You saying it is not meaningful does not make the question inconsequential. Before the universe began....before there was anyting.....something happened to bring forth everything from nothing. What conditions changed? What changed? It seems the only viable answer is that there was a personal decision. That person was timeless, immaterial, supremely powerful to bring forth everything from nothing. That is what inductive reasoning will conclude, it seems to me.
The question stands, 'If God does not exist (to make that decision) why is there anything at all?"
You ignoring the logic of my post does not make it go away. :-)
The logic doesn't rest on my say so. You can say god was the cause, but what caused god? You haven't gotten to an answer yet, you've only pushed it back an extra step.
"It seems the only viable answer is that there was a personal decision."
You have no idea what all the viable answers are. It's the height of arrogance to claim that if you can't think of an answer to a question that an answer can't exist.
Again, inserting "god" into the "why does anything exist" question achieves nothing to answer the question, because the question equally applies to god.