Question: Why happiness so momentary and fleeting?

Answer: Because it is based upon creature comforts, and material things, which are momentary and fleeting, thus the happiness created is momentary and fleeting.

Easy to answer, easy principle to grasp...But difficult to apply and turn around.

After all, what happiness is found outside the material world?

I suppose, something spiritual, something immortal.

That brings us back to the topic of religion and God. WTF man...

I mean, it's so ambiguous. What do people mean when they say they've heard from the Lord and they say they're rested in Him after they emerge from their quiet room after a day alone? How do they know He's there, except for the fact that He's said to be omnipresent? What is the feeling of being rested in Him? What's the feeling of having truly heard from Him? How do you know it's really Him speaking and not your subconscious? How do you know when what you are experiencing is a test from Him of your faith, or whether it's something of the devil trying to tempt you away? How do you know whether He's actually there? That He's not a figment of your imagination? Or a creation of man? How would you know that He is actually caring for you, looking upon you with tenderness? That it's not disgust and loathing? Actually, whether He's real or not?

Who knows? Who knows? Who in this godforsaken, stricken world seemingly devoid of any answers, actually knows?