Probably not the first time this has made it’s rounds but this was the first time I’ve seen this story.

  • go $fsck yourself
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    -11 day ago

    Considering that’s not the term they use, it would not be very effective. They would know you’re lying.

    • @Kbobabob
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      3624 hours ago

      Since you didn’t actually provide a good response, it’s called disfellowshipped.

      • SharkEatingBreakfast
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        111 hours ago

        Thank you! My old coworkers were all JW, but I forgot the word and used the protestant equivalent.

      • go $fsck yourself
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        15 hours ago

        Still won’t work. It’s just not worth trying to remember it, and thus not worth mentioning the term.

        It’s more nuanced than that. You can’t be disfellowshipped unless you were baptized as a JW, which you can tell if someone was or not. That’s just not something you can easily lie about. At best you can say you were “disassociated”, but that’s not worth that either.

        You’re better off just saying “put me on your do not call list” than trying to come up with a lie like that.

      • @argarath
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        623 hours ago

        Thank you!!! I just need to figure out their term in Portuguese now and I’ll be golden here in Brazil and when I finally move in with my BFs in the USA

    • @[email protected]
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      423 hours ago

      Or you were so bad of a practitioner that you didn’t even bother to learn what it was called