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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 08 2006 at 18:57

I'd prefer blindness. Living in a constant and total silence (something I never felt, actually...) for the rest of my life scares me. And it wouldn't be able to speak with anyone too...

Still, I hope no one will really have to decide this for real...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 08 2006 at 19:26
Deaf, I love my eyesite.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 19 2006 at 22:03
Originally posted by Ricochet Ricochet wrote:

Blind! Deafness,in the context of loving music and of constantly having music "by my side",would kill me.



I was going to say deaf, and then I read your comment, and I realized that I would be lost without prog rock.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 19 2006 at 22:04
I'll cut off my arm instead
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 19 2006 at 23:03
Blind. Not being able to hear/play music would kill my spirit and soul.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 19 2006 at 23:20
Blind. The visual part of life is the less meaningful, compared to be able to hear conversations, music, etc. In fact, if I had to choose between all senses, still I would dather go blind. Taste great food, (wich involves taste and smell), touch someone else, be able to have communication; it all seem much more relevant than appearances.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 20 2006 at 00:37
We had an argument about this very subject last year in psychology.
I would hands-down rather be blind than deaf.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 20 2006 at 16:14
Blind. Without hearing, I wouldn't be able to enjoy music or play the bass, two things I love to do. Furthermore, there's so much I'd happily abstain from seeing in this world.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 20 2006 at 17:48

Blind, easily.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 20 2006 at 18:21
Originally posted by stonebeard stonebeard wrote:

Blind. Not being able to hear/play music would kill my spirit and soul.

I agree completely.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 20 2006 at 20:06
Originally posted by cuncuna cuncuna wrote:

Blind. The visual part of life is the less meaningful, compared to be able to hear conversations, music, etc. In fact, if I had to choose between all senses, still I would dather go blind. Taste great food, (wich involves taste and smell), touch someone else, be able to have communication; it all seem much more relevant than appearances.
 
If I had to get rid of one of my senses I would go for taste.  Taste is nothing compared to the other senses, and besides, if food was tasteless to you, you'd probably never have to worry about overeating and becoming overweight.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 20 2006 at 20:09
Not fair! But if I had to choose, I would go blind...I couldn't live without music. But I'd miss looking at all the beautiful women...Cry
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 22 2006 at 15:31
You know, the results of this poll really blow my mind.

If you are blind, you will always be dependent on someone else for the simplest things, like cooking, going to the supermarket for food or the mall for clothes - or anywhere else for that matter.  Never be able to travel on your own, and what's the point anyway if you can't see where you're going?

If you are deaf, although not ideal you could still at least communicate via sign language or lip reading and reading and writing, and be much more independent than if you were blind.

How about work and income?  I would think it would be easier to get something if you're deaf.  At least you could travel to work on your own.

So, you prefer blindness so you can sit around and listen to prog all day?  And then do what else?  Think of all the things you couldn't do - I think you'd get bored pretty fast.  To each his own, but I think it's insane to prefer blindness over deafness.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 22 2006 at 21:15
I appreciate beauty of the eye and ear.
But, if I had to choose, I'd go deaf. I could still Feel music, but I could not live without drawing, or the beauty of a new day, or the beauty of a girl named Hope.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 22 2006 at 22:47
Originally posted by moonlapse moonlapse wrote:

You know, the results of this poll really blow my mind.

If you are blind, you will always be dependent on someone else for the simplest things, like cooking, going to the supermarket for food or the mall for clothes - or anywhere else for that matter.  Never be able to travel on your own, and what's the point anyway if you can't see where you're going?

If you are deaf, although not ideal you could still at least communicate via sign language or lip reading and reading and writing, and be much more independent than if you were blind.

How about work and income?  I would think it would be easier to get something if you're deaf.  At least you could travel to work on your own.

So, you prefer blindness so you can sit around and listen to prog all day?  And then do what else?  Think of all the things you couldn't do - I think you'd get bored pretty fast.  To each his own, but I think it's insane to prefer blindness over deafness.
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 23 2006 at 00:14
Bit of a "Sophie's choice," really.Ermm
 
Either would entail losing (or greatly modifying) so much:
 
Sight: books, driving (motorcycles!), sight-seeing, looking at beauty, seeing my wife & children, etc!
 
Hearing: music, conversation, etc.
 
 
Upon consideration, I think sight is more important to me -- I'd rather give up music than books, and I'd hate to lose independent mobility. I could communicate -- if less effectively -- through writing. The written word is a HUGE part of my world. (I don't need my ears to participate here, for example.) A loving look or hug speaks volumes, and a picture, as they say, is worth a thousand words.
 
I think taste would be a very hard one to lose, as well!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 23 2006 at 03:33
Well here's a quandry... take for example Evelyn Glennie; one of the greatest living classical percussionists, yet profoundly deaf:



If I were deaf, I couldn't hear her; yet if I were blind, I couldn't see her... and she's such a hottie!

But not to be able to read (yes, audio books are available, but it's not the same), never to see another movie (a huge loss, in my case), to lose photography forever (both my admiration of the greats, and my own considerably poorer efforts)... and yes, as Peter says, to never see my wife or family/friends again.

Don't get me wrong, the loss of music as part of my life would be (at first) crippling, but on balance, if I had to choose... well, it's goodbye Pallas for ever!

...or does Pallas come under loss of taste?

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 24 2006 at 14:57
Have to go deaf.  Losing music would suck, but I could still work my job, look at the computer, watch TV with closed captioning and get some peace and quiet Tongue 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 27 2006 at 17:58
Blind any day – deaf people can't listen to prog metal!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 27 2006 at 19:18
deaf, id prefer to see where im going...
 
ill just pull the ol' Beethoven move Wink
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