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.

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[–] 95 points 1 year ago* (15 children)

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.

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  • [–] 55 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago*

    Same with Trump. He’s just a means to an end. They don’t care about his beliefs now, but once they have achieved what they want it’s going to become a problem for them. They want a true autocrat ruling over them, then a fascist religious leader is going to challenge Trump and his flock will hand Trump’s head on a platter.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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?

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    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"

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    K wait did he throw him out a window? I do not know this story

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    My one solace in the coming climate/water wars, is that Pete is going to likely be tortured and murdered by his private military. Once the government he wants to destroy is gone, what's to stop the people with weapons to just be like "lol,no!" to his orders?

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    [–] 76 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    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.

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    [–] 34 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I'm reasonably sure that Peter Thiel is the an antichrist. Seems exactly like the kind of people warned about in the Book, charlatans, fraudsters, those who worship the dollar over Jah.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    So this lecture is like a Disney villain singing about their plans.

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  • [–] [S] 27 points 1 year ago* (11 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    They should give all they have to the poor and follow him.

    Or, hear me out, spend billions on research of a machine that would shove camels through needles.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    "He's the answer to the longings we try to fill with ...[snip]... or self-discovery.

    Oh yeah, don't try to figure out things yourself especially about yourself, gotta go to the approved pastor to know what you should think and feel!

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    The only reason Trump went to the Wharton School of Business was to take advantage of his draft deferments, which kept him out of the Vietnam War. (Trump got 5 deferments, one medical and 4 educational).

    He apparently didn't learn much while he was there, because his professor at Wharton (William T Kelly) has said, "Donald Trump was the dumbest goddamn student I ever had."

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    A four part lecture on Trump? But why?

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    So, what, is this just going to be his autobiography?

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    If your president embodies every single one of the Seven Deadly Sins, he just might be The Antichrist.

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  • considering it's Peter Thiel doing this, nothing good can come from this.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I think we should allow everyone to introduce themselves

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  • [–] [S] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    He's a man of wealth, and taste

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    Of course I know him. He's me.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Phew, for a moment I thought he'd give a lecture on the anarchist.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago*

    hes the real anti-christ, that controls his puppet vance and trump

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    [–] [S] 14 points 1 year ago* (8 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    'Sold Out'. Fuck me this world is stupid.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    And once it ends up online, it’s gonna get a lot of views. From all different people too. I’ll be part of the group who’s curious what the fuck is going on.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    My guess is; the anti-christ is progressives who want gay people like him to just say they're gay. He's on record as not wanting that. He likely sees government regulations as some sort of anti-christ as he's on record as having said he doesn't believe democracy and freedom are compatible.

    It's the usual boring thing: The anti-christ is everything Thiel doesn't like.

    All hail the anti-christ is all I can say.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Personally I'm surprised to see the Commonwealth Club signing off on such a presentation, I had some respect for them. Maybe I didn't know what they were about in the first place, but I do know they have hosted some really good speakers and, genuinely, some really good debates in the past.

    Although, my memory of the institution dates back to pre-2016, so what do I know.

    I'm really hoping someone at least takes notes that they share about the amount of crazy that's going to be on exhibit here. This is off the charts. 4 lectures? He could say what he has to say in 10 minutes, I guarantee it.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    I'm not antichrist, I'm just antichrist curious

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    The 9th gate vibes anyone?

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Don does like it when people talk about him, but I doubt he could sit through four lectures

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Fer er aginnit?

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    This makes perfect sense, since it takes one to know one.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    What a Jerxes!

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    So he’s just gonna be there showing PowerPoint slideshows of him and his buddies? Lol.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    I look forward to hearing recordings or reading the transcripts if they surface. Hopefully something does, this is relevant to pretty much anybody on earth right now. /s

    I wonder how many times he'll mention Greta Thunberg, the presumptive Antichrist?

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