What I pictured is him sitting in a chair with a stack of these books to his left. He turned the chair to look at the books. That was it. No touching them. Definitely not reading them. No way in heck did he read them, understand them, and apply the beliefs.
"And when I looked back along the beach I saw in places only one set of footprints and I asked Jesus about that. He said, after a long pause, 'Well yeah. That's where I was trying to drown you in the ocean because you're a goddamn monster.' And I smiled."
Pivotal moment for understanding Elon happened when he posted that Elden Ring screenshot showing that he had 1. played an insane amount since its release and 2. still had absolutely no idea how the game worked
"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."
- Nietszche
Given his famously shallow understanding of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy I somehow doubt he's doing rigorous readings of sacred or philosophical texts.
What I read from Ayn Rand was so long ago and it was a slog so didn't retain much. Did she quote any philosophers? Bcs I can see him reading her work and taking her interpretations as correct.
She was supposed to be writing philosophy & lived in contradiction. Her heroines like to be raped; the men are privileged yet feel unappreciated & over regulated. Robin Hood is no hero, he didn’t earn it. Money can’t be evil, we use it to value work by humans.
Did they write this article using Grok AI, maybe?
(Also, the WSJ *is* owned by Rupert Murdoch, so these kind of articles are probably not neutral at all)
Given what his daughter Viv has said on the subject I think it's clear he believes he's too good for a church community, and thus incapable of Christian witness in community with anyone ---or anything except his own money. This is political and stinks of it
Yep. If he was walking with Jesus, he wouldn't be promoting far right lies while supporting genocide, mass covid spread, making more homeless people and a candidate that supports murdering kids through ignorance of innoculations, the importance of NOAA, books and Dept. of Education.
I mean, I’d believe he *turned* to them, sure. Like, at least one time he was *near* a bookshelf with these texts on them as he rotated around to look for some ketamine he dropped, his eyes sliding over the spines of these books.
It is funny that throughout time con men have always found marks. We, as a group, are unable to distinguish reality from fantasy. As if that bit of intelligence isn't passed along generation-to-generation. We always have to re-learn not to give the Nigerian General $2,500 or believe the Musks/Trumps
I mean, I’m believe the books are on his book shelf, and he’s skimmed them, or maybe half listened while listening to an audiobook.
When they start talking books like this, I always think of Otto from A Fish Called Wanda
He "looked to" one group on one library shelf, and then "turned to" the next group on another, and then said, ponderously, "showing up is half the battle"
He paid for it because he's not popular with... regular folks
Or anyone...
He probably put a poll in the field and found out people...err humans don't like him
This is the beginning of a well-trodden anecdote from him, after which he says that he found those too depressing and turned to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy as better philosophy.
And then he normally goes on to completely misrepresent the plot and themes of Hitchhiker's Guide...
the billionaire equivalent of regular people at house parties that reference Marx or Wittgenstein without actually having read even the cliffsnotes of either.
Here's a brainteaser: Square (a) the demographics of the Supreme Court of the United States, (b) the Catechism of the Catholic Church; the Bible; the Magisterium, and (c) an Apartheid-era racist cosplaying as a prophet.
Hint: "Who Interprets Jesus' Teachings in the Catholic Church?"
The key phrase: “Given a diseased constitution and a neurotic mind, a life of empty leisure and gloomy ennui, and there emerges the proper physiology for Schopenhauer’s philosophy.”
The fact that they had to photoshop his head onto a stock image body and could not even be bothered to stage an image of him pretending to look like he is praying should say everything we need to know about the seriousness of this religious turn.
Wonder if M will be pissed that the photoshopped visual doesn’t make it look like he’s the object being worshipped, like that photo of Trump with those evangelical con artists laying hands on him in the Oval Office.
I believe that he might have had someone search through those texts to find passages that allowed him to pretend his selfish beliefs were actually endorsed by the great religions of the world.
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Probably after seeing one reposted by an MMA guy who's had to change his nickname 5 times because he keeps accidentally using Nazi references.
#ThingsThatClaimToBeChristian
"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."
- Nietszche
that was an easy block
2000 pages of selfish rationalization.
Art | Artist
Rand wasn’t an artist.
(Also, the WSJ *is* owned by Rupert Murdoch, so these kind of articles are probably not neutral at all)
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/513/transcript
The Boers historically saw themselves as dominating the land they stole "with a Bible in one hand and a gun in the other."
Why should he drift from that thinking?
Didn’t want to say it, but musk is a puffy doughy sorta guy, this is not his silhouette
A real one I mean.
Not one of those fake cash cow machines with grifters priests.
When they start talking books like this, I always think of Otto from A Fish Called Wanda
Or anyone...
He probably put a poll in the field and found out people...err humans don't like him
And then he normally goes on to completely misrepresent the plot and themes of Hitchhiker's Guide...
Hint: "Who Interprets Jesus' Teachings in the Catholic Church?"
Tell me that’s not Elmo ☠️
He's going to start his own church to get a tax break, isn't he?
“What theory do you read?”
“…Podcasts.”
Would have been more beneficial to have "read" and "followed"