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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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
Wow giving a lecture about yourself. That’s meta man
He’s just a want-to-be.
Fun fact. The reason why Luigi is angry here is because you broke the spaghetti in half! No other reason.
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.
Omg chat, real!?
The guy is just another edgelord like musk.
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.
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.
Thiel must be hewn down and cast into fire. I like it.
I sometimes find this timeline incredibly funny. How did we get here?
It all started with an ape that got shot.
Abrahamic techno facism?
Well Facebook let companies know that users would volunteer their most valued data… And now there’s an ai identifying Palestinians based on their facial features so they can be starved better.
Soooooooo eidunno. Billionaires are the new prophets in this wealth obsessed world.
These people are both insane and in charge. They have the means and the will to kill us all.
What a glorious, target rich environment. I hope they all get eaten.
his concerns about technology’s potential to enable authoritarian control.
I don’t even know what to say at this point
Palantir co-founder!?
Brother, you ARE the dragon that gave power to the beast
Llike all men of power, when he talked of prices worth paying, you could be sure of one thing. Someone else was paying.
He named his technology company after a wizard pondering orb wiretapped by LOTR-satan.
Im sure theres some great jokes here but I don’t have anything snarky to say about it, I’m just tired.
What is it with billionaires that they have to go insane? It’s like all of them end up like those classic campus bond villains
I kinda wonder if it’s like how two people can watch a movie and come away with a completely different view of the same character. They saw the asshole villain that was made to be unlikable and thought “man that guy is cool,” before they began a series of very poor life choices. Life imitating art.
They don’t go insane.
They just stop pretending they were ever sane enough to share.
Friendly reminder Vance is his lap dog.
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.
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.
Ha ha ha, is that all real Satanist shit? Getting up in the middle of the night when Saturn is in retrograde to pick mugwort? I pick mugwort. Makes decent tea.
Harvesting plants and performing various tasks at specific times and under specific conditions is a regular practice in various occult systems, I’m not sure of the significance of mugwort, I chose it at random. I don’t think Satanism is “real” occultism, it doesn’t appear in the historical record until the accusations of the midaeval Catholic inquisition, of which most accounts are cartoonish fabrications or refer to pagan, Hebrew, or various forms of foreign cultural mysticism as “Satanic”.
Not really. The satanic temple is spicy atheism and the laveyans mostly do sex magic and manifesting, they’re basically objectivists with sex magic. It’s definitely occult to do ritual gardening, but ironically Satanists are generally low end of the occultism spectrum. I can see thelema (Alistair Crowley’s religion) practitioners doing it. Wiccans totally would but they’re the bizarre lovechild of protestant Christianity and 2nd wave feminism. A lot of neopagans actually would probably be down.
Yeah, I am definitely pissed and asking for a refund. Fuck you Satan!
“his Christian faith”? Is Thiel Christian? Or is he just calling himself that for cultural political reasons, like Peterson and Musk?
(For the record, I am Christian, and I’m constantly horrified at what passes for Christianity in the US.)
He is not, he uses it for the political reasons like you suspect
I fucking hate accelerationism, and this is one of them.
Sort of an autobiographical art piece I guess?
His sales pitch.
