Is nihilism the logical extreme of atheism?

[Whateverist]

For my part, I've come to the conclusion that nihilism is incoherent. Meaning is an inherently subjective phenomenon. It's like value; there is no such thing as objective value. The phrase "objective meaning" has no sensible interpretation. I would also suggest that people can never escape meaning; they can never avoid their lives having some meaning or other, to themselves. A life being imbued with final purpose, lasting value, and significance may have a lot of meaning for someone, but that doesn't make that meaning objective. If nihilism is coherent, then it too is a nihilistic existence. Purpose, value, and significance are always purpose, value, and significance from some perspective. It doesn't become objective by postulating a lot of it, or deriving it from some super being. Nihilism has become the bugbear of modern philosophy, and I deny that it has any meaning as a position. It's nothing more than a category error; applying a concept to things to which it cannot apply.

When I become too doddery to think properly I may request to have my synapses wired to your own. This is what I believe as well.

But I wonder if you have an opinion about whether it makes sense to talk of nihilism in a manner divorced from feeling and emotion as purely the intellectual stance of rejecting objective purpose, value and significance? If that were all it is, then I'd be happy to own my nihilism. I'd just want to make it clear that I am quite satisfied with the robust nature of purpose, value and significance which I find in my life. It isn't ever-ever land, but it feels like reality and that's just peachy with me.