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.
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.
"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!
they “promote Christ” by spending a ton of time obsessing and talk about his antithesis.
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.
Don does like it when people talk about him, but I doubt he could sit through four lectures
I’m not antichrist, I’m just antichrist curious
hes the real anti-christ, that controls his puppet vance and trump
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.
He should be cowering in his bunker
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.
Fer er aginnit?
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.
No wonder I’ve related better to Gnosticism than mainstream Pauline Christianity.
To hell with any tyrant says that knowledge is bad, and has an unquenchable narcissistic need for constant praise and worship. And hail Azazel.
the prince of hell known for his insaitable apetities.
Sounds like archonic propaganda to me. All my man did is teach mankind the arts of metallurgy, making of bracelets, the use of antimony, the use of eyeliner, the working of fancy stones, and coloring tinctures.
Also, fun fact: Azazel was also called the scapegoat in Leviticus IIRC. So of course it’s highly likely he was defamed and besmirched. It’s right there in the title he was given.
More of the same “knowledge is bad” narrative we find throughout the Pentateuch. Also, in the Book of Enoch, the “just and merciful” God has him bound and cast into darkness forever, even after he apologizes and begs for forgiveness! Sounds like harsh, cruel tyranny to me, not justice.
His big crime? Teaching people stuff.
Perhaps the snake in the garden of Eden was right, and Lucifer (the light-bringer) was the snake who was spilling the beans, and Christ Jesus is Lucifer, come incarnate on earth as a man to free us from this prison planet built by Yaldabaoth, the demiurge calling himself “God” (while demanding subservience, blood sacrifice, and keeping humanity small, fearful, and ignorant), and monitored by the jail-warden archons working to keep us all trapped in here. Which is an interpretation that makes sense if one discounts the Pauline writings and includes the Gnostic ones (Gospel of Thomas, Gospel of Mary, Gospel of Judas, and so on).
Maybe the god of the Old Testament is a fascist fraud who rules by fear, cruelty, and human ignorance. No Tree of Knowledge for you! Destroy the Tower of Babel, lest “they become like us.” And maybe Jesus / Lucifer / Prometheus represents liberation and enlightenment. Neo, who knows the Truth and can have us unplugged from the Matrix, if we’re ready for it.
If one believes in any of this sort of thing beyond myth and metaphor, that is.
I don’t believe a word of it but I like your style.
So he’s just gonna be there showing PowerPoint slideshows of him and his buddies? Lol.
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.
At the Commonwealth Club? LMAO
Definitely not a technocult.
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.
‘Sold Out’. Fuck me this world is stupid.
And once it ends up online, it 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.
No doubt. I’ll be happy to wait for Some More News or someone to analyse it/rip it to shreds. I can’t imagine he’ll have anything good to say.
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.
I firmly believe that Peter Thiel is the second beast from Revelation.
and Trump always struck me as the “little horn.” the one that won’t shut up spewing blasphemous shit. XD
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
not exactly defenestrated, but very similar his timing of his death after voicing his concern over thiels continuing support and attack on anti-lgbqt+ rhetoric and initiatives through the gop. he fell from a high rise after voicing his concern over this, and due to “personal issues, so suicide”.
You ask why, he doesnt just Leave THiel? if your so depressed? something else he knows about thiel that thiel doesnt want revealed, let alone; probably doesnt want to be int he news " thiel being gay, supports homophobic laws" or something else. how do you leave someone that has much more power than you do, just like a woman who wants to leave an abuser but dont?
thiel could probably ruin the bf life if he had not suicided, and left, to prevent him from going to press to give a tell all article to the news. its pretty fishy.
the last thing thiel wants is press on him being gay, and doing something shady, like with gawker, thats why he funded HUlk hogans lawsuit, he had a vendetta.
because right wingers dont tolerate gays at all.
you can search an article, i think this happened in florida.
My one solace in the coming climate/water wars, is that Pete is going to likely be tortured and murdered by his private military. Once the government he wants to destroy is gone, what’s to stop the people with weapons to just be like “lol,no!” to his orders?
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.
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.
Phew, for a moment I thought he’d give a lecture on the anarchist.
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.
I wonder how many times he’ll mention Greta Thunberg, the presumptive Antichrist?
This makes perfect sense, since it takes one to know one.
