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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
Sorry but an orthodontist or a dentist who is a multimillionaire is only normal in the USA. It’s one of the reasons why healthcare in your country is unaffordable.
I just looked this up and they make big bucks almost everywhere, including Europe.
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.
A hard upper limit would solve a lot of problems in the world. Like once you reach a billion dollars you die immediately.
I like you pigup! You’re 100% on the spot here.
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.
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.
thinkers
LMAO
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.
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.
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.
“What we thought since you were Jewish we could try to find a loophole, isn’t that a thing you do in your religion”
Christianity as a whole is one giant loophole in Judaism if you think about it.
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?
"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!
I think we should allow everyone to introduce themselves
He’s a man of wealth, and taste
Definitely wealth. I haven’t tasted him yet
Well if you do, I’m sure he’d be pleased to meet you regardless.
And has been around for a long long year
So, what, is this just going to be his autobiography?
If your president embodies every single one of the Seven Deadly Sins, he just might be The Antichrist.
Thanks Jeff Foxworthy
A four part lecture on Trump? But why?
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.
Definitely not a technocult.
At the Commonwealth Club? LMAO
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.
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.
I assume the Commonwealth Club just really really likes money.
Of course I know him. He’s me.
I’m not antichrist, I’m just antichrist curious
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?
Don does like it when people talk about him, but I doubt he could sit through four lectures
