Any body care to add their own ideas? Imagine if God gave the GB the authority to rule the whole earth and everyone in it, right now, the same way they govern JW's, what the heck would that be like?
After the temporary euphoria wore off (should last a good two minutes or so), the GB (or whatever they're calling themselves now) would have much to do. Obviously, they've just been put in charge of the Great Tribulation (or some such thing)! Here's the GB's list for the first year!
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1) Locate all inactive, disassociated, and disfellowshipped people (plus anyone the elders happen not to like for personal reasons) and give them an ultimatum: renounce in public your wickedness and wear a scarlet sash or ribbon to mark your former infidelity to the ORG, or face extermination and cremation. Those who accept the ultimatum will be moved to a penal colony in Guam (at least, that's what their families will be told).
2) About 70% of the world is not Christian; therefore, they will have to be taught the "Truth." They will not be executed, of course, but will have the honor of becoming domestic servants as they are "educated" in the homes of Caucasian (preferably American) Witnesses. When they are not preparing meals, cleaning house, caring for the master's children, planting the garden, going to market, harvesting the fields, and performing certain sexual favors as required, they will study the glory of Christ's sacrifice in their behalf. Of course, this "education" is just a provisionary gesture, and can never be completed, since it is not really possible to educate the races of inbred heathens.
3) All the churches will be burned to the ground. The home of any non-Witness religious personage will be burned to the ground. The home of any Catholic will be burned to the ground (see below for special procedures regarding Catholics). Exception: if the religious personage has a really, really nice house and a Witness wants to move in, the house doesn't have to be burned to the ground.
4) All libraries and museums and colleges will be burned to the ground. Shakespeare never existed. Neither did Milton. Picasso is the odd name of an elder in Ecuador, nothing more. "Mummy" is what a British Witness child calls his mother. "Van Gogh" is what you say when someone sneezes. "Mozart" is a venereal disease contracted by small monkeys.
5) All of the writers, composers, musicians, artists, architects, and poets will be rounded up, shipped to Brooklyn, and sequestered in a secret underground lair at Bethel. They will be told to write "societal" novels and "organizational" epic poems, to compose "spiritual" musical scores, to design "watchtower" buildings, to paint "theocratic" murals and portraits. Any who refuse to comply will be executed. After a year, all of the novels, poems, music scores, paintings, etc. will be printed on artificially aged paper (or other medium as required) and marketed to the world as the art that has always existed. (The artists who comply with this project will be executed when they are finished.)
5) Women are allowed the following occupations: daughter, and wife. (In an unexpected move, intelligent, ambitious or otherwise recalcitrant women will be sold into prostitution, which will be made legal for Witnesses who can produce the right documentation. This decision is expected to be met with some criticism, but there are many Biblical precedents for it, and besides, dissidents will be executed.)
6) People discovered to have been a Catholic must move to New Jersey and establish residence there. They may obtain temporary passes to other parts of the country if they can produce the proper papers and are accompanied by at least three Witnesses (preferably Caucasian males). Otherwise, New Jersey will remain a quarantined state.
7) Anyone who was not a Witness at the time that Jehovah gave Witnesses control of the world must yield up his or her property and possessions to any Witness who so demands. Pioneers are expected to be the greediest, according to rank: regular pioneers will evict millions from mansions; regular aux. pioneers will evict thousands from penthouses. The rank-and-file will squabble over the of crumbs of suburbia as hospices are established in school gymnasiums for the former residents.
8) All forms of secondary and post-secondary education are eliminated. Children are home-schooled until the age of 15, when they join the Evangelical Paramilitary of Witnesses for Theocracy Now (EPWTN).
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Even this is a partial list at best. Still, seems pretty reasonable a speculation to me!
Dedalus
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Thanks Dedalus
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