Religion in the woods

[GRTimberCO]

I had this thought today as I was skidding the last few logs.

If God is the one that tells the wind where to blow, the sun when to rise, the bird where to nest, does that mean He also tells the briar to reach for the groin and the yellow jacket to aim for my temple? Man my head hurts.

I had a hornet hit me between the shoulder blades a few years ago. Now I went to college on a rodeo scholarship to ride bucking horses, worked cowboy jobs all through college, came home and ran a framing crew specializing in high end houses. I log on the side with a chainsaw and a tractor and at thirty years old I thought a hornet sting was going to make me cry in pain. I mean, how do they know where to aim? More times than not if I get stung by wasp or yellow jackets it's on the back of the head or in the eye lid or somewhere that really hurts. :msp_angry:

 

[Currently]

The dichotomy between your poast and your sig is hilarious!

BTW, wasps, hornets and the like are the devils work.
Believe it to the bottom of my heart.

 

[GRTimberCO]

The dichotomy between your poast and your sig is hilarious!

As I sit here holding my throbing head I conceed you have a point.

BTW, wasps, hornets and the like are the devils work.
Believe it to the bottom of my heart.

You are probably right. for some reason I have a hard time pictureing horseflys, ticks and poison ivy in the Garden of Eden

 

[nw axe man]

Interesting thread.
I'm going to have to ruminate on this one. Brings up a lot of things to think about.

 

[plasticweld]

I can not remember the verse but some where in Proverbs it say “ The rain shall fall on the just and un-just” You were just bit by the mechanics that make the eco world go round

 

[RandyMac]

I always found Yellow-jacket attacks exhilarating, Honey Bees, not so much.

There are parts of His Plan that take considerable cogitation, what made sense to him, will remain a puzzle to us.

 

[GRTimberCO]

I'm not questioning God's plan, atleast not today. I've long come to peace with the fact that there are things I'll never understand this side of eternity. I just wonder how the wasp knows in that sand sized brain to aim for the head, an area rich with nerve endings and short on muscle mass to absorb the venom.

 

[056kid]

I got zapped by a yellow jacket yesterday. I landed some afternoon work clearing land for a friend. I was in some small yellow pine when she got me on my left arm, immediately I knew what to do. Finish the back cut, run 10 feet and pause, still bees, run 20 more feet, no more bees, identify the nest, of course I was standing right on top of them next to the tree, an underground nest of maybe 200. They where nice bees, I was within 8 feet of the swarm after a few minutes of stirring them up. Been through bees enough to know the drill and not get too excited.
The sting was like a little pinch though, I guess getting a full dose of bald face hornet to my inner nose is still rather fresh in my mind haha.
As far as JC and friends go, I remind myself frequently to quit taking his name in vain before I get hit with a branch or a bear comes and totes me away for din din. . I have had 2 different occasions where they where spotted in close proximity behind me, Stalking me?

 

[banshee67]

seeing as most religious folks credit god for all their success, happiness, and achievements in life, i think its only fair he get blamed for all their failures and shortcomings as well
the first thing out of most celebrities or athletes mouth when they win, is "first of all i wana thank god for making this possible"... its only fair the losing team go back to their locker room and curse god for making them lose
to me this is common sense, although there isnt much of that in religion in seems
if god is to thank for a new born baby , or a sunny afternoon, or the accident that you narrowly avoided on the highway, then god is surely to blame for everything negative in this world, its only fair
:msp_rolleyes:

anyway, i got stung by a wasp right in the eyelid last summer, hurt like a whore, eye swelled shut within 20 mins and looked like i got kicked in the eye, god must have been angry at me for something that day

 

[tramp bushler]

The dichotomy between your poast and your sig is hilarious!

BTW, wasps, hornets and the like are the devils work.
Believe it to the bottom of my heart.

pestilance came into the world thru the fall of man ..... also , something to ponder on a hot sticky summer supper time is . [ by the sweat of thy brow shalt thou eat beard until you return to the dust of the earth ] . I may not have the verse exact , but close . . I agree yellow jackets ect are horrible ... makes 40 below real attractive !!!!!!!!!!!

 

[madhatte]

Hornets generally only attack when they feel threatened, or they think the nest is threatened. I've worked safely around bald-faced hornets' nests with my hands 6 inches or less away (because that's where the tree happened to be, bummer) and have seen them pick flies and mosquitoes out of the air right in front of my face. I've come to regard hornets as cautious allies.

Yellow-jackets, on the other hand, are just #####es. They're mean and stupid and attack anything anywhere and anywhen without provocation. 90% of the stings I've had have been from yellow-jackets, and most of those were not near a nest.

 

[nw axe man]

It's interesting to think that if something other than what we call good things happens to us, God is to blame. So, does that mean that He's waiting for us to do something wrong so He can punish is? So, we get smacked by a widowmaker while we're working along, minding our own business, and we blame God for that? I used to feel that way about my own father, however, I read nothing in the Bible that leads me to believe that He's waiting for us to screw up so He can punish us. I do read where He is waiting for us to come to Him with open arms. Hmm. Interesting.

 

[wowzers]

I wouldn't lose a wink of sleep if every bald face hornet died a fiery death tomorrow. Only a matter of time till they start showing up in the strip.

 

[RandyMac]

Bees, Hornets, Wasps are bad enough. How about the Stump ####er? Aka female horntail woodwasps.

 

[nw axe man]

Bees, Hornets, Wasps are bad enough. How about the Stump ####er? Aka female horntail woodwasps.

Not sure we have them here. Are they nasty?

 

[RandyMac]

Yeah, like a Hummingbird flyin' in reverse, they plague fresh burnt timber.
They call them Spruce Flies in some places.

 

[madhatte]

Your Horntails don't sting. The long spiky bit at the back is associated with the ovipositor, which is a hollow tube used to inject eggs into the wood. The spike itself seems to be entirely ornamental, perhaps to dissuade predation. Horntails are common around fires, as they look for recently-killed trees to lay eggs in. The common name, "Stump-F#####", is totally appropriate, because that's what they do. It's cool to watch. These are solitary wasps and don't have nests. I think I remember reading that they live for several years.

 

[Metals406]

Bees, Hornets, Wasps are bad enough. How about the Stump ####er? Aka female horntail woodwasps.

Amen to that Randy!! Giant Wood Wasp:

They're called Stump Puckers (F for the P) here as well.

 

[GRTimberCO]

It's interesting to think that if something other than what we call good things happens to us, God is to blame. So, does that mean that He's waiting for us to do something wrong so He can punish is? So, we get smacked by a widowmaker while we're working along, minding our own business, and we blame God for that? I used to feel that way about my own father, however, I read nothing in the Bible that leads me to believe that He's waiting for us to screw up so He can punish us. I do read where He is waiting for us to come to Him with open arms. Hmm. Interesting.

It's very interesting that you should say that. My wife was telling me a few years ago about something she was reading at the time. The author stated that we (humans) get most of our view of God based on how we see our fathers. After pondering the subject for a while I've come to believe the author was right, atleast in my case. The problems I have with God the father are the same ones I have with my own earthly father, whom I love but is far from perfect. That means they are almost certainly not truth but a problem with my perspective. As the apostle Paul stated in his thank you letter to the church of Philippi "continue ot work out your salvation with fear and trembling" (2:12), realizing that about me and how I see my own dad has helped me work through a pile of junk over the years.

 

[Metals406]

Your Horntails don't sting. The long spiky bit at the back is associated with the ovipositor, which is a hollow tube used to inject eggs into the wood. The spike itself seems to be entirely ornamental, perhaps to dissuade predation. Horntails are common around fires, as they look for recently-killed trees to lay eggs in. The common name, "Stump-F#####", is totally appropriate, because that's what they do. It's cool to watch. These are solitary wasps and don't have nests. I think I remember reading that they live for several years.

I read online that they don't sting as well.

They must bite then, cause they sure are known here for their dirty deeds.