Is nihilism the logical extreme of atheism?

[Whateverist]

It seems we have reached the part with the bickering. I didn't miss your point. I dis-missed it. Did you likewise dismiss my point that whether or not we are engaged in a debate can itself be the question? And yes I can very well raise that question in a philosophy thread. Such questions are true philosophy whereas engaging along settled rules is indicative of having moved on to other subjects.

True Philosophy? Really?

Definitely. "Debate" is half way down the hall on its way to becoming "rhetoric". Of course, in any undergraduate philosophy department there will be many courses where the philosophy of the past is picked over and studied to learn the way of it. But when you're ready to actually do some philosophy, you'll be wrestling with what points are most pertinent and how they all relate. What gets published will be the schema that best organizes the issues and identifies the criteria essential to answering the question.

I don't see much point in coming here, simply spouting opinions and then saying "I don't have to justify any of that". I come here to refine my views and my debating skills.

And neither do I. I'm just arguing that debate as such is not philosophy. And though making reasoned arguments belongs in philosophy, the scope of the question is what determines whether you're engaged in fresh philosophy or merely picking over the bones of dead and settled questions which have probably become the domain of some other field of study.