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MENTAL NOTE #117, SIMPLE TASKS THAT CONFIRM, AND REMIND YOU, THAT YOU OWN ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS (A.S. or AS or Literally a ‘PAIN IN THE AS(S)’!

January 4, 2021

MENTAL NOTE #117: Yes — There are some simple tasks that EVERYONE, ALMOST, can do without even thinking about them; tasks you can do without working up a massive sweat, without experiencing massive pain, and without feeling massive discomfort and annoyance.

What am I talking about?

I’m talking about ‘Owning‘ the horrible arthritic disease, ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS, like I DO! I’ve had this damned painful disease for at least 39 Years! Imagine EVERYDAY PAIN! Yeah, that is what Ownership of Ankylosing Spondylitis is all about.

“Everything you do as an AS’er is typically affected by AS.”

ME, I said that!

I was painfully and annoyingly reminded of this fact today, as I struggled for at least FIVE MINUTES to get my socks on! Yes, SOCKS! The BANE of AS’ers WORLDWIDE! IF you own AS, you should know what I mean, right!

Because the AS’er’s spine is stiff and painful, most of the time; or, like me, having suffered a fractured spine (in two places), DUE TO COMPLICATIONS WITH AS + A TRAUMA, causing a need to go through a HORRENDOUS 10-hours long Spinal Fusion Surgery to keep my spinal cord from being ripped apart as my lumbar spine moved in two different directions, eventually making it so I could no longer walk — MY POINT IS THAT EVEN LESS THAN CRITICAL ACCIDENTS TO MOST PEOPLE, CAN CAUSE DISASTROUS INJURIES FOR AS’ERS.

Yeah, so, that’s only one FUN example of what some of us AS’ers have experienced in THEIR (OUR) OWNERSHIP of AS.

Therefore, the simple act of bending over to put one’s own socks on to dress, is an EXHAUSTING EXPERIENCE to say the least.

Sometimes, after I get my socks on, I feel so drained, I say to myself, “‘Fuuck’it!’ I’m too exhausted to go anywhere.” Nevertheless, it was such an effort to just get my socks on (properly no less, LOL), that it would be a waste NOT to go out. “I’ll teach them ‘Fuuck’en’ socks who they are dealing with!”

ME, I SAID THAT!

Anyway, EVIL SOCKS, the Bane of AS’ers throughout the Galaxy and BEYOND!

I was just thinking about the mysteries of the galaxy today, and the Struggles of Daily Life that many (if not all) AS’ers face. Simple tasks like putting on socks, are indeed, a ‘Pain in the AS(S)’, for AS’ers!

MENTAL NOTE #110, MY 800TH BLOG POST AT NAWFALNUR.WORDPRESS!

December 13, 2020

MENTAL NOTE #110, MY 800TH BLOG POST AT NAWFALNUR.WORDPRESS.COM/ !

I was trying to remember what year I started my NawfalNur.WordPress.com/ blog: This is my second oldest blog, and my recently ‘retired’ blog, Smokephotographist.WordPress.com/ , is my oldest blog — I started exhibiting my Fine Art Photography, and writing and publishing on the subjects of PHOTOGRAPHY, Art, and related information, at Smokephotographist.WordPress.com/ , in 2005. Thus, my guess, without purposefully looking it up, is that NawfalNur.WordPress.com/ was founded in 2007. Therefore, I think this blog is about 13, or thereabouts, years old.

BY THE WAY, WORDPRESS was founded in May 2003, so I’ve been blogging (since April 2005) for ALMOST as long as WORDPRESS has been around. I’m an ‘OldTimer’!

I usually publish and exhibit my Fine Art Photography here. HOWEVER …

This year, I started an ongoing ‘Philosophical’ (sort of) series, titled “MENTAL NOTES”, and actually I have many more than 110 MENTAL NOTEs: For some odd, mental reason, I got MAJORLY STUCK at MENTAL NOTE #31! FOR SEVERAL WEEKS, I was publishing MENTAL NOTES at #31, so I had MENTAL NOTEs numbering, #31.1, 31.2 … MENTAL NOTE #31.9736482, LOL!, UNTIL I felt one of my new MENTAL NOTEs seemed like a #32.

Therefore, I have no idea of the exact number of MENTAL NOTEs published so far, but I would guess somewhere between 125 to 145 … probably.

I could have dedicated a New Blog to my MENTAL NOTES Series; however, starting a new blog is not the best way to get a lot of people to see content you want them to see. It is a slow process to gain followers at a new blog!

After retiring Smokephotographist.WordPress.com/ , I asked people to Goto my Newest Art Photography Blog, http://TheSmokephotographist.WordPress.com/ and support me over there … it was a Simple click of the button / Link, to goto my new Blog and Hit Subscribe!

It may take a total of 20 Seconds to Support me at my new Art Photography Blog … BUT I WAS A BIT DISAPPOINTED that ONLY A HANDFUL of my current subscribers took the small amount of time, and small effort, to Subscribe and Support me at my New Blog, TheSmokephotographist.WordPress.com/ . I think you too, would be slightly disappointed, don’t you think, if you had such low results from a simple request for help.

Therefore, that showed me that even when I asked for help from present subscribers at my old blog, to support me at my NEW Blog, ( http://TheSmokephotographist.WordPress.com/ ) , it was like pulling teeth to get people to help me out with that small request. NEVERTHELESS, I was Very-VERY Happy with the people who took the effort to show their support for me.

If you start a new blog, please let me know, because I will show my support,

… as long as your new blog is not something on the EXTREME FRINGE of subject matter … or it is a blog focusing on a philosophy that I ethically and morally cannot support — but I don’t think anyone here who presently subscribes to my blogs is into EXTREMELY fringe and majorly controversial subjects that I am vehemently against.

Therefore, starting a new blog is not easy, even if you have a reasonable following at other blogs you publish.

If you want to start a new subject series, it is basically more efficient to work it into your present blog(s), in my opinion. That is what I did with my MENTAL NOTEs SERIES — I just made it a regular subject at my established blog. You may find that useful information for your own blog, if you want to start writing on a new topic, on a regular basis.

Anyway, that’s about all I want to write about in this Blog Post Number 800, and in contemplating life in the Blogosphere, in MENTAL NOTE #110.

IT marks X on the Demon Woman

November 13, 2020

Full Title: “IT marks X on the Demon Woman.”

Creation Year: 2020.
Copyright 2020 Nawfal Johnson
All Rights Reserved.
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“LIGHT within SMOKE” is a series that contains elements of both Smoke-Art Photography and Light Streaks Photography. Most of the artwork titles are very detailed because there is so much action going on in each piece, performed by odd combinations of colourful characters.

Series Year(s): 2019 – Present (On-Going).

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☆ You can Buy my Fine Art Photography Prints and Canvas at my ImageKind Sales Gallery — Here’s the link:

https://www.imagekind.com/IT-marks-X-on-the-Demon-Woman_art?imid=0fdecc68-8fab-4125-95a1-b3cacd53d3ca

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MENTAL NOTE #77, “I THINK”…

September 6, 2020

MENTAL NOTE #77: “I think, therefore I am.” Really?

“Cogito, ergo sum is a philosophical statement that was made in Latin by René Descartes, usually translated into English as “I think, therefore I am“. The phrase originally appeared in French as je pense, donc je suis in his Discourse on the Method, so as to reach a wider audience than Latin would have allowed. It appeared in Latin in his later Principles of Philosophy. As Descartes explained it, “we cannot doubt of our existence while we doubt.” A fuller version, articulated by Antoine Léonard Thomas, aptly captures Descartes’s intent: dubito, ergo cogito, ergo sum (“I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am”). The dictum is also sometimes referred to as the cogito.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cogito_ergo_sum

Sometimes, I feel like I don’t exist. Why is that?

Could you Cogito, ergo sum, in a digital matrix world, believing that you are a real physical being? But, would that make you ‘real’ ? As in physical. Or, if you only exist in a digital matrix world, is it more of an illusion of being real, but you don’t really exist in the regular sense of the word.

Or, are the laws of being ‘real’ different in different types of environments (physical, digital, A.I., other Dimensional Universes, in Spiritual Dimensions (Heaven and Hell, etc.))

I don’t know, but sometimes I do ask myself, ‘Do I really exist?’

Me, I said that!

MENTAL NOTE #72, HARD DRIVE CRASH, A TRUE STORY!

August 20, 2020

MENTAL NOTE #72: HARD DRIVE CRASH, A TRUE STORY! HONEST!

So….I’m sitt’en here mind’en my own business, and out of nowhere, I hear,

“BLAMM’O!”

Smoke is coming out of my computer, whooo! The STINK!

I had to leave the room for awhile, because the smell was so bad — A sulphur-rotten-egg stink — I thought Satan had suddenly taken possession of my computer!

With my eyes watering and not being able to see more than a few feet in front of me because of the grey clouds of smoke, I decided to give the computer time to cool down, relax for a bit, and maybe it would be better in a short time.

AND YES, BEFORE YOU LAUGH, and I’M TOTALLY SERIOUS HERE FRIENDS — The logical thing to do when you hear louds sounds coming from your computer, see lots of smoke coming out of your computer, and, BELIEVE YOU HEAR SATAN CONJURING SPELLS WITHIN THE DEPTHS OF YOUR COMPUTER — It is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED leaving it immediately, BUT BEFORE YOU GO, MAKE SURE TO DO THE FOLLOWING STEPS: 1) Sprinkle salt in a continuous line around the room, MAKING SURE THE COMPUTER IS INSIDE THE PROTECTIVE BARRIER OF SALT! 2) Turn out the lights (Demons hate to sit in the dark – they are afraid of the dark). AND 3), Close the door behind you, and sprinkle more salt along the crack of the bottom portion of the door. And, I guess 4) would be, Call for the Help of an Exorcist!

☆ IF you didn’t know, those four steps make up the Universal Fix for the ol’ “Computer Made Loud Sounds and Created Lots of Smoke, and you have suspicions that it is Possessed“, Technical Support Computer Problem #4,666 — Most people don’t know this fact, so keep it in mind.

[☆ Three Hours Later…the Exorcist had finished Exorcising the Demons from my computer….]

THUS, about an hour, AFTER THE EXORCISM…

I thought the computer would be fully rested, so I ventured off and went back to the room. The smoke had pretty much cleared, and there was only a slight stink of sulphur in the air. I was still rather concerned, and kind of terrified…This sort of computer problem has never happened to me before — What can I say, Demonic Computer Possession is kind’a new to me.

I mustered my courage, and

I decided to open up the computer case and have a look around. The Exorcist left some Holy Water for me, just in case. I proceeded to crack open the case, because with utter confidence, I knew I was an expert in fixing technology problems, and I was certain, without much of a chance of being terrorized by any otherworldly creatures, that I could solve this computer problem. In fact, I thought it would be an easy fix: Perhaps it blew a fan belt; or maybe, a motherboard gasket came loose — Simple!

When I opened up the computer case, everything looked good, until I checked the hard drive ( See the Hard Drive in the Photo Above and be totally SHOCKED! )

I’ve NEVER, EVER, seen a hard drive CRASH like this before, it was a tangled, twisted, bent like a Brontosaurus-Stepped-On-It, Piece of Wreckage!

Whomever said that hard drive crashes could not be serious, was jerk’en you around, take it from me!

BEWARE! A demonically-possessed computer takes computer technical disasters into the 6th-Dimension BEYOND the 7th Circle of Hell!

This is a ‘TRUE’ STORY! Sort of…kind of…only slightly exaggerated…but just the parts about the Smoke, Sulphur Stink, Satan, Demonic-Possession, Salt-Circle, Exorcist, Holy Water, and…maybe a few other parts are only sort of based on a somewhat true story. HOWEVER, besides all of that, the story is somewhat real.

Says Me…

Except this part is Damned True: a ‘Demonic-Possessed-Hammer-of-Alacrity’ did the ACTUAL damage to THE ALREADY ‘CRASHED’ HARD DRIVE.

MENTAL NOTE #62, STUCK IN AN ABSTRACT WORLD

July 22, 2020

MENTAL NOTE #62:  I’m Stuck in an Abstract World, and there’s NO Escape.

I’m living in an Abstract World.

I’m absorbing Abstract Thoughts.

I’m listening to Abstract Sounds.

I’m dreaming Abstract Nightmares.

I’m seeing Abstract Lights.

I’m breathing Abstract Smoke.

I’m burning in Abstract Fire.

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I’m Trapped.

Escape Forbidden.

One Abstraction follows another.

Where are the Abstractions taking me?

Mirrors-within-Mirrors have me Trapped!

Release.

Run.

Scream!

No One Is Here to Hear My Screams!

Echoes of a Haunted Reflection-of-Screams that No One Hears.

I am indeed….ALONE!

An Abstraction, a Mirrored Reflection Fading Away.

MENTAL NOTE #31,7266 I’M AT LEAST AN 83% REJECT!

April 28, 2020

Yeap….MENTAL NOTE #31.7266….it’s difficult to admit it, but I’M AT LEAST AN 83% REJECT!

That’s right, my Stock Agency rejects at least 83% of my work I submit to them! It’s probably more, but I’m rounding down a bit to make myself feel better. I’m such a miserable hack….I can hardly stand myself.

Oh well, I keep submitting…and…they mostly keep REJECTing!

WELLLLLLLL, oh, Well! I don’t care too much, hey, I should look at it as the GLASS HALF FULL!

☆ But wait, 100 – 83 (it could be 93% even) equals 17%!

WAIT! THAT’S NOT EVEN HALF! I CAN’T EVEN BE A HALF FULL PERSON!

I CAN ONLY BE A 17% FULL PERSON!

Argh…..

Yeahhhhhhh….I’m so thrilled with myself…

Anyway, here’s a reject….an oldie but a goodie, or baddie I suppose.

Title: “2 Blue Glasses Stacked against a Yellow Spotlight”.

Copyright 2003 (maybe) Nawfal Johnson

All Rights Reserved.

Oh Kay Then, It’s Good to Feel NOT Loved! :-S

YET — I PERSEVERE IN THE FACE OF EXTREME REJECTION….So, REJECT ME ALL YOU WANT SWEATY MONKEYS!….YOU WILL NEVER STOP ME! BUAH’HAHAHAHAHAHA! (Evil Laugh Ensues).