These 4 Simple Questions Will Change How You Think About Everything

In this video, we explore 4 questions that no one has and (most likely) no one ever will be able to answer. What's most unsettling is that these unanswerable questions live inside our head, in our every experience of the world. In exploring and recognizing these questions, however, perhaps we can form a new framework through which we can consider the world.

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[quakeev]

You've helped more people than you'll ever know, Pursuit of Wonder. Thank you

[alt-uctn]

I have already asked these questions before, but having a mindset like this kept me from living with joy because I kept on asking things I could never answer. So what I did, is to follow my intuition and conscience. To follow what I believe is right and for the good of the people around me. We can just live with all these questions but at the end of the day, these questions don't matter at all. We just have to live and try our best each day not just for ourselves but for the ones we love.

[abubakaramasa]

I like your sincerity, sometimes I feel as though I'm the only one that thinks this way, always doubting, always blinking, always questioning what if and what not.

[supermanvsbatman]

The video is 16 minutes and 32 seconds but took me 3 full hours to watch it... Made a bunch of theories along the way. This video is really amazing.😃👌

[IKEMENOsakaman]

Sigh... Every time Pursuit of Wonder uploads a new video, it gets rid of my anxiety, but it will give you an even bigger existential crisis... :')

[deonrich]

Your videos always remind me of how amazing, incredible and absurd our reality is.

[Amethiist]

Damn, “the how do we know” portion is exactly what I was trying to get my family understand when I was little but my explaining skills weren’t very good so they thought I sounded crazy

[denismehmedoff]

This video is so to the point of explaining my own existential crisis.
I need to read the books it was based on.

[jadecornillot-appavou]

This probably is the best video on this channel so far, and I'm pretty sure I've watched them all!
Thank you for creating content for people to question both the world and themselves. We need such deep content to contemplate in order to evolve individually and collectively, as awoken humans reshaping our world!

[lorz]

As someone who has had a really bizarre trip with psychoactive drug experiencing space, time and reality in a completely different way, a way that is verbally indescribable. I can say that last statement makes a lot of sense to me. I felt like I was connected to a flow, something like a source of everything. I felt like I was all there is and nothing simultaneously.

[corax_of_istria]

I laughed maniacally at the existentialism. To me its humorous to ask such questions with such unintelligible answers. Life truly is beautiful. I had a moment when I was appreciating a fruit I was eating this morning. How does such a thing come to be? It's so simple yet so meaningful to ask these deep thinking questions. It's the little things.

[Caleboney]

Love the thought provoking topics. Not something you find in everyday conversation.

[iamsid]

Here comes my weekly subscription of existential dread 😇

[Sam-lyxi]

Don’t know if you intended this, but you really touched on some core Buddhist philosophies. It’s really amazing how buddhism and western science aligns.

[mider-spanman]

Your video shall be studied for 100 years to come and I haven't seen any content on YouTube even close to this. Your presentation is impeccable and the animation that goes along with your smooth crisp narration is the icing on the cake. Thank you!

[Wong-Jack-Man]

Your narration and voice is always calming and enjoyable to listen to. The community appreciates your continued work.

[joachimmilberg]

📌 I don’t know who but someone needs to hear this, Stock is the oldest online market we have done in the past years, we employ it because of the quality of services it renders and how successful it is, today we now say crypto currency too, You’ve got to stop saving all your money. Venture into investing some, if you really want financial stability.

[familyfunwallace]

that was absolutely amazing! I was cheering near the end! I've been saying this and believing this for just over a few months now and its changed my whole way of seeing the world!! thank you for this and every single other video you have made for minds like ours!

[PLuMUK]

As a colour deficient person (I hate the term colour blind because I see colour), I know that others see colour differently to me. Over the years, I've actually abandoned using names like "green" or "red" or "blue" because they are meaningless to me. Usually, when I've used such words, they have caused confusion, not clarity. Your "green" is so limiting, but I stop myself asking "do you mean evergreen, or lawn green, or tree green? ". None of those look green to me, but I know others see green, though in a limited way. To me, they are three different colours, and two of them are what you might call red if you could look through my eyes. I only realised this because people find it endlessly fascinating to test my colour sense, and delight in telling me that I am wrong.

Consequently, I've often wondered about other differences that might exist between my mind and someone else's, especially as I am also on the autistic spectrum. I remember my surprise when I discovered that people do not see numbers as I do. I love sudoku, but when I look at the numbers, I see characteristics, I do not see 5 but feel that it is lazy, whereas 7 is excitable, 1 is stubborn, and so on. Unfortunately, this also means that I have issues with numbers, for example, I struggle to tell the time.

This video has got me asking more questions than it answered, a sign of a truly excellent video.

[anaya]

I thought it would be a positive self help video. Just crippled my anxiety even more ty.