*stalks your other posts...*
I am someone who has finished my apprenticeship and am awaiting my public and official knighthood where I will take the solemn vow publicly.
I personally can see no other following I may take in future and so am very much aware that this will be very much for life.
That sounds daunting, but from the way I see it, it's what I've been doing so far, so I don't see what would really change.
In your initial post you have come across the perhaps only way in which you can get out of your solemn vow; what if you've changed?
What if, when you take the vow, you are one person but then you somehow through whatever means become a completely different person? There is an argument there that the vow applies only to the former and not the latter.
But if that is what you're thinking, about whether it is any longer valid, well that is a Jedi attribute in itself. I think anyone who stands by reason and calmness and forethought would find it almost impossibly hard to break a vow as all things are Jedi-like.
FAQ wrote: take a Solemn Jedi Vow (taken at their public Knighting) declare their complete and binding commitment to the ways of the Force as prescribed at TOTJO
Home page wrote:
Jedi Believe:
We adopt this statement with gratitude from and to http://ReligiousTolerance.org
In the inherent worth of every person. People are worthy of respect, support, and caring simply because they are human.
In working towards a culture that is relatively free of discrimination on the basis of gender, race, sexual orientation, national origin, degree of ability, age, etc.
In the sanctity of the human person. We oppose the use of torture and cruel or unusual punishment including the death penalty. (1)
In the importance of democracy within religious, political and other structures.
In the separation of church and state; and the freedoms of speech, association, and expression. (2)
That the systems of truth in the field of morals, ethics, and religious belief that we have studied are not absolute: they vary by culture, by religion, and over time.
In the generally positive influence that most religions have had on their followers and on society. (3)
In the importance of individual believers determining evil influences and policies within their chosen faith group, and advocate for their correction.
In the importance of education. We believe that people are not truly educated unless they have studied at least the world's major religions and ethical systems. They need to learn of the good and bad impacts they have had on society. (4)
In a just society with laws grounded in reason, compassion, health and human rights and in which fears and prejudices have no part.
Footnotes and Exceptions:
(1) However, like the rest of North American society, we have not been able to reach a consensus about when human life, in the form of a spermatozoon and an ovum, becomes a human person deserving civil rights.
(2) However we have not been able to reach a consensus about the age at which an individual should fully enjoy these freedoms. We also recognize that some of these freedoms should have limits. For example, we do not feel that, in most cases, parents should be allowed to let their children die if medical treatment will assure a cure. We do not feel that individuals should be free to advocate genocide or yell "fire" in a crowded theatre.
(3) Exceptions are a handful of destructive cults which have had an overall negative effect.
(4) They need to understand the religious sources that inspired Gandhi, Albert Schweitzer, and Mother Teresa to commit their life to the alleviation of human suffering. But they also need to learn the shadow side of religion: how religious beliefs have contributed to hatred, intolerance, oppression, discrimination, as well as mass murders and genocides in such places as Nazi Germany, Bosnia, East Timor, Kosovo, Northern Ireland, the Middle East, Sudan and countless other countries.
That is perhaps the most key attribute of being a Jedi (as trained here). I will find it hard to break any of the aforementioned beliefs, as I'm sure you or anyone else who takes the vow will find.
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