losing a sense: what's worse

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losing a sense: what's worse - ears or eyes? hmm.

― kevin enas, Sunday, 22 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'd much rather go deaf than blind...The loss of sight I think would be unbearable, and I think you'd be less able to do things, or at least it would take longer to adjust. Admitidely, if I was deaf I wouldn't be able to hear music, but I think I could live without that just about.

― james e l, Sunday, 22 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I listen to music 18/7 but i could live w/o it. I am a poet and art historian, i need my eyes. Being Myopic is hard enough

― anthony, Sunday, 22 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think being deaf would disconnect one from the world a bit more...maybe because you can close your eyes but you can never close your ears. Being deaf would be like existing in a vacuum hallucination. I couldn't bare to be without my hearing.

― Melissa W, Sunday, 22 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i was thinking about this on a train ride on friday - would much rather go blind, eye site being as it is, reading can be done via talking books etc, but listening to music - how do you replicate that?

― Geoff, Sunday, 22 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I just read a Pitchforkmedia column that contained a relevant quote from Helen Keller: "Being blind may separate you from things, but being deaf separates you from people."

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Sunday, 22 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I would hate to live in a silent world, so if it had to be one I'd rather go blind.

― Ed, Sunday, 22 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

As would Etta James and Rod Stewart...

― Andrew L, Sunday, 22 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Like Etta, Rod and Ed, I'd rather go blind. Going deaf may also involve some form of tinnitus. Not very nice. I also think it might be easier and more fulfilling to visualise images; trying to imagine sounds would just be crap, I reckon.

― Johnathan, Sunday, 22 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Tough call, but I'd have to come down with the 'losing hearing worse' - - if only just.

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 22 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

If I go blind I can still use speech software, braile, etc., to take in lots of information. If I go deaf I can never hear music again. QED.

― Josh, Sunday, 22 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

You can hear it in you head, can't you? To me, hearing is the most disposable sense of all. Going deaf would be an excuse not to listen to anybody.

― Kris, Sunday, 22 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think about this sometimes and it's a tough one. I'd say I'd rather go deaf. I do love listening to music but maybe I'm crazy but the thought of going through the rest of my life without the Pet Shop Boys is nothing compared with the thought of never seeing Those Special People smile, or watching the sunset, or, indeed, watching it rise, to never be able to read my tattered copy of Billy Liar or never being able to see the stars in the night sky. Plus porn of course

― jamesmichaelward, Sunday, 22 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Doh, porn.

And no Kris, I can't really. Sort of, but it's just not the same.

― Josh, Sunday, 22 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

horrible to think about such things, but since music is probably my main interest, I would rather go blind than deaf. but having the choice of being born deaf or blind, I think deaf would be preferable. having heard music I wouldn't want to lose that

― m jemmeson, Sunday, 22 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Today looking out from the twelth floor across Jasper Avenue i saw a building i walked by on street level. On the twelth floor i noiced the five square shadows cast by the next building. I saw a peid a terre on the roof. I love that, new sights. I could not lose that.

― anthony, Sunday, 22 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Twenty years ago I might have chosen differently, but I think I'd really rather lose my hearing. My musical memories would sustain me and I could still *feel* the bass and all that crap. Also, just on a practical level, I think it'd be much easier to get by in the world.

― Arthur, Monday, 23 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I would much rather go blind, the world of sounds is far more interesting to me. But with genetic conditions being what they are in my family, the horrible thing is that I probably *will* go deaf.

― Kate the Saint, Monday, 23 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Me too. Grandad's deaf, Mum's showing signs, I'm sure it'll happen to me as well and my descent will probably be quicker because of all that horrible loud music I've been listening to. A bloke I used to share a house with went to sign language classes and they'd all go clubbing together and sign along with the songs. Can you imagine doing Baby One More Time?

― Madchen, Monday, 23 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

three months pass...

I would much rather go deaf than blind cuz if you're blind, you won't be able to drive, play sports and others. Being deaf can do anything except hear.

― Jeff Viguers, Monday, 5 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

three years pass...

I think for me, deaf. I can't bear the idea of never knowing how bad my hair looks and being able to fix it, or having a ripe yellow head on a spot and not knowing.

Besides, you have subtitles for deaf people. What's the equivilant if you are blind? The radio? Talking books? Nah - take the ears please.

― Rumpie, Monday, 22 August 2005 16:45 (twenty years ago)

I just read a Pitchforkmedia column that contained a relevant quote from Helen Keller: "Being blind may separate you from things, but being deaf separates you from people."

Keller confirms it. I'd rather be deaf.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 22 August 2005 17:05 (twenty years ago)

The sixth sense is Love.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Monday, 22 August 2005 18:13 (twenty years ago)

According to VH1, Michael Hutchence knocked his head against a curb several years before his death, and lost his senses of smell and taste in the process. Imagine going through life without a sense of taste? The act of eating would become simply a dull but necessary and possibly disgusting routine.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 22 August 2005 18:15 (twenty years ago)

D00d it'd be like eating the dentist's impression cement, forever. Just this sensation of wetness and useless satisfaction that you're successfully not starving. And he prob couldn't clock any pheromones either, right? Supermodels become ramen

― LeCoq (LeCoq), Monday, 22 August 2005 18:19 (twenty years ago)

But just imagine not being able to taste or smell anything ever again. It's mind-boggling. Never to taste your favorite food...or any food ever again. Never to smell your wife's perfume (or anything else). Food and drink are meaningless.

On the flipside of that, taking out the trash or chaning a child's diapers aren't nearly as unpleasant. Think of the money that could be made when someone bets that you can't eat something disgusting.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 22 August 2005 18:38 (twenty years ago)

I had a friend of mine whose mother had no sense of smell. She'd drink spoiled milk without thinking twice (unless it was lumpy.) My friend's brother could smoke pot in the house and would attribute the smoke to cigarettes.

I'm not a big food person as it is. Losing my sense of smell wouldn't bother me as much as, say, losing my pinky finger.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 22 August 2005 18:47 (twenty years ago)

So the Shocker is THAT important to you, eh?

― LeCoq (LeCoq), Monday, 22 August 2005 19:28 (twenty years ago)

I said pinky, not ring finger, genius.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 22 August 2005 19:36 (twenty years ago)

http://www.retrocrush.com/archive2/stickers/Shocker.jpg

You were saying?

― LeCoq (LeCoq), Monday, 22 August 2005 19:58 (twenty years ago)

All the men in my family go deaf eventually, so ask me in thirty years.

Be sure to write the question down.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Monday, 22 August 2005 20:20 (twenty years ago)

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No, LeCoq. What were you saying?

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 22 August 2005 20:51 (twenty years ago)

I would rather be blind than deaf. So it's a bit troubling that my hearing seems to be getting worse.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Monday, 22 August 2005 21:46 (twenty years ago)

Deaf, easy. Becoming blind as an adult is a much larger adjustment to make and alters your life far more - never being able to drive again, having to learn to read braille, more difficulties in almost every aspect of life.

Being deaf would be a bummer, but not all that life-changing in major ways.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Monday, 22 August 2005 21:55 (twenty years ago)

Cat Stevens to thread.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Monday, 22 August 2005 21:58 (twenty years ago)

losing senses sucks.

― AaronK (AaronK), Monday, 22 August 2005 22:04 (twenty years ago)

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