Is nihilism the logical extreme of atheism?

[genkaus]

Woah, you got some downright matrix level shit going on here. What if I told you... that every truth you know is false? Nah, you'd probably be all, "you wot mate?!", and then I'd have to hear some oily man wearing a dress defend his homeland from Nancy Drew.

I'd say prove it.

How very almighty of them. They must never be wrong... you sir, have the wisest of all the gods in your pocket.

Thank you.

They're your beliefs. What am I gonna do... tell you you're wrong, with like... evidence and shit? What have I to gain by leaving you a sniveling nihilistic mess?

Aside from the entertainment, obviously.

Your reasons don't concern me. I accept any opportunity to refine my beliefs.

The same way I can make the statement that the sun is nuclear, cancer can be cut out of you with a laser, and the bible is exceedingly boring (two words: numbers)... I met some lady on a train in Transylvania. She told me.

And what did she tell you about my concepts?

You would think that.

I would.

The faith in your knowledge being correct... the faith that you have the ability to recognize your knowledge's correctness... and the faith that your knowledge's correctness changes only according to patterns that you (can?) understand.

None of that is faith.