Pipeology - The Fine Art of Pipe Smoking and Thought

 I’ve given thought to giving up pipe smoking.  I asked my Angels about it and like other things it is up to me.  I’m due for a new pipe and living on retirement funds I have to decide how we spend our money.  I’ve given thought to buying a ten in one stereo system, but decided I’d rather spend that money on a new pipe instead.  I have Spotify for music and don’t need a music system.   I put some pipes in our wishlist on Amazon and chose a few I like on the Smoking Pipes website.  I lost a good pipe this past week as I noticed a crack in my best estate pipe.  I’ve lost several pipes in the past year and need some to replace the old ones.  Some I don’t smoke much for sentimental reasons and want to keep those in good shape.   A pipe can last forever if it is well cared for, but as they are used problems develop.  I’ve never burned out a pipe but over time they will crack and develop problems.  It’s why I have so many and most I ...

 I have a footprint albeit a small one.  But I never expected to leave a big one.  The theology of my Angels is too simple for most.  There isn’t much to it, although perhaps in courts of law such reasoning wouldn’t stand.  I can’t rob a bank, get caught, and go to a court of law and say my reasoning is that Jesus died for every sin but two, and expect not to serve time. I would be useless if others thought my reasoning was insane and I got put away for being mentally unsound.  Others have bizarre reasoning for many things and yet they aren’t put away in an asylum.  Perhaps they should to save the rest of us from having to listen to them.  But a life of Peace is no reason to be put away, although some might think so. I am a free man because I don’t break laws that would cause a law court to condemn me.  My faith is harmless whether it comes from Angels or not.  I asked God how people just never accepted such reasoning as mine.  He s...

 There are at least a few people who think about God’s Judgment at the end of life.  The older one gets one might give it more thought.  And there are those who think about God’s Harvest at some point when it is brought to mind.  Some say they are too evil for heaven.  And then there are those who believe this earth is all they have and want to leave a legacy.   I keep thinking my Angels ARE my legacy.  But I don’t worry about it as I never worry about numbers of likes or other things the Internet reminds us of.  I have a simple statement for the world and my thinking is that if God wants the world to know then it will know.   My Angels left me with several reminders and perhaps most importantly my Angels told me if we knew what heaven was like we’d be falling ourselves trying to get in.  But perhaps most importantly is God’s Judgment.  Jesus died for every sin except for the sins of intentionally taking Human Life including our vey...

 I woke early this morning knowing this post was in my mind.  I had to wait until the timing was right.  I have lived my life for the past 32 years to make a point.  And I apologize to those I have offended during this time.  There was a method to my madness.  The point I had to make was God’s forgiveness regardless of whom I have offended.  The point is that God forgives all sins except for the sins of intentionally taking a human life including that of one’s own.   I have lived my life in such a way to prove a point and I apologize to those whom I have offended making this point. I put my phone down yesterday and took off my watch so my conversations with God would not be interrupted.  But why now?  Because I believe my time in this world is not much longer.  I wasn’t sure how I would prove this point, but it seems God knew I would without going too far.  I went just far enough and feel now I have lived in such a way to prove...

 Being retired maybe you think all days are the same to me.  Actually, I get the Monday blahs like everyone else.  But it has been a quiet Monday morning for me.  I change my overnight T-shirt after I make the bed and I spray a body spray in my every morning.  My wife got me an Old Spice brand for Christmas and as I was spraying it, I thought that I miss that Old Spice bottle ewith the clipper ship on the front.  Sure it cost about ten bucks a bottle and it had an old man scent.  But those of us who are old guys don’t need colognes costing $200 or more.   I have one of those and my wife says the scent is over powering.  I have no need to smell like a GQ magazine.  Why wear a $200 cologne when my wardrobe is a ten dollar T-shirt and my shorts are about $15?  I need to smell like an old man, not a forty year old!   But it must be a quiet morning if this is all I have to write about today.  But at least I don’t smell like an ...

 The best of all possible worlds would be one without any wars.  There would be no hatred of any kind.  But many would fear such a world.  Fear is our worst enemy especially the fear of death.  Most would choose to survive at any cost including the cost of the lives of others.  My world would be a world that accepts others regardless.   But then too many fear that word “regardless.”  Jesus died for every sin regardless except for the sins of intentionally taking the lives of others or that of oneself.  But such theology would be rejected by most religions.  Their thinking is that you must belong in order to be saved.  You must think like us in order to be saved.  Which is why I don’t belong to a religion of any kind.  I am a cult of one.   Buddhism accepts individual paths.  In my thinking it is the only religion that does.  Some say the theology of my Angels makes me a pure Libertine. In fact, it just may b...