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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    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.

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    These people are both insane and in charge. They have the means and the will to kill us all.

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    The ticket prices are nothing more than a bribe paid to an influential person. I’ve not seen this guy talk to a camera much, but the little I have seen has not impressed me, I can’t imagine anyone caring what he has to say that much. High society socialite garbage.

    Or maybe he’ll reveal he’s the actual living avatar of Asmodeus and enthrall everyone in attendance with dark magic like a movie villain reveal. I don’t know, I’d accept it as truth if I saw it in the news at this point.

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      It’s not so much a bribe—he doesn’t need money—as a tool to weed out poors, skeptics and investigative reporters.

      He wants an audience of rich, gullible fools.

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    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.

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    This is so fucking weird.

    People like this shouldn’t be allowed to lead or make decisions that have long lasting effects for millions upon millions of people, or anyone for that matter.

    People like him should be locked in psychiatric institutions. They should be studied for their mental disorders, and helped if possible.

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      Yea, we could like, have a system where everyone gets to cast a vote for who they want to lead them, and only the people with the most votes gets to make the decisions! Too bad our society is just run by whoever has the most money.

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    Any mention of Thiel should ALWAYS be accompanied by a mention of the book he and so many other weirdoes seem to take as their inspiration, and that book is The Sovereign Individual.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sovereign_Individual

    The guy even wrote a preface for a reprint of the book!

    In 2020, the book was reprinted with a preface written by PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel.[1]

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    Damn. It would be a shame if an earthquake epic center formed at the base of that building and collapsed on everyone.

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      If there was any sort of non shitty god it would destroy theil and his audience with a meteor

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    These people are a death cult actively trying to make revelations happen so they can get whisked up to fantasy perfect land. Can we just sell them all the special Kool-aid and get on with our lives trying to fix this broken ass world?