[MacsHeadroom]

There's no irony in that quote. Nihilism is predicated on the existence of meaningfulness. It merely holds that meaning is a subjective experience.

That's not to say that meaning is relative or that it isn't real.

This may be difficult to grasp at first. But consider this analogy which grasps the objective nature of a more concrete subjective experience: When you gaze up at the sky and see two birds it is objectively true that you are having a subjective experience of two birds in the sky above you (whether you're hallucinating or not) and not one bird or two elephants. There's nothing relative about it and it's very much a real experience. Cogito ergo sum, after all.

Likewise, under nihilism meaning itself is a subjective experience with quantifiable objective properties. Specifically, meaning is a quantitative (something objective) measure of experiences which are the most highly connected (ie. significant) to other experiences from a subjective perspective.

For example, if you experience prayer as meaningful to you, whether you're delusional or not about it's meaningfulness to you or in general, then it is objectively true that you are having said real non-relative experience of meaning.

For more insight, see A Nihilists Guide to Meaning: https://meltingasphalt.com/a-nihilists-guide-to-meaning/