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.
Friendly reminder Vance is his lap dog.
Let me guess, is the Antichrist “woke”?
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]
Is Peter Thiel actually that much of an AnCap though? the modern conservative movement doesn’t actually care that much about economic liberalism.
He’s called it out as his most influential book. And he wrote the preface to the 2020 edition, so…?
https://www.thenerdreich.com/the-sovereign-individual-radical-bible-of-techs-cognitive-elite/
I know this is awfully lazy of me, but tell me more about this book please
I have started on the audiobook, but here is a summary:
https://www.thenerdreich.com/the-sovereign-individual-radical-bible-of-techs-cognitive-elite/
Thank you! I always appreciate responses when I ask for more info about something I could obviously just search for myself.
Some bullshit dystopian predictions about the future that I guess held some weight(?) and how to come out on top yourself, as a “sovereign individual”. It’s apparently extremely influential among tech bros and co. Adam Curtis also mentioned/explained it and the role it played in shit like brexit (I think), in his last documentary “Shifty”.
Repeating myself, but as I said to u/CharlesDarwin,
Thank you! I always appreciate responses when I ask for more info about something I could obviously just search for myself.
I read the description, and it doesn’t seem that bad. It denounces nationalism and prejudice. Doesn’t seem to align with Thiel’s current philosophy.
Thiel says it is the most influential book he’s ever read.
There is a summary here. Predicting that democracy will die off and the wealthy will “escape” democracy seems not that great to me.
https://www.thenerdreich.com/the-sovereign-individual-radical-bible-of-techs-cognitive-elite/
Now that’s a lot more ominous and wasn’t mentioned in the Wikipedia article.
Some people think homosexuals are the sign of the antichrist. Just saying.
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.
Have you seen Curtis Yarvin?
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.
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.
Thiel must be hewn down and cast into fire. I like it.
There are 4 horses.
3 have already rode (ridden?) in.
(The image is real)
Ridden is correct. They rode in or they have ridden in.
They flew in, on their private jets.
Omg chat, real!?
The guy is just another edgelord like musk.
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.
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.
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?
An oldie, but a goodie:
Could American Evangelicals Spot the Antichrist? Here Are the Biblical Predictions
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.
No technically Exxon and Shell would be considering theyre bringing an actual apocalypse
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
Gay Peter Thiel is too busy with this shit to read about the night of the long knives.
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.
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.
Now is a great time to plug the Monastic Academy which has a much better religion than Christianity for thinking about AI.
And what religion is that?
It’s still in development. But most of the people involved are Buddhist
Just normal everyday stuff.
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.
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.
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
My man is dick deep in the ketamine
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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.
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.
