Religion in the woods

[coastalfaller]

My thoughts.....I'm definitely a believer in God...Do I live like it? Not so much. I choose to think that God created all of this and just lets us make what we will of it. I do not believe that he guides anything for us....I have to believe that. If I thought he guided a child rapist to it's next victim or a terrorist to a successful attack for some greater purpose......well, I'll just have to go to the devil if that's the case cause I don't want to meet him to learn of his reasoning. I think that he just let's everything run it's course and then he judges us when we've run er through.......I'm in big damn trouble no matter which way it pans out!!!!! I do not profess this to be true......It's just what works for me and keeps me from cursing any higher power. Yellow Jackets are little terrorists! I hate them with a passion. I will not speak of the big black bee with the white face and white rings around there rear end. If I do then are relationship might worsen!

Yep, absolutely I agree. I try to just be a good man and a model for my kids. Doesn't always work! lol, but I try! I like the credo, do unto others as you would have others do unto you. I appreciate that philosophy.

 

[T_F_E]

We might as well just stop putting titles on our topics boys.

 

[paccity]

View attachment 189378 heres one of mine , have another of the wallace clan.

I have claim to a few Floyd, Clans are intermingled.

 

[Gologit]

Well there are few out there that consider the little bugs the man upstairs message service. I worked with a cranky arse old hook tender that if he was stung he wood shut the site down and sit on stump til he said fire her up boys. Never did figure it out till we were working a real nasty cow face yarding operation and the old boy hollered like a mad man after he stepped into yeller jacket nest and we shut down and 5 minutes later the main line failed, he saved the riggin crews life. I hate black wasps worse then any other thing that stings, had a thinning sale that had a few snags filled with black wasps, well the three fallers I was working with told me to run for the crick cause the hornets were a coming my way, got them sobs stinging me in some bad places to be stung:msp_mad:

:monkey:

 

[paccity]

persitant isn't he. lol.

 

[slowp]

View attachment 189378 heres one of mine , have another of the wallace clan.

Red is fitting for RandyMac. I like my clan colors, which I can't get to show here, but it is a mixture of blues and greens....Carruthers.

But then there's Scandihoovians who mixed in, so I'm just a mongrel.

2dogs, glad to see you are still with us. Are you getting better?

 

[2dogs]

Red is fitting for RandyMac. I like my clan colors, which I can't get to show here, but it is a mixture of blues and greens....Carruthers.

But then there's Scandihoovians who mixed in, so I'm just a mongrel.

2dogs, glad to see you are still with us. Are you getting better?

Thanks for asking Patty. Yes I am still among the living. I can't do any thing fast or that takes much strength but then that was me before the flare-up too. I am just hanging out with the dogs...sleeping, stretching, and other stuff dogs doo.

 

[slowp]

Well there are few out there that consider the little bugs the man upstairs message service. I worked with a cranky arse old hook tender that if he was stung he wood shut the site down and sit on stump til he said fire her up boys. Never did figure it out till we were working a real nasty cow face yarding operation and the old boy hollered like a mad man after he stepped into yeller jacket nest and we shut down and 5 minutes later the main line failed, he saved the riggin crews life. I hate black wasps worse then any other thing that stings, had a thinning sale that had a few snags filled with black wasps, well the three fallers I was working with told me to run for the crick cause the hornets were a coming my way, got them sobs stinging me in some bad places to be stung:msp_mad:

OK, this story ought to offset that one. Back in da 80s, I walked down da hill and was checking the logging. It was a high lead operatiion in a clearcut, in old growth, so I mostly looked to see how much merch stuff they were missing. I got down to where most of the rigging crew was standing off to the side, laughing and hooting encouragement. A lone guy was setting chokers and cussing and waving his arms.

I asked what was going on and was told that there was a bee nest right there and that the lone (and young and stupid) chokersetter made the unfortunate statement that "Bees don't bother me none." So, since he was impervious to bees, he was the one to hook up logs for that setting. No operations stopped, they just slowed a bit for a brief time, and some entertainment was had by all

 

[slowp]

Thanks for asking Patty. Yes I am still among the living. I can't do any thing fast or that takes much strength but then that was me before the flare-up too. I am just hanging out with the dogs...sleeping, stretching, and other stuff dogs doo.

IGNORE THE DOGS. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO PLAY FETCH. IGNORE THE TENNIS BALLS. FIGHT THE POWER OF THE TENNIS BALLS!

Since you said you were doing what dogs do....

 

[paccity]

Red is fitting for RandyMac. I like my clan colors, which I can't get to show here, but it is a mixture of blues and greens....Carruthers.

But then there's Scandihoovians who mixed in, so I'm just a mongrel.

2dogs, glad to see you are still with us. Are you getting better?

me to on the scandihoovians. were all mongrel's to some exstent.

 

[Greenwedge]

IGNORE THE DOGS. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO PLAY FETCH. IGNORE THE TENNIS BALLS. FIGHT THE POWER OF THE TENNIS BALLS!

Since you said you were doing what dogs do....

Replyed to this in the Prodding thread.

 

[2dogs]

IGNORE THE DOGS. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO PLAY FETCH. IGNORE THE TENNIS BALLS. FIGHT THE POWER OF THE TENNIS BALLS!

Since you said you were doing what dogs do....

No I said what the dogs doo.

 

[Gologit]

No I said what the dogs doo.

Hmmm...another in a long list of "the less I know about that the happier I'm going to be" stuff.

 

[GASoline71]

persitant isn't he. lol.

Kinda like a pesky wasp. Just don't know when to quit.

Gary

 

[Samlock]

Back to the subject: What's the big idea behind the nasty little buggers as yellow jackets and wasps? What they are designed for? And who made them? Or is there any design at all?

Let me give you an example:

As said, yellow jackets have infrared vision. Among other things that ability helps them to find wasp's nests (we all know how difficult it is to observe a nest in the brush). Yellow jacket is a predator, and the wasp's offspring is a most desirable nutrition. Once a yellow jacket scout spots a wasp's nest, it will fly back home for some back up. If it manages to do so, the wasps are doomed. There's nothing they can do to defend their nest against a large bunch of yellow jackets; Wasp can't sting through it's shield. The only chance wasps have is to stop the scout. Well, here's the catch: Wasp tolerates just a couple of degrees more heat than yellow jacket. They gather around a yellow jacket and start furiously buzzing their wings, which creates a great deal of heat. Eventually, yellow jacket scout will die in overheating and wasps will return home.

If someone really designed this detail, he must have a good sense of humor or a wicked mind. Or both.

 

[wowzers]

I must be a hot head because the only place a bald face ever gets me is in the head.

 

[hammerlogging]

I've been told by more than one old timey mountain folk about how the yellowjacket stings are getting stronger cuase they figured out of they ate dead copperheads they could get some of the venom to add to their sting.

I just look at these people long and steady, and i think its one of those things whjere once they've actually heard themselves say something like this, they realize, yeah, thats pretty stupid sounding. I try and be sensitive about most old lore, but some BS just cant be taken.

Hey Kid, you ever heard something like this?

 

[hammerlogging]

On another note, I cut a bunch of timber up in a holler in WV where a SCHOOL was BOMBED for teaching evolution. Right there in coal country, with a whole culture based on an economy removing a fossil record 42,000 years older than creation. Go figure.

Oh yeah,fossils are there to reveal the doubters.

 

[GRTimberCO]

On another note, I cut a bunch of timber up in a holler in WV where a SCHOOL was BOMBED for teaching evolution. Right there in coal country, with a whole culture based on an economy removing a fossil record 42,000 years older than creation. Go figure.

Oh yeah,fossils are there to reveal the doubters.

Evolution, creation and fossils- I'm going to wait to reply to that one but I have thought quite a bit about the subject trying to figure out how it all works together

 

[2dogs]

On another note, I cut a bunch of timber up in a holler in WV where a SCHOOL was BOMBED for teaching evolution. Right there in coal country, with a whole culture based on an economy removing a fossil record 42,000 years older than creation. Go figure.

Oh yeah,fossils are there to reveal the doubters.

I would like to b there when the Mormons knock on your door!