That last parable actually helps our case more than yours. The message as I see it is warning of the folly of throwing your whole life away on the promise of something better.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'