Well, my thoughts are always a work in progress. I'd say some religious ideas are incompatible with nihilism, like believing in an omnipotent God who has mappe

Well, my thoughts are always a work in progress. I'd say some religious ideas are incompatible with nihilism, like believing in an omnipotent God who has mapped out the future of the Universe for some kind of divine purpose. (I'm unclear exactly why an omnipotent God would bother to create a Universe when he already knows exactly what will happen in it, but whatever). If you reduce "meaning" to anything that somebody thinks is worth doing (instead of just lying in bed until they die of dehydration), then it's not really possible to be a nihilist, except for those few days before you die of dehydration, unless somebody is keeping you alive (you wouldn't care, naturally).