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Blind | 6 | 14.29% | ||||
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Deaf | 36 | 85.71% | ||||
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08-09-2012, 05:51 PM | #26 | |||
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blind. 100%
for so many reasons. communication is so audio based. I need to be able to talk to people and hear their response. I think sounds are so much more beautiful than sights. I really don't understand why so many people would rather be deaf. To me it's an easy decision. I could not live in silence. I hate silence. Silence scares me. I need sound far more than i need sight.
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08-09-2012, 05:53 PM | #27 | |||
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What a cheerful thread
I would rather go deaf though I hope I never have to experience either one. |
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08-09-2012, 05:55 PM | #28 | |||
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08-09-2012, 05:55 PM | #29 | |||
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08-09-2012, 05:56 PM | #30 | |||
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It would depend if you were born blind or deaf or both. You don't miss what you never had, and you would probably learn to interact with the world with whatever senses you were born with. However, if I were to lose my sight now, I don't think I could cope with life. At least with sight you get visual cues to help navigate the world. Being blind is a major handicap, being deaf is the lesser of two evils.
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08-09-2012, 05:56 PM | #31 | |||
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It would depend if you were born blind or deaf or both. You don't miss what you never had, and you would probably learn to interact with the world with whatever senses you were born with. However, if I were to lose my sight now, I don't think I could cope with life. At least with sight you get visual cues to help navigate the world. Being blind is a major handicap, being deaf is the lesser of two evils.
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08-09-2012, 05:56 PM | #32 | |||
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Atleast being blind, you could still communicate with everyone in english. I definitely need sound and hearing and speech. would you rather watch a TV show just the audio or just the video? I'd want the audio. you can still understand the story if you could only hear a TV show, watching a TV show without the sound, you'd have no idea what was going on, and you wouldn't understand the story at all.
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08-09-2012, 06:01 PM | #33 | ||
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i would go deaf as you can use sign or lip read,plus read and write also if you think about it!,we are not talking on this forum.
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08-09-2012, 06:01 PM | #34 | |||
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For all the world is filled with war and poverty and famine and cruelty and disaster, I still find it an amazingly beautiful place, and I haven't seen enough of it yet. I couldn't cope knowing that I'd never see a beautiful sight again or any of my loved ones faces. We're all different though
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08-09-2012, 06:05 PM | #35 | ||
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08-09-2012, 06:05 PM | #36 | |||
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yes, we all value different things. to me, communicating orally in the english language is most important. and music both creating it and listening to it is vitally important.
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08-09-2012, 06:07 PM | #37 | |||
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i suppose it's like asking whether you'd rather lose your hands or your feet.
If you are a writer like stephen king, i'm sure he'd say his feet. but if you are a runner like usain bolt,. he'd probably say his hands.
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08-09-2012, 06:09 PM | #38 | |||
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Now, that's a good point!
But on the other hand, if I was deaf, I would never have to hear the likes of Cher Lloyd or Justin Bieber! Quote:
In fact I think there should be a "neither" option in this poll. Deafness and blindness must be hellish!
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08-09-2012, 06:11 PM | #39 | |||
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What's the name of that again??
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08-09-2012, 06:12 PM | #40 | |||
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Misery (aptly named)
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08-09-2012, 06:13 PM | #41 | |||
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08-09-2012, 06:18 PM | #42 | ||
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08-09-2012, 06:20 PM | #43 | |||
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When i die, i imagine sounds fill the afterlife, i think the visual aspect of human life will be largely irrelevant. That's just me though. I imagine sounds and feelings. I'm not very interested in the visual.
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08-09-2012, 06:22 PM | #44 | |||
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Kathy Bates was amazing. have you seen Fried Green Tomatoes?
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08-09-2012, 06:24 PM | #45 | |||
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I'd rather be deaf. I pressed blind by accident.
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08-09-2012, 06:26 PM | #46 | |||
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Aw,mine too! It was such a good film though considering it was filmed almost entirely in one room with just two actors! Kathy Bates was terrifying!
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I've just thought of a story I read a while back of a woman who had been blind since birth and somehow got her sight back; she didn't know what anything was, and the only way she could tell, was to close her eyes and feel it. She said she was highly amused by noses!
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08-09-2012, 06:28 PM | #47 | |||
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Yeah she was! And no I haven't seen Fried Green Tomatoes, I dont think anyway! What's it about?
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08-09-2012, 06:33 PM | #48 | |||
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08-09-2012, 06:38 PM | #49 | |||
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All hail the Moyesiah
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At least if you're deaf you can still sorta do everything though and be fully independent, being blind would hinder so many more everyday activities
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08-09-2012, 06:40 PM | #50 | |||
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It's obviously the original trailer... right at the end it say "available on videocasette" heehee
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