NEED TO UNDERSTAND

What you turn away from, walk away from and dismiss as insignificant is exactly what you need to understand in order to grow and expand.

Until you effectively deal with the pains, sorrows and infirmities of others you will never get beyond your selfish need to act superior and make them inferior.

It is in your allowance of their experiences that you come to know just how blessed they are and yourself as well. We might appear to be islands in the sea but we are all connected to each other by the waters of life fueled with Divine love.

Don’t ignore what you are guided to because that in itself is what will make you fulfilled in life everlasting! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.

DEBACLE?

Trump boldly declared that the Democrats now own the healthcare ‘debacle’. He backed it up by saying that Kentucky is in grave trouble with the ACA. In an interview with House Budget Committee member John Yarmuth (KY), Trump’s declaration was nailed to the wall. It seems that the problem that Kentucky has is with individual ACA accounts which are in the nation only 5% of the total enrollees. Again, Trump is shining a spotlight on one small segment and derailing the entire law because he and Paul Ryan want a ‘free market’.

Kentucky has 500,000 new insurance enrollees out of a 4.4 million population. People who NEVER had any form of health insurance now have it. Yet, Trump and Ryan continue to try and dismantle what they BELIEVE is not working in favor of a ‘plan’ that they say ‘would’ve’ worked. BULLSHIT!!! The only reason they want free market health insurance is because they could eliminate the insurance industry's regulations and diminish what the insurance plan products actually offer.

In other words, deregulation offers more independent plans that actually are comprised of fewer benefits that amp up more government costs to subsidize the ineffective plans! Why? Could it be that they are heavily invested in the insurance industry from the back door? Is this one of the reasons why Mitch McConnell’s (KY) family was NEVER indicted for his shipping line caught red-handed in smuggling cocaine into this country? “Friends helping friends” in the good ole boy club NEVER tell the truth.

They lie for each other to protect their mutual interests and the rest of us be damned! Haven’t you ever wondered why they always proclaim that we need less government in order to bolster a free market, yet they always run to be elected to government? It is because they are in the perfect position to receive ‘incentives’, bribes and perks that only benefit them and not any of us. They lie, cheat and steal from every decent hard working American and pat themselves on the back for their supposed ingenuity. They secretly fund corporate fake news that speaks to people in their language to tell them what they want to hear more than the truth because it shields them from the truth and affords them plausible deniability.

They are evil, self-centered opportunists who care not whether you live or die. The only thing they care about is their bottom line and that YOU live beneath that bottom line while they ride herd over you. Stop the insanity of listening to their ongoing bullshit! Listen within to the spirit and KNOW exactly what they are doing. The acid test has always been that if their behavior takes away from the growth and expansion of anyone, then it is more self-serving that everyone serving. Discern the facts; prudently judge their behaviors; vote them out in 2018.

Serve your community with the TRUTH more than their selfish lies. You will be treated better when you start treating others better. Remove the viruses from our society that breed on disinformation, alternative facts and outright lies. Together we can all do it! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.

MORE SAYINGS

It's funny how the truth eludes those who think they know it and don't have a clue that they don't. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.

If you do what I do exactly how I do it, then you are acceptable to me. If you don't do exactly what I do, then you are worthless. ~Ego

If you do what I guide you to do, then you are acceptable to yourself. If you don't do what I guide you to do, then you learn just how worthwhile my guidance is in living in Divine love. ~The Divine Infinite Spirit

When the sick and financially poor are trampled underfoot by the healthy and financially rich it reveals just how much they are ignoring the wisdom of equality and humanhood in favor of their own selfish and twisted agendas of self-aggrandizement at all costs! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.

ANIMAL WELFARE

LEARNING

Learning requires an inner desire to acquire new information based on factual observation, clear and accurate perception and repeated occurrences that yield similar results. Psychologically, learning is the modification of behavior through practice, training or experience. In other words, letting of what doesn’t work and employing what does. Learning doesn’t occur without subsequent thoughts and feelings about what one is learning.

When learning evokes an emotional response, it becomes cemented in your subconscious mind as being pleasurable. Some people confuse learning with parroting. Parroting is repeating or imitating someone else’s thoughts and feelings without complete thought or understanding of those thoughts or feelings. In other words, secondary thoughts and feelings without the direct experience of the events, occurrences, situations, circumstances or the behaviors of others or objects that have initially created the thoughts and feelings that one parrots.

For example, let’s say the following: “Planned Parenthood does NOT use taxpayer funding to perform abortions.” Now, those who don’t believe this parrot others who claim that PP does fund abortions with taxpayer funding. Despite the FACTS that clearly affirm that they don’t fund abortions with taxpayer’s money, certain groups of people insist that they do even in the face of facts to the contrary. Why would they do this? Why would they seek to undermine an organization that has successfully provided healthcare service to millions of women who could not afford to secure their health? It is because they have an agenda to bolster the life of the unborn while completely ignoring those who are already born and living. They determine that because some book written by sheepherders and fishermen over 2000 years ago proclaims that they should. WTF? NOWHERE in the Bible is abortion EVER mentioned!!! Again, NOWHERE! Yes, there are inferences to stillborn babies in the Bible but never specifically about abortion.

Yet, time after time, those who have the inability to critically think and accurately feel discard the facts in favor of parroting the beliefs of others as ‘the way it is’. What these people need to do is get off of their fat flatulating asses and stop blowing gas out of their two sets of lips. Burping and farting are both signs of improper digestion. If you eat the right foods with the right way of ingesting them, the creation of gas in your system is minimized. Let’s review; “Planned Parenthood does NOT use taxpayer funding to perform abortions.” Now, is this premise accurate? How could we know for sure? We go to the source of information that yields the raw statistics and examine the data. If the data supports the conclusion that they don’t, then why do some keep parroting an untruth? Is it because they WANT to believe this to be untrue? Is it because they need to gain allies to support their erroneous beliefs? Or is it because they don’t care about the truth at all? The parrot has certain characteristics:

Their asses are fat and flatulating because they don’t get off of them enough to investigate the truth and research the proponents of the ‘truth’.

Their attitudes are childish and immature because they feel somehow that what they want to believe is more important than the truth.

They believe that certain constructs and their behaviors are subject to challenge and ridicule simply because they represent a ‘possibility’ of some aberrant actions more than a verifiable certainty (e.g. “Planned Parenthood does NOT use taxpayer funding to perform abortions.”)

They continue to repeat untruths and ‘alternative facts’ in order to support their erroneous beliefs and manifest their selfish agendas.

In order to learn one must get over themselves by getting under themselves. How do they do this? By seeing things as they are and not how they yearn for them to be. Yearning is from the ego’s limited beliefs and desires are from the inner spirit’s knowing of your inner talents, skills and abilities to divinely serve your communities with truth and care. When you make the time to go within each and every day you get under your own skin and come to know the divine connection that we all share. You learn to stop parroting, posturing and pontificating about your beliefs and start knowing what contributes to the growth and expansion of everyone. In other words, you grow up!

Again, let’s review; “Planned Parenthood does NOT use taxpayer funding to perform abortions.” Do you now get it? Do you see that your ingrained beliefs came from what others believe MORE than what you know? If you don’t, you need to wash, rinse and repeat until you thoroughly clean your mind and heart of erroneous beliefs. Undoing what you have allowed to become real to you requires work and if you are unwilling to do the work your mind and heart will remain dirty and tainted by erroneous beliefs.

Going within each and every day in deep meditation cleanses your being of erroneous beliefs while allowing you to find the beauty, simplicity and accuracy of the truth as it is and NOT how you WANT it to be. Be brave, diligent and dedicated to stop parroting and start living in the truth everlasting. Always remember, “Planned Parenthood does NOT use taxpayer funding to perform abortions.” Perhaps this lesson will be the trigger for you to know the truth and continue to live in the truth now and evermore! Be blessed! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.