"The itchiest itch is only a shadow of some greater almighty itch" is the most illogical thing I've ever said, and I feel it to the core of my being. How ya like dem apples?

You're not answering my point. CS Lewis' proof of God is the transience of earthly pleasure and his feeling that there's got to be some better pleasure out there. If you felt that earthly misery was pretty tepid overall, and you just KNEW there was some greater, higher misery out there, what would that be proof of? Um, God. My examples are exactly the same as CS, except mine make God sound kind of like a jackass, in my opinion.

And this is all bum thinking (or feeling?) to begin with. For all the reasons above. To wit, there's no reason to believe a word like, say, satisfaction means 'some perfect state of well-being pretty much unattainable in earthly existence'. Your problem, if I may say so Dovina, is that you keep forgetting words are just things we made up once.

Consider who is using it in common language. Recent immigrants, my friend, recent immigrants. Is that really the face you want to show the world?

"We all got our problems" is grammatically correct, if not exactly right for the present situation. Most half-educated people I know also habitually say "Everyone has his own problems" or "We all have problems". Which are easier and just as clear, if anything.

I agree with your point that "Everyone has their own problems" would be a perfectly fine thing to include in a poem written, say, in the voice of a hillbilly.

Describe "almost omnipotent".

Oh. Then I can rightly say, "The worst dissatisfactions on earth are lacking something"? Or "The most boring boredom on earth falls short of the ideal of boredom?" Or "The itchiest itch is only a shadow of some greater almighty itch"?

Jeez, aren't we pretty lucky on the whole? Not the least for not having a God who's into extremes, or we'd have killed ourselves ages ago.

From CS Lewis, I imagine. Other than that, from you. Probably from lines like "It seems to get further away The moment you reach out for it The moment you long for it It just scampers off".

That reminds me: farther, not further.

I think CS would have been cool with word-quibbles. Next one: The best satisfactions on earth are lacking something compared to what? Like, if my expectation was, "This activity is not only going to make me happy, but also rich and as virile as I was at seventeen," then no, pretty much no circumstance is going to fulfill that. But my circumstances make me about as happy as any human being on earth. Shouldn't that be the high endpoint of satisfaction? Like, satisfaction can't be defined as "some kind of pleasure it's impossible to feel in earthly existence" or "like orgasming all the time", or nobody could use it and it's basically a throwaway word. Do you see what I mean? Basically, my satisfactions are right in line with my expectations, so I logically cannot feel like they're lacking. Right?

...In short, since I notice I didn't say it, everyone's ideal for every circumstance should be "it'll make me purely, wholesomely happy without killing a bunch of baby seals or something such."

That's silly. That the situation is "ideal" MEANS that it's going to provide satisfaction. At least, as far as most people are concerned. Whose IDEAL of marriage (that is, whose vision of a PERFECT marriage) is misery? CS would have done better to say "people fall short of realizing their ideal circumstances" or "people make up stupid ideals, like a Porsche and a wife who makes waffles naked." Also, CS Lewis is a bint.