You use taste maybe 3-4 times a day. You use sight every single waking moment of your life. Sight enriches my life, a wonderful vista, paintings and art, the faces of the people I love - reading emotions seeing them smile.
You would give all of that up for the ability to taste food, most of which is probably horrible anyways.
That is so alien a concept to me. I mean, of all the main senses I would be willing to give up, if I was forced to, taste and smell could go immediately. I mean shit, my friend has no sense of smell because she was born with it
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You use taste maybe 3-4 times a day. You use sight every single waking moment of your life. Sight enriches my life, a wonderful vista, paintings and art, the faces of the people I love - reading emotions seeing them smile.
You would give all of that up for the ability to taste food, most of which is probably horrible anyways.
That is so alien a concept to me. I mean, of all the main senses I would be willing to give up, if I was forced to, taste and smell could go immediately. I mean shit, my friend has no sense of smell because she was born with it
blah blah blah
You typed this by using your eyes to look at the keyboard. If you gave up your sight it would be incredibly difficult for you to gain anything out of the internet, which is inherently text and image based. So you probably wouldn't be posting here much.
Unless you used text to voice systems, though that would mean everyone elses posts would end up being conveyed to you by a mechanical souless robot voice.
I just think sight, to me at least, is by far the most valuable sense. Willingly giving it up is just insane to me. Especially for one as worthless as taste. Most of the food I eat is something I wouldn't consider a life affirming taste. I mean is my life going to be worse off because I didn't taste those noodles or because I didn't see them?
Especially with taste and smell and sight all contributing to your experience of food.
You use taste maybe 3-4 times a day. You use sight every single waking moment of your life. Sight enriches my life, a wonderful vista, paintings and art, the faces of the people I love - reading emotions seeing them smile.
You would give all of that up for the ability to taste food, most of which is probably horrible anyways.
That is so alien a concept to me. I mean, of all the main senses I would be willing to give up, if I was forced to, taste and smell could go immediately. I mean shit, my friend has no sense of smell because she was born with it
You use taste maybe 3-4 times a day. You use sight every single waking moment of your life. Sight enriches my life, a wonderful vista, paintings and art, the faces of the people I love - reading emotions seeing them smile.
You would give all of that up for the ability to taste food, most of which is probably horrible anyways.
That is so alien a concept to me. I mean, of all the main senses I would be willing to give up, if I was forced to, taste and smell could go immediately. I mean shit, my friend has no sense of smell because she was born with it
blah blah blah
You typed this by using your eyes to look at the keyboard. If you gave up your sight it would be incredibly difficult for you to gain anything out of the internet, which is inherently text and image based. So you probably wouldn't be posting here much.
Unless you used text to voice systems, though that would mean everyone elses posts would end up being conveyed to you by a mechanical souless robot voice.
I just think sight, to me at least, is by far the most valuable sense. Willingly giving it up is just insane to me. Especially for one as worthless as taste. Most of the food I eat is something I wouldn't consider a life affirming taste. I mean is my life going to be worse off because I didn't taste those noodles or because I didn't see them?
Especially with taste and smell and sight all contributing to your experience of food.
If you were born without sight and you heard an erotica recording, what would you visualize in your mind's eye while beating off?
You wouldn't visualize anything because you would not have a mind's eye. Blind people have a very different perception of space and objects. From what I can understand, while blind people have an abstract sense of the space of a room they think of distances between objects more in terms of the time spent getting between them. So rather than "down the street, cross the road and then in through the second door on the left" they think "five seconds forward at normal pace, turn right and walk for 20 seconds" etc. Objects are defined by their feel, the shapes and textures themselves rather than some imagined picture put together in your mind.
Or so I have heard. I am sure different people that are blind from birth have different experiences.
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Taste. It's the least important sense you have, and smell makes things taste pretty good by itself.
This thread made me wonder about that. I am pretty sure I would pick the same, but while many people have experienced eating with no smell many times while having bad colds I think very few have experienced eating with no taste.
I suppose it should be fairly easy to simulate. In theory you only need to wrap your tongue firmly in some kind of plastic.
I can only assume Druhim is married/living with the most amazing chef in the world. Which is certainly better than living with an artist.
Unless its a sculptor and you come home one day and like the whole living room is filled with a clay model of some mountain or something.
I like how you assume that everyone must appreciate taste in the exact same way you do. The whole point of this thread is how each of us hold different senses as more or less important. I don't think you're dumb for valuing sight so highly, I totally understand that. I think you're dumb because you assume everyone should feel as you do.
I would imagine that would be pretty hard and possibly very awkward.
I demand something more specific.
Well, mastrubation should be easy enough. The difficult part would be describing the equivalent equipment of the opposite sex. Actually now that I think about it I'm not even sure it would be that difficult, though I imagine the first time for two blind teenagers would be a case of "what goes where" experimentation.
Taste. It's the least important sense you have, and smell makes things taste pretty good by itself.
This thread made me wonder about that. I am pretty sure I would pick the same, but while many people have experienced eating with no smell many times while having bad colds I think very few have experienced eating with no taste.
I suppose it should be fairly easy to simulate. In theory you only need to wrap your tongue firmly in some kind of plastic.
Well it's not going to be the same, but there's a notable difference when you eat or drink something with your nose plugged up and when it's clear.
Smell is important for a lot of things, though. Fires, rabid animals lurking in the bushes, the zombies loitering around the corner etc.
Taste. It's the least important sense you have, and smell makes things taste pretty good by itself.
This thread made me wonder about that. I am pretty sure I would pick the same, but while many people have experienced eating with no smell many times while having bad colds I think very few have experienced eating with no taste.
I suppose it should be fairly easy to simulate. In theory you only need to wrap your tongue firmly in some kind of plastic.
Well it's not going to be the same, but there's a notable difference when you eat or drink something with your nose plugged up and when it's clear.
Smell is important for a lot of things, though. Fires, rabid animals lurking in the bushes, the zombies loitering around the corner etc.
Yeah, that is my thinking too. Food may be fucked either way but I at least get to smell flowers and avoid deadly gas.
Other peoples farts will still suck though.
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I can only assume Druhim is married/living with the most amazing chef in the world. Which is certainly better than living with an artist.
Unless its a sculptor and you come home one day and like the whole living room is filled with a clay model of some mountain or something.
I like how you assume that everyone must appreciate taste in the exact same way you do. The whole point of this thread is how each of us hold different senses as more or less important. I don't think you're dumb for valuing sight so highly, I totally understand that. I think you're dumb because you assume everyone should feel as you do.
It would help if you at least gave some reasoning for your opinions to work with. I have outlined why I put more value on sight than taste by describing twice the multitude of things I would be giving up. My job is one.
As far as I can tell, you like tasting food. Taste which is mostly governed by your sense of smell. So you are giving up a sense which, I assume, is required for your job, your way of life and upon which you are entirely dependent for most of your leisure time - including posting here - for a sense which is the lesser of two which contribute to your enjoyment of food.
Look I'm not saying you're wrong, because it is your opinion. But perhaps you do value your taste much more than others, that's fine. But like I said, I could not comprehend that, in balance, especially how as I mentioned, I wouldn't say I had a culinary delight every night of the week.
I could list great meals I've had in the last month on one hand, but I would need many more hands to list interesting sights.
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So ... erotica on recording?
If you were born without sight and you heard an erotica recording, what would you visualize in your mind's eye while beating off?
Coran Attack!
touching/smelling the person?
I wish I had a cool blind friend who could answer these questions.
You typed this by using your eyes to look at the keyboard. If you gave up your sight it would be incredibly difficult for you to gain anything out of the internet, which is inherently text and image based. So you probably wouldn't be posting here much.
Unless you used text to voice systems, though that would mean everyone elses posts would end up being conveyed to you by a mechanical souless robot voice.
I just think sight, to me at least, is by far the most valuable sense. Willingly giving it up is just insane to me. Especially for one as worthless as taste. Most of the food I eat is something I wouldn't consider a life affirming taste. I mean is my life going to be worse off because I didn't taste those noodles or because I didn't see them?
Especially with taste and smell and sight all contributing to your experience of food.
we get you
He chose to live in the radioactive junkyard, away from pretty ladies.
i think taste
smell!
Unless its a sculptor and you come home one day and like the whole living room is filled with a clay model of some mountain or something.
Hearing can hurt.
You wouldn't visualize anything because you would not have a mind's eye. Blind people have a very different perception of space and objects. From what I can understand, while blind people have an abstract sense of the space of a room they think of distances between objects more in terms of the time spent getting between them. So rather than "down the street, cross the road and then in through the second door on the left" they think "five seconds forward at normal pace, turn right and walk for 20 seconds" etc. Objects are defined by their feel, the shapes and textures themselves rather than some imagined picture put together in your mind.
Or so I have heard. I am sure different people that are blind from birth have different experiences.
I would imagine that would be pretty hard and possibly very awkward.
This thread made me wonder about that. I am pretty sure I would pick the same, but while many people have experienced eating with no smell many times while having bad colds I think very few have experienced eating with no taste.
I suppose it should be fairly easy to simulate. In theory you only need to wrap your tongue firmly in some kind of plastic.
If she lost her sense of touch I would light her on fire.
I demand something more specific.
fleshlight and repeated groingrabbings
I can only imagine a fleshlight being involved.
edit: H5, Killjoy.
Why is losing a living room better than good food? You perplex me.
Well, mastrubation should be easy enough. The difficult part would be describing the equivalent equipment of the opposite sex. Actually now that I think about it I'm not even sure it would be that difficult, though I imagine the first time for two blind teenagers would be a case of "what goes where" experimentation.
And the not blind teenager rams his cock into the blind teenager's ass and screams, "THIS IS SEX. HOW DO YOU LIKE IT?"
i think it'd be funnier if the blind guy was only pretending
Well it's not going to be the same, but there's a notable difference when you eat or drink something with your nose plugged up and when it's clear.
Smell is important for a lot of things, though. Fires, rabid animals lurking in the bushes, the zombies loitering around the corner etc.
Yeah, that is my thinking too. Food may be fucked either way but I at least get to smell flowers and avoid deadly gas.
Other peoples farts will still suck though.
It would help if you at least gave some reasoning for your opinions to work with. I have outlined why I put more value on sight than taste by describing twice the multitude of things I would be giving up. My job is one.
As far as I can tell, you like tasting food. Taste which is mostly governed by your sense of smell. So you are giving up a sense which, I assume, is required for your job, your way of life and upon which you are entirely dependent for most of your leisure time - including posting here - for a sense which is the lesser of two which contribute to your enjoyment of food.
Look I'm not saying you're wrong, because it is your opinion. But perhaps you do value your taste much more than others, that's fine. But like I said, I could not comprehend that, in balance, especially how as I mentioned, I wouldn't say I had a culinary delight every night of the week.
I could list great meals I've had in the last month on one hand, but I would need many more hands to list interesting sights.
Technically six. Balance wasn't in the OP.
I have nine....
thousand
Yes, nine thousand.
Just how old is he?