wrote:
> Ok...so, what's the point?
>
>


Does everything have to have a point? Can't some things be posted
simply for the human interest?

>
> 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:
>>
>> http://www.angelfire.com/space/platoworld
>>
>> Copyright 2006 by Koos Nolst Trenite - human rights philosopher
>> and poet
>> This is 'learnware' - it may not be altered, and it is free for
>> anyone who learns from it, and (even if he can not learn from it)
>> who passes it on unaltered, and with this message included,
>> to others who might be able to learn from it.
>> None of my writings may be used, ever, to support any political
>> or religious or scientific agenda, but only to educate, and to
>> encourage people to judge un-dominated and for themselves,
>> about any organizations or individuals.
>> Send free-of-Envy and free-of-Hate, Beautiful e-mails to:
>> PlatoWorld at Lycos.com
>> (address unreadable for Internet robots
>> - replace ' at ' with the '@' symbol)
>>
>
>


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