There are questions in this Universe that we must choose to ignore, abandon, or embrace. If I embrace my questions and adopt answers that sastisfy my need to connect with the unknown...should I force you to believe what I concluded? Would that make it real? I would rather share my ideas with you and listen to yours. Possibly, I will change my conclusions when your ideas broaden my view. Together we could grow closer to the unknown.
Could this be the purpose for those unanswered questions?

Ok, if we can answer that unanswered question and have it involve beer, I'm so there.

That is the basic fault in every belief system. Those nagging questions that will never be answered while you and I are alive.
We can guess, we can assume, we can conjecture but we WILL never know, until the right time. I sometimes look at the unanswered questions as things we aren't supposed to know.
Too much knowledge can be just as dangerous as not enough knowledge.

That is what the problem is, so many people have been forced at sword point to believe.

That's what I was thinking
I was hoping someone else did too
Did you ever think maybe we do know in a sense but cannot concieve of it in our brain. Only sometimes we say yeah "That's right!" when it resonates with our soul.

That is what the problem is, so many people have been forced at sword point to believe.

We know that is the truth

perhaps we seek to find and perceive that others seek to control

An enigma of sorts, to sit in judgement .

I delight in the seeking of all. It speaks of a conscience that wants truth unfiltered.

Its funny, but the older I get and the longer I live....

...the less I sense a gray area, but rather the discernment of opposites and their proportions.

Black and white.

The ability to grasp extremes and polar concepts and blend them to fit with social interactions.

and be at peace with it all. Just musing

This is exactly why the scientific method is so important. Now we can get close to what really are unanswerable questions. Before the scientific method people would fight over what air was made out of, or if the earth sat still while the sun revolved around us. The scientific method has brought us so far. We have gained knowledge in leaps and bounds. We can never get to the final truth but it will obviously take us the closest. It has done the most for us so far.

I absolutely concur with Reverend Rabbit. What is an unanswerable question? It’s nothing more than a question that we don’t yet know the answer to. Who’s to say that it’s genuinely unanswerable?

The scientific method has indeed brought us a very long way. We know how so many facets of the universe work now, where only a few hundred years ago we neither knew these things, nor even believed that they knowable.

Humankind, overall, is in an interesting stage of development. Near the end of the Newtonian period, we were under the belief that we basically had the physical world figured out. All that would be left to do after that would be to answer the spiritual questions. But that era was very shorted lived.

With the discovery of the quantum, and time dilation, all that has changed. Instead of being in a position of having to merely tie up a few loose ends, we find ourselves on the shore of a brand new ocean of truth that lay before us all undiscovered. We are only, just now, beginning to stick our toe into that new ocean of undiscovered truth. We are finding interesting new concepts that challenge our ability to comprehend.

I wish I could share with you the insights I have on this new ocean of undiscovered truth. I am currently writing a book on this theme that is centered on the philosophy of mathematics, but extends into the realm of physics, and beyond. I have taken a port hole and opened it to reveal a panoramic view of this new ocean. Unfortunately, you’ll have to wait for the book to come out and I’m a lazy author so don’t hold your breath.

But the point is that seemingly unanswerable questions may indeed have answers that you least expect. Those answers, whilst interesting, are not necessary for you to enjoy your life. In truth, enjoying your life is the answer to the most important question of all. Why am I here?

Why fret over the apparent nonexistence of answers to lesser important questions?

On a more spiritual level I also have the following to offer as food for thought,…

If you are concerned that there might be a sentient supreme being that wants something from you.

And you believe that sentient supreme being to be far superior to yourself in every way.

Then should you fret about having to play guessing games with it?

Shouldn’t this superior supreme sentient being have the ability to make clear to you what it wants?

These are my thoughts on the idea of any personified godhead who has demands of me.

Any such an entity has a responsibility to make its desires known without ambiguity. Period.

A trivial task for an all-powerful being doncha think?

If that being isn’t attempting to make its demands, wants, or desires known to me without ambiguity, then it can’t be very supreme.

To believe that such an all-knowing, all-wise, entity would rely on a man-written, clearly flawed, controversial, and ambiguous text to convey its desires is certainly more than I can buy into. Such a ‘supreme’ being wouldn’t be so ‘supreme’ if you ask me.

Again, those are my personal thoughts on the matter, your delusions may vary.