Pipeology - The Fine Art of Pipe Smoking and Thought

 Maybe I know all I need to know from my Angels.  They expect me to do the rest of their work.  I keep saying to God that my voice is too small.  And not many are going to believe that I know there is only one judgment for all humanity and I know HOW He will judge.  Maybe this is something I am not to share because I had no witnesses to my experience with them. But then too, the Angels knew what I would be against.  They said Jesus had it fifteen time harder than I have had in my life.  They knew how hard it would be to convince others.  Maybe I am to do it alone in my own way.  The Spirit will guide me in all I do.  So, yeah, I find this world very stressful at times. My computer crashed yesterday after working with a new OS.  I thought maybe if I unplugged it and let the battery die and then plug it back in the hard drive might boot to the old system.  It did.  It works now.  I won’t mess with it any longer.  I...

 I wasn’t sure when to post this.  Miller was a preacher who around 1849, I believe, told his followers to sell all they had and meet him on a hillside from which they’d all be raptured into heaven. It was called the Great Disappointment.  False prophets are doing this today.  They have a date in mind and then broadcast that date.  I am different.  I believe in the Second Coming and the Judgment of both the living and the dead to go along with it.  That Judgment will be God asking only one question:  Have you ever intentionally taken a Human  Life including your own life?  He will then separate the sheep from the goats.   Once Satan and His followers are removed from this world, He will establish His Kingdom of Peace.  That Peace begins with each one of us.  The problem is, for me at least, is that I can’t prove this.  But it is what I accept.  In answer to the age old question about soul sleep, the answer is yes...

 I know the Messiah is coming.  I’ve waited patiently through the years, but sometimes waiting drains on me.  I’ve never set any dates for a time when it will happen.  I don’t believe in a rapture, but I do believe in the Judgement, but even though I know HOW He will judge I try like crazy to make sure I do not judge—even the dead.   Today, I was thinking I just wish He would come.  It’s not about wishing for death.  God forbid I ever do that!  No, I see the world as it is and just wish.  But again, I never set dates as to when it will happen.  I just don’t know.  I never claim to know more than I do.  I was hoping it may have been on His Birthday, but I always wish for something great on His birthday.   But I wait like everyone else.  I hate when so-called prophets say this or that will happen in such-and-such a date.  They pretend to know and get their followers all worked up.  I’m not like that.  I t...

 I have time to just sit and smoke my pipe and there are times I just don’t want to think.  Today is one of those days.  I was thinking this morning that I have all the pipes I need.  I’ve smoked all my cellared tobacco and buy what I need in bulk for a month at a time.  I smoke about 16 ounces a month.   I have tried all the famous ropes, coins, and slices that many pipe smokers like.  I’ve had many aromatics and always keep some around for my wife to enjoy the aromas.  I guess in my old age I’m kind of tired of thinking about what’s in my pipe.  These days I just want to light what I have, sit back, relax, and not think about what’s in my pipe.   I used to anticipate opening that new bag or that new tin and think about a review I might write about such-and-such tobacco.  But these days my old pipes are my best friends and I just want in them what I know I like.   I’ve found my favorite affordable bulk tobacco.  I think h...

In my humble opinion, the best psychiatrists, doctors, philosophers, and theologians are in their seventies.  Why?  Wisdom is acquired by longevity.  These occupations require wisdom.  I always felt that the best presidents of the US came from the Senate.  There they had time to acquire the wisdom of leadership.  They think in terms of long-term.  They think past quarters that only business people can see.   They have been tested by the way of governing.  Their thinking is years ahead.  They are visionaries for long-term thinking.  This is the way of older people.  They think in terms of generations to come.  Many of them are grandparents or in some cases great-grandparents that think ahead for the distant future.  They have been tested by short-term thinking.  They think of what is best for the future of humanity and the country.  Many have left a foot-print and now they are dialing their prints on humanity...

 After observing so many sins, both in the Chirch and apart from it, my conclusion was that God cares only about Human Life.  My Angels agreed with me.  For this reason I believe the best is yet to come.  I believe the worst is behind us, and God has now prepared the world for the Second Coming.  But my voice is so small, but I never worry about numbers.  I let God worry about numbers.  My task as I see it from my Angels is to do what I do in preparing the way.  I see my task as helping as my Angels said I would.   There are many voices that are louder who see what I see.  I just simply relax, meditate, and wait.  I try to write almost daily to exercise my mind.  And doing so helps me remember.  I can’t forget and as I get older, I need to hang on to some memories and conveniently forget what isn’t important.  My wife and will talk about things we remember and I remember some smallest of details, but some things I’ve ...