PayPal and Palantir cofounder Peter Thiel is embarking on an unusual intellectual journey this fall—delivering a sold-out four-part lecture series on the biblical figure of the Antichrist. The private lectures, which will be held at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, represent the latest evolution in Thiel’s increasingly public theological interests that intertwine his Christian faith with his concerns about technology’s potential to enable authoritarian control.
Considering he helped the anti-christ become president, this should be in nottheoninion
I’m no biblical scholar, but isn’t this one of the features of the antichrist? Like that they will have false prophets and other dastardly types trying to deceive people and advance the real antichrist’s agenda?
I’m not religious at all, but seeing these mouthbreathing maga fuckwit’s, slavish fealty to that pedo-protecting rapist criminal, has me reconsidering.
If any of those myths had any basis in reality, Thiel would definitely qualify as the Antichrist. As it is, he’s just a common and garden variety asshole.
My neighbor is a common garden variety asshole… this guy is a billionaire pile of shit getting obscenely wealthy on the demise of humans. He’s not the antichrist, but he’s no garden variety asshole.
No technically Exxon and Shell would be considering theyre bringing an actual apocalypse
An oldie, but a goodie:
Could American Evangelicals Spot the Antichrist? Here Are the Biblical Predictions
Jews need to build the third temple first for the antichrist to be summoned. Coincidentally a red heifer was sacrificed earlier this year and The Dome of the Rock is looking mighty destructable.
I went down an antichrist rabbit hole during my work poop earlier and read that the Bible prophesies there being multiple antichrists throughout history, culminating in an ultimate mega-douche of an antichrist who ends up ending the whole world.
Wow giving a lecture about yourself. That’s meta man
I don’t think Peter Thiel knows that he is a candidate for the antichrist.
To know that, would require self reflection.
Well it’s been brought up to him directly so it’s certainly in his head
He’s just a want-to-be.
People are seriously paying money to have the devil himself (Peter Thiel of PayPal, Palantir, and Pal of Epstein) teach them about religion.
I don’t like having to do this, but this shit is literally blasphemy. It’s all there in the book y’all have been using like an all powerful shield against modernization. Now this evil tech bro is going to tell you all about the anti-christ, and the path to eternal life through technology?! Come the fuck on:
Matthew 15-20: Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them."
San Francisco you have a very important job to do: I feel like people should go with megaphones and, warn everyone attending that they’re being deceived by a false prophet and going to hell.
There are 4 horses.
3 have already rode (ridden?) in.
(The image is real)
They flew in, on their private jets.
Ridden is correct. They rode in or they have ridden in.
Omg chat, real!?
Thiel must be hewn down and cast into fire. I like it.
The guy is just another edgelord like musk.
Nah, theil is a deeper evil. He’s been putting his paypal and facebook billions to spin up the altright pipeline for literal decades.
He quietly funds all sorts of institutes and influencers and silicon valley wonks and founders that gin up most of the nasty shit we interact with now, all to feed his dream of libertarian kingdoms where ownership is governance, where the only right people have is to leave. He is literally a monarchist, and views himself as a king in waiting.
Hes not just a loudmouth idiot like Musk, who splashes money around wildly. Hes more of a Rasputin, the power behind the crown, and hes been very successful at it. Hes someone who coordinates evil, sets it in motion and keeps it building.
You used to need more social skills to get rich. You had schmooze, negotiate, coordinate, intimidate. Now, any psychopath who can whip a few software developers can make billions.
Sharing a photo for no reason at all. Not related to the topic.
I usually refrain from uttering what could be construed as death threats. So I will continue my streak and mention that this seems more like an event that should be catered by C. L. Aymore and associates.
4 chances
Fun fact. The reason why Luigi is angry here is because you broke the spaghetti in half! No other reason.
These people are both insane and in charge. They have the means and the will to kill us all.
I don’t understand how such stupid people end up so rich and powerful. .
I sometimes find this timeline incredibly funny. How did we get here?
Abrahamic techno facism?
Well Facebook let companies know that users would volunteer their most valued data… And now there’s an ai identifying Palestinians based on their facial features so they can be starved better.
Soooooooo eidunno. Billionaires are the new prophets in this wealth obsessed world.
his concerns about technology’s potential to enable authoritarian control.
I don’t even know what to say at this point
Palantir co-founder!?
Brother, you ARE the dragon that gave power to the beast
Llike all men of power, when he talked of prices worth paying, you could be sure of one thing. Someone else was paying.
He named his technology company after a wizard pondering orb wiretapped by LOTR-satan.
Im sure theres some great jokes here but I don’t have anything snarky to say about it, I’m just tired.
every time I see one of them pull this weird shit, I have to walk myself through the process again of how christians got to solidarity with the rich. I don’t know why I keep forgetting that was always the purpose
Anyone interested in this topic, at least how it happened in the United States should check out the Behind the Bastards episodes titled “How the Rich Ate Christianity”
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism by Max Weber (1905)
Fairly certain that informed that episode but I do need to read that in its entirety myself
I am, been waiting for an excuse to finally look at that podcast. that seems like as good of an entry point as any
Feel free to PM me for other good ep recommendations, huge fan of Robert for years and am a glutton for historically depressing stories
Oh it’s a really good introduction episode. Heavy but ridiculous
Related to Thiel, check out The Coming Storm, too. I think it’s that podcast that keeps returning to The Sovereign Individual as something that ties a lot of these nuts together.
Thanks for spreading the word on this! Ever since I knew of it I keep trying to spread awareness too!
My friend you do not understand how happy I am to talk about this topic at length and spread awareness. Appreciate you too!
Another recommendation for anyone reading this and interested is the book Jesus and John Wayne.
his concerns about technology’s potential to enable authoritarian control.
He’s one of the leading voices in making technology to enable authoritarian control…
Critics argue that Thiel’s warnings about the Antichrist ring hollow given his role in building the very surveillance infrastructure that could enable authoritarian control. Thirteen former Palantir employees recently signed a letter urging the company to cease its work with the Trump administration, citing concerns about how the technology might be misused for political targeting
Oh good. At least they didn’t just sane wash it like a bunch of other organizations are doing.
Imagine being a good Satanist all your life, waiting for the Antichrist, praying to Satan, butchering animals, getting up in the middle of the night when Saturn is in retrograde to pick mugwort and shit…You do all that and he gives you fucking Peter Thiel.
Yeah, I am definitely pissed and asking for a refund. Fuck you Satan!
I was promised heavy metal, blood, demons, Dungeons and Dragons, and video games. Instead I get some nerd shit.
Fuck off Satan.
Ha ha ha, is that all real Satanist shit? Getting up in the middle of the night when Saturn is in retrograde to pick mugwort? I pick mugwort. Makes decent tea.
Harvesting plants and performing various tasks at specific times and under specific conditions is a regular practice in various occult systems, I’m not sure of the significance of mugwort, I chose it at random. I don’t think Satanism is “real” occultism, it doesn’t appear in the historical record until the accusations of the midaeval Catholic inquisition, of which most accounts are cartoonish fabrications or refer to pagan, Hebrew, or various forms of foreign cultural mysticism as “Satanic”.
Not really. The satanic temple is spicy atheism and the laveyans mostly do sex magic and manifesting, they’re basically objectivists with sex magic. It’s definitely occult to do ritual gardening, but ironically Satanists are generally low end of the occultism spectrum. I can see thelema (Alistair Crowley’s religion) practitioners doing it. Wiccans totally would but they’re the bizarre lovechild of protestant Christianity and 2nd wave feminism. A lot of neopagans actually would probably be down.
Sex magic sounds fucking awesome. Does it include nude gardening?
It can, but I generally recommend sex magic with people not in the Church of Satan as the Ayn Rand level of treating selfishness as a virtue doesn’t make for great sex. Sex magic is very much just a thing among the more libertine occultists and neopagans, whether that’s people setting up a gangbang for Beltane or some prayers before sex or a CoS or Thelema style whole ass ritual.
Some will call this a Thielogical discussion. Or not. Praise Satan.
What a glorious, target rich environment. I hope they all get eaten.
The ego on this jackass to lecture people about himself
“Welcome to my TED talk about me.”
That’s like 98% of TED talks
I don’t believe in the antichrist but if you summoned the one imagined by Christians I think he’d think Peter Theil was a creepy piece of shit
yeah. I’m not christian either, but the anticapitalist character arc of the biblical jesus stands in pretty stark contrast to any of these weird nazi fucks
The ticket prices are nothing more than a bribe paid to an influential person. I’ve not seen this guy talk to a camera much, but the little I have seen has not impressed me, I can’t imagine anyone caring what he has to say that much. High society socialite garbage.
Or maybe he’ll reveal he’s the actual living avatar of Asmodeus and enthrall everyone in attendance with dark magic like a movie villain reveal. I don’t know, I’d accept it as truth if I saw it in the news at this point.
Watching theil talk makes Zuckerberg seem human
remember when he struggled to say that he supported the survival of the human race? it was during that Ezra Klein interview.
I don’t think it was Ezra Kline. It was Ross Douthat. Interesting Times. It’s a bunch of interviews with modern Right Wing people who are active in shaping the current right wing political narrative. Including UFO people.
right you are, I confused my Times columnists!
That pause before answering told me everything I need to know about him.
I ran across the Good Work skit about it first and thought it was taken out of context. nope… dude was dead serious.
It’s not so much a bribe—he doesn’t need money—as a tool to weed out poors, skeptics and investigative reporters.
He wants an audience of rich, gullible fools.
