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Ok...so, what's the point?

Koos Nolst Trenite wrote:
> Being Awake And Staying Awake - versus - Being Told "You Need Sleep!"
>
> 7 September 2006
> {HRI note 20060907}
>
> '
>
> Again,* if others told you this, then I would not have to, and I could
> go sailing and do other things you know I enjoy, like art and music
> and some Fine Particle Physics research for you.
>
> I quote: **
>
> As song birds at dawn on the farm awaken the early risers,
> one person is already up;
>
> in fact, he never slept - not once in the past 33 years.
>
> '
>
> You'd think, going without sleep for that long may have its
> drawbacks, but not for the man in Vietnam's central Quang Nam
> province,
>
> who has never been ill after decades of staying awake.
>
> '
>
> His ability to stay awake has not only made him famous, but also
> represents a phenomenon worthy of study.
>
> '
>
> '
>
> Sixty-four-year-old Vietnamese citizen Thai Ngoc, known as Hai
> Ngoc, said he stayed awake permanently after running a fever in
> 1973, *(1) and counted more than 11,700 consecutive days of
> staying awake.
>
> Proving his health as a farmer, as an elderly resident of the Que
> Trung farming commune, in the Que Son district,
>
> he still can carry two 50 kg (100 pound) bags of
> fertilizer down 4 km (2.5 miles) of road, walking home,
> every day.
>
> '
>
> '
>
> Mr. Ngoc currently lives on his 5 ha (12 acres) farm at the foot
> of a mountain, busy with farming and taking care of pigs and
> chickens all day. His six children live at their house in Que
> Trung.
>
> Ngoc often does extra farm work, or guards his farm at night to
> prevent theft, and said it took him three months, using the
> extra time of nights, to dig two large ponds to raise fish.
>
> His neighbor, by the name of Vu, said Ngoc volunteered the help
> of beating the funeral drum during the night, and to guard the
> house of the relatives of the dead, so that these could
> take a nap.
>
> Neighbor Vu also said, that when the farming commune was planting
> sugar cane, several people asked Ngoc to awaken them at midnight
> to go to work, since he was up anyway.
>
>
> ** (Quoted from, and, to remove the usual political and
> traditional 'lowest common average "equals" "true" and
> "normal"'-terminology and -viewpoint
>
> which we know so well from the Medical tradition
>
> - characterized by Medical arrogance, while
> strewn with Medical evil its arrogance
> covers so well - *(2)
>
> now edited out by me, to enhance and validate
>
> a benign, very well-meaning newspaper article, entitled
>
> 'Vietnam Man Stays Awake For Three Decades'
>
> - Reported by Vu Phuong Thao - Translated by Thu Thuy
> - Story from Thanh Nien News,
> published 14 Feb 2006 12:51:09 (GMT+7)
> - Copyright Thanh Nien News)
>
> '
>
> I will add more in due course, if nobody else has the courage to take
> up this unimaginably vital and hugely humanitarian subject.
>
> Koos Nolst Trenite "Cause Trinity"
> human rights philosopher and poet
>
>
> Sooner or later,
> I will inevitably come down
> on anyone who tries to harm others:
>
> I love people that intensely.
>
> Koos Nolst Trenite
> "Cause Trinity"
> human rights philosopher
> and poet
>
>
> __________
> References:
>
> [First Law of Human Rights]
> * [Intro to Head of State]
> [Justice]
>
> _________
> Footnotes:
>
> (1) [His body's reaction in order to reject certain harmful Energies]
> 'Defining The Major Harmful Or Bad Energies
> - As They Are Created And Projected By Criminal Minds'
> {HRI 20030611}
> (11 June 2003)
> http://groups.google.com/group/soc.c...8a8ef2de?fwc=1
>
> (2) 'A Bottomless Money Drain: The Licensed Medical Trade - Medical
> Research, Charities, Foundations, Universities And Hospitals
> CONTEMPT Of Your Suffering And Of Mankind'
> (13 February 2006 - Version 1.0.1 on 20 Feb 2006)
> http://groups.google.com/group/sci.a...ca8ce9dc?fwc=1
> (13 February 2006)
> http://groups.google.com/group/sci.m...040b6719?fwc=1
> '
>
> ____________
> Verification:
>
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>
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> and poet
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