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Maya Umemoto Gorman

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
4072 total appearances

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Upstairs Neighbors
Two Gen Z Girls Try to Explain Religion & Find Their Purpose

Yes, the girls.

Upstairs Neighbors
Two Gen Z Girls Try to Explain Religion & Find Their Purpose

Okay, so this is where they ate as fuck.

Upstairs Neighbors
Two Gen Z Girls Try to Explain Religion & Find Their Purpose

I feel like it perfectly explains Mormonism, like, to a fucking T, in the sense that, like, the whole play is about how they accidentally create, they go to Africa, and they, like, accidentally create a religion.

Upstairs Neighbors
Two Gen Z Girls Try to Explain Religion & Find Their Purpose

That, like, they, like, make...

Upstairs Neighbors
Two Gen Z Girls Try to Explain Religion & Find Their Purpose

a huge population of Africa, like, believe in.

Upstairs Neighbors
Two Gen Z Girls Try to Explain Religion & Find Their Purpose

Wow.

Upstairs Neighbors
Two Gen Z Girls Try to Explain Religion & Find Their Purpose

And it essentially shows how that's exactly what Joseph Smith did and how easy it was to convince people that, like, this is why this happened.

Upstairs Neighbors
Two Gen Z Girls Try to Explain Religion & Find Their Purpose

and like here's the thing and that's powerful and that's what i mean like powerful i really a part of me wishes that like i could still feel that way because like yeah life definitely made a lot more sense like definitely even when it was so fucking hard it was so easy but i will say that like i am thankful for like the honesty that like

Upstairs Neighbors
Two Gen Z Girls Try to Explain Religion & Find Their Purpose

I had to like face because genuinely there were so many questions that like it just got to a point where it's like a lot of these people just look away like when you ask them like well how can this be there is no like this is the answer and this is the why it's just like oh well it is what it is God's this and God's that but I'm just literally like especially like I mean the big one for me for obvious reasons was like

Upstairs Neighbors
Two Gen Z Girls Try to Explain Religion & Find Their Purpose

homophobia, like being gay.

Upstairs Neighbors
Two Gen Z Girls Try to Explain Religion & Find Their Purpose

And like, I like specifically at the church I went to the way people like I was celibate.

Upstairs Neighbors
Two Gen Z Girls Try to Explain Religion & Find Their Purpose

So like, I literally was like not having sex.

Upstairs Neighbors
Two Gen Z Girls Try to Explain Religion & Find Their Purpose

Like I was like not about that life.

Upstairs Neighbors
Two Gen Z Girls Try to Explain Religion & Find Their Purpose

And I, like, really believed, like, that's what I was supposed to do.

Upstairs Neighbors
Two Gen Z Girls Try to Explain Religion & Find Their Purpose

And, like, that was, like, right and, like, whatever.

Upstairs Neighbors
Two Gen Z Girls Try to Explain Religion & Find Their Purpose

And that's just what I thought to be right.

Upstairs Neighbors
Two Gen Z Girls Try to Explain Religion & Find Their Purpose

So, like, obviously, I'm, like, so, like, don't know shit about shit about shit.

Upstairs Neighbors
Two Gen Z Girls Try to Explain Religion & Find Their Purpose

And so, for me, the thing, especially in Bible college, that would have me, like, so fucked up was, like...

Upstairs Neighbors
Two Gen Z Girls Try to Explain Religion & Find Their Purpose

they would try and say like being gay is wrong.

Upstairs Neighbors
Two Gen Z Girls Try to Explain Religion & Find Their Purpose

And like, that's a sin.