It is well with my soul

When peace like a river, attendeth my way,
When sorrows like sea billows roll;
Whatever my lot, Thou hast taught me to say,
It is well, it is well, with my soul.

It is well, with my soul,
It is well, with my soul,
It is well, it is well, with my soul.

Though Satan should buffet, though trials should come,
Let this blest assurance control,
That Christ has regarded my helpless estate,
And hath shed His own blood for my soul.

My sin, oh, the bliss of this glorious thought!
My sin, not in part but the whole,
Is nailed to the cross, and I bear it no more,
Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, O my soul!

It is well, with my soul,
It is well, with my soul,
It is well, it is well, with my soul.

And Lord, haste the day when my faith shall be sight,
The clouds be rolled back as a scroll;
The trump shall resound, and the Lord shall descend,
Even so, it is well with my soul.

It is well, with my soul,
It is well, with my soul,
It is well, it is well, with my soul.

- "It is well with my soul", Horatio Spafford

Sometimes, when I think I have it really bad, when I feel like being emo and indulging in all sorts of self-pity/loathing crap; I think of this song, the tragedy that Horatio suffered THROUGH NO FAULT OF HIS OWN, and I realise that nothing I have gone through can compare to that shit. And so now, I say instead "It is well, it is well, with my soul."

P.S. I'm well aware that Jesus also suffered plenty of crap through no fault of his own. I just choose not to mention him. Its a long argument over his divinity and all that stuff.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

The last book is out...and yet another great series comes to an end. Yet another thing less to look forward to. Sigh, I remember a few years ago when the Harry Potter series were just out, everyone was counting down to the next LOTR movie, and the matrix was still universally regarded as cool. Back then, there was quite a few things to look forward to.

Oh well, all good things come to an end...how well I know that truth. Too well.

Anyway, no, I haven't gotten the book yet even though there was a mini-price war going on around here. Plan to just buy it next time when the price drops to a quarter of what it is now. In the meantime though, I stumbled upon this, which I daresay is as entertaining as the real novel, if not more so. Totally hilarious.

Warning: Full of spoilers. Don't even go near if you haven't read the novel yet. Its actually a parody of the novel, so yeah, really funny but full of spoilers.

Apples vs. Oranges

Have you ever encountered an argument/debate where one party (usually on the losing end) sometimes throws out the statement "But thats comparing apples and oranges!". They think in that doing so, they can at least achieve a stalemate of sorts as that is supposed to mean that the two objects being compared are so fundamentally different that any comparison is impossible.

Well, not anymore! Thanks to this, now you too can have the perfect counter-argument to this statement, making sure that people don't simply throw it around anymore!

Btw, apples > oranges. After all, apples can at least keep doctors away (the way garlics own vampires). Oranges cant do nuts. ^^