A different perspective on assassination and a recommended practice to lighten your burden and pain

Spoken 9/15/2025

Below is the transcript, lightly edited…

Hopefully you won't get too much hate for this, but I wanted to give you a perspective and I'm going to give you a recommendation of something you can do this week that's going to help you out and give you a better, hopefully, perspective on life and actually lighten your burden.

So, let's get started.

It's a little bit different than what you're used to, so allow me to just say what I say. So, you know, no major hate in the comments, please.

Number one, you're disabled. You have a placard on your car saying you're disabled. You don't look it, but you are. And you pull into a disabled parking spot. A Karen comes out, seeing that you pulled into the parking spot and berates you. For pulling into a handicapped parking spot. Because obviously you're not disabled. You don't look it. So obviously you're not. You mentioned, “well I have a placard.”

Blah blah blah.

She's not listening.

Obviously, she thinks you stole the placard and she's not going to listen, but she’s going to harass you to death. Because you're not disabled.

You're a horrible, horrible human being.

So, question number one.

Does she know you? Has she ever met you? Personally met you?

The answer is no, she hasn't. All she did is see your action of pulling into the disabled parking spot. That's what she saw. She went through her filter in her brain and

And her filter said, “well, this person getting out doesn't have crutches, doesn't have this, doesn't have that. So obviously they're not disabled.”

So, she interpreted your actions negatively.

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Next, she thinks you're a horrible, bad person because you're taking up a handicapped spot and you're not handicapped. If she could, she'd wave a wand and you and your car would be poofed out of existence because you're a bad, mean person and the world would be better without you.

Keep that in mind.

So, if you notice last week, we got quite polarized over a certain assassination. My question is, did you personally know the person who was assassinated?

No, you don't.

If you don’t have his cell phone number in your phone and you didn’t talk, once or twice a week. The answer is no, you did not know him.

But all the rest of us, we don't actually know the person either.

Now, we see their actions of what they did.

Now, those actions come through the filter of social media and news.

Social media and news only feeds you what you already believe.

So, if you believe that they are a horrible person, social media and the news will confirm your bias.

If you think they're a wonderful person, social media and the news will confirm your bias.

There is no middle ground because middle ground doesn't get views, doesn't get monetized. Only the polarizing views get monetized and if you're not careful, you're going to be caught in this trap.

Okay?

Social media only confirms your bias.

So what's interesting is what the Bible says to do.

By the way I'm a Christian, an unapologetic Christian. I don't normally talk about Christianity, but I think in this case, the lesson I'm going to give you and the recommendation I'm going to give you doesn't even have to be Christian, but I think it's going to help you.

Got it?

So, Jesus was a radical.

If you don't understand that he was insanely radical and turned the world upside

down, then you really haven't studied much of the Bible. So, one of the times Jesus was talking, he said, love your enemies and pray for your enemies.

Love your enemies.

Pray for your enemies.

Now I want you to think about why would he say that? Everybody else back then and now says hate your enemies. They're the scourge of the earth. You want to wipe them off the face of the earth.

Why would he say love your enemies?

It's not because of the lovey-dovey stuff, okay?

No, because it creates cognitive dissonance.

It allows you to see more of the reality of the person behind the actions, okay?

We're all children of God.

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God created us ALL, the bad and the good, the murderers and the saints.

One person created us, got it?

We don't know the person. All we see are actions, and our actions are filtered through the bias of social media and our own personal biases.

So, if we say, love our enemies, take somebody who wronged you.

Take somebody who just, you know, destroyed your life.

Maybe they sued for divorce.

Maybe they cheated on you, right?

If you love them or at least pray for them, it's going to set up a little bit of dissonance because what it's going to do is actually help you in your own life and lighten your own burden.

Do you understand?

It's going to lighten your burden.

Because when you pray for them, something inside you changes and shifts.

So, all that negative energy starts to drain away.

All that baggage drains away.

It drains away.

And you know what happens when you snip the baggage you've been pulling behind you for decades?

You can move forward freely in lightness.

Isn't that what you want in this world?

So please...

Number one, you don't know a person unless you know the person.

Number two, having one person be judge and juror over another is not biblical.

It's not good, right?

Thou shalt not kill. Don't do it.

Now, if they're tried by a jury of peers and they're found guilty, that's a judgment of men and that is fine. But we as individuals should not be making that judgment.

Got it?

Number three, if you pray for those people who've harmed you and hurt you, it's going to help you move forward in your life.

Let me know your thoughts.

And as always, I love you and blessings on to you, Robert.