cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/39329798
Bet you never thought you'd read that combination of words anywhere other than on the back of a Dan Brown book, did you.
(article is paywalled, unfortunately, but there's enough there to get the gist)
40 Comments
ceenote@lemmy.world · 70 pts · 279d
The only thing I can appreciate Elon Musk and Peter Thiel for is their tireless work proving that being too rich causes mental illness.
Taldan@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 279d
Does it cause mental illness, or do you need some level of mental illness to pursue that level of wealth?
Formfiller@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 279d
Yes and yes
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 279d
Next up on Hoarders... Elon Musk. This person has hoarded billions of dollars, let's watch his road to recovery.
Formfiller@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 279d
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
Formfiller@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 279d
It’s a hoarding disorder
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world · 54 pts · 279d
So Pope Leo XIV is the antichrist, Trump is a good guy and JD Vance is our savior who like couches and widows?
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca · 31 pts · 279d
This is exactly what the Bible says the antichrist would do.
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world · 19 pts · 279d
They’re christians why would they read the bible?
Meron35@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 279d
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/
Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de · 6 pts · 279d
If I've learned anything from Southpark this season is that Peter thiel knows about the antichrist
Prunebutt@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 279d
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.
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world · 6 pts · 279d
Those Eva Braun types are few and far between.
y0kai@anarchist.nexus · 28 pts · 279d
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.
Pxtl@lemmy.ca · 20 pts · 279d
Isn't the antichrist supposed to be a charismatic leader?
popekingjoe@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 279d
And everyone is supposed to love him. I don't think anyone loves Thiel.
TachyonTele@piefed.social · 1 pts · 279d
It's not even a person. It's a combination of authorities.
y0kai@anarchist.nexus · 1 pts · 279d
Idk lol it's been years since I was force fed a bible
njm1314@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 279d
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.
Kraiden@piefed.social · 7 pts · 279d
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!?
dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 279d
He couldn’t even understand the underlying message of the Lord of the Rings, you can’t expect him to understand the Bible.
Archangel1313@lemmy.ca · 20 pts · 279d
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.
Prunebutt@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 279d
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".
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 279d
I'm 1000% convinced this guy has been smoking his own custom llm.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 11 pts · 279d
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.
Infrapink@thebrainbin.org · 9 pts · 279d
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.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 279d
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.
tkk13909@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 279d
I grew up thinking that lol
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 279d
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?
tkk13909@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 279d
Oh yeah I'm an atheist now
deathbird@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 279d
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.
_cryptagion@anarchist.nexus · 5 pts · 279d
Prunebutt@slrpnk.net · -2 pts · 279d
When can we expect the counter-pope? /j
_cryptagion@anarchist.nexus · 2 pts · 279d
Prunebutt@slrpnk.net · -1 pts · 279d
I'll get popcorn. 🍿
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 279d
Antipope again?
That trick never works!
Formfiller@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 279d
I guess that’s why he sent Vance to kill the last pope
defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 279d
https://youtube.com/watch?v=I2quAOKQyj0
Formfiller@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 279d
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.
Bluebonnetstreet@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 279d
Just gonna leave this here, it's a solid episode(part 2 as well)
[https://youtu.be/KtR7ny9TuCY]
AshMan85@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 279d
Yeah, white supremacists dont consider catholics white
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 279d
And they should be dismissed for advocating nonsense