So much of the discussion around mormonism is just about how cRaZy the beliefs are and how stupid people are for believing it and not stuff like the fact that it’s a multibillion dollar abusive cult with millions of members brainwashed since birth and have known nothing else, influences state and national policymaking, owns an insane amount of land, participated in genocide, disallowed Black mormons and mormons of color full membership, has an LGBT suicide epidemic, runs a university that expels people for being gay/trans and withholds their credits so they can’t transfer them to another school, electrocuted gay students to the point where they committed suicide there, regularly covers up CSA, relegates women to mere servitude and obedience, constantly and willfully lies about its history and excommunicates people who talk about this stuff
Just to name a few things
Like if your only priority is how WaCkY the theology is then you’re really missing the ball on this subject
all of your feelings are valid as in “worth acknowledgment and internal consideration” but some of your feelings are also stupid and mean, and you need to deal with that shit without making it anyone else’s problem
like we are all beings of light, namaste, but also every single one of us has an ugly, dumb, selfish, lazy goblin living inside of us which can never be silenced or destroyed. and being a decent person means keeping that little fuck in his special little playpen hidden away in your heart, with his colorful enrichment rattles and his favorite pieces of raw meat, where he can pipe up with his wretched little opinions and you can nod sagaciously at him and pat him on the head and tell him you understand why he feels that way and never, ever let anybody else get their feelings hurt by him, because he sucks shit and nothing he has to say is worthy of notice by anyone but you. you should pay attention to him, but only because it’s important to understand your own worst impulses, and because trying to ignore him will make him break down a wall and run out into the street where he can show passerbys his privates and eat cigarette butts right off the ground. your goblin is valid: that doesn’t mean he’s fit for company.
as soon as the internet decided depression and anxiety were the everyman mental illnesses and therefore not to be taken seriously we were all fucked tbh bc the fact that i have to feel embarrassed to admit i have debilitating anxiety because people will think im just an uwu dont call me out coward is ridiculous. its insane that i have to clarify that my depressive episodes are like life threatening and not whatever dipshit dumbed down idea of depression people seem to have like oh yeah i just wanna watch netflix and eat ice cream and not text people back. like bro i think im the devil
like maybe depression and anxiety are household names now but they do still kill people. like. theres a reason they fucking kill people.
