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Logos ![]() Prog Reviewer ![]() Joined: March 08 2005 Location: Finland Status: Offline Points: 2383 |
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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! ![]() 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. |
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paolo.beenees ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: March 30 2007 Location: Italy Status: Offline Points: 1136 |
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In Italy we usually touch our testicles at questions like this...
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Dean ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Retired Admin and Amateur Layabout Joined: May 13 2007 Location: Europe Status: Offline Points: 37575 |
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You don't go blind listening to Motorhead...
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What?
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R o V e R ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: July 13 2005 Location: India Status: Offline Points: 2747 |
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I cant vote
i like my senses |
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markosherrera ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: October 01 2006 Location: World Status: Offline Points: 3252 |
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There are Blind Guardian,but not Deaf Guardian
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andu ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: September 27 2006 Location: Romania Status: Offline Points: 3089 |
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Regarding deafness, I suggest this movie: It's All Gone Pete Tong
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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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Jim Garten ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Retired Admin & Razor Guru Joined: February 02 2004 Location: South England Status: Offline Points: 14693 |
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...or just that picture of Evelyn Glennie again +++hubba hubba+++ |
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Peter ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator Joined: January 31 2004 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 9669 |
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Bumpity-bump!
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"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
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cuncuna ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: March 29 2005 Location: Chile Status: Offline Points: 4318 |
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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). |
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ˇBeware of the Bee!
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cuncuna ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: March 29 2005 Location: Chile Status: Offline Points: 4318 |
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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. |
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ˇBeware of the Bee!
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darkshade ![]() Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator Joined: November 19 2005 Location: New Jersey Status: Offline Points: 10964 |
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deaf, id prefer to see where im going...
ill just pull the ol' Beethoven move
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CaptainQuark ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: October 19 2006 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 303 |
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Blind any day – deaf people can't listen to prog metal!
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Erithacus
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johnobvious ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: May 11 2006 Location: Nebraska Status: Offline Points: 1367 |
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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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Biggles was in rehab last Saturday
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Jim Garten ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Retired Admin & Razor Guru Joined: February 02 2004 Location: South England Status: Offline Points: 14693 |
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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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Peter ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator Joined: January 31 2004 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 9669 |
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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!
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Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
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stonebeard ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: May 27 2005 Location: NE Indiana Status: Offline Points: 28057 |
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Don't knock it until you've tried it.
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Scapler ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() Joined: June 18 2006 Status: Offline Points: 2567 |
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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. |
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Bassists are deadly
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moonlapse ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: May 15 2005 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 464 |
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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. |
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tardis ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: October 02 2005 Location: Victoria, BC Status: Offline Points: 14378 |
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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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