Sight is obviously the dominant sense in nearly every culture. Media is almost entirely based off it. But what is really the strongest sense?
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Sight is obviously the dominant sense in nearly every culture. Media is almost entirely based off it. But what is really the strongest sense?
Hearing is the most important one to me.
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But what is really the strongest sense?
I'm with Josh.
That weird sense when you can tell someone is staring at you in a crowd or when you can sense anger. We have not, as a species, defined it yet.
Take porn for instance. Sex is all about touch but porn is mostly sight. How's that?
I'm gonna go with common.
Had to go sight, but honestly, touch was my number two. If you've never had a nerve issue, you can't possibly understand how mind blowing a lack of tactile response can be.
Most people don't have this... it can't be the most important.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nash
Touch.
It would suck to not be able to see, smell, hear, or taste.
It wouldn't be worth living if I could no longer fuck.
A pox on all that answer with common, pride, and anything similar. So silly.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nash
IDBTN, without sight you couldn't find the mobile land whales that will accept your penis without compensation or force.Quote:
Originally Posted by Some Stupid Japanese Name
I REGRET NOTHING
You could go about life without smelling or tasting anything, but life without the other 3 senses would be more difficult.
Helen Keller couldn't see or hear, but she could feel movement and vibrations from sound. So, I'd have to go with touch.
If I only had hearing, I would be fine. Visual is a second for me.
Touch, hearing, then sight.
Smell helps me out whenever Dad sends Emilio's do-gooder ass over to hide my drugs.
Sight is number 1 for me. Kind of hard to shoot video and take pictures if you can't see a damn thing. Hearing is second cause talking is a big part of life, and subtitles in movies help, but it's nice to hear everything. It's also really annoying going to a theater where the audio sucks and you constantly miss words or phrases here or there. Also sucks when you have to put on subtitles every now and then when watching movies in your own home.
Over the past 3 or 4 years, my sense of smell has almost completely disappeared and it suuuucks. I can smell a tiny little bit, but 95% of the time I have this permanent burnt smell of gasoline and charcoal burned into my nose. FUN.
But I would have to say hearing as well. I could handle losing my sight, and I've dealt with the smell thing for so long now, but losing my hearing would drive me insane.
After much internal debating, it's hearing. Without hearing there's no music, and without music, I go insane.
Being blind has its perks....
I'm surprised Sight is ahead as it is. I should have rephrased the poll.
If you lost a fight against Raiden, and in his mercy he allowed you live, but you must sacrifice four senses to keep one, which sense would you keep?
Would everyone really want to see if they couldn't touch, taste, hear or smell anything??
Who the fuck's gonna pick smell? Honestly.
Anyone who picks anything other than sight or sound is stupid.
Question #2, I'd give up everything as long as I could still hear music.
gotta smell that pussy before I bury my face up in there.Quote:
Originally Posted by Glitch
I'm not sure how important touch is to survivability. What does it mean exactly to lose everything related to the sense of touch? Could you still sense pressure, pain? If not, you would probably develop a form of leprosy and die. I'm not even sure you could swallow and digest food properly...you couldn't tell if you just crapped or not, etc. It would just be too bewildering, especially in conjunction with all the other senses you lost (against the one you decided to keep).
Okay, you keep hearing but lose sight,touch, taste? Good luck getting food into your mouth, you'd have no way of knowing. I suppose if you just had sight, you could get visual confirmation on everything...you could still read and write, but you'd be in the hospital all the time for little body issues that become problems because your body can't feel them to know to fix/heal it.
So, out of sheer practicality I vote touch.
I vote suicide.
I chose sound becuase you can't make a movie without it, not even a "silent" one. And two, I use it to motivate me through daily chores.
I like the picture I chose in the OP. I was googling google and flickr for bliss, euphoria, nirvana and came up on it. It covers all bases:
Sight - It's a picure dumb ass
Hearing - it's a band, Nirvana
Smell - Novoselic's smelling the weed, Channing wants you to smell it
Touch - you can almost feel those prickly weeds comming out at the front and scratching your face
Taste - the photo's in b/w and you're just waiting for Skittles Rainbow to bust out so you can taste it.
So maby that means sight is the greatest?
true story.
EDIT: Nevermind, can't argue with Fury's logic.
Makes sense logically, but I don't think anyone would choose that for the simple sake of keeping your useless body alive as long as possible. You'd just be in complete darkness, not knowing what's going on around you, except that every now and then you can feel someone feeding you.Quote:
Originally Posted by FuryFox
Nah, if all but one of my senses were taken away, I'd live with what short time I had left enjoying the sights of life. I may not be able to smell, touch, taste, or listen to anything new, but there's more than plenty to see to keep the brain entertained through such a sad existence.
Man. Raiden's a dick.
Considering I want my life to revolve around photography and movies, I really don't think I could live without sight.Quote:
Originally Posted by Doc Holliday
This has crossed my mind recently. I would go insane if I couldn't listen to music.Quote:
Originally Posted by Josh
Actually, I would probably seriously consider suicide if I lost one or both. Sure you could still manage life, but god would it suck.
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Originally Posted by Doc Holliday
You're pretty hip I take it, then.Quote:
Originally Posted by ElCapitan
edit: I could take Raiden.
No matter what you may think, NOTHING would fuck any of you more than completely losing your sight.
Don't believe me? Spend one day with earplugs, then one day blindfolded. Tell me which day is tougher.
if you didn't have the sense of touch, would you even be able to move? think about when your leg goes numb after sitting on it for too long... i would have to say touch would be most important to be able to do anything.
this.Quote:
Originally Posted by Atlas
also, you wouldn't have the ability to troll TNL.
Sure you could. Just get one of those speech-to-text things.Quote:
Originally Posted by Advocate
basically if you get rid of touch, you're severing the nerves from your brain. for your brain to tell your hands to go to the mouse/keyboard to activate the speech command would be close to impossible. not only that, but in order to move your mouth to create speech you would have to have some sort of control over the feeling... once again for an example. have you ever been to the dentist and had your ENTIRE mouth numb? probably not, it's individual areas. even then it's difficult to eat/speak etc. if everything is numb, your speech would be poo too.
hearing plays a more important role in speech than touch. just sayin'.
i would probably want to die if i lost my other senses besides touch. if i lost my sense of touch i probably wouldn't have the physical ability to kill myself.
Touch is nice - when you're talking about being physical with someone else, but if I couldn't hear what was going on around me, basically living in a world of silence, I'd go nuts.
I voted touch as well because I assumed that you wouldn't be able to physically feel ANYTHING. You would just be completely numb.
Not feeling the sensation of your head sinking into your pillow when you went to sleep at night, the tap of the keys on your keyboards when you typed, the water on your skin if you took a shower, the BURNING of your hand if you were holding your hand way too close to the stove, someone's arms when they hugged you, the breeze on your skin, etc.
I figure that I could still read books through Braille, and with the lack of hearing...you could still feel vibrations (especially with bass, percussion, etc.).
Sight, I'm ok with pooing uncontrollably in my Professor Hawking's wheelchair.
Sight is the one I use and probably would miss most, sound is the one that gives me most joy, smell is the strongest one.
Sight or Taste.... I love food so taste is a close second, but being able to see > everything
But if you have the sense of touch and nothing else, you don't know if that mouth on your penis is a man's, or a woman's, or something in between. And if you don't know, it's not gay.Quote:
Originally Posted by Biff
Touch wins.
Smell has a stronger effect on taste than taste alone.Quote:
Originally Posted by kingoffighters