Posts by pale.emperor

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Solicitors Appontment Tomorrow - Advice Appreciated

by pale.emperor in

following up on this thread: https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5012900121935872/am-overreacting-here?page=3#!#5179106934128640.

im seeing my solicitor tomorrow to see about getting an order in place making sure any contact my daughter has with my jw family goes through me and not my ex-wife.. explained the situation briefly to the lawyer, she was asking more and more about why should i be concerned if a jw had access to my child.. i mentioned the blood issue, the shunning, the inappropriate pictures of armageddon in books/mags etc.

do you think i should bring in watchtower literature to show them what i mean?

pale.emperor

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Solicitors Appontment Tomorrow - Advice Appreciated

by pale.emperor in

following up on this thread: https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5012900121935872/am-overreacting-here?page=3#!#5179106934128640.

im seeing my solicitor tomorrow to see about getting an order in place making sure any contact my daughter has with my jw family goes through me and not my ex-wife.. explained the situation briefly to the lawyer, she was asking more and more about why should i be concerned if a jw had access to my child.. i mentioned the blood issue, the shunning, the inappropriate pictures of armageddon in books/mags etc.

do you think i should bring in watchtower literature to show them what i mean?

pale.emperor

Any suggestions on Watchtower pictures/articals i should print off?

So far im taking:

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Solicitors Appontment Tomorrow - Advice Appreciated

by pale.emperor in

following up on this thread: https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5012900121935872/am-overreacting-here?page=3#!#5179106934128640.

im seeing my solicitor tomorrow to see about getting an order in place making sure any contact my daughter has with my jw family goes through me and not my ex-wife.. explained the situation briefly to the lawyer, she was asking more and more about why should i be concerned if a jw had access to my child.. i mentioned the blood issue, the shunning, the inappropriate pictures of armageddon in books/mags etc.

do you think i should bring in watchtower literature to show them what i mean?

pale.emperor

Following up on this thread: https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5012900121935872/am-overreacting-here?page=3#!#5179106934128640

Im seeing my solicitor tomorrow to see about getting an order in place making sure any contact my daughter has with my JW family goes through ME and not my ex-wife.

Explained the situation briefly to the lawyer, she was asking more and more about why should I be concerned if a JW had access to my child.

I mentioned the blood issue, the shunning, the inappropriate pictures of Armageddon in books/mags etc. Do you think I should bring in Watchtower literature to show them what I mean?

What shook me was my mums husband telling me "we don't have to tell you how <daughter> is, we can speak to her mum instead.

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Am I Overreacting Here?

by pale.emperor in

let's call him "dave".. dave: hello?.

dave: we dont have to tell you how she is.

dave: <her mother> has custody.

pale.emperor

Court custody battles are long and expensive and from what I've seen, unless you're able to prove the other parent is abusive or severely negligent they won't give you 100% custody.

Im not after full custody. Im only requesting to be contacted/informed about their visits and what they'll entail.

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Am I Overreacting Here?

by pale.emperor in

let's call him "dave".. dave: hello?.

dave: we dont have to tell you how she is.

dave: <her mother> has custody.

pale.emperor

Done a bit of googling and it all seems to boil down to the fact that my ex is letting them see her. Legally, she can say yes or no just like i can unless there's a danger.

I dont want to go down the sole custody route because i genuinely want our daughter to see both parents 50/50 and decide for herself who she wants to live with when she's older (which will be me because she's never cried coming to mine but ALWAYS cries going to her mums).

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Am I Overreacting Here?

by pale.emperor in

let's call him "dave".. dave: hello?.

dave: we dont have to tell you how she is.

dave: <her mother> has custody.

pale.emperor

Situation: I left the cult 2 years ago. My ex-wife left last month. My mother and her husband have shunned me from the start. I assumed they were shunning my ex-wife too seeing as she's sleeping with her new boyfriend. We have shared custody of our 3yo girl. For a long time things have been amicable and almost no arguments.

I got message today from my ex that my mother has taken her out for the day with my sister (who's also shunning me) and her kids. This, apparently, was planned last week but nobody had mentioned it to me.

I've been more than fair in that i've always said i'd like my daughter to know her cousins despite their religion. All i ask is for any contact or visits from my former family to go through me. This request has not been honored. A request which, as her father, i think is perfectly reasonable and fair. Just so i know where she is and who she's with and what they're doing.

I text my mum asking how my daughter is and what they have planned today. No reply after 2 hours. So i ask my recently exited brother for my mums home number and ring that.

REMEMBER: At this point all i wanted was to know how my daughter is and what they have planned today.

I call. It's answered by my mums husband. Let's call him "Dave".

Dave: Hello?

Me: Hello, is mum there please?

Dave: Who's this?

Me: It's <pale.emperor>

Dave: What do you want?

Me: I want to talk to her about <daughter>

Dave: What about her?

Me: I want to know how she is

Dave: We dont have to tell you how she is

Me: ...(stunned)............what? You do, im her dad

Dave: We can tell her mother how she is and she can tell you

Me: Why?

Dave: <her mother> has custody

Me: No she doesnt we both do. Look, im not trying to be confrontational can i speak to mum please?

Dave: You're not supposed to speak to her

Me: I can speak to whoever i want there's no law against it

Dave: <annoyed> hang on i'll see if she wants to speak to you.

<he's muttering and fuming as he's walking to my mum>

Mum: Hello, she's fine

Me: Ok, look, i dont mind you having her, i just want to be kept in formed. <My ex> and i agreed your contact for Erin should go via me.

Mum: But i can tell <my ex> and she can tell you

Me: No, that's disrespectful. <my ex> isnt a JW either so it doesnt matter

Mum: But you know she's here now, whats the problem?

Me: I found out AFTER from someone else. I need to be informed of these things.

Mum: <my ex> told you

Me: AFTERWARDS yes. You're supposed to ask me not her.

Mum: I'll need to ask the elders

Phone cuts off

WTF is wrong with this cult?

Now, I'm seriously thinking of getting some sort of court order where my permission needs to be sought before they have her again. Am i overreacting here? It's completely ridiculous my own mother bypassing her own son to see her granddaughter.

Anyone in the UK know what my legal options are here?

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The Joe McHale Show!

by DATA-DOG in

i just watched the first episode of the joe mchale show and our old friend gary made the cut!

he makes his big debut as the last joke of episode one!

“pillow talk” has made its was to netflix!

pale.emperor

I've shown the Cedars teaser trailer to the pillowgate video to my girlfriend, friends and shared it on my Facebook.

The feedback i got was that 99.99% of them thought it was a fake video. Non JWs thought it was a parody and active JWs called it FAKE NEWS!

So even JWs admit that such a video is ridiculous, creepy and messed up... so much so that they dont believe it's genuine.

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Today's text caused a fight between myself and my "Still In" wife.

by NikL in

jw
friends

she insisted on reading it to me and i just couldn't keep my freaking mouth shut.. see if you can tell why.... sunday, february 18.

they would go where the spirit inclined them to go.—ezek.

jesus has appointed the ‘faithful slave’ to be the only channel for dispensing spiritual food.

pale.emperor

‘Am I loyal to the channel that Jesus is using today?

Loyal to men? Surely that's unscriptural. It should be loyalty to God alone shouldn't it?

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Watchtower Teachings That Don't Make Sense

by Vanderhoven7 in

there are a number of things that don't make sense to me about your religion.

a. blood prohibitions: .

- plasma...when all components of plasma are acceptable to the society.

pale.emperor

Itchy, what would you think if i claimed to be my own father and my own brother?

Honestly now, would you believe me?

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JW Funeral Talk Outline

by Phizzy in

hi all,.

a friend has a jw funeral coming up and wants some input if possible, so a copy of the latest outline would be invaluable to him when he talks to the elders, another question he and his brother, neither now jw's, wish to give a eulogy, is this allowed ?.

any advice will be greatly appreciated..

pale.emperor

Tell your friend to expect the JW's to hijack the occasion to advertise their cult.

It'll be 20% about the deceased and 80% about JW.borg. (not even Jesus/Jehovah). They'll talk about the resurrection "hope" - note, it's not even a guarantee for faithful JWs to get into paradise. Then the talk to transition into "how do we get into the new system?" and then they'll begin their their cult talk about JW.borg.