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.
Wow giving a lecture about yourself. That’s meta man
He’s just a want-to-be.
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.
There are 4 horses.
3 have already rode (ridden?) in.
(The image is real)
They flew in, on their private jets.
Ridden is correct. They rode in or they have ridden in.
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.
Sharing a photo for no reason at all. Not related to the topic.
I usually refrain from uttering what could be construed as death threats. So I will continue my streak and mention that this seems more like an event that should be catered by C. L. Aymore and associates.
4 chances
These people are both insane and in charge. They have the means and the will to kill us all.
I don’t understand how such stupid people end up so rich and powerful. .
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.
Yeah, I am definitely pissed and asking for a refund. Fuck you Satan!
Some will call this a Thielogical discussion. Or not. Praise Satan.
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.
Watching theil talk makes Zuckerberg seem human
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.
I fucking hate accelerationism, and this is one of them.
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]
I know this is awfully lazy of me, but tell me more about this book please
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 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.
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.
I suggest getting the audiobook and start listening. I’m only a bit in and I get why it might appeal to aspiring or current billionaires…
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/
What a glorious, target rich environment. I hope they all get eaten.
Friendly reminder Vance is his lap dog.
It would be cool to hear his take on things, if for no other reason than he has a huge amount of influence in the current government and had a hand in project 2025; and he’s I think an accelerationist who believes society needs to collapse and be remade into some techno-feudal state with himself as lord of part of California and also everyone’s personal information. Cause Palantir definitely has all your shit at this point.
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.
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
Pretty sure all big tech guys want to farm the poor for their organs
Yess!!! God dammit and it’s so crazy that people are never going to actually believe it until it’s too late to do anything about it. Like it will probably just get normalized to the point where it’s considered a privilege to be sacrificed for the wealthy bc you’re allowed a better quality of life compared to your peasant peers in order to keep your organs in tip top shape.
Like people keep saying everything is just a distraction from the Epstein files, but that shit has become a distraction from what all he’s trying to normalize in the meantime while Republicans keep dropping kayfabe and pretending they’re shocked in order to keep us distracted.
They just dismissed Congress early and went home for the summer. They’re supposed to be returning but are about to just shut down the entire government instead. Probably indefinitely. The entire Republican party is going scorched earth. By the time all the files do get released (if ever) it will be beyond the point where it matters.
The goal has always been to overthrow the government and replace it with an oligarchy.
Do people actually understand what organ harvesting, sex trafficking, pedophile oligarchs stand to lose if some files are released confirming what we already knew once we no longer have any accountability, elections, or a justice system, and every city is controlled by the state dictator’s military? Nothing. That’s why they don’t give a fuck.
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.
So, this is like his Memoir?
The Antichrist: An Unofficial Autobiography