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  • Boko
    Sep 9 3:48 PM
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    Never underestimate
    the easy grace

    and often unnoticed
    effect

    of total silence.

    BOKO

  • imkleyurflesh
    September 9
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    *farts*

    • ea
      September 9
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      opening a window.

    • The Bear
      September 9
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      *striking a match*

      • Just Mercedes
        September 9
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        ...ssssssshhhhh...listen...

        • ea
          September 9
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          smell that sulphur? The Devil has all the best music, as Bear just informed me...

  • Just Mercedes
    September 9
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    Even in an isolation tank, floating in salt water in the dark, I have never experienced silence. When the outside noises are blocked, the inner workings of the body are magnified. The beating of pulses, the digestive murmurs, the sussuration of white noise in the ears - silence? I don't think we can experience it until we experience nothing.

  • Terry-too
    September 9
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    I have heard tinnitus for four decades or so.
    Like I am never alone.

    • polly filla
      September 11
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      hmmmm...I fear I'm getting tinitus, properly now

      it's coming on much more frequently, and with different frequencies

      it used to be just leaving the club, lasting for a few hours, but now I'm getting it randomly, without sonic aggravation at the time

      • Terry-too
        September 12
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        You have my sympathy.
        I got mine from a trip on board a military Hercules aircraft. I was so busy plugging the baby's ears I did not have hands enough for my own. I could see he was yelling his loudest but none of us could hear him.

        I watched four airmen playing bridge. Holding up two fingers and pointing at his finger, (2 diamonds...) and the next held three fingers up and patted his chest... (3 hearts...)

        • polly filla
          September 13
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          do you hear/get bothered by barely audible background noises? it's like my hearing's now tuned into another dimension...I can hear weird stuff that others can't, and it's not an audio hallucination, because sometimes I go looking for the source, and always find it

          • Terry-too
            September 13
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            Superacuity

            would be preferable to deafness. I can't recall if the "barely audible background noises" happened to me. It was long ago.

            Now I have to ask soft-spoken friends to repeat and unless I get a hearing aid I will miss more and more. I do not want to be isolated that way.

            I see kids with earphones so loud I can hear their tunes, and know what they will be in for.

            • polly filla
              September 13
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              right

              I totally sympathise with you

              and as a kid myself, I thought it was groovy to sit inside bass bins

        • polly filla
          September 13
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          a friend of mine worked in a call centre (years ago, before proper safety measures) and someone blew a whistle down their phone into her ear-piece

          she's now deaf in that ear

        • Matt Holck
          September 13
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          on the Simpsons,
          Sideshow Bob's family is playing bridge in jail.
          Snake steps in and yells
          "3 clubs!"
          clubbing three members on the head with a stick.
          Niles responds
          "The joke isn't funny, and the bid is insufficient"

  • imkleyurflesh
    September 9
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    "...But if you must speak so often as to hear yourself, then in the
    end you hear yourself like silence.

    And so, if I lack anything at all, it's images of faces listening,
    in which the speaker can see whether silence is harmony or only
    a jeer..."

    Taken from the poem, 'To Adam Czerniawski' ~ Bogdan Czaykowski

    _______________

    I learned this from a very smart Bear.

    • Just Mercedes
      September 9
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      Bear is so smart! This is exactly what the net can't do - allow you human responses via body language and sight.

      • imkleyurflesh
        September 10
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        Word.

      • arafura
        September 10
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        The net can be a lonely silent place. I hear (feel?) the jeers too.

        • Terry-too
          September 10
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          For me, it is the sound of peace.

          • arafura
            September 10
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            That's nice! I guess we hear the sound of our own mood reflected in our ears.

            • Terry-too
              September 10
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              Astute. Particularly fine, because you're right, it is a rare pleasure in a stress-filled life. It is not always so.

            • polly filla
              September 13
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              that's an aphorism,

              and quite beautiful

  • Matt Holck
    September 11
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    I live in silence mostly
    no tv no music
    I hear my thoughts

    • polly filla
      September 13
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      I don't like background music---it's either ON, or OFF

      otherwise, it niggles me

  • Barbara
    September 13
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  • Capitaine Rouge
    September 13
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    I guess I'll shut my mouth then.
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