Would you rather go deaf or blind?
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Topic: Would you rather go deaf or blind?
Posted By: Ghandi 2
Subject: Would you rather go deaf or blind?
Date Posted: July 07 2006 at 00:16
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In my Saga thread this came up, and I though, Hey, why not make a poll about it? I can't decide, and I'm going to have to sleep on it. :-) ------------- "Never forget that the human race with technology is like an alcoholic with a barrel of wine." Sleepytime Gorilla Museum: Because in their hearts, everyone secretly loves the Unabomber. |
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Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: July 07 2006 at 00:33
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Blind! Deafness,in the context of loving music and of constantly having music "by my side",would kill me.
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Posted By: The Miracle
Date Posted: July 07 2006 at 00:59
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Blind.
Deafness = suicide for me. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/ocellatedgod" rel="nofollow - last.fm |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: July 07 2006 at 01:57
I like my sight.  ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: video vertigo
Date Posted: July 07 2006 at 01:59
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wow thats a toughie. I think I'm gonna go with blind, because in my blindness I would still have my music to help me through the emotional struggle of losing sight, what would help me emotionally through deafness? porn? ------------- "The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse." - Zappa |
Posted By: Equality 7-2521
Date Posted: July 07 2006 at 02:09
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Blind easily. You can get books on tape. You still have music, and any girl you have sex with is a winner. ------------- "One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. " |
Posted By: Mikerinos
Date Posted: July 07 2006 at 02:11
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Tough choice, but deaf. As much as I like musc, I can't even IMAGINE living without sight.
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Posted By: Viajero Astral
Date Posted: July 07 2006 at 02:11
Im graphic designer student, so I had so sacrifice listen to Prog
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Posted By: imoeng
Date Posted: July 07 2006 at 02:20
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I read somewhere human depends about 70-80% on sight... But I dont know,, music is just essential for me, and i know for you guys as well!!
So, I'd rather lose my 70-80% of my sense.. ------------- http://img360.imageshack.us/my.php?image=spmiw7.jpg"> 
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Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: July 07 2006 at 14:37
Same goes for me! ------------- RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on! |
The Miracle wrote:Posted By: Empathy
Date Posted: July 07 2006 at 14:55
Same here! It would be a struggle, for sure, but I'm fairly sure I have a vivid enough imagination to keep myself occupied. ------------- Pure Brilliance: 
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Posted By: WaywardSon
Date Posted: July 07 2006 at 16:20
| Deaf. A life in total darkness would be terrible. |
Posted By: aapatsos
Date Posted: July 07 2006 at 18:21
agreed |
Posted By: Drew
Date Posted: July 07 2006 at 18:27
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Deaf- need to see family. ------------- |
Posted By: pepo
Date Posted: July 07 2006 at 18:33
| Although being deaf is terrible it has its advantages, you no longer have to listen to discussions, yells, politicians speeches and lousy music. If you have listened lots of prog you can still play it in your mind unless you have bad memory. |
Posted By: moonlapse
Date Posted: July 07 2006 at 21:34
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As much as I love music, I'd definitely rather go deaf than blind. Blindness would be much more difficult. And, you wouldn't be able to ogle hot chicks either! |
Posted By: hawkbrock
Date Posted: July 08 2006 at 14:20
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With the world f**ked up to such a degree as it is in the moment, I Would rather go blind. I also should add that I would feel the benefits of sharper hearing also! ------------- 
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Posted By: Cygnus X-2
Date Posted: July 08 2006 at 14:33
That's how I see it (no pun intended)... if I had the choice, though. I'd like to go progressively deaf so at least I can remember the music that I like.  ------------- 
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Posted By: Arsillus
Date Posted: July 08 2006 at 15:00
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Deaf |
Posted By: horza
Date Posted: July 08 2006 at 15:03
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I'm sorry but I find this thread tasteless. ------------- Originally posted by darkshade: Calling Mike Portnoy a bad drummer is like calling Stephen Hawking an idiot. |
Posted By: Borealis
Date Posted: July 08 2006 at 18:57
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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... ------------- Vive le Québec libre!... |
Posted By: Australian
Date Posted: July 08 2006 at 19:26
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Deaf, I love my eyesite. ------------- 
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Posted By: Pnoom!
Date Posted: October 19 2006 at 22:03
I was going to say deaf, and then I read your comment, and I realized that I would be lost without prog rock. |
Posted By: Arrrghus
Date Posted: October 19 2006 at 22:04
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I'll cut off my arm instead
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Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: October 19 2006 at 23:03
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Blind. Not being able to hear/play music would kill my spirit and soul. ------------- http://soundcloud.com/drewagler" rel="nofollow - My soundcloud. Please give feedback if you want! |
Posted By: cuncuna
Date Posted: October 19 2006 at 23:20
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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. ------------- ¡Beware of the Bee! |
Posted By: yesfan88
Date Posted: October 20 2006 at 00:37
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We had an argument about this very subject last year in psychology.
I would hands-down rather be blind than deaf. ------------- "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"- Evelyn Beatrice Hall |
Posted By: Philéas
Date 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. |
Posted By: Frasse
Date Posted: October 20 2006 at 17:48
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Blind, easily. |
Posted By: sleeper
Date Posted: October 20 2006 at 18:21
I agree completely. ------------- Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005 
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Posted By: Sasquamo
Date Posted: October 20 2006 at 20:06
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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Posted By: tardis
Date Posted: October 20 2006 at 20:09
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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...
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Posted By: moonlapse
Date Posted: October 22 2006 at 15:31
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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. |
Posted By: Scapler
Date Posted: October 22 2006 at 21:15
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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. ------------- Bassists are deadly 
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Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: October 22 2006 at 22:47
Don't knock it until you've tried it.  ------------- http://soundcloud.com/drewagler" rel="nofollow - My soundcloud. Please give feedback if you want! |
Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: October 23 2006 at 00:14
Bit of a "Sophie's choice," really.
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! ------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Posted By: Jim Garten
Date 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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Posted By: johnobvious
Date Posted: October 24 2006 at 14:57
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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
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Posted By: CaptainQuark
Date Posted: October 27 2006 at 17:58
Blind any day – deaf people can't listen to prog metal!  ------------- Erithacus Ordinary morals are for ordinary people ~ Aleister Crowley |
Posted By: darkshade
Date Posted: October 27 2006 at 19:18
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deaf, id prefer to see where im going...
ill just pull the ol' Beethoven move  ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/MysticBoogy" rel="nofollow - My Last.fm 
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Posted By: cuncuna
Date Posted: October 28 2006 at 21:01
Without taste, there would be no pleasure with food. Don't care much for eyesight if I have to choose. Blind, I would still be able to touch women, wich is far more pleasant than just look at them. Eyes provides a mirage, not the experience. In terms of work, I would become the Porno blind melomaniac, and show the world that pleasure comes from actions, not illusions. ------------- ¡Beware of the Bee! |
Posted By: cuncuna
Date Posted: October 28 2006 at 21:05
Again: your love ones are still there when you close your eyes. No need to see them. You can feel them in your heart. People is much too iconic and rely too much in symbols and consensuated meanings. A photograph of a breast (sorry admin) is nothing compared to the touch of it (sorry again, admin). ------------- ¡Beware of the Bee! |
Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: April 04 2007 at 12:36
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Bumpity-bump!
(in case anyone wants to see the previous results and responses) ------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: April 04 2007 at 12:38
...or just that picture of Evelyn Glennie again +++hubba hubba+++ -------------
Jon Lord 1941 - 2012 |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: April 15 2007 at 22:44
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I've listened to Motorhead & Ted Nugent to the point where if I'm Not deaf by now, the chances I don't have to worry about that. & I spent enough time during my youth in the washroom holding up my old Farrah Fawcett poster with one hand, and I can still see, so I think I'm immune to either handicap.
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Posted By: andu
Date Posted: April 16 2007 at 03:30
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Regarding deafness, I suggest this movie: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0388139/ - It's All Gone Pete Tong ------------- "PA's own GI Joe!" 
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Posted By: markosherrera
Date Posted: June 23 2007 at 16:14
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There are Blind Guardian,but not Deaf Guardian
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Posted By: R o V e R
Date Posted: June 23 2007 at 16:17
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I cant vote
i like my senses |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: June 24 2007 at 14:15
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You don't go blind listening to Motorhead... ------------- What? |
Posted By: paolo.beenees
Date Posted: June 24 2007 at 14:17
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In Italy we usually touch our testicles at questions like this... ------------- 
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Posted By: Logos
Date Posted: June 24 2007 at 15:21
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I honestly can't decide. Going blind would mean not seeing any movies and my favourite tv-show anymore. It would not mean no books anymore though, as someone suggested!  Blind people are able to enjoy literature as well. But going deaf would mean no more music. That's at least as important, probably even more important. Not being able to enjoy the beauty in nature and other people, that would be really really hard though. But considering that if I was to go deaf, I would still hear the ringing in my ears, and that would probably drive me to insanity as I couldn't hide it behind other sounds and not think about it anymore. I don't know. I can't decide. Can't vote. I just hope I'll never go either deaf or blind. |