Category: #NEVERMORE

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.

MENTAL NOTE #60, “ENEMIES OF REALITY”, OF INGSOC AND NEWSPEAK, and MY REPEAT SONG OF THE DAY…SO FAR!

July 15, 2020

Lyrics of “ENEMIES OF REALITY”, by NEVERMORE:

“We are the nothing grating against the norm
We are the something that will not conform
No one understands what we’ve been given

We are the useless by-products of soulless meat
We are all gone we all sing the same tragedy

Open wide and EAT THE WORMS of the enemy
We are the enemies of reality, in a world that’s unforgiving

Waiting to sanitize bastard tongues
To purify the ignorance that hides the sun
The less you understand the more you’re driven

Packaged and processed the masses are force fed
The standards they judge us on swallow the rot we shed

Open wide and EAT THE WORMS of the enemy
We are the enemies of reality, in a world that’s unforgiving

Breathing dust and decay while I’m sipping
Human trust and betrayal
Losing faith once again
Take my hand my friend, my foe, I am enemy

Open wide and EAT THE WORMS of the enemy
We are the enemies of reality, in a world that’s unforgiving
Open wide, EAT THEIR WORDS, become what you most fear.”

MENTAL NOTE #60, “ENEMIES OF REALITY”, by My ALL-TIME FAVOURITE BAND, NEVERMORE. What is Reality, REALLY? It appears it is whatever Big Brother tells you it is.”

“Waiting to sanitize bastard tongues
To purify the ignorance that hides the sun
The less you understand the more you’re driven.” Warrel Dane could not have been closer to the truth in this section of the song!

What the Minitrue records it to be, is the truth, and “Bastard Tongues” will be deleted from existence—Sanitized. Those who go along with the narrative (the ignorant, and the willful ignorant, and the perpetrators of the false-truths, are driven and rewarded). “Newspeak is INGSOC, and INGSOC is Newspeak.”

What is “NEWSPEAK”?

Newspeak is the fictional language of Oceania, a totalitarian superstate that is the setting of George Orwell’s dystopian 1949 novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. To meet the ideological requirements of English Socialism (Ingsoc) in Oceania, the ruling Party created Newspeak, a controlled language of simplified grammar and restricted vocabulary, meant to limit the freedom of thought—personal identity, self-expression, free will—that threatens the ideology of the régime of Big Brother and the Party, who have criminalised such concepts into thoughtcrime as contradictions of Ingsoc orthodoxy.

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

R.I.P. WARREL DANE, the late singer / Frontman of NEVERMORE. Warrel Dane (born Warrel George Baker; March 7, 1961 – December 13, 2017), was the Singer and Song Writer of Sanctuary, NEVERMORE, and, his Solo Project.

Jeff Loomis is on my BEST/FAVOURITE Metal Guitarists, Blog Post. The link for that post is below.

https://smokephotographist.wordpress.com/2019/12/25/11-12-of-the-best-my-favourites-i-guess-heavy-technical-and-death-metal-guitarists-yeah-i-know-i-hate-lists-too-but-i-feel-i-am-compelled-to-do-it-anyway/