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EYESORE 9001

(29,162 posts)
Tue Oct 14, 2025, 05:29 PM Tuesday

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel's off-the-record lectures about the antichrist

The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

Peter Thiel, the billionaire political svengali and tech investor, is worried about the antichrist. It could be the US. It could be Greta Thunberg.

Over the past month, Thiel has hosted a series of four lectures on the downtown waterfront of San Francisco philosophizing about who the antichrist could be and warning that Armageddon is coming. Thiel, who describes himself as a “small-o orthodox Christian”, believes the harbinger of the end of the world could already be in our midst and that things such as international agencies, environmentalism and guardrails on technology could quicken its rise. It is a remarkable discursion that reveals the preoccupations of one of the most influential people in Silicon Valley and the US.

“A basic definition of the antichrist: some people think of it as a type of very bad person. Sometimes it’s used more generally as a spiritual descriptor of the forces of evil,” Thiel said, kicking off his first lecture. “What I will focus on is the most common and most dramatic interpretation of antichrist: an evil king or tyrant or anti-messiah who appears in the end times.”

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/10/peter-thiel-lectures-antichrist

Greta Thunberg as Antichrist
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Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel's off-the-record lectures about the antichrist (Original Post) EYESORE 9001 Tuesday OP
the miracle ear is foretold in rev 13 rampartd Tuesday #1
The "antichrist" is a myth, but hey... pandr32 Tuesday #2
Bat Shit Crazy... Chasstev365 Tuesday #3
EVERY ACCUSATION IS A CONFESSION usonian Tuesday #4
And yet he appears to have never considered Trump. Hmm. 🤔 tanyev Tuesday #5
wut Andreessen? He is part of the greasy elitist moneyed types, a venture capitalist friend of Thiel Bernardo de La Paz Tuesday #8
It's most likely donald john trmp. spanone Tuesday #6
It's basically starting with a conclusion and working backwards using every fallacy and trick they can Bernardo de La Paz Tuesday #7
This message was self-deleted by its author wcmagumba Tuesday #9
He supported him for POTUS and still works for him. CousinIT Tuesday #10
Untreated Paranoid Schizophrenia delisen Tuesday #11
Myths are serious juju ThreeNoSeep Tuesday #12
The Antichrist isn''t a person, it's a philosophy. patphil Tuesday #13
A nut case with money Joinfortmill Tuesday #14
Talking about himself again. milestogo Tuesday #15
Thiel, one consonant away from Thief. Hassler Tuesday #16

rampartd

(2,665 posts)
1. the miracle ear is foretold in rev 13
Tue Oct 14, 2025, 05:34 PM
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3 One of the heads of the beast seemed to have had a fatal wound, but the fatal wound had been healed. The whole world was filled with wonder and followed the beast.

greta thunburg indeed!

pandr32

(13,512 posts)
2. The "antichrist" is a myth, but hey...
Tue Oct 14, 2025, 05:35 PM
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if you are seriously looking there are a few good candidates in the White House!

usonian

(21,522 posts)
4. EVERY ACCUSATION IS A CONFESSION
Tue Oct 14, 2025, 05:35 PM
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the antichrist

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=20617620


Who checks ALL the boxes ? (boxes are on order)




Ask Brother Paul.
https://antichrist45.com/ His web site.
https://www.youtube.com/@antichrist45 His YouTube channel
That's where I screensnapped the checklist.



He checks even more boxes.





From an earlier post:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=20610303

tanyev

(48,094 posts)
5. And yet he appears to have never considered Trump. Hmm. 🤔
Tue Oct 14, 2025, 05:37 PM
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Thiel believes that the antichrist would be a single evil tyrant. He mentions several figures he believes are particularly dangerous and, while he never definitively says who the antichrist is, he makes suggestions about how some people could be antichrist-type figures.

A basic definition of the antichrist. Some people think of it as a type of very bad person. Sometimes it’s used more generally as a spiritual descriptor of the forces of evil. What I will focus on is the most common and most dramatic interpretation of antichrist: an evil king or tyrant or anti-messiah who appears in the end times.

Specifically, he suggests the antichrist would be a “luddite who wants to stop all science”, referencing Thunberg, Eliezer Yudkowsky, and Marc Andreessen.

Bernardo de La Paz

(59,608 posts)
8. wut Andreessen? He is part of the greasy elitist moneyed types, a venture capitalist friend of Thiel
Tue Oct 14, 2025, 05:47 PM
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He supported presidential candidates of the Democratic party until 2016. In 2024 he became an advisor to Donald Trump.[2] Andreessen's net worth is estimated at $1.9 billion as of January 2025.


Bernardo de La Paz

(59,608 posts)
7. It's basically starting with a conclusion and working backwards using every fallacy and trick they can
Tue Oct 14, 2025, 05:43 PM
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Conclusion: only select whites along with a few adjacent people of other races grandfathered in (like Vance's wife) get to be comfortable and well off. Everyone else can bugger off because the elite have figured out a way to warp christian teachings to justify rejecting empathy, compassion, and kindness to the other. There will be no government services because that is socialism and socialism is anti-christian. There will be no charity because giving just encourages people to expect it and not work.

This is the elitism maga warned everybody about but they are so blind they love this, thinking they are automatically included regardless of what grade or year they dropped out of school.

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CousinIT

(11,949 posts)
10. He supported him for POTUS and still works for him.
Tue Oct 14, 2025, 06:22 PM
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As I say, pretentious hypocrisy is the hallmark of Republicans.

delisen

(7,153 posts)
11. Untreated Paranoid Schizophrenia
Tue Oct 14, 2025, 06:24 PM
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I know a person who achieved a cult following with this condition. He was impoverished though and therefore did not pose as great a danger as billionaire Peter Thiel.

ThreeNoSeep

(239 posts)
12. Myths are serious juju
Tue Oct 14, 2025, 06:36 PM
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Joseph Campbell, Rollo May, and Ursula K. LeGuin saw this.
Dismissing religious myths as nonsense is the actions of The Fool
While Trump may not be THE Antichrist, he is certainly an antichrist.

patphil

(8,364 posts)
13. The Antichrist isn''t a person, it's a philosophy.
Tue Oct 14, 2025, 06:50 PM
Tuesday

It's a philosophy that embraces the antithesis of what Jesus taught and stands for.
There are a lot of people out there who fill that bill.
They can be labeled as an Antichrist, but not the one and only Antichrist.
For example, people who embrace and live the teachings of Jesus are called Catholics or Christians.

Hassler

(4,593 posts)
16. Thiel, one consonant away from Thief.
Tue Oct 14, 2025, 07:00 PM
Tuesday

If he wants to find the anti-christ, all he has to do is look in the mirror.

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