Everything you state in your OP is true.
As a wee little girl, with the fear of Armageddon "just around the corner" so you had better get baptized or else you are dead, I was so proud of myself. At the circuit or district assembly/convention, I memorized the 2 important answers to the baptismal questions. Yes and yes! Yay ! When I got big so I could be baptized, I knew the answers so I could be saved! lol
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PS @sparrowdown. lol If most everyone waited until they were 30 years old to be baptized, I don't think anyone would be. lol We would have all scattered and gone on with our lives without WT controlling Mother looking over our shoulder and telling us what to do and how to do it.