If Life is Meaningless Anyway, then What's Wrong with Religion?

[henryp]

You're putting a lot under the 'unhappy' umbrella there.  

I'm on a nice picnic with the family.  We have a nice long day together.  But it looks like rain.  We don't want to get caught out in the rain, so we head home.  We are all in a good mood, because it was a great day.  

You can say we are 'unhappy' at the prospect of being out in the rain, therefore we went home because we were unhappy.  But that's such a broad stroke, I think it losing a lot of meaning.  Especially, as we're all happy as we're heading home.

That's a laughable analogy, it doesn't concern itself with the topic at hand at all, so I have no idea what you hope to achieve with it. Let me know.

Analogies are dumb, because there is no incentive for the other person to partake if they are just an argumentative person rather than being interested in discussion.  At the same time, that's how my mind organizes ideas.  Probably leftover from basic logic where you just stick in A's and B's into the equation to try and break it.  Not conducive to communicating with folks like you, but it's what I've got.

What I hoped to achieve, is to flush the idea out for myself mostly.  Maybe it adds to someone else's thinking.  

And for me it worked, because rather than a picnic analogy, or a video game analogy I passed on, or a long thing on misapplying meaning, and social conditioning and a bunch of other stuff, I truncated it all down to:

Endings can be satisfying.  

That's the idea I think you're missing with your unhappy/mentally ill position.