Utter brilliance.

McCain's thinking has become as rigid as his physicality would suggest

That physical rigidity is the result of being shot down in a war zone, having his arms broken and the abuse he suffered for years in a POW camp.
I'm all for trouncing McCain and exposing the idiocy and hypocrisy of his politics, but making jokes referring to his physical ailments is pretty shitty imo.>> ^criticalthud:

McCain's thinking has become as rigid as his physicality would suggest

I'm not making fun of him, I'm merely stating the obvious. Why do you think so many republicans happen to be over 65? Strain in the body operates precisely the way a pain response does,... it consumes the consciousness, leaving very little energy to actually process and think. The body is pre-occupied with what it feels, and tending to a structure in collapse. It's psycho-somatic...and as McCain has noticeably aged and slowed down, so has his mental process.

There's no reason to bring his physical suffering into it. JFK suffered from pain constantly.

edit ... another one who edits after I post.
Well, at least you took the part out where you called me a "dumb ass".

Ha! yes, edited. I do enjoy your posts! and I do monitor my own reactions.

Typical western thought thinks that the "mind" is the brain - it isn't. The brain is simply the CPU of the nervous system. The 'mind" is the entire body, and as that body/being ages, deteriorates, and collapses, so the thought process goes.

Yes, and we can only imagine how effective JFK would have been without back pain.
The point is, what you SEE before your eyes is telling indeed. Show me someone in chronic pain, I'll likely show you someone depressed. Show me someone rigid in structure, and I'll likely show you someone rigid in thinking. Flow in the body, movement, is essential not only to physical health, but mental as well. It isn't the ONLY thing, but it is a GENERAL determinant.

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Yes, and we can only imagine how effective JFK would have been without back pain.
The point is, what you SEE before your eyes is telling indeed. Show me someone in chronic pain, I'll likely show you someone depressed. Show me someone rigid in structure, and I'll likely show you someone rigid in thinking. Flow in the body, movement, is essential not only to physical health, but mental as well. It isn't the ONLY thing, but it is a GENERAL determinant.


Lol, I guess someone paralyzed in movement should be paralyzed in thought then.
Stephen Hawking would disagree.

That's fine. But if you want to actually have a cogent argument with me then you need to not change the words I'm responding to after I have responded to them.
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Ha! yes, edited. I do enjoy your posts! and I do monitor my own reactions.

wow yes! again tho, we are talking GENERAL determinant. Seriously, just observe people...
Hawking -- how his nervous system has compensated is insane! But in general, strong physical limitations and ailments, as well as just trying to cope with a structural collapse by rotation under the force of gravity, results in a loss of mental acuity.

you are free to change as well. talk over

That sounds like a bunch of holistic hoo-ha. I can believe that chronic pain would make somebody grumpy, but I don't think that has anything at all to do with what McCain is doing with his political credibility.

He's revealed himself to be a weather-vane of a politician who'll say whatever is expedient at the moment. The whole maverick thing is just icing.

http://watch.thecomedynetwork.ca/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart/full-episodes/#clip285109

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There's no reason to bring his physical suffering into it. JFK suffered from pain constantly.
edit ... another one who edits after I post.
Well, at least you took the part out where you called me a "dumb ass".


And JFK was a warmongering asshat...your point?

My point was that physical handicaps do not define people or their politics.