Across the past several years, various rumors have appeared on this and other websites. If anyone else has knowledge about them, I'd be glad to hear more about them. Again, these are only rumors that I've wondered about but could never get more information on.
1) Henschel Documents- long before the Watchtower's alliance with the UN was exposed, a rumor appeared from Europe that Watchtower President Milton Henschel carried some kind of diplomatic identification from the UN! At the time, this seemed unbelieveable. I wonder.....
2) A Compromised GB Member - a person named "Raven" (or Rayvn?) appeared, claiming to be a victim of harassment and threats. She may have been disabled or an invalid. She claimed that she stumbled into a situation in which she was offering condolence to a Witness couple whose son died at Bethel - apparently of suicide. She said that his date of death and other facts created a controversy with the parents because it didn't agree with what the Society told them. She said that his suicide was related to being approached for homosexual relations by a Governing Body member (NOT Greenlees or Chitty). It was opined that, if this was true, it could partly explain why this GB member was so ineffective in opposing Jaracz , as he was permanently compromised.
3)Stop The Presses - an account of a dispute in which the Awake was going to publish an article admitting that there were problems with wife beating and physical abuse in congregations. A member of the Governing Body demanded that the publication never take place when he found out about it but was somehow overruled.
4) Deliberate Suppression - a rumor that, before the child molestation scandal hit, the Service Dept. gave secret orders to Circuit Overseers to privately threaten anyone who exposed child molestation to the authorities.
5) Kingdom Hall Gone - a rumor that Witnesses were studying with a wife or relative of a "made" man. After ignoring a warning, they found their KIngdom Hall demolished and gone. They got the message.
6) Message to SA - back when voting was a total no-no, there was a rumor that South Africans were given a special dispensation to go the polls to avoid violence. Supposedly, came from the very top...
Again, just wild stories. I'll add more if I can remember them.
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