Why does sight have to to trump over all the other senses? Why couldn't it have been hearing?
Imagine if hearing trumped over all the other senses - we would be attracted to people based on how eloquently they sounded or how sophisticated or seductive or powerful they sounded. Every nice-sounding speech and voice would be like music to our ears. Our memories would be filled with distinct sounds - the laughter of a loved one, the zooming of a car during a road trip, the powerful sounds from the ocean. You would recognize a person by their voice, not their face. You might judge people by what they had to say, rather than what they looked like. Ethnicity might be identified with accents instead of the way the skull, skin, and cartilage combine to try and form a face.
Music, poetry, and spoken word would be the greatest arts of the day, as opposed to visual arts, television, and fashion. Microphones and other sound-recording devices would be equivalent to cameras.
Thunder would be one of the most exhilarating things to experience - a sound that shakes with the Earth.
But silence would be a very frightening thing. It would be equivalent to darkness or nothingness.
I don't know what I'm going with here. I'm just very tired. Sound is definitely very, very important to me - it's why I am a good musician and why I have such a keen interest in Linguistics; and I definitely thank God very much for my hearing. Without it, I probably would have done many stupid things. But I must cherish it and use it wisely while I still have the chance - God gave me my ears and my hearing and if need be, he has the ability to take it away. Not out of cruelty, but out of love. Then perhaps it would come time to appreciating the most triumphant sense of all once again.
Imagine if hearing trumped over all the other senses - we would be attracted to people based on how eloquently they sounded or how sophisticated or seductive or powerful they sounded. Every nice-sounding speech and voice would be like music to our ears. Our memories would be filled with distinct sounds - the laughter of a loved one, the zooming of a car during a road trip, the powerful sounds from the ocean. You would recognize a person by their voice, not their face. You might judge people by what they had to say, rather than what they looked like. Ethnicity might be identified with accents instead of the way the skull, skin, and cartilage combine to try and form a face.
Music, poetry, and spoken word would be the greatest arts of the day, as opposed to visual arts, television, and fashion. Microphones and other sound-recording devices would be equivalent to cameras.
Thunder would be one of the most exhilarating things to experience - a sound that shakes with the Earth.
But silence would be a very frightening thing. It would be equivalent to darkness or nothingness.
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I don't know what I'm going with here. I'm just very tired. Sound is definitely very, very important to me - it's why I am a good musician and why I have such a keen interest in Linguistics; and I definitely thank God very much for my hearing. Without it, I probably would have done many stupid things. But I must cherish it and use it wisely while I still have the chance - God gave me my ears and my hearing and if need be, he has the ability to take it away. Not out of cruelty, but out of love. Then perhaps it would come time to appreciating the most triumphant sense of all once again.
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