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True arborists like true Christians are rarely happy or complacent with their work, no matter how sharp the Felcos or how smooth the Silky cut, the striving for perfection is but our only goal.

As with Christianity, becoming an arborist is a mysterious and agonizing process. No one really knows what it is to be a true arborist. We are slowly awakening the sleeping arborist within.......

Every arborist is by definition an individual - so membership of some particular arboricultural institution means very little.

Arboricultural as with Christianity has to be a total way of life, which means it is impossible to be both a true arborist and a successful member of society. So absolute are the demands of the true arborist he or she must necessarily become an outsider.

These were just a few of the thoughts I had whilst pruning and removing trees this week. Please feel free to post a comment if you wish.

Thank you

Please be at peace with your work in the trees

Gary
 
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As with Christianity, becoming an arborist is a mysterious and agonizing process. No one really knows what it is to be a true arborist. We are slowly awakening the sleeping arborist within.......


Gary

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Mysterious and agonizing, huh? Your attempts to link arboriculture and Christianity together are getting tiresome on these boards. I think a worthy intellectual challenge would be to link Arboriculture and Judaism together. Or Hinduism. Or Islam.



Or just stop trying.





Yeah, just stop trying.



SZ
 
It's funny, I was just compiling the statistical averages of pedophilia being a predominant pathology in many of the Christian faith's popular regional spokesmen. Going by the data indicated in those being caught.
 
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Mysterious and agonizing, huh? Your attempts to link arboriculture and Christianity together are getting tiresome on these boards. I think a worthy intellectual challenge would be to link Arboriculture and Judaism together. Or Hinduism. Or Islam.


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For starting this thread I am truly sorry, I did not mean for it to cause offense, I write down ideas in my daily diary and sometimes tell other people as to what I think during my times in the trees.

People have to understand I am only discussing my spiritual journey through the land of arboriculture - a land filled with hope and wonderment, myths and legends and I believe - the answer to life itself.

When you grab hold of an idea, it is hard in your excitement not to relay this idea to the public at large.

Maybe your right....theology and arboriculture are two different entities and never the twain shall meet for ye art a true disciple of Shigo if you disagree with me.

Thank you

Gary

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For starting this thread I am truly sorry, I did not mean for it to cause offense, I write down ideas in my daily diary and sometimes tell other people as to what I think during my times in the trees.

People have to understand I am only discussing my spiritual journey through the land of arboriculture - a land filled with hope and wonderment, myths and legends and I believe - the answer to life itself.

Gary

Amen

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Don't get me wrong, spiritual journeys are fine. I just feel like you are putting this out there on purpose, to force people to raise objections to your beliefs.


Peace brother.

SZ
 
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AA, you're FOS classic troll.

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When dawns breaks over the new horizon I will hold your hand as we climb the mountain of truth toward the zenith of arboriculture. Like superman's foible with kryptonite you are suppressed by the complicated conundrum of trees in relation to buildings and other static structures.

I was sent here to help people like you come to terms with their innocent inability to comprehend CODIT - Compartmentalization of Decay in Trees.

If you are able to show me how the walls work and what is happening in each reactyion zone we will continue our trip to the zeb=nith.

thank you

gary

Amen
 
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I just feel like you are putting this out there on purpose, to force people to raise objections to your beliefs.


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Again...I'm truly sorry brother.

Peace out

Gary

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I guess we just have to live with that every profession have their fundamentalists; arboriculture, priests, mullas, hindumonks, presidents and primeministers etc. Fine by me as long as they don´t involve me in their world of "truth and just" (difficult to avoid with fanatic state leaders though)
So, go on arboraddict, keep a religous angle to what you do as long as you please, I won´t mind until you tell me to do so too.
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ArborAddict,

Comparing and mixing Christianity with arboriculture is fine, but remember that people have different interpretations of Christianity just as they do of arboriculture.

I suppose if your a Christian then God is omnipresent and he will exist in the rollers of the chipper as much as in the phloem of the tree.

But for many people this is just too much to take, its just not tangible. In fact, its downright weird, IMHO.

By all means as the bear has said keep the quasi-religious stuff and apply it to your Felcos, Silky and codit and whatever else, but please do not expect everyone else to live in this pseudo-Christian/Arb fantasy world.

Thanks

Grov
 
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So absolute are the demands of the true arborist he or she must necessarily become an outsider.

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CODIT is the chain-reaction of several elements laid together, it's no mystery. To make it such parallels the arguements of intelligent design (Christian fundamentalism) to evolutionary facts - trying to "repackage" the gospels into something a grade-schooler might understand but we're trying like hell to keep myth away from science. Please don't try to mystify something so well proven into a Sunday morning religious cartoon.

Your belief system is fine for you, but many others have been massacared, juxtaposed, sebjegated, and tortured by other's pushing their limited understandings to the larger world. Save us from this please.
 
My dear friend, CODIT is but a model, tis not the gospel as you say.
How ironic it is, that you have faith in Mr Shigo's self proclaimed model of how a tree reacts and protects itself from decay.

What about fungi and the role it plays in the ecosystem of the forest and tree, there is so much we have yet to understand, to proclaim CODIT as fact is blasphemy to Shigo's own words.

I'm sure he would not be happy with you my friend.

Thank you

Gary

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On the contrary, we understood the physiology of it together - I was USDA when he examined the process and generated the now-famous documents.

What has it to do with a God of any sort?

That's where you've take a proven event and modify it to fit a sort of myth as per your beliefs. In order to understand the evolutionary process, you'll need to close the bible and read some data, not saying that one can be understood without the other, but don't apply the good book to explain what now more than ever we all need to learn about.

The Church has yet to come to terms on the death sentences it handed out for people who testified that the earth wasn't flat, and with that they've lost not just a token of credibility, but a lot. Forever.
 
ArborAddict,
As a man of christ, can you with total certainty believe that YOU yourself, has such an insight into GOD's mind, that you can tell others that GOD himself, is not pleased with them?


Presumptuous is a kind word to describe what you are doing.
May heaven have mercy on your soul in YOUR time of judgment, friend.



ps: Lay off the PMs please
 
I have trouble with "...it is impossible to be both a true arborist and a successful member of society."

Not wanting to keep this going, I'm curious what exactly a 'successful member of society' is?
 
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