Yo fullfill your vow, you must not own or use any material possessions, with the following exceptions:
Now,
spell components are on the list, but
item crafting materials, or for that matter
show making materials are not.
cannot own magic items
There's no out there. There's no "if less than 6 seconds" - there's
nothing.
Remember the bullet and the pepper spray example, the path of "good" as described in the BoED has absolutely nothing to d with making sense or helping people, and everything to do with slavish adherence to completely random and arbitrary rules. You
can carry diamonds around, but you
can't make shoes - not even for the purpose of helping others by providing them with shodding.
After all, the argument "I'm doing this to help people" is exactly the same argument as the justification for picking up a
Wand of Cure Light Wounds, which you also can't use for no good reason. In the BoED, the only time the ends justify the means is the use of lethal force. If using lethal force would, to your knowledge, produce a better result than doing
nothing, lethal force is authorized. However, if there is any other thing you could be doing that would produce a result equal to or better than the use of lethal force, then the ends do not justify the means and you have to check on your shockingly large and arbitrary list of dos and don'ts to see if you can do it (which you probably can't). Being good is like being autistic apparently - all about making a system for decision making which, while completely insane, is at least sufficiently rigid that people who have no empathy can carry it out to the letter.
That's probably why "Vow of Obedience" and "Vow of Chastity" are both "exalted" feats, even though complete binding to the word of your masters is the provence of
Vampires, and the inability to get laid is the provence of
Liches. Why would becoming more like the Undead make you specifically "exalted" unless "exalted" status was basically another form of madness indistinguishable on the ground from Chaos or Evil?
And who could forget "Vow of Purity" - where you make other people do all the yucky stuff that needs doing. On what
planet is refusing to do your share of the work that you don't want to do considered "good"?
-Username17