First off, oaths and deals really don't make much sense, because they remove the possibility of change or learning.
But on the topic of oaths and deals, they are not possible with the supernatural, because of informed consent, it is not possible to make an oath or deal with the supernatural.
So really what some are tricked into thinking is a 'deal' exist, that is used to keep them thinking that same circumstance exist or will exist for some long time.
In truth 'spiritual concepts' can be changed any time, if they could not then there would not be the possibility of learning.
So if you disagree with some oath, at some later point by new information, that is not breaking an oath, that is learning, and in truth, someone that tries to get you into some deal without knowing what is about is in the wrong anyways.
My point on topics about deals and oaths, is that they do not exist, they are used to create a feeling of captivity.
That is how all the deals are broken, knowing they don't exist.
There is a point of integrity on that, so if it is because of conflict of other integrity item, either way there is an integrity issue if some deal made you think you had to be where or what you don't think and feel is best. So it is best not to make oaths, but if a person does, they by lack of informed consent, and lack of ability to understand the meaning of some oath, makes the oath not exist.
So anyways, no deals or oaths are held except those you chose to hold by thinking they are better choices day to day.
I post this, because of the worst room 101 delusion that was tried on me, and how I got out of it. That delusion was no change delusion. It is everywhere. "it has all happened before" "patterns repeating" "back to eat its poop" even Steven King mentioned it. "eat your eyes out every day, over and over, because that is what hell is, repetition" I don't believe that.
It tries to set up no way to change some circumstance, also fits some doctrines like matrix, being boxed, or being forgotten, but anyways, from that breaking that delusion, I realized what the deal was all about.
It tries to set a condition to limit you, and most of the bad side tries to box into a corner by taking away your options, till you have very little. Also why the better side, moves within a myth, and is not in a maze but an open field. The concepts are in the same area.
So don't think 'deals' exist, or oaths should be required, in areas of supernatural they can't exist anyways, and even in normal life, many oaths would make a learning of a new thought a conflict, hence why some want oaths, and why many don't believe in people making oaths.
For those that think that is against ideas of spiritual ideas of future heaven or promises, that is not what I am talking about, the good side gives without requirement, a gift. Not something earned or deserved. The bad side wants something from you, mostly to take from you.
I think that is what this song is about.
Pat Benatar - Promises In The Dark
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuPFhDQRKzwI don't believe in temporal lore, but that is not what time travel is about, all time travel happens in the now from any singular perspective.