Deaf, i think with blindness you have to rely on other people alot more and i wouldnt like that.

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At this point I can be deaf or blind. If I'm deaf, I can easily figure out what other people are saying and what music they are dancing to, etc. The same goes for sight. I have seen enough to figure out, from hearing what they are doing. But yeah, I would rather lose my sight.

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I would choose deaf. Not being able to see things around me and to know that I'm missing out on spectacular sights would really impact me. I have a really good memory for retaining a song in my head, so I can just listen to it myself.

i'd be able to cope more without sight than hearing, and certainly the language adaptation is less difficult (in my opinion).

although i tend to lead more to the visual end of things, i don't think i could bear suddenly not hearing anything, my spacial sense is incredibly good in dark and i could see this as a benefit without sight. but speaking about being able to cope with it is another thing unless you've actually gone through it..so i don't truly know.

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Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On I would rather be blind...but I was thinking the other day about eyes and how truly important they are to us... What color are your eyes? How do you know? People tell you, you look in a mirror, yes, but all that you do is merely classify them. Blue, green, brown, hazel, yellow - whatever; what do these terms really mean? It's all well and good to classify things, but for something as important as "the gateways into the soul," one would think that a certain beauty is lost when you merely say "My eyes are green"...or whatever color they are. Look into the mirror - do your eyes truly live up to the idea of whatever color you would classify them as? Don't they look so much more complex, so much more meaningful than just..."green"? Look into your partner's eyes one night - tell me what color they truly are and you will understand that color has no meaning when in the face of such remarkable beauty. For something that we see the world through at all times, how much do you truly know about your eyes...or your own soul, for that matter? One can get by in this world either way - I don't really have a preference, deafness or blindness, but I'm glad that I have neither and I am content with whatever I have enjoyed and experienced up until now. I hope to have many years of sensation in both the eyes and the ears, but if I were to wake up tomorrow and have lost either one of them, I would not curl up and die.

A nice post, which made me wonder.. If someone is born blind, how do you desrcibe a color to them

"the sky is blue"
"the grass is green"
"the line of coke off of Vivid Boy's penis is white"

do blind people know what blue, green and white are?

deaf.... imagine having to learn how to walk around blind..

haha.. and i could learn how to sing hella easy, and i'd learn how to read lips. and i can already speak 100% so i'd be able to talk with no problem...

just my 2 cents. hopefully neither happens to none of us...

>JM<

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i'll be the 21st century beethoven, better Dj than all of y'all combines

but in all seriousness, i'd say deaf
hard sacrifice, but the one true love i've found is photography and with sight being your main sense, that i could just like focus my whole being into it
with a lack of sight idk what i'd do, honestly

when one of your senses is gone, don't your other senses compensate for it?

like blind peopleare able to hear and sense things much better and ...
uh..deaf people can taste and smell better...

Oh... wow... I'm so much in the shock right now. lol
I've never ever had sighted people just randomly bring up this topic and it's kinda cool reading what you guys are writing. And that article about the deaf guy on the first page.. That's even better cause I didn't know anyone else out there with a sensory impairment (oh God now I'm using that awful thingy!) who was into clubbing.
But yeah anyways...
I'm choosing deaf cause I love the music just waaaay too much and I dunno, just experiencing the beat without the melody or without the crowd or whatever just is unimaginable... But like someone said, you have to live through something to really get a sense of what it is.
BTW I don't think anyone is going to believe me cause the first time I dropped this bomb on the other forum no one did but... I'm totally blind. And to clear up the mystery getting an idea of colors seems like a really complicated process but it's not totally, we just think of colors based on other sensory stuff.
I wanna know though about this whole eye color thing, now you guys have got me thinking about it it'll be in my head all day!!
OK, I'm done.

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Originally posted by Mebot when one of your senses is gone, don't your other senses compensate for it? like blind peopleare able to hear and sense things much better and ... uh..deaf people can taste and smell better...

The best way I can explain it to people is that it's not so much that your senses get better, it's that you pay more attention.
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Definately deaf. I'm a huge music fanatic, but there's so much more I love than just music. I'm very active, I run, skate, wakeboard, paintball, play video games... all sorts of things that are dependent on sight.

Doing without music would be really hard, but I'd still much rather be deaf. When you're blind, you're practically helpless.

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