The Oaths

While sitting outside my dorm, I once noted that a familiar quote was written on several pillars around the traditional area for smoking known as "The Cancer Hut" by most students.

When I asked a friend, he pointed out it was the Green Lantern motto, so I figured I'd post each one for pure interest.

Green Lanterns:
In Brightest Day,
In Blackest Night,
No Evil Shall Escape My Sight.
Let Those Who Worship Evil's Might
Beware My Power-- Green Lantern's Might.

*Side note: The Green Lanterns' powers are based off willpower, odd it doesn't mention this.

Star Sapphires (violet):
For hearts long lost and full of fright,
For those alone in blackest night,
Accept our ring and join our fight,
Love conquers all-- With violet light!

Red Lantern Corps:
With blood and rage of crimson red,
Ripped from the corpse so freshly dead,
Together with our hellish hate,
We'll burn you all-- That is your fate!

Sinestro Corps (Yellow):
In blackest day, in brightest night,
Beware your fears made into light,
Let those who try to stop what's right
Burn like his power-- Sinestro's might!

Blue Lantern Corps:
In fearful day, in raging night,
With strong hearts full, our souls ignite,
When all seems lost in the War of Light,
Look to the stars-- For hope burns bright!

Black Lantern Corps:
The blackest light fall from the skies,
The darkness grows as all light dies,
We crave your hearts and your demise,
By my black hand-- The dead shall rise!

Unfortunately, the Oaths for the Indigo Corps and Agent Orange (and his constructs) have yet to be spoken. Orange's is based off greed, while indigo's is in a language readers can't understand but stands for compassion.

I would like to see a Lantern Corps based off knowledge (i.e. truth, understanding) but that isn't an emotion.

The Chemistry

I quite enjoy random conversation, its amusing, allows everyone to join in, and usually can't be taken to a realm of extremism where it isn't still funny.

While eating with the normal crew I ended up having a discussion with Poland about The Matrix and what it would be like if instead of learning Kung Fu, Neo learned Chemistry.

So I present a collection of quotes redone for Chemistry:


Trinity: I know why you're here, Neo. I know what you've been doing... why you hardly sleep, why you live alone, and why night after night, you sit by your computer. You're studying for Chem. I know because I was once looking for the same thing. And when he found me, he told me I wasn't really looking for Chemistry. I was looking for answers. It's the questions that drives us,
Neo. It's the questions that brought you here. You know the questions, just as I did.
Neo: What is the answer to 2B part A?
Trinity: The answer is out there, Neo, and it's looking for you, and it will find you if you want it to.

Neo: Whoa. Déjà vu.
[Everyone freezes right in their tracks]
Trinity: What did you just say?
Neo: Nothing. Just had a little déjà vu.
Trinity: What did you see?
Cypher: What happened?
Neo: A cation went past us, and then another that looked just like it.
Trinity: How much like it? Was it the same cation?
Neo: It might have been. I'm not sure.
Morpheus: Switch! Apoc!
Neo: What is it?
Trinity: A déjà vu is usually a boring part of Chemistry. It happens when they change something.

Morpheus: What are you waiting for? You're faster than this. Don't think you are, know you are. Come on. Stop trying to balance the equation and do it.

Morpheus: I imagine that right now, you're feeling a bit like Alice. Hmm? Tumbling down the rabbit hole?
Neo: You could say that.
Morpheus: I see it in your eyes. You have the look of a man who accepts what he sees because he is expecting to wake up. Ironically, that's not far from the truth. Do you believe in fate, Neo?
Neo: No.
Morpheus: Why not?
Neo: Because I don't like the idea that I'm not in control of my life.
Morpheus: I know *exactly* what you mean. Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you know something. What you know you can't explain, but you feel it. You've felt it your entire life, that there's something wrong with the world. You don't know what it is, but it's there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad. It is this feeling that has brought you to me. Do you know what I'm talking about?
Neo: Chemistry.
Morpheus: Do you want to know what it is?
Neo: Yes.
Morpheus: Chemistry is everywhere. It is all around us. Even now, in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window or when you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to work... when you go to church... when you pay your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth.
Neo: What truth?
Morpheus: That you are a slave to Chemistry, Neo. Like everyone else you were born into textbook bondage. Into a prison that you cannot taste or see or touch. A prison for your mind.

Neo: What did she tell you?
Morpheus: That I should study more.

Agent Smith: You hear that Mr. Anderson?... That is the sound of inevitability... It is the sound of your failing out of college... Goodbye, Mr. Anderson...
Neo: My name... is Neo.

Neo: Yeah. That sounds like a really good deal. But I got a better one. How about... I give you the finger... and you give me my scantron?
Agent Smith: Mr. Anderson... you disappoint me.
Neo: You can't scare me with this Gestapo crap. I know my rights. I want my scantron.
Agent Smith: Tell me, Mr. Anderson... what good is a scantron... if you're unable to write?

Neo: What are you trying to tell me? That I can convert to liters?
Morpheus: No, Neo. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.

Tank: So what do you need? Besides a miracle.
Neo: Calculators. Lots of calculators.

Morpheus: How did the test beat you?
Neo: It... it's too fast.
Morpheus: Do you believe that the test being stronger or faster has anything to do with the questions in this place?

Morpheus: This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and change your major. You take the red pill - you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes.