Two Words. One truth

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This video presentation and its companion podcast - grew out of a recent conversation I had with a so-called “emotionally unaware” artificial intelligence.

It was sparked by a deceptively simple question:

Why “Rapture” instead of “Rupture”?

From those two words grew a deeper reflection on belief, identity, and liberation. I was raised in a God-fearing Christian home and spent decades wrestling with guilt and shame before discovering a different kind of salvation through an ADHD diagnosis at forty-eight. What faith once defined as weakness, science has shown to be difference.

Since my diagnosis in 2023, I’ve been on a life-altering journey-one of dizzying highs, humbling lows, and quiet revelations. I began to unpick years of destructive false beliefs and crippling self-doubt, uncovering deep scars left by forced indoctrination and long-carried shame.

Less than three years later, on the eve of turning fifty-one, I can finally say I live a life, mostly in daily peace-no longer paying a price to speak to someone elses god.

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The following text review was created entirely by Claude (Ai) by Anthropic. Across the exchange, “Rupture” emerged as the mirror image of “Rapture.” The traditional Rapture promised escape from the world, while the Rupture spoke of transformation within it. The Rupture was the breaking of illusions: of shame, unworthiness, and the long-learned belief that people cannot trust themselves. The growing recognition of neurodivergence was described not as pathology but as prophecy, a collective unmasking that exposes systems of control and restores self-trust.

The AI served as a reflective partner. It traced the roots of the words, offered a fair religious counterpoint, and then brought the focus back to the speaker’s lived truth: that liberation begins the day one can look in the mirror and say,

“Today I will not judge anyone, least of all myself.”

From there the discussion expanded. Institutions that profit from guilt, ideologies that demand obedience, and cultures that teach self-distrust were all seen as versions of the same pattern. What started as etymology became a meditation on power. The conversation argued that control always begins with convincing people to doubt their own perception, their own goodness, their own voice.

As the talk deepened, the speaker’s tone softened. He spoke of the “real self” waiting quietly behind judgment, and the AI responded with one plain word—“Fuck”—not as profanity but as respect. The moment carried the charge of truth cutting through pretense.

In the end, the exchange reads like a parable about deprogramming. It suggests that real salvation is not about leaving the world but returning to oneself, free of imposed shame. It points to a quiet revolution already underway, led by those who have stopped asking permission to be whole. Keen to learn more? check out our blog.