cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/35095129
Peter Thiel’s Antichrist Antics Continue
Just when you thought it couldn’t get any weirder, Peter Thiel has announced plans to deliver a four-part lecture series on the Antichrist. These unusual events will take place at the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco on four days in September and October.
Thiel, one of the most influential tech billionaires of our time, seems intent on forcing us to discuss the Antichrist. He is clearly trying to make a point. But what is that point?
Thiel’s lecture series won’t provide any clues to the public—it’s off the record. He’ll be delivering his lectures to an exclusive group of Antichrist-curious tech acolytes in a highly-controlled atmosphere.
Here’s the thing: this isn’t really about religion. It’s about power and politics, wrapped in theological language. Thiel has long been fascinated with political theorist Carl Schmitt’s ideas about “political theology”—the notion that all significant political concepts are secularized theological concepts.
He is desperate that people regard him as a deep and serious thinker. The trouble is, no interesting thought has ever crossed his mind. This is the reason for his pathetic hatred of academics. His university professors rightly saw a useless dweeb with an outrageous sense of self regard.
I think we should allow everyone to introduce themselves
He’s a man of wealth, and taste
Imagine I give you $100,000 today, tomorrow and every day thereafter. How long until you get tired of getting $100,000 each day?
After only a few days, most people’s financial problems would be solved. After ten days, you will have received 1 million dollars. After a few months, you will have been able to purchase anything you’ve ever dreamed of.
How long, then, until money is meaningless to you?
Do you know how long it takes to have received 1 billion dollars?
27.4 years.
27.4 years of receiving $100,000 every day. A billion dollars is 10,000 $100,000s.
Some people have hundreds of billions of dollars. It is an astronomical number.
You can’t imagine how much that amount of money changes a person. You will absolutely lose your mind and yourself.
No one should ever even possess anywhere near that level of money. It’s way too much power.
People conflate rich people with millionaires and casually lump billionaires in with that group.
They are not the same. Billionaires are shells of humans, filled with the putrid sludge of a soul completely consumed by greed.
Do not listen to them. Do not believe them. They only tell you things they want you to believe. They will take everything from you, including your life.
Do not listen to them. Do not believe them. They only tell you things they want you to believe. They will take everything from you, including your life.
say crazy illogical thing
do crazy illogical thing
deliver instructions on what he wants you to do
tells a logical truth
you believe it
it’s a brainwashing seminar.
Yup, I don’t give a shit about the multi millionaire orthodontist who co-owns his practice, has a summer home and a boat and some sports cars. Heck a lot of small farmers are multi millionaires on paper.
I do care about the people who have enough expendable cash that they can throw 10M at a political endeavor without batting an eye.
They have left us with only one solution to the billionaire problem. And they’re trying to make that difficult too, with round-the-clock security. But everyone is vulnerable for a moment here or there.
Last night I chatted with my politically moderate neighbor, who is now considering leaving the country, and cheered Luigi, and a bunch of other shit that would have been “far left” a while ago, but I think is now permeating into the middle too.
polarization of the populace works in both directions, the left only lags a bit behind because they actually like stuff like due process and human rights.
considering it’s Peter Thiel doing this, nothing good can come from this.
I’m not antichrist, I’m just antichrist curious
What a Jerxes!
The 9th gate vibes anyone?
You would think that a gay billionaire who’s obsessed with making himself immortal and putting forward intense surveillance and ushering in AI gods fervently would be most Christian’s definition of the antichrist. I know it’s mine, and I’m not even Christian anymore.
Edit: I am fine with the gay part, I just want to make that extremely clear before everyone rips me to shreds for being homophobic. I just think Thiel is evil.
I firmly believe that Peter Thiel is the second beast from Revelation.
remember he defenestrated his BOYTOY from florida last year, probably sucked the life forced out of him to stay young, and then staged an “accident”
K wait did he throw him out a window? I do not know this story
not exactly defenestrated, but very similar his timing of his death after voicing his concern over thiels continuing support and attack on anti-lgbqt+ rhetoric and initiatives through the gop. he fell from a high rise after voicing his concern over this, and due to “personal issues, so suicide”.
You ask why, he doesnt just Leave THiel? if your so depressed? something else he knows about thiel that thiel doesnt want revealed, let alone; probably doesnt want to be int he news " thiel being gay, supports homophobic laws" or something else. how do you leave someone that has much more power than you do, just like a woman who wants to leave an abuser but dont?
thiel could probably ruin the bf life if he had not suicided, and left, to prevent him from going to press to give a tell all article to the news. its pretty fishy.
the last thing thiel wants is press on him being gay, and doing something shady, like with gawker, thats why he funded HUlk hogans lawsuit, he had a vendetta.
because right wingers dont tolerate gays at all.
you can search an article, i think this happened in florida.
The gay part is what makes it crazy, he thinks his money will protect him? The homophobia in the christian world is insane. Just because they’re nice to your face, that doesn’t mean they wouldn’t hang you from a tree if they could. Fake nice is their thing.
Save him? He is accelerating what they are doing. He is funding them and propagandizing to them. He is the main reason fascism is here.
Dude, they will turn on him. It’s just a matter of time. As soon as he balks at any single thing they do, they’ll turn on him.
This particular strain of Christian only care about something until they don’t, they don’t really have a lot of set in stone (heh) principles.
Thiels money and connections will protect him from the true believers who’d turn on him just like they protect him from the rest of the world right now.
What they think doesn’t matter. In his mind, he is above the plebs. Their wants and moralities are beneath his notice.
He useful till he ain’t…
If the people he’s financing ever really seizes control like he wants, the first thing they’d do is seize the wealth of private billionaires like him.
Why risk them staying supportive when you can just seize all their wealth for themselves?
The elites always seem to have this “honour amongst thieves” thing between them. They see eachother as actual humans, just not the rest of the humans. At least that’s how it’s always seemed to me.
The elites always seem to have this “honour amongst thieves” thing between them
Until they don’t…
This ain’t a hypothetical, we have thousands of years of recorded history. When wealth because concentrated and the wealthy seize the government, it doesn’t take long for the new government to start cannibalizing the very wealthy elites that put it in power.
That turns the remaining ones against the government.
They side with the poor, call it a revolution, and they end up as the biggest fish in a more equal pond.
This is literally how America became a country… And France funding us led to their revolution because they squeezed the poors to fund us.
This isn’t a new scenario, it happens all the time
We just need to prolong the good part of the cycle if we live thru it. But eventually our grandkids or their kids won’t remember and we’ll do it again.
I’m reasonably sure that Peter Thiel is
thean antichrist. Seems exactly like the kind of people warned about in the Book, charlatans, fraudsters, those who worship the dollar over Jah.So this lecture is like a Disney villain singing about their plans.
Scar comes to mind
A four part lecture on Trump? But why?
himself, how he “posesses” trump do his bidding.
hes the real anti-christ, that controls his puppet vance and trump
He should be cowering in his bunker
The event is sponsored by a non-profit that promotes “Christ in science and technology” or something.
Who We Are
We’re a community of thinkers, builders, artists, and leaders who are wrestling with what it means to live with purpose and conviction. We’re here to explore deeper questions, together.
And yes, we talk about Jesus.
Not in a pushy way. Not with religious jargon. But with honesty, clarity, and respect.
Because we believe Jesus is so much more than a religious figure. He’s the answer to the longings we often try to fill with ambition, success, or self-discovery.
I agree with the part of Jesus message where he whipped the charlatans making money in the name of religion. Howe about they start with Peter Thiel?
They should give all they have to the poor and follow him.
Not to the church. Not to preaching. To the poor. End world hunger. Eliminate a neglected disease. Speak with poor people in Africa and south America and ask them what would make their lives better and easier and buy them that. Feed Palestinians. Go to Jesus’s home and feed the starving people there with every last dollar lest you find yourself trying to fit a large animal in an infamously small hole at peril of your soul.
He’s the answer to the longings we often try to fill with ambition, success, or self-discovery.
Like saying 42 is the answer to life the universe and everything. Maybe we need to figure out what the question is, cause this answer doesn’t make any sense.
They feel empty and like something os missing no matter what they achieve. Religion is good for that, but having seen this type, religion won’t help them. What they need is community and some hands on volunteering.
I get it. But saying Jesus is the snare doesn’t really make sense. Community is the answer, and that’s what they provide.
thinkers
LMAO
Who is this man
The living embodiment of the idea that billionaires shouldn’t exist.
The next shinzo abe, probably; A sociopath billionaire whose long term project is destroying democracy and is the owner of Palantir a company that makes surveillance software for the US and Israeli government. The name “Palantir” comes from the device used to corrupt Saruman in lord of the rings.
There’s a lot of speculation that he’s part of a silicon valley death cult that wants to purge the earth of most of its population.
Edit: He’s also gay, not that it matters.
Oooh exciting
Note: said speculation comes from The Tinfoil Hat crowd.
Its not that crazy.
MAGA is absolutely doing death cult stuff (see RFK jr’s vaccine policies, ICE, medicare, etc)
There’s also been articles on the group chats all the richest people on the planet are on.
Quotes from Peter Theil show he is opposed to democracy, etc. Its less tin foil hat and more an assmption that “this is being done with his blessing”
The real life Gavin Belson. Silicon Valley writers used Theil for that character, based on actual events. Yes, he has a blood boy.
He is the one causing all the fascism in the world right now.
you give him far too much credit. he’s not the only one doing it, but he’s certainly one of the loudest.
