Big Questions

Have you taken the time to explore and try to answer for yourself the really big questions in life?  Questions like, "Who are we?", "Where do we come from?", "Where are we going?" "What should we do?", "Why is there suffering?", "Is there a way to end suffering, and if so, how?" These types of questions take your focus from the everyday fine details of your life into a bigger picture.  No one can answer these questions for you.  That's kinda like eating your food for you.  You have to arrive at the answers yourself, because these questions are deeply personal.  I would say that insomuch as the various world religions strive to answer these questions, they are really just serving as guideposts pointing in the right direction. In the end, however, you will arrive at your own answers.  That's what wisdom helps you achieve.  Personally, I have a lot of answers for these types of questions, and I can't really settle down to any one singular answer, simply because I love pondering possibilities.  Maybe I'm looking for a better answer, I don't know.  But I do know, that it can be a lot of fun trying to answer these basic questions about the human condition.  There is one idea that I have been toying around with for some time, and that is that it is not necessarily important for a belief to be accurate, what is important is that the belief is effective.  Do you believe that you can have one without the other? I'll give you an example.  I might have the belief that women think I'm sexy.  This also might be completely untrue.  But lets say that I believe it anyway.  Now lets say that holding this belief gives me confidence while talking to women, and because of that I have better interactions with them.  It becomes a self fulfilling prophecy.  Now there is an example of an inaccurate yet effective belief.   Sometimes I apply this to spirituality. I think, is it ever really possible to definitively prove the answers to any of the really big questions?  I think what I'm looking for are the most effective answers.  Does that sound crazy?  Leave me some comments on my blog, I'd love to hear them!