if God will take away one of your five senses..

Wow, really? You'd really rather lose the sense of touch rather than any other of your senses? I... don't think I can do that. I can suffer not tasting my favorite foods (which is a big sacrifice for me, glutton that I am), not hearing the world's varying sounds, even not seeing the sights that takes one's breath away, but I would never want to lose the ability to feel. If I had to choose, I'd lose my taste. I can eat even without tasting anything (eating would become a chore - a task I need to do in order to live - rather than the pleasure it is for me right now, but it's still preferable than if I were to lose the other ones), and retaining my sense of smell can still give me a bit of "taste" to the varying food I'll eat. It won't be the same (obviously), but it's something I can live with if I had to make the choice. I chose taste because the other four are just more important, I think. I'd want to hear my mother's heartbeat when I embrace her even if I can't eat her cooking, for example. And smell is directly related to a human's sense of taste AND memory, so it's more important than the previous two (for me). Sight is, obviously, a great deal important. You learn 80% of the things you learn through sight after all, and it just feel's better to SEE someone you love smile than be told someone is smiling. As for touch... I just can't imagine life without feeling it, you know? Seeing someone hug me when I feel bad would ease my worries, I know, but FEELING it would be so much more effective for me because... it just would be (heh, can't explain it well). I guess you can "feel" other people's emotions even without feeling them on your skin, but there are just some things that words (hearing) or pictures (sight) can't convey that I think would be easily understood by touch, so. Yep, TASTE if the sense I'm willing to part with. My order would probably be: TASTE, SOUND, SMELL, SIGHT then TOUCH. I just cannot stress how important touch is for me. :p

I would pick hearing I guess. I was going to pick taste, but I like food too much? I would love to not have to listen to my hubby sometimes. If I could just turn him off it would be great! He'd be giving me those sturn looks while he's ranting and raving and I'd just be staring back at him with a puzzled look on my face..."what, I can't hear you...what r u saying...r u upset about something....no really, I can't hear u." Silence would be so golden in those moments!

I'd prefer losing my sight if that were the case. I may have used this sense improperly most of the times and I usually have had trouble getting sleep. But before God would ever take this away from me, I would request from Him to give my gift of sight to someone who really needs it (",).

I think I would give up the sense of smell. While sometimes there's nothing finer than catching the scent of something sweet, that's the one sense I think that I could give up without suffering too great a loss. I am a musician, so my sense of hearing is very important to me. I love to drive, so the ability to see is incredibly important as well. I love to hold my children, so the sense of touch is a big deal and I love to eat, so the sense of taste has to stay. I think that smell is the easiest to give up...heck, when you're sick and your sinuses are blocked up, the sense of smell goes away, and how badly do you really miss it? When you are sick, you want your sinuses to clear, but just so you can breathe...the sense of smell is already gone and we hardly even notice.

I did a survey like things years ago lol. Well most people, even I, chose to give up smell. But then we considered that taste is so close to smell, and its like giving up both. I think I would give up smell still though... not sure about it though. I think touch is important because of warm and cold and such... oh they are all so important lol. I only wish smell weren't SO related to taste. :(

i guess id choose sight..cause the eyes can be very deceiving. or maybe my sense of tough, so that i'd be numb always..lol

I agree. I think touch would be the easiest thing to live without. I wouldnt like to lose any of course. I think sight would be the hardest thing to lose because you would be constantly in drakness and I think this would be worse than being in a world which is quiet.

My first instinct was to say smell. After thinking for a moment if you can't smell then nothing taste right. So I will say taste. It is the only sense that does little to protect you. Smell alerts us of fire, bad food, and other dangers. If you can't feel you are likely to burn yourself or not know when your cutting yourself. Hearing and sight are both must have senses, yet some do live without.

I'm torn between touch and smell, but i guess it would have to be smell. Lots of stuff stinks and you wouldn't have to put up with any stinky smells.

I would gladly give up the sence of taste. I'm a very very picky eater and would love to expand my variety. This would be perfect for me! So I would not only give it if I had to but also voluntarily. Wonder how i could go about doing that???

I would have to say sight. This is because my son has no sight and he has taught me alot. He has to live life in a new way. Without sight he uses his other senses to the extreme. Like our rabbits, we feel that they are soft, he feels that they are super soft. We take so much for granted when we have sight. There are better adaptations for the other senses being missing. So I would choose sight.

i could do without the sense of sight on condition that there would be others to read me books i need, possibly i could live without smell, i would use my extensive imagination, well, sometimes it's even better not to smell something which is smelly;D ; without taste every food would be bland, no great pleasure, without touch it would be difficult to convey emotions, without hearing i wouldn't listen to music which is my real passion

maybe taste. at least i might lose weight if that happens. but, whichever of my five senses disappears, i hope my sense of humor remains intact to help me cope. =]

If God had to take away one of my senses then I would give up smell. I cannot really smell anything the way I used to. I do not think it would be as bad as sight, touch, hearing or taste. Taste might be a second choice as it would be nice to eat everthing available and not worry about the taste.

i think i will go for smell. i have a cold right now and it is a heavy one..... so i can not smell anything at this moment. that i think i can live without if God took my sense of smell. the rest are not easy if i lose it. my mom's left eye can no longer see, she only have one eye but still it was very difficult for her. what more if she lose both eye sight. so i go for smell.

nope nope. i think all of the mare connected here . if you loose one .. you really become impaired and thats like vbery bad right? Well anyways i do hope that nothing like this ever happens to me or anyone else ever in this world but since you have asked me this ques. i guess i would go with sense too. If and if only giving this option that , one has to be gone and all then only i would allow my sense to be gone. Well i relaly want the other 4. lol. Well anyways nice discussion buddy and happy mylotting to you :)