The Devils in my Pipe Tobacco

[Servant King]

IBTL (Is Buying Tobacco...Luciferian?)

 

[Snook]

IBTL (Is Buying Tobacco...Luciferian?)

It’s the devil’s leaf, it is!

 

[The Libertine]

It’s the devil’s leaf, it is!

 

[jakesmokes]

If this is reason enough to stop supporting Laudisi then I’m definitely going to hell.

Save me a seat!

 

[The Libertine]

Save me a seat!

I have a Villa there we can all use.

 

[Pypkė]

If it wasn't for the pure perique soaked in rum story, there would be no tribute blend .

 

[Sig]

Dang, if he decides to not support companies that he doesn't agree with, he aint gonna have much stuff.

 

[The Libertine]

Dang, if he decides to not support companies that he doesn't agree with, he aint gonna have much stuff.

 

[ThermionicScott]

Oh noes, cancel culture strikes again!

 

[The Libertine]

Oh noes, cancel culture strikes again!

If I cancel cancel culture, do I make a subscription culture?

 

[filmguerilla]

This little gem came up on my feed.

He’s definitely one of the choads bitching on SmokingPipes. Crying about boycotts and such. Glad I didn’t see him at Muletown this year…

 

[renfield]

How can I take him seriously when he completely failed to mention Xenu?

 

[ophiuchus]

Needs editing.

 

[fireground_piper]

Mental gymnastics is always amusing to observe.

 

[Briar Lee]

From my cradle I’ve tried to live the Christian life.

It’s zealots like these that give Christians a bad name.

It’s not new. They killed off the Dodge Demon when I was a kid.

 

[brian64]

Is that accent even real?

I doubt it's entirely fake, but my impression is that it's intentionally exaggerated.

And not just the accent, but everything about him has always struck me as not quite authentic...or some kind of an act...at least to some degree.

I could only stand listening to the first couple minutes of this, but he says he's never heard of Crowley...or knew nothing about him. I find that hard to believe. He's supposedly a history professor...and he's sitting there with hundreds of books behind him...and he knows nothing about Crowley? Eh...maybe...I guess.

 

[VDL_Piper]

This seems appropriate about now.

 

[sardonicus87]

I doubt it's entirely fake, but my impression is that it's intentionally exaggerated.

And not just the accent, but everything about him has always struck me as not quite authentic...or some kind of an act...at least to some degree.

I could only stand listening to the first couple minutes of this, but he says he's never heard of Crowley...or knew nothing about him. I find that hard to believe. He's supposedly a history professor...and he's sitting there with hundreds of books behind him...and he knows nothing about Crowley? Eh...maybe...I guess.

I don't know how old he is, but he looks about my age maybe? (I'm about to be 38).

Inauthenticity is a hallmark of my generation, everything's a fn performance, even being your "real self" is always a cartoonish exaggeration and performance, one that goes beyond just "putting your best foot forward" or "only revealing your better side", it's a much more cynical, self-marketing and trying too hard that's always pissed me off. Probably part of the reason I married a woman 12 years my senior.

That said, where I live, there are people here that really sound like that and worse and it's not an act, so I can't say about his accent if it's real or exaggerated.

I'm not sure about if he really didn't know anything about Crowley. To be honest, I don't... I heard of him and knew he was an asshole and an occultist and that's about it, but I at least knew generally about him. But you'd be surprised at how little so many people know within their own fields of study. Sometimes I wonder how some even got their degree in the first place more often than what I should, but that also doesn't shock me.

When I was in high school, the teachers always talked about how hard college/university would be, how they don't baby you, etc. Man, you had to TRY to fail some classes... my psych 101 course all the tests were open-book, online, 20 questions which came verbatim out of the chapter, you did it online and you didn't have to do it all at once, you could save your progress and come back, finish at your own leisure and you had a week to get it done. Class met 3 days per week, and any day class met, if you somehow managed to not do well on your test, you could ask her and she would reset it so you could take it again (yes, you could take an OPEN BOOK test as many as THREE TIMES). She also called roll randomly and if you were in class the day she called, you got bonus points. There was also a weekly bonus assignment you could do that was always something easy, like some 5 minute survey. Some people STILL failed that class. When I was at university, it was far easier than high school. Don't trust anyone with a degree these days any more than anyone without one.

 

[brian64]

I don't know how old he is, but he looks about my age maybe? (I'm about to be 38).

Inauthenticity is a hallmark of my generation, everything's a fn performance, even being your "real self" is always a cartoonish exaggeration and performance, one that goes beyond just "putting your best foot forward" or "only revealing your better side", it's a much more cynical, self-marketing and trying too hard that's always pissed me off. Probably part of the reason I married a woman 12 years my senior.

That said, where I live, there are people here that really sound like that and worse and it's not an act, so I can't say about his accent if it's real or exaggerated.

I'm not sure about if he really didn't know anything about Crowley. To be honest, I don't... I heard of him and knew he was an asshole and an occultist and that's about it, but I at least knew generally about him. But you'd be surprised at how little so many people know within their own fields of study. Sometimes I wonder how some even got their degree in the first place more often than what I should, but that also doesn't shock me.

When I was in high school, the teachers always talked about how hard college/university would be, how they don't baby you, etc. Man, you had to TRY to fail some classes... my psych 101 course all the tests were open-book, online, 20 questions which came verbatim out of the chapter, you did it online and you didn't have to do it all at once, you could save your progress and come back, finish at your own leisure and you had a week to get it done. Class met 3 days per week, and any day class met, if you somehow managed to not do well on your test, you could ask her and she would reset it so you could take it again (yes, you could take an OPEN BOOK test as many as THREE TIMES). She also called roll randomly and if you were in class the day she called, you got bonus points. There was also a weekly bonus assignment you could do that was always something easy, like some 5 minute survey. Some people STILL failed that class. When I was at university, it was far easier than high school. Don't trust anyone with a degree these days any more than anyone without one.

Wow…I knew the colleges had gotten pretty bad, but that’s even worse than I would have thought.

And yeah I can see how if someone only focused on a certain area of history, or especially only the mainstream narratives, a figure like Crowley might not come into view.

My bias is I’m interested primarily in the periphery of history and below the surface…the more hidden stuff…which is where I think the real explanations tend to be…as opposed to the textbook narratives. Crowley is a prime example of someone who you can’t miss if you start looking down those paths.

 

[wyfbane]

Now now boys, everyone is entitled to their opinion. If he chooses to embrace Christianity in a way that is more literal than some, who cares?

Besides, I thought pot was the devil's cabbage anyway? lol