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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    16 hours ago

    In a few year when he loses his hair, he’ll achieve his goal of becoming the real Dr. Evil.

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    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.

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      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.

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        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.

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      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

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          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.

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    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

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      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.

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      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.

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    “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.)

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      I’m no biblical scholar, but isn’t this one of the features of the antichrist? Like that they will have false prophets and other dastardly types trying to deceive people and advance the real antichrist’s agenda?