Minors Making Vows? How?

Should children be allowed to agree to serve an "God's organization" for life?

How do you enforce such a heavy decision on the same person you enforce a 8pm bed time?

As I prepared to bring life into this world, these were questions I couldn't keep ignoring, especially since I would soon be on the side of parent-child dynamic where I would now be the one who was expected to have all the answers. And I didn't. Jesus was God's son and didn't get baptized until he was an adult, aren't we supposed to follow his example? I didn't recall my parents having all the answers either though. When in doubt, the classic phrase rang out:

"Wait on Jehovah."

I hated that phrase. It was always mind-boggling to me how the brothers could pick and choose which principles to expound on and make clear rules about and which we'd just have to wait on Jehovah to provide clarity, or sometimes judgement, on in the future. I've never liked waiting. And seriously, a 3rd ear piercing was not equivalent to murder. If I had gotten to paradise and then found out God didn’t care about me having it after all the piercing places had been destroyed, I know I would’ve been pissed…so I got it anyway.

That was my way of reasoning choices I made that I felt should be solely mine anyway, but that I was still somehow subjected to the admonishment of others over. To be honest, I didn’t care too much about the opinions of the Elders most of the time, specifically the men who spent 5 or so hours in the same room with me a week, but couldn’t spell my name correctly without referring to my Publisher’s* card. And there were several. That fact, coupled with the fact that I could try to be perfect and it all be pointless if I died before the end, allowed me to make a lot of choices that I felt should have been mine anyway.

And what I mean by pointless is that Jehovah’s Witnesses teach that only special group of 144,000 folks go to heaven and the rest will live on a paradise earth. Right before the "Great War" of Armageddon, those with the heavenly hope will be swept away to heaven and the faithful believers who survive the great destruction will then clean up the earth. The non-believers and generally evil people who die before Armageddon will be resurrected and the survivors will have the opportunity to teach them about the magnificent God and the "true religion" before God let's Satan out of the abyss to test mankind, again.

Whew this looks dumb as hell,.. typing it out for others for read is surreal. Don’t judge me. Or do, because I’m honestly giving myself the side-eye in the mirror right now. 🤦🏾‍♀️ But do you see why I got up out of the Jehovah's Witness religion, with my child. I'm not sure anyone should make a vow to believe that.

(Sidenote: Clip from one of my favorite movies, and the actress just happens to be an Ex-JW. You know her. LOL)