998

I mean no offense to anyone when I say that I hope that someday (soon) the
(entire) human race will move out of their adolescent stage of explaining
everything around them with dieties, gods, and myths, and finally come to the
point where things are universally explained with logic, math, and science.