The only thing I can appreciate Elon Musk and Peter Thiel for is their tireless work proving that being too rich causes mental illness.
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One of Silicon Valley's most prominent techbros is giving lectures on the Antichrist -- and he thinks it's the Pope
(www.thelettersfromleo.com)
Does it cause mental illness, or do you need some level of mental illness to pursue that level of wealth?
Yes and yes
Next up on Hoarders... Elon Musk. This person has hoarded billions of dollars, let's watch his road to recovery.
He’d be like one of those hoarders that even breaks the psychologist. I read he was living in his x office with the assistant he was having kids with in a room that had all kinds of live wires hanging from the ceiling. He was doing this because he’s too cheap to buy or rent a house. The wires were hanging from the ceiling because he didn’t want to pay a contractor to fix them so he told an engineer to do it or he was fired. So I am a contractor and I know that you don’t touch another trades work for safety reasons and god knows what was going on with that. So yeah dude is seriously mentally ill
It’s a hoarding disorder
In these lectures, Thiel doesn’t just flirt with the apocalyptic. He goes all in — openly discussing the Antichrist, naming Pope Leo XIV as a potential manifestation of that figure, and, most disturbingly, advising JD Vance to ignore the pope on moral matters altogether.
So Pope Leo XIV is the antichrist, Trump is a good guy and JD Vance is our savior who like couches and widows?
This is exactly what the Bible says the antichrist would do.
They’re christians why would they read the bible?
Obligatory compilation of the spooky predictions from Revelations about that antichrist, which Trump seems to hit
Could American Evangelicals Spot the Antichrist? Here Are the Biblical Predictions: - Benjamin L. Corey - http://www.benjaminlcorey.com/could-american-evangelicals-spot-the-antichrist-heres-the-biblical-predictions/
If I've learned anything from Southpark this season is that Peter thiel knows about the antichrist
JD Vance is our savior who like [...] widows?
It's a bit like one of the sleazy houses on Game Of Thrones, right?
... Although I kinda get it (you do not, under any circumstances have to hand it to him, though): There are not many women ok with dating fascists.
Those Eva Braun types are few and far between.
I always thought the Antichrist would know he was the Antichrist, so maybe Thiel is just pretending it's the Pope to take the heat off of himself.
Isn't the antichrist supposed to be a charismatic leader?
And everyone is supposed to love him. I don't think anyone loves Thiel.
Idk lol it's been years since I was force fed a bible
It's not even a person. It's a combination of authorities.
Behind the bastards did an episode on this where they read a supposed transcript from the first day and it's quite interesting. Also notes on the other days. In short Peter Thiel believes that the Antichrist is anyone who threatens in any way the business and financial interest of Peter Thiel. Also weirdly for a Christian he seems to think we should stop the Antichrist, which I guess will also stop Jesus from coming back but I don't think he's thought it through I don't know.
Like most Christians, his only information about the anti-christ is from pop culture. Can't expect him to read the WHOLE bible! Have you seen how thick that thing is!?
He couldn’t even understand the underlying message of the Lord of the Rings, you can’t expect him to understand the Bible.
The fact that everything he's describing as "the Antichrist" also perfectly describes himself, should be obvious to anyone with a shred of self-awareness. It blows my mind how many of these so-called "tech geniuses" are actually just really stupid people with a lot of money to burn.
I think the bit might be intentional. It's trying to level up "the AI will bear a god whigh will exterminate all human life".
Wow how very original.
The Pope is the AntiChrist?
Really?
I'm fairly sure that for at least the past 150 years, at least one either fairly prominent or at least fairly loud Protestant sect or denomination has been claiming the current Pope is the AntiChrist.
It's a little older than that, friend. Martin Luther himself proclaimed that the pop was the antichrist, and the Vatican was the whore of Babylon.
Absolutely true, I just think that for ~150 years, its been continuous... though that may very well be the case going back much further as well, I'm less well versed in European history than US history.
I grew up thinking that lol
Are you still a member of a suprisingly extreme branch of Christianity that just pretends it is normal, or did you bounce off of it, like I did, after actually reading a good deal of the Bible?
Oh yeah I'm an atheist now
What's weird isn't someone calling [insert current Pope here] the Antichrist, but the fact that this time it's Peter Thiel saying it.
That's just something I expect from Christian conservatives, not... whatever kind of conservative Thiel is.
To be fair, there’s always some religious nutter saying one person or another is the antichrist. At this point it struggles to be noteworthy, especially since an increasing number of Americans admit to not being very religious. This isn’t even the first pope somebody has accused of being the antichrist.
When can we expect the counter-pope? /j
Historically, that’s never ended up good for the western world 😂
Let’s fucking go
I'll get popcorn. 🍿
Antipope again?
That trick never works!
I thought he said it was Greta tumberg? Well I guess we all know why he sent jd Vance to kill the pope. Is every pope an Antichrist? I mean I thought he’d be into the pope considering they’re both part of a pedofile cabal.
Yeah, white supremacists dont consider catholics white
And they should be dismissed for advocating nonsense