Blog #21 for HONO1397

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Dear bloggers,

This week’s in class lectures were rather interesting, as are all of the lectures we’ve learned and discussed about so far. This week we we were presented with the opportunity to read a research article written by Roger Schmidt. This piece of the research of the enlightenment era and the introduction to certain things and objects which have affected sleep as a whole played a primary role for the class’s overall topic of sleep. The article, titled “Caffeine and the Coming of the Enlightenment” named for us three objects which aroused the want/need to stay awake rather than sleep and spend time with God. Schmidt argued that we were leaning more and more away from God by desiring to stay awake, whether by stimulants, hobbies and time consuming readings, and even the concept of time and its present existence in our lives. Caffeine was argued to have kept the men and women of God away from God since the only way we could really be with God was through sleep and dreams. The introduction of literary works, especially novels also kept us away from God as they took our time from sleep and placed it on a nightly bedtime read. Finally, the article mentioned a never before heard of excuse to stay awake rather than to go to bed and that was the cause of watches that could keep track of time which would ultimately provide us with the desire to be up than to go to sleep. 

Overall, the article was well prepared and developed and I can conclude it by saying that Schmidt argues for not wasting time with God and not spending our valuable limited time on other things. It is most important to keep our relationship with God closer than the mug of coffee and the nightstand novel in hand.