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

  • Kbobabob@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

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

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      13 hours ago

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

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      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

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      17 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.