How I deal with existential crises
Taken from u/americanpeony's comment, (just because I'm too lazy to write it all out and this is the best explanation I've seen so far)
>You need to stop your intrusive thoughts by remembering that if you’d been born in a different historical time period, and/or different geographical location, and/or into a different culture, you would not have the beliefs you do today.
This is what I believe, religion just can't truly be worth it with this exact thought, but even with this, would the afterlife exist? Of course, there's a chance that there is some religion out there, and there is an afterlife, like how did our universe get here?, but in the end all of that burns down to some nonsense. In this scenario, there is no afterlife. I used to get very anxious at night, especially with my ongoing chronic night terrors, what if I die in my sleep?, will I know I died in my sleep?, what happens at the end of life? What I truly believe is that, our lifeform, or another lifeform, in however many years, millions, billions, will know everything about the past. Every acting variable will eventually be processed with some supercomputer, from the start of the universe, to where I die. Eventually, I believe that in some state, my consciousness will be accessed, and I will exist somewhere, somehow, again, and with that I could have my true thought back again. I do not care if you argue with my belief, but just think of how big the universe is.