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Peter Thiel (yes that Peter Theil) will give a four-lecture presentation on The Antichrist

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Peter Thiel Antichrist Antics Continue

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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.

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Peter Thiel's Antichrist Antics Continue

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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.
  
  Save him? He is accelerating what they are doing. He is funding them and propagandizing to them. He is the main reason fascism is here.
  
  What they think doesn't matter. In his mind, he is above the plebs. Their wants and moralities are beneath his notice.
- remember he defenestrated his BOYTOY from florida last year, probably sucked the life forced out of him to stay young, and then staged an "accident"
  
  K wait did he throw him out a window? I do not know this story
- and Trump always struck me as the "little horn." the one that won't shut up spewing blasphemous shit. XD
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.
- They have left us with only one solution to the billionaire problem. And they're trying to make that difficult too, with round-the-clock security. But everyone is vulnerable for a moment here or there.
  Last night I chatted with my politically moderate neighbor, who is now considering leaving the country, and cheered Luigi, and a bunch of other shit that would have been "far left" a while ago, but I think is now permeating into the middle too.
  
  polarization of the populace works in both directions, the left only lags a bit behind because they actually like stuff like due process and human rights.
- 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 ~~the~~ an 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.
  
  Scar comes to mind
- Also his surveillance company is literally named palantir(the orbs from Lord of the rings that saurrumon has laying around, that have him a direct line to the bbeg
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.
- 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.
- 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?
- they "promote Christ" by spending a ton of time obsessing and talk about his antithesis.
- "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!
He is desperate that people regard him as a deep and serious thinker. The trouble is, no interesting thought has ever crossed his mind. This is the reason for his pathetic hatred of academics. His university professors rightly saw a useless dweeb with an outrageous sense of self regard.
- The only reason Trump went to the Wharton School of Business was to take advantage of his draft deferments, which kept him out of the Vietnam War. (Trump got 5 deferments, one medical and 4 educational).
  He apparently didn't learn much while he was there, because his professor at Wharton (William T Kelly) has said, "Donald Trump was the dumbest goddamn student I ever had."
I think we should allow everyone to introduce themselves
- He's a man of wealth, and taste
  
  And has been around for a long long year
  
  Definitely wealth. I haven't tasted him yet
A four part lecture on Trump? But why?
- himself, how he "posesses" trump do his bidding.
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
- 'Sold Out'. Fuck me this world is stupid.
  
  And once it ends up online, it’s gonna get a lot of views. From all different people too. I’ll be part of the group who’s curious what the fuck is going on.
- 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.
So, what, is this just going to be his autobiography?
- how he stayed young, by consuming the lifeforce of his side pieces.
  
  But died trying.
  Right? !
If your president embodies every single one of the Seven Deadly Sins, he just might be The Antichrist.
- Thanks Jeff Foxworthy
considering it's Peter Thiel doing this, nothing good can come from this.
hes the real anti-christ, that controls his puppet vance and trump
Phew, for a moment I thought he'd give a lecture on the anarchist.
- 4 hours on how he,(thiel) the anti-christ warps reality(one of the antichrists powers)
Of course I know him. He's me.
Don does like it when people talk about him, but I doubt he could sit through four lectures
The 9th gate vibes anyone?
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?
I'm not antichrist, I'm just antichrist curious
Fer er aginnit?
This makes perfect sense, since it takes one to know one.
Isn't there a conflict of interest here? I mean, his boy-toy Vance is the antichrist's VP and all.
- vance is an empty puppet controlled by the antichrist.
So he’s just gonna be there showing PowerPoint slideshows of him and his buddies? Lol.
What a Jerxes!
Who is this man
- The next shinzo abe, probably; A sociopath billionaire whose long term project is destroying democracy and is the owner of Palantir a company that makes surveillance software for the US and Israeli government. The name "Palantir" comes from the device used to corrupt Saruman in lord of the rings.
  There's a lot of speculation that he's part of a silicon valley death cult that wants to purge the earth of most of its population.
  Edit: He's also gay, not that it matters.
  
  Oooh exciting
  
  He's the guy behind musk too right?
  They both have child labour mines (Elon has/had emeralds, Tile some nuclear horror).
  
  Note: said speculation comes from The Tinfoil Hat crowd.
- The living embodiment of the idea that billionaires shouldn't exist.
- The real life Gavin Belson. Silicon Valley writers used Theil for that character, based on actual events. Yes, he has a blood boy.
- He is the one causing all the fascism in the world right now.
  
  you give him far too much credit. he's not the only one doing it, but he's certainly one of the loudest.
I like it that people from America have so much difficulty descerning 'ie' and 'ei' that op just used both.
See also Einstein ( 'ain' correct) Weinstein ( 'steen' <- only if it were written 'stien')
- I like that you made a smugly arrogant blanket statement about an entire nation without having any context.
  /s

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