Man Claims He Ate Nothing For 70 Years

[PPI Brian]

The title says it all.    Prahlad Jani is an 82-year-old man who claims he has not had any food or drink for 70 years. His claims are being put to the test by scientists at India?s Defence Research Development Organisation. So far this "breatharian" has spent six days without food or water under the strict observation of doctors who say his body has yet to show any signs of hunger or dehydration.

Here's a link to the story.

http://www.news.com.au/weird-true-freaky/man-claims-no-food-or-drink-for-70-years/story-e6frflri-1225859946801

[PPI Karl]

I gotta be honest with yous:  I'm not going to venerate this man because he's 84 or pussy-foot around the matter just because a religious position is involved.  This is total fraud, and it angers me.

If young women and men in their physical prime, driven intently by emotional, psychological, cultural and spiritual forces to be thin, cut short their young lives from anorexia, who is this schmuck to claim he's somehow done something better than they?  If hunger-strikers, fueled with the idealism of their politics and the motivating force of their oppression, succumb in a month, try and convince me that Pappy can sustain himself on optimism alone.  It's nonsense.  And so, he's a liar.  Or, his weakened state of health has made his mental faculties unreliable, and 70 hours is the same as 70 years to him.

Four to six weeks without food.  That's it.  I don't care if you're a yogi or meth addict, an Olympic athlete or a 700-pound anomaly.  We're not orchids:  we don't live on air and a sunny disposition.  Point of fact, we die without water after one week.  I can believe that breathing in nutrients has its value, but since that value is in swallowing those nutrients at the back of the nasal passages, not aspirating them, then he's technically still eating.  And, if you get a bug up your nose from time to time, then the air got a little al dente that day.  However, if this man claims to be living on nothing but the graces o' the goddess and clean air, he's either deluding himself or he's putting something other than air up his nose.

I'll say just one other thing, then shut up about it:  with the tragic amount of famine going on in the world, some of it in the very region this man lives, if I were to draw attention to myself in this way it would be an insult to every man, woman and child who succumbed to starvation as a result of others' apathy and abandonment.  I would feel only a great sense of shame for having claimed such an "achievement" as living on air for seventy years.  Shame, and shame on the unworthy deity who inspired it.  That's it.

[PPI Debra]

I gotta be honest with yous:  I'm not going to venerate this man because he's 84 or pussy-foot around the matter just because a religious position is involved.  This is total fraud, and it angers me.

If young women and men in their physical prime, driven intently by emotional, psychological, cultural and spiritual forces to be thin, cut short their young lives from anorexia, who is this schmuck to claim he's somehow done something better than they?  If hunger-strikers, fueled with the idealism of their politics and the motivating force of their oppression, succumb in a month, try and convince me that Pappy can sustain himself on optimism alone.  It's nonsense.  And so, he's a liar.  Or, his weakened state of health has made his mental faculties unreliable, and 70 hours is the same as 70 years to him.

Four to six weeks without food.  That's it.  I don't care if you're a yogi or meth addict, an Olympic athlete or a 700-pound anomaly.  We're not orchids:  we don't live on air and a sunny disposition.  Point of fact, we die without water after one week.  I can believe that breathing in nutrients has its value, but since that value is in swallowing those nutrients at the back of the nasal passages, not aspirating them, then he's technically still eating.  And, if you get a bug up your nose from time to time, then the air got a little al dente that day.  However, if this man claims to be living on nothing but the graces o' the goddess and clean air, he's either deluding himself or he's putting something other than air up his nose.

I'll say just one other thing, then shut up about it:  with the tragic amount of famine going on in the world, some of it in the very region this man lives, if I were to draw attention to myself in this way it would be an insult to every man, woman and child who succumbed to starvation as a result of others' apathy and abandonment.  I would feel only a great sense of shame for having claimed such an "achievement" as living on air for seventy years.  Shame, and shame on the unworthy deity who inspired it.  That's it.

That photo is a heart breaker. There is no need for anyone to starve on this god-forsaken outpost called Earth. The only reason people starve is because someone else is greedy.

And I agree with you Karl, the fakir is a faker.

[PPI Tracy]

The tissues of your body, your muscles and for even the blood to replenish itself...your BRAIN for God's sake needs WATER to sustain itself.  All of your organs need nutrients and WATER.  The body cannot even rid itself of toxins if not for water.
This this guy is a total fake. 

[ljiljanac]

I'm throwing down the brown B.S. flag.   No further comment by me needed.  lol