A simple case for an afterlife: Absurdity
I consider myself an agnostic pantheist or panentheist as I am a Daoist by practice as a Taijiquan adept. But I'm pretty anti-religion. Never believed in an afterlife or reincarnation. I just believe we get back to the universe as the stardust we have always been. And that's the beauty of Daoism because it's very naturalistic.
However, recently, I began to believe there could be something after death. I was thinking about the absolute absurdity of our existence and of the existence of the universe itself. In terms of consciousness, there was nothing and - suddenly - we woke up.
I'm thinking that our existence is so absurd that a subsequent just-as-absurd existence is paradoxically plausible. We could wake up again whether it be in this universe or another one. Even if it takes a billion years, we wouldn't know. It would feel instantaneous, continuous, and ever-present to us just like our current existence and experience have always been. We don't remember the dark that precedes our consciousness.
I guess this is just an absurdist stance. But everything seems so absurd to me: a universe, a god, us...
What do you think?