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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.

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[-] Dorkyd68@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

Wow giving a lecture about yourself. That's meta man

[-] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 5 points 3 months ago

I don’t think Peter Thiel knows that he is a candidate for the antichrist.

To know that, would require self reflection.

[-] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

He's just a want-to-be.

[-] Cocopanda@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

Damn. It would be a shame if an earthquake epic center formed at the base of that building and collapsed on everyone.

[-] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

These people are both insane and in charge. They have the means and the will to kill us all.

[-] lechekaflan@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

I fucking hate accelerationism, and this is one of them.

[-] AlexLost@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

These people are a death cult actively trying to make revelations happen so they can get whisked up to fantasy perfect land. Can we just sell them all the special Kool-aid and get on with our lives trying to fix this broken ass world?

[-] sad_detective_man@leminal.space 4 points 3 months ago

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

[-] cmbabul@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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”

[-] t_berium@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism by Max Weber (1905)

[-] teft@piefed.social 3 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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.

[-] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

There are 4 horses.

3 have already rode (ridden?) in.

(The image is real)

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[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Any mention of Thiel should ALWAYS be accompanied by a mention of the book he and so many other weirdoes seem to take as their inspiration, and that book is The Sovereign Individual.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sovereign_Individual

The guy even wrote a preface for a reprint of the book!

In 2020, the book was reprinted with a preface written by PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel.[1]

[-] ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 2 points 3 months ago

Considering he helped the anti-christ become president, this should be in nottheoninion

[-] some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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?

[-] yeather@lemmy.ca 0 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] unabart@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

Some will call this a Thielogical discussion. Or not. Praise Satan.

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Didn't he fund the anti-christ?

[-] Mcdolan@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I like reading this every now and then, but haven't in 4ish years. It's probably scarier now...

https://www.benjaminlcorey.com/could-american-evangelicals-spot-the-antichrist-heres-the-biblical-predictions/

[-] noxypaws@pawb.social 1 points 3 months ago

The ego on this jackass to lecture people about himself

[-] OboTheHobo@ttrpg.network 1 points 3 months ago

his concerns about technology’s potential to enable authoritarian control.

I don't even know what to say at this point

[-] echolalia@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] brown567@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

Palantir co-founder!?

Brother, you ARE the dragon that gave power to the beast

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

“Give me money to make up pseudointellectual quackery about fictional being that will simultaneously quietly agree with your biases while deflecting consideration from real potential antichrists like trump or other billionaires.”

[-] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 2 points 3 months ago

Surprised that the usual boogeyman of socialism, Marxism, communism, etc aren’t the antichrist.

[-] Azal@pawb.social 1 points 3 months ago

The antichrist is the communism we made along the way.

[-] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Opportunity knocks yet again

[-] fritobugger2017@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Loony techno-fascist going openly cult fan is an interesting move.

[-] Carmakazi@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] ieatpwns@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Watching theil talk makes Zuckerberg seem human

[-] Yawweee877h444@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

This is so fucking weird.

People like this shouldn't be allowed to lead or make decisions that have long lasting effects for millions upon millions of people, or anyone for that matter.

People like him should be locked in psychiatric institutions. They should be studied for their mental disorders, and helped if possible.

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Have you seen Curtis Yarvin?

[-] wuffah@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

Yea, we could like, have a system where everyone gets to cast a vote for who they want to lead them, and only the people with the most votes gets to make the decisions! Too bad our society is just run by whoever has the most money.

[-] redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 3 months ago

Gay Peter Thiel is too busy with this shit to read about the night of the long knives.

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Yep. You'd think these ding-a-lings would know even just a few things about history?

Same for Stephen Miller - who is Jewish. Guy is practically stroking himself to the idea of treading the same path that Hitler did....duh, they are coming for YOUR dumbass eventually, genius. This bunch always get around to persecuting the Jews...does he really think funding and building a huge infrastructure to hunt down people and throw them in concentration camps will stop with just the brown people?

If Miller doesn't have a bug-out bag and another country to flee to set up already, he's even stupider than I thought.

[-] Gates9@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] hector@lemmy.today 1 points 3 months ago

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.

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[-] ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 3 months ago

Yeah, I am definitely pissed and asking for a refund. Fuck you Satan!

[-] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 1 points 3 months ago

I was promised heavy metal, blood, demons, Dungeons and Dragons, and video games. Instead I get some nerd shit.

Fuck off Satan.

[-] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 0 points 3 months ago

I assume he'll be spending a lot on security

[-] AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Nobody should be getting physically close with anyone attending his talk or trying to interfere with his space. Idk if you've ever had someone try to save your soul from eternal damnation but that's what the megaphone is for.

The goal isn't to do anything other than to call out his hypocrisy and make people realize how lame he is. If people don't care they don't care. If people would rather join other humans having fun and being free to be themselves in God's universe rather than listen to him talk about his universe, they should feel welcome to join.

[-] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago

Counterpoint it'd be funny if Thiel was hit by a 2001 Honda Civic especially if he flopped around a bit afterwards because his bones were shattered and his organs were liquid.

[-] AlexLost@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

So specific

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