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Existence may be pointless. But isn't it better than having never existed at all?
I've often wondered how the Universe even exists. It seems to me eternal Nothingness, no consciousness, no matter, no forces, no computation, no existence of any kind is far more probable.
The best way of looking at it I've found is to ask this question: Is an imaginary pink dragon real to itself?
Regarding the embodiment of you ever occuring again, I'm pretty certain our universe is finite and eternal, has existed forever in the past and will exist forever into the future. Like an endlessly shuffled deck of cards, it is a statistical certainty that all possible arrangements of the deck (52 factorial) will be visited an infinite number of times. All possible arrangements of the matter in our universe have been visited already an infinite number of times...
The universe didn't have to have a beginning, any more than the sin(t) function does. It's defined for all t.