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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    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]

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    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.

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      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.

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    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.*"

    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.

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        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.

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        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.

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      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?

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    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.

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      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.

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    Thiel’s increasingly public theological interests that intertwine his Christian faith with his concerns about technology’s potential to enable authoritarian control.

    Classic traitor republican projecting his authoritarian goals onto others. This is comming from thw fucker that founded Palatir.

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      Said very calmly as a plague of locusts and frogs descends upon us.

      “Why do you ask?” Said as I nonchalantly paint my doorframe in blood to keep the angel of death from crossing my threshold.

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    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.

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    The thing about these nutjobs is not that they believe in biblical myths and legends

    It’s that they want to use religious and cult beliefs for their own ends and usher in a violent social change so that they can reshape the future for their own benefit.

    They don’t mind encouraging people to believe in an AntiChrist or a biblical apocalypse because that’s what they want … people to go crazy, start a war, kill one another and end civilization as we know it. Then the billionaire class believe that they will be the ones to survive the fallout and gain the world for themselves and live like god-kings in the post apocalypse

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      I mean yeah that’s about it. It seems like we could probably just all read that and know you probably saved us having to listen to him stroke his own ego for several hours.

      I guess I kind of understand going to hear it to find out what’s being discussed, but the plan is pretty much the wealthy will inherit the earth. The opposite of what the bible actually says.

      I would just be very hesitant to give this guy a penny of my money. Unless you plan to secretly record and pirate whatever he says behind closed doors. Then I fully support it.

      Actually now that I think about it, if you can catch him even hinting at anything involving organ transplants and immortality behind closed doors I would campaign for you to receive the Nobel Peace Prize and a medal of honor.

      https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/xi-putins-hot-mic-moment-long-science-extend-125246841

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      Oh, he’s banking on society collapsing. That’s what his Praxis network-state-city is about.

      If you’re not familiar with Curtis Yarvin, he’s the crazy glue holding it all together. Get deep into that mess, it’s what happens after Project 2025 runs out of ideas.

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        I’m curious as to how they think they will make it through it.

        All their wealth is magical stock numbers on a computer. They better have some gold on hand to pay to protect their shit.

        They can ride out the worst of it in their bunkers but if they want to be Immotan Joe it’s quite the dice roll.