Any Nihilists here?

[The Grand Nudger]

To be somewhat controversial, I can't really see how one doesn't end up with a nihilistic set of beliefs if one thinks a physicalist universe is most likely.  

If physicalism true, then God, freewill, objective morality, and objective meaning inevitably evaporate, and absurdity inevitably follows.  At least, that's how it seems to me.  Scepticism likewise seems to follow.

That would only be true...could only be true... if you believed that these things were premised on immaterial facts (or assertions to fact) rather than material facts (or assertions to fact).  I have no problem accepting that thing x is bad because of material facts about x - and this is all that an objective morality requires.  If you ask me what's wrong with skullfucking my neighbors infant you're going to hear alot of material assertions...and cutting to the chase, you'll probably be hard pressed to find some way that these material assertions are not facts. The same can be repeated with meaning. Gods and free wills (at least in the strongest sense of that term) are a little more difficult, sure - in the case of gods because theyre often explicitly premised on some immaterial assertion, and free will for it's strong historic relationship to the same. Compatibilists thread that needle to the detriment of the concept, but they still end up saying something unobjectionable. We're changeable, malleable, we can be influenced. The same levers that allow for external causation in our decisions at least appear to be amenable to internal exploitation as well.