cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/39329798

Bet you never thought you’d read that combination of words anywhere other than on the back of a Dan Brown book, did you.

(article is paywalled, unfortunately, but there’s enough there to get the gist)

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    23 hours ago

    The only thing I can appreciate Elon Musk and Peter Thiel for is their tireless work proving that being too rich causes mental illness.

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      21 hours ago

      Does it cause mental illness, or do you need some level of mental illness to pursue that level of wealth?

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        21 hours ago

        Next up on Hoarders… Elon Musk. This person has hoarded billions of dollars, let’s watch his road to recovery.

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          He’d be like one of those hoarders that even breaks the psychologist. I read he was living in his x office with the assistant he was having kids with in a room that had all kinds of live wires hanging from the ceiling. He was doing this because he’s too cheap to buy or rent a house. The wires were hanging from the ceiling because he didn’t want to pay a contractor to fix them so he told an engineer to do it or he was fired. So I am a contractor and I know that you don’t touch another trades work for safety reasons and god knows what was going on with that. So yeah dude is seriously mentally ill

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    In these lectures, Thiel doesn’t just flirt with the apocalyptic. He goes all in — openly discussing the Antichrist, naming Pope Leo XIV as a potential manifestation of that figure, and, most disturbingly, advising JD Vance to ignore the pope on moral matters altogether.

    So Pope Leo XIV is the antichrist, Trump is a good guy and JD Vance is our savior who like couches and widows?

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    Behind the bastards did an episode on this where they read a supposed transcript from the first day and it’s quite interesting. Also notes on the other days. In short Peter Thiel believes that the Antichrist is anyone who threatens in any way the business and financial interest of Peter Thiel. Also weirdly for a Christian he seems to think we should stop the Antichrist, which I guess will also stop Jesus from coming back but I don’t think he’s thought it through I don’t know.

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      Like most Christians, his only information about the anti-christ is from pop culture. Can’t expect him to read the WHOLE bible! Have you seen how thick that thing is!?

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        He couldn’t even understand the underlying message of the Lord of the Rings, you can’t expect him to understand the Bible.

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    The fact that everything he’s describing as “the Antichrist” also perfectly describes himself, should be obvious to anyone with a shred of self-awareness. It blows my mind how many of these so-called “tech geniuses” are actually just really stupid people with a lot of money to burn.

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      I think the bit might be intentional. It’s trying to level up “the AI will bear a god whigh will exterminate all human life”.

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    Wow how very original.

    The Pope is the AntiChrist?

    Really?

    I’m fairly sure that for at least the past 150 years, at least one either fairly prominent or at least fairly loud Protestant sect or denomination has been claiming the current Pope is the AntiChrist.

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      What’s weird isn’t someone calling [insert current Pope here] the Antichrist, but the fact that this time it’s Peter Thiel saying it.

      That’s just something I expect from Christian conservatives, not… whatever kind of conservative Thiel is.

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    I thought he said it was Greta tumberg? Well I guess we all know why he sent jd Vance to kill the pope. Is every pope an Antichrist? I mean I thought he’d be into the pope considering they’re both part of a pedofile cabal.