Pipeology - The Fine Art of Pipe Smoking and Thought

 About seven out of ten adults in the US believe in Angels.  It seems like most people want to believe that Angels are watching over them.  CNN just had a headline saying more Gen Z are turning to organized religion.  A more common belief was that they are falling away from it.  But it seems they aren’t attending the mega churches, but are finding faith in smaller congregations.   I wouldn’t go so far to say that the prosperity gospel is dying, but it seems that there is a kind of overall feeling that the only ones who are rich are the leaders.  Smaller congregations share the wealth.  But over all people are believing in something that gives them protection in life.  With so much uncertainty, Angels are a simple belief that offers something substantial.   A belief in Angels has little to do with a religion, but is more personal.  I promote my Angels but try to stay away from too much religious thought.  My theology is quite si...

 I don’t really care about numbers.  Some days they’re high and some days low.  I write mostly for my wife and close friends.  If I cared, I’d worry about it.  My wife always gives me her reactions to most anything I do.  I figure I do things on my phone that maybe Angels don’t do.  I do it for them too. Some days I bomb and some days I hit home runs.  It might depend on when I post, but I’m most active on social media in the mornings.  I slow down as the day progresses.  Numbers just don’t matter to me.  My thinking is that all I have to do is represent my Angels in all things and they will do the rest.   What matters to me are two basic things my Angels told me.  One is that I will lie to see the arrival of the Messiah, and the second is that I know HOW He will judge when He arrives.  The rest they told me applies pretty much to myself.   I know many will talk about the dead and what they are experiencing. ...

 I have my earthly Angels.  For me, they are close friends and family.  My pipes help me stay connected to my heavenly Angels.  There is power in thought and meditation.  Some might call it prayer, but in a way I don’t ask God to do such-and-such, but it’s more like I will God to act.  It’s more like believing in the power of Angels to act.   But why the pipe as a tool?  I asked my Angels whether I had to give up my pipes.  I had already been smoking a pipe for twenty years, and I wasn’t sure I was ready to give them up.  They said it was up to me.  I chose to make them tools for meditation.  This is why I meditate with a pipe.  I know my Angels don’t care as long as a pipe is more beneficial than harmful.   I wear an Apple Watch for health reasons.  I have other watches I can wear while charging my Apple Watch but I hardly go anywhere without wearing it.  I like to check my BPM once in a while.  I chec...

 I’m posting this post this morning, but mostly I wrote it last evening after eight.  I was going through my YouTube offerings last night and decided I’ve had it with information for the day.  I just wanted to smoke my pipe and listen to the quiet music instead.  I’m an old guy who smokes a pipe, but I’ve always relaxed with my pipe.  It’s why I smoke one main tobacco.  My brain gets tired of thinking.   I miss the old days when a pipe smoker can just light their pipe most anywhere.  I used to have my own office in our home where I’d just light my pipe and work.  I used to have many cellared tins and jars, but these days I sit out in the lanai and smoke what I have.  My son has tens of thousands of followers in FB and I have my few.  I did this on purpose.  Few is best for me.   I seek a quiet life these days, but I believe more people need to smoke a pipe—not fewer.  A pipe gives one time to pause and reflect.  ...

 Usually Angels just show up.  I had a two and a half hour conversation with mine.  That was 32 years ago and they had a lot to tell me.  They completely changed my theology about sin, Grace, and even God Himself.  They told me who I would become and what I’d do.  They said Jesus had it fifteen times worse than I did at that time.   They removed any guilt from me and said God had judged me already.  A place in heaven with my family was already prepared for me.  I just didn’t think it would have taken so long for the Messiah to arrive.  But I believe along with many others it could be most any day now.  His Judgment will be swift.  He will judge all humanity with one question and one question only:  Have you ever intentionally taken a Human Life?   That’s all there is to it and He already knows.  The world is now, I believe, being prepared for both His Judgment and the arrival of His Son.  Of course, I have n...

 Anyone who has encountered Angels is a VIP, in my way of thinking.  I wish I could tell others how to encounter them as I did; but I can’t.  They often come when least expected.  But being one of God’s VIP’s it is how I have handled the stresses of life and living for the past 32 years or so.  After my experience I can see so many times in my life prior to the experience where they guided me from danger.  They were with me every step of the way before I knew of their presence.   Most don’t encounter Angels until the very end of life.  But they said I would perform a task before the Messiah came and that task would be to HELP prepare the way for Him.  Many are doing this now.  Many believers are saying we are at the end of the old.  I’ve been saying this for more than 32 years.  I simply don’t have a massive audience as many do.   I am performing my task in small ways without a large following.  I almost do it one ind...