Pipeology - The Fine Art of Pipe Smoking and Thought

 I don’t smoke very much Aromatic pipe tobacco, but I went to a search engine asking for the best Aromatic pipe tobaccos for spring.  First on the list was Peaches and Cream by Peter Stokkebye.  I decided to put eight ounces of it for my next order.  It gets a 3.3 star review out of five on Smoking Pipes with about 26 reviews.  Aromatics generally don’t get high reviews.  I order about 16 ounces a month sometimes with a two ounce tin of something else.  I’m not sure I’ll like Peaches and Cream, but thought it might give off a pleasant room note my wife would like.   I have about a half dozen pipe tobacco reviews on the Smoking Pipes website, but doubt seriously I’ll review it.  I can get excited about a new tobacco I’ve ordered, but I’m not thrilled about ordering Aromatics any longer.  I got tired of Autumn Evening because I can take only so much of maple pancakes.   Peter Stokkebye makes good tobacco blends and it seems more pipe ...

 My Angels give me a lot of smiles.  Knowing what they told me is priceless.  A smile can easily turn into a smirk.  I know the solution to a puzzle that is 2,000 years old.  But I wouldn’t know unless my Angels told me.  But why did they tell me, you might ask.  Because they chose me to tell.  The puzzling question is:  What was Jesus saying in His Parables?   In Mark 4:13 Jesus says ALL His parables say the same thing.  The meaning is found in the parable of the Old Cloak and Old Wineskin.    Once something is old it can’t be made new again.  But what does “old” mean?  There is a sin God won’t forgive.  Scholars have been debating this for two thousand years.  My Angels told me.  One becomes old once one intentionally takes a Human Life.  This is the meaning of ALL the parables.  The Pharisees punished by death certain sins.  And sins are punished by death by some today.  And ...

 Desperate people do desperate things.  It’s amazing how old people respond to religious ideas once they face the end of life.  They begin to fear death and seek to be immortalized.  But desperation knows no age or income.  Desperation has as many reasons as sin in general.   But for those of us who don’t fear death, there is no desperation.  We take each day as a blessing.  We are thankful to just be alive.  Desperation may set in if one knows one’s time is limited.  Desperation is a way to argue with the inevitable.   I am far from a desperate old person.  I am waiting for the arrival of the Messiah and sometimes that waiting taxes my patience.  But I never live in desperation while waiting.  I simply don’t worry about death or dying, but often wonder how long I have to wait for the Messiah to come.  Desperate people feel they must do something in order to survive.   The poor get desperate for money so the...

 I listen to Chip Davis Dayparts Sunday Morning Coffee every Sunday morning while I drink my coffee and smoke my pipe.  I am pretty relaxed this morning after getting the best night’s sleep I have had in quite some time.  I watch an old movie from 1965 last night and it was a B movie about a spy who could transfer himself from place to place.  His car was an AMC Javelin.   I loved the looks of that car when it first came out.  But it is a very expensive car to own these days with a lot of work having to be done just to maintain them.  I love to watch old movies just for the cars.  My favorite old show to watch these days is Columbo.  Peter Falk did a great hub portraying Columbo.   A lot of cars in Columbo are old classic expensive cars. I wouldn’t own a classic today as parts are getting more and more rare.  Very few mechanics today can work on old cars.  Mt brother own a 1963 XKE Jaguar, but he can work on it himself as a hob...

 I have no doubt there is intelligence in the universe.  Whether it is 3I/ATLAS or something else we are not alone.  I am convinced there is intelligence watching us.  As to how to define this intelligence I can say it can’t be defined.  It is said Satan can do most anything God can do, but I don’t give him that much power.   Basically, my Angels gave me limited understanding.  We tend to fear what we don’t understand.  While I don’t claim to understand all things there is much I do understand.  I believe that God is the intelligence of the Universe.  And I understand about good vs. evil.  This understanding gives me no reason to fear.   Fear is Satan’s greatest weapon.  The whole idea behind a universal intelligence is to give us no reason to fear.  But why should I have this understanding when others do not?  I don’t have an answer for this because my voice is so small.  But all I need to do is just keep r...

 I’m not sure what to believe about 3I/ATLAS.  It’s either exiting our solar system or it is sending satellites into orbits around the earth. So, which is it?  I tend to believe the latter but NASA and world space agencies wouldn’t want to alarm us.  But I don’t believe 3I\ATLAS is nefarious.   God has to have some way of ridding the earth of all murderers at once.  Frankly, I’m not sure I care how God  does it.   But I believe the Judgement is near.  But actually it’s not my concern.  God can do whatever He wants to do and in some ways I am not going to care.  Satan knows his time on this earth is short.  Murders will increase.  But he will not win.  There is too much good in this world for Satan to win.   The biggest question of the day is whether 3I/ATLAS has intelligence and I am one who thinks it does.  We are being observed both by God and Angels.  It’s just that most don’t know how God will judge...