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BLUE ICE, No 3, my 900th Post at NawfalArtPhotography.WordPress.com

June 24, 2021
Studio Still Life Photography.

Title: BLUE ICE, No. 3.

Year (No.3): 2021.
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Series: Studio Still Life Photography.
Series Years: 1994 – Present (On-Going).
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MENTAL NOTE #139, YOUR MOST IMPORTANT HABIT TO ABIDE BY IN LIFE!

April 1, 2021

ALL RIGHT! LISTEN UP! MENTAL NOTE #139: YOUR MOST IMPORTANT HABIT TO ABIDE BY IN LIFE!

Repeat after Me, and KEEP REPEATING THIS MANTRA UNTIL….FOREVER!

“THE DEVIL IS IN THE DETAILS! THE DEVIL IS IN THE DETAILS! THE DEVIL IS IN THE DETAILS…!”

I suggest the repeating of this mantra until you die…basically.

Repeat because — You are bound to Fûučķ this one up over-and-over in your life.

MENTAL NOTE #125, FREEDOM

January 22, 2021

MENTAL NOTE #125: FREEDOM — “Every thought should be uttered freely, fearlessly…”

I have been very troubled with the current and horrendous change in my country’s political environment, where a complete silence of Free Speech is in the process — that is — Free Speech will be silenced for ALL PEOPLE who oppose tyranny, and oppose the destruction of their country, to a new leader who loves his ‘Great New Reset’. T r u m p did nothing to stop this from happening; but under a Beiijing-Biiden admin, it is going to be worse, and you will see that unfold for yourself, very, very, soon.

Once again, I must turn our attention to the Sage, and the Great Master Painter, Robert Henri:

“It is better that every thought should be uttered freely, fearlessly, than that any great thought should be denied utterance for fear of evil. It is only through complete independence that all goodness can be spoken, that all purity can be found. Even indecency is bred of restriction not of freedom, for how can the spirit which controls the ethical side of life be trusted except through the poise that is gained by exercise? When we think honestly, we never desire individuals bound hand and foot, and the ethical side of man’s nature we cannot picture as overwhelmed and smothered with regulations if we are to have a permanent human goodness; for restrictions hide vice, and freedom alone bears morality.”

Henri, R., & Ryerson, M. (1958). The art spirit, by Robert Henri: notes, articles, fragments of letters and talks to students, bearing on the concept and technique of picture making, the study of art generally, and on appreciation, compiled by Margery Ryerson. J.B. Lippincott.

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!

ABSTRACT SMOKE #1 ON 1 January 2021, Var5

January 1, 2021
First Art Photography Design for 2021

Title: ABSTRACT SMOKE #1 ON 1 January 2021, Var5.

Copyright 2020 Nawfal Johnson
All Rights Reserved.

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MENTAL NOTE #111, REALLY BAD LUCK and GETTING YOUR DIMENSIONS CONFUSED!

December 14, 2020

MENTAL NOTE #111: THIS IS REALLY BAD LUCK and GETTING YOUR DIMENSIONS CONFUSED!

‘‘What number are you calling, please?’’ ‘‘Charlemont 7-890,’’ I whispered.
‘‘Sorry. You must have the wrong dimension.’’

—Ross Rocklynne, ‘‘Sorry: Wrong Dimension’’ (1954)

So what if you had to make an urgent phone call, you dial the operator, give the number you need to reach, and the operator comes back and says: “Sorry, you must have the wrong dimension.”

I think, personally, I would really start to wonder where I’m at, what planet I was secretly transported to, and yes, what Dimension I was in. Bad Luck, I suppose you would never get through to the person you needed to urgently talk to. That’s just what happens in a Multiverse when you can’t remember what Dimension you are trying to call …. That’s Bad Luck.

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 #105, THOUGHT CONTROL

December 1, 2020

MENTAL NOTE #105: CONTROLLING YOUR THOUGHTS TO CONTROL SOCIETY!

“Fooling the masses is a trick as old as mankind itself.
From pharaos to ayatollas, from Andropovs to Trudeaus to ‘councils on foreign relations’ to the U.N.O.-across the continents and through the ages-rulers, politicians and ‘leaders’ (as we call them today) often indulge in the art of, to put it mildly, MISLEADING the people… But always to their own advantage though! For more POWER, more CONTROL of the society’s WEALTH. And often, ultimately, for CONQUEST of other nations.
Chinese military strategist Sun-Tzu (500 B.C.) and Italian political strategist Machiavelli have described the process of establishing CONTROL over ‘masses’ -in colorful details, for forgetful mankind…
Today, the Soviet KGB has mastered this ancient art to stunning perfection! They call it ‘Active Measures’, meaning IDEOLOGICAL SUBVERSION.”

Schuman, Tomas. World Thought Police. NATA, 1986.

Tomas Schuman aka Yuri Bezmenov. Former KGB. Notice how Bezmenov mentions “Trudeaus”, plural, meaning the whole Trudeau clan being Communist Globalist Puppets, and look how the current Canadian Clown in Charge is such a Totalitarian Globalist Sycophant. Yeah, Bezmenov knows exactly what is going on in GeoPolitics and the Commie-Push through the One World GLOBALISTS’ Order. Remember, he wrote this book in 1986: therefore, this New World Order, Globalist Plan has been in the works for many, many decades. As(s) Trudeau recently said on video, the CONVID1984 Planned-Dèmmîc is PERFECT (orchestrated) disaster to kick THE GREAT RESET into overdrive! (Paraphrased).

NEVER EVER LET A PERFECTLY GOOD PLANNED DISASTER GO TO WASTE, AS THE GLOBALISTS PREACH!

If you are ridiculous enough, and gullible enough, to believe a single lying word that comes out of these Globalists’ mouths, about how they are doing all their great and nobel work for humanity, or for the children, HAHAHA! Then, I have some swamp land located in the Mojave Desert, that I want to sell to you!

ETHEREAL #2 ON 27 JULY 2020, ETHEREAL DREAMS AND NIGHTMARES Photography Series

July 28, 2020

27July2020, ETHEREAL #2 ON 27 JULY 2020, NTB667

Title: ETHEREAL #2 ON 27 JULY 2020.

By: Nawfal Johnson.
Year: 2020.
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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/