Well said Simon Jester.
I think the answers to this thread are very complementary. As gibran said, there are some misteries that, by their own nature, will always be a mistery, unknown. Then, there are others that might be unknown and a mistery now, and even some that seems virtually impossible to ever know, but that we might one day understand it with advances in technology, consciousness or ´thinking outside the box´. There are other misteries which we could know but might never know because we dont ask the right questions or do the right tests or exploration. And there are other misteries that are just due to a temporary lack of information or understanding and we will sooner or later understand (but also understanding them might lead to thousand more questions and misteries, maybe ad infinitum? )
In any case, we can only really know it if we try to understand those misteries. I dont agree that we should generalize and think that all misteries are just misteries and should not be explored, tested, understood or solved. If we had settled for the explanation of the misterious god that is the sun, we would have never found out that its a star and so on. But once we learned its a star, this shouldnt take out another mistery, which is, ¨why does this exist at all?¨. And even the things that seem like a complete mistery forever, we might understand it if we try, but if we dont, we´ll never know. But of course, we also have limited energy and time so each one (and groups or humanity as a whole) have to decide what are the priorities, what misteries to explore and which ones not, at any given moment. I think the title thread, though, brings an important insight, which is that often society is obsessed with ¨solving problems¨ and forgets to marvel at the beauty, to appreciate the unknown. Though being awe-inspired, and attempt to understand and explore, arent necessarily mutually exclusive
