• SharkEatingBreakfast
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    1 month ago

    You can also chase them off your property by saying you’ve been excommunicated, and they’ll never come back.

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      No no, what you do is you ask them if they know why the church is making them go door to door. When they say “to spread the word of God” you correct them. “No, they know that going door to door won’t get new members of your church because doing so is rude. They want people to get mad at you and treat you poorly so that you run back to your church saying how mean everyone was. That’s when they pull YOU in closer. You’re being played.” It won’t save their souls from the cult, but it plants a seed of doubt. And if they go back and tell the church what you said, you’ll be put on a list of houses to not return to.

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

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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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              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!!

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          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.

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

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      1 month ago

      No, it’s not real. The original source is a satirical news site. Sorry friends.

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        The original source is a satirical news site

        Well, that would have been nice to know! LOL The screenshot and post gives no context of where this story came from.

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          Oh shit, you’re right. I thought it included the link but I fucking ate the onion :(

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      Public indecency, I’m guessing. Some people have a stick up their arse about nudity, which is decidedly on the unpleasant side of the butt fun scale.

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    I answered the door naked once (I was enroute to the shower), they haven’t bothered me since.

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      Had a friend who did that after getting out of shower one morning. He was headed to bed after a twelve hour shift and they had woke him up three Saturdays in a row. He was 5’8’’ and around 160 pounds but we called him Big Ed. Guess why?

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    My dad’s brother just kept answering the door naked and they stopped coming back. Her devil vagina magic might have worked if she was cute.