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

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[-] gofsckyourself@lemmy.world -1 points 1 day ago

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

[-] Kbobabob@lemmy.world 36 points 23 hours ago

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

[-] SharkEatingBreakfast@sopuli.xyz 1 points 11 hours ago

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

[-] gofsckyourself@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 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@lemmy.world 6 points 23 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

[-] jdr@lemmy.ml 2 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

desassociação

Ad an organization that's all about missionary work, they predictably very good with having a translation for everything to every language.

e.g. https://www.jw.org/en/library/magazines/w20150415/disfellowshipping-a-loving-provision/

[-] argarath@lemmy.world 1 points 54 minutes ago

Thank you very much!!! That is incredibly helpful!! Now I'm actually excited for the next time they come knocking! Shame I didn't know this last sunday when they passed by my house, but now I know!!

[-] blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world 4 points 22 hours ago

It's actually dishonorably dismounted.

[-] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 4 points 22 hours ago

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

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