Blind or Deaf?

Deaf..

Atleast then I could still see life and how everything is etc. If I was blind then I wouldn't like it.. you wouldn't be able to walk down the street normally.. Yeah, you'd know your way and have one of them thingies but you would still walk into people and stuff.. and if I was blind I wouldn't be able to see my friends, family, and wouldn't be able to come online and talk to all my mates online =']

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Originally Posted by Syd

It's hard for me to say as, when I was in school I was nominated to visit a local Deaf and Blind Hospice in my local town. I witnessed a lot of hurtful and disturbing images, and quite frankly I wouldn't know how I'd be likely to survive with condition's such as that. My nan is deaf and she has a hearing aid but has no effect. It's a hard life....

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then wahts the poi0nt in a hearing aid?
deaf as life would be easier than when blind

I would rather be Blind because of the followin reasons:
1. I would not be able to hear my music.
2. I would like to see (In this case feel) The experience
3. I like a challenge

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Originally Posted by RedStratocas

WTH? That is the most depressing thing that I have ever heard in my entire life. That must mean a massage chair has a very good tune huh?

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It isn't depressing but true. Deaf people can 'listen' to music trough vibrations, I mean, what do you feel when you stand next to a speaker in the disco? What do you feel when you trun the bass high? Vibrations! You won't hear everything of the song, but you can at least feel the beat.

I would defenitly choose for deaf. Like I said, you can feel the beat. And if you are blind you can't do anything without help. If you are deaf you can still play games, enjoy the view, visit wonderful things in the world, look at cute girls or nice boys (if you are a girl), read, follow the news so you know what is happening to the world, enjoy movies (very important for me), play habbo :), see your familly, look how your bothers/sisters grow up, make dinner, play with your pets, watch a sport match, and many more but I'm tired now.

Also when there is an emergency, you can see what you have to do, if you are blind you will have to follow your ears and that is pretty hard.

Yer, but if u were deaf u wouldnt be able to...
listen to music
have conversations
operate a phone
hear danger. imagine if someone had fallen in another room and was screaming for help. If there in another room, sight wouldnt help.
Go to the cinema. (Films in cinema dont usually have subtitles unless they are forgein)
Chat up fit boys/girls
Someone could break into your house and you wouldnt even hear.

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Originally Posted by Spankadelic

Yer, but if u were blind u wouldnt be able to...
listen to music
have conversations
operate a phone
hear danger. imagine if someone had fallen in another room and was screaming for help. If there in another room, sight wouldnt help.
Go to the cinema. (Films in cinema dont usually have subtitles unless they are forgein)
Chat up fit boys/girls
Someone could break into your house and you wouldnt even hear.

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if you were blind you woulnt be able to
post on forum
text people
IM people
see if you are about to walk in to a lamp post or fall of a cliff
Go to the cinma
watch tv
see your friends and family
walk anywhere on your own
go out without a guide dog
play sport
drive
ride a bike even
do anything technicle with hand,s constrution kits, diy
read instructions
read books
view art
etc etc etc

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Originally Posted by Mentor

a famos classical composer -posibly beatoven but probly wrong one- continued to write and conduct music after he had gone deaf "/

PLus no ones realy going to want eather, but if you were going to get one its just a matter of opion on a hypothical senario

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Yeah, we learnt in music that he cut the legs off his piano and sat on the floor playing to feel the vibrations.
Ray Charles was forced to try and make his voice unique, and I doubt he would have been able to do that without hearing it.
Not that it really matters, I'm just saying, and it was just an example to use.

For a musician or a person who simply adores music, they would probably much prefer to be blind, but I prefer art and litrature, so I'd rather be deaf, mindue there's probably good treatment these days to cure these disabillities.