Being Awake And Staying Awake - versus - Being Told "You Need Sleep!" {HRI note 20060907-V1.1}

Being Awake And Staying Awake - versus - Being Told "You Need Sleep!"

7 September 2006
{HRI note 20060907-V1.1}

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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.

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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

by removing the usual political and traditional
terminology that enforces the viewpoint, that

'the lowest common average of things does establish
what "is true" and what "is normal",'

an enforcement which we know so well from the
Medical tradition

- characterized as it is by Medical arrogance,
while it is strewn with Medical evil its
arrogance covers so well - *(2)

now edited out by me, thus

enhancing and validating 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


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References:

'The First Law of Human Rights'
{HRI 20060601-V2.2.1}
(1 June 2006 - Version 2.2.1 on 4 Sept 2006)
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.r...ed55e598?fwc=1

* 'Intro to 'A Masterpiece of Knowledge and Understanding
- As by King Solomon Himself - Surpasses Everyone Else's By Far'
- {HRI 20051120-V5.2-intro-v1.2} to 'Consequences Of Not Facing A
Criminal Mind As Head Of State'
(23 Aug 2006 - Introduction version 1.2 on 25 Aug 2006)
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.m...9bf70bf5?fwc=1

'Justice - Definition of Justice, What is Justice'
{HRI 20051219-V1.2}
(19 December 2005 - Version 1.2 on 24 Dec 2005)
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.c...41c95866?fwc=1
http://groups.google.com/group/human...ad567907?fwc=1
'

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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
'

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