No you can’t because I didn’t argue in favor of it I just argued what it requires.
Ok so let's assume there is no meaning. If that's the case then you don't have meaning either and are also therefore a nihilist. Unless there is meaning then your question becomes silly because if there is no meaning as you define it then you are just doing things for reasons of your own and it doesn't matter what you imagine those reasons are and I'm not questioning your right to believe what you believe I'm asking why.
You by contrast seem profoundly disinterested in my explanation of why I believe those things I do in favor of questioning my right to even believe as I do without measuring it against a system whose rules I don't know enforced in some unspecified way by a deity you are not even willing to argue exists.
Not making the claim that your preferred god exists EXPLICITLY does not absolve you of the burden of proof IMPLICIT in demanding I justify not believing in one.
EXPLICITLY > IMPLICITLY
Yes but you don't get to suggest that only a god can offer meaning and act as though you then don't have a burden of proof for both or you cannot justify having any meaning either. You have painted yourself into a corner where you must demonstrate god BEFORE you can justify that your life has meaning.
How do I justify my life without a god? How do you justify your life with one? You keep saying there is no reason to have this conversation if no god(s) exists and I just care about what I care about anyway by extension there is also no reason to have this conversation and you just care about what you care about anyway and that includes caring about what is possibly just a gentle fiction concerning some ultimate caretaker of human morality. Can you demonstrate that your half of the conversation has had meaning? If not then why expect anyone else too?
May I ask if you looked into the matter logically without being primarily concerned with your personal confusion or comfort and come to the uncomfortable and confusing conclusion that you cannot in fact demonstrate any god even to yourself, do you think you would stop living life and trying to be kind rather than cruel in as much as you can even identify the two?
The baseline reason not to just give up.
Which is?
Which is subjective to each person.
It’s not up to you to decide what is and isn’t meaningful.
On the contrary. ONLY you can decide what is meaningful to you and ONLY I can decide what is meaningful to me. At least when MEANING=REASON TO LIVE/OBSERVE SELF ACCOUNTABILITY/TRY TO BE KIND RATHER THAN CRUEL IN AS MUCH AS WE CAN EVEN TELL THE DIFFERENCE.
