Pipeology - The Fine Art of Pipe Smoking and Thought

 It matters not who you are, everyone has a god.  It might not be THE one God, but everyone has a god.  It could be science or mathematics or business or whatever you do, you have a god.  My God teaches the value of all Human Life.  There is an ethic about life from most any god.  I can’t see someone like Neil DeGras Tyson being one who does respect Human Life.   Some Atheists are more ethical than some Christians.  What God judges is how each person values Human Life.  That’s it.  Life is nothing but a test to see how each person values Human Life.  Is that all there is to it?  In a nutshell—yes.  Love respects every Human Life.   But some will reject such a theology.  But it is a learning process.  Life can get in the way of such purity.  And we might develop a way of thinking that allows for the taking of Human Life for many reasons.  But even an Atheist can feel about Human Life as I do.  ...

 My focus is solely on Peace and Love.  My only judgment is on those who intentionally take Human Life.  That’s it.  I smoke a pipe in order to focus on Peace and Love.  Judgment belongs only to God.  He did not choose me to judge.  Belief in my Angels is secondary.  I believe I represent them through Peace and Love.  My Angels didn’t make me perfect—just better.   I am a better person because of my Angels.  It’s what they do for anyone who encounters them.  Perfection only belongs to Jesus and betterment for the rest of us.  I’m not sure what Heaven is all about, except it is Perfect Peace and Love.  On earth Angel encounters make us better.  Some might have more insight because of them, but each in his or her own way.   My Angels made me better in my own way.  Mental well-being is a big part of it.  And we see life more clearly and have a deeper understanding of others.  I’ve grown different...

 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...