Poh Ling Yeow

And then the whole, you know, Midwest thing of Joseph Smith, who's the founder of the religion.

Yeah.

So it's got its roots in that.

But for the most part, it's not actually anything even, you know, all religions have their weird things about them.

And I actually don't.

You know, it's nothing that different to other religions.

It's interesting because I'm still glad that I went through the experience because I think having been, and I don't know how you feel about it, but I like that I can empathise with a religious person because even though I've chosen to opt out, I can see all these things about religion that people find it's a real thing

psychological safety net for people who don't want to philosophically explore the world.

But that was my problem with it is that, you know, religion is founded on dogma.

And when you

start to not follow the rules, it kind of, it doesn't work anymore, you know?

And then that's when you start to feel like you're being judged and all those types of things.

And so I needed to leave mainly because like, yeah, my beliefs just got turned upside down as soon as I left that little microcosm.

Yeah, I knew that those things didn't change who I was and that was, like, this fundamental problem I had.

I was like, if I drink this and I know...

I'm a good person, I know that for a fact it doesn't make me a bad person.

Like I logically could separate the two.

Like I just had no juju attached.

Like it was just I could easily think that without feeling guilt or I found it ridiculous, like these rules.

And I think after a while I grew to resent the fact that my mother