Pipeology - The Fine Art of Pipe Smoking and Thought

 I have had to live with the theology of my Angels for nearly 33 years.  Smoking a pipe has helped a lot with the any stresses I have had because of it.  But it is what it is.  I can’t change it.  And if I did I’d be lying.  It’s hard enough to be believed I lied about my Angels.  But I just accept my Angels and deal with life the best I can.   The theology is so simple, but it translates to my philosophy about life and living.  I try not to judge sin regardless of what it is.  I just cannot accept the intentional taking of Human Life.  But, again, I do not judge what I do not know.  I judge false prophets, but I do this by staying away from them.  My voice is small, but that is God’s doing; not mine.   I have either done enough or in some ways I’m just getting started.  In some ways I had to wait for the pieces to fall into place and now I believe they have.  Many are expecting the end of civilization as we...

Belief in Angels doesn’t matter to me one way or another.  What matters is the Message.  Knowing the Message is most important.  I would like the world to know the Message.  It’s all that really matters.  Living a life of Peace matters most.  I can be rejected but the Message is all that matters to me.  If it was a matter of my popularity I would just ignore Angels all together.  I just do what I do and let God do the rest. I have to decide which pipes I’ll take with me to NY.  I have nothing in NY for pipe smoking.  I have to decide how I’ll pack all my pipe smoking gear for going.  I have a few things up there, but most things have to travel with me.  I’m only taking seven pipes up there and I need to decide which ones.  I’m working on that one step at a time.   I never worry about traveling.  My thinking is that my Angels will keep me safe so that means everyone who travels with me is just as safe.  I rea...

 Both are rather controversial and I understand this.  But when you are given so much space to work with - I just do my best.  And I have purposely limited my tobacco choices because I no longer have the room for storage.  And I don’t buy many pipes any longer and receive most of my newer ones as gifts.   As for the Angels I don’t defend them.  I state what I believe now and leave it at that.  A pipe smoker is usually quite the gentleman or gentle lady as the case may be, since more women are taking up the hobby.  In some ways I miss the chivalry of days gone by but I don’t believe that those days are totally gone.  I’ve been to a number of cigar bars and I don’t see chivalry as being dead.   But there is something special about a person who smokes a pipe.  A pipe gives time for thought before speaking.  It used to be said that congressmen who smoked pipes had their own club with a few women invited as well.  It is said th...

My wife and I are getting ready to summer in upstate NY in a few weeks.  I sat on the lanai this morning smoking my pipe and listening to Sunday Morning Coffee and I began to wonder if I liked Sunday mornings in NY over Sunday mornings in Florida.  I’m not crazy about the overall solitude of NY.  It rains more in NY and if it rains here in Florida I am sheltered by the lanai.  If it rains in NY, I am relegated to smoking my pipe in the garage.   Each has its own likes and dislikes.  I like suburban living over the country of NY.  But there we are surrounded by woods and wild life.  There are always chores that must be done—even on Sundays.  I love sitting on the deck of our NY home and smoking a pipe.  The deer often ramble through our yard after emerging from the woods behind.   I have a lot of photographs of deer.  But summers in NY are best.  The quiet of Sunday mornings in NY can’t be had anywhere else.  The woods...

 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. ...