Pipeology - The Fine Art of Pipe Smoking and Thought

 I smoke a pipe purely for the enjoyment and relaxation.  I’m an old guy who has smoked a lot of tobacco blends in a number of pipes.  Some of my pipes have been retired over the years and I’m keeping every pipe I buy.  I get attached to my pipes and hate to part with even the ones I’ve retired.   I’m tired of thinking about the tobacco, so I stick with familiar themes.  The last tobacco I reviewed is a straight Virginia.  At first, I wasn’t sure about it, but I found myself reaching for it quite often and is now one of my favorites.  But any more these days I just want to smoke what I know and not think about what’s in my pipe.   I’ve probably written all the reviews I want to write and I have my favorite pipes.  I consider myself pretty much retired from life, but once in a while my Angels come up.  But even so, I’ve written about all that is necessary about them.  I just want to sit back and meditate with a pipe.  And i...

 Wasn’t sure I’d write today, but I meditate with my Angels with quiet thoughts.  I like quiet thoughts.  I’m enjoying the quiet here in upstate NY where we are out in the country among the woods.  We have a lot of noisy crows in the area, but also a lot of birds.  Once in a while our neighbor starts up his equipment for clearing his land.  He says he’s getting some pigs to raise.   There is a lot of equipment used in the area for clearing the land, but most of the time it is pretty quiet. I love to listen to the birds singing.  Florida birds are different—they aren’t really song birds.  But the quiet is just amazing!  Something happens to me when we come to this mountain.  Okay we are half-way up a two thousand foot hill.   But the locals call it the mountains.  Our elevation here is about a thousand feet.  I’ve heard the wild turkeys but have yet to see one here.  We see deer and turkeys while traveling our roa...

 The path of Peace and Love is a path for each person.  How one gets there is up to each one’s choice.  No one’s path is the same as another.  I have thought about this for the past few days.  Our path begins when one makes the choice to take the path.  The destination is the same for all but the paths to get there are all different.  We can share only a part of our path with others.   I thought long and hard about this one, because while we seek uniformity, there is very little that is similar except we are all human.  But that is the only commonality we share.  Some fear loneliness on their path.  Some fear poverty.  Some fear even the end of life itself.  The destination of Love and Peace is the end result, but only so long as we seek it.  Some have lost their way and won’t make into heaven because they have intentionally taken Human Life.   Some have sought to end their lives and have succeeded.  To thos...

 My theology/philosophy might seem like it is from that of a crazy person.  But I will assure anyone that I am of sound mind.  It’s just that I don’t prepare for the end of the world, but quite the opposite.  I am preparing for a New Beginning.  The Messiah is coming.  I’m almost too old to wait much longer.   I thought it would have been long before now.  There are two things I know—I will live to see the Messiah come and I KNOW how He Will judge all humanity once He gets here.  Anyone who has INTENTIONALLY taken Human Life cannot remain here AFTER He comes.  I can judge based only what I know and I judge ONLY for myself.  I try to judge by God’s standards but I know I fall short.   I just have to remember that Jesus died for EVERY sin EXCEPT for that of taking Human Life.  That right there covers a lot of sinfulness.  I try to understand based on what I know.  But God didn’t make me perfect—just better.  I...

 You’d think a heart attack and a ruptured appendix five years later would have been definitive events, as both nearly took my life.  Yet, neither of them frightened me, nor do I think of those as definitive events.  Not really.  I have a change of philosophy of life.  My time on earth ends with the coming of the Messiah and THEN my work will be over.  I guess you could say that I know this the same way Mark Twain knew he would go out with Haley’s comet. As we age, there are things we know about the end of life the closer we get to it.  I’m close now to fully understanding.  The Beast from Revelation is here.  So are the Four Horsemen.  All the pieces are in place now.  I’ve guessed about these things from Revelation for the past 32 years, but now the guessing is over.   Every day I am saying the same thing over and over.  The Messiah could come today.  This is how close we are to the end.  But instead of calling...

 Jesus owned nothing and had but a few followers.   He is my example, yet I own things but have a few who follow what I have been saying.  He is my example when it comes to my posts and what I do on social media.  I don’t worry about numbers in what I am saying.   All are saved except for those who intentionally take Human Life.  This is the essence of my philosophy/theology.  No need for churches or even salvation.  But I recognize that religious beliefs of all kinds give followers Peace.  I have my own religion and have no need for churches, pastors, or priests.  If I worried about death and dying maybe I would feel differently. But I will live to see the arrival of the Messiah.  But I can only prove this by living.  Otherwise I have no proof.  Yet, I keep saying it over and over.  I am my only proof of all I say here.  But every morning I post photos of myself as proof I am still here in this world.  The ...