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00:00:58.920in Russia. Doctors are offering to murder older women if they can no longer cook. AOC is making
00:01:06.140a strong argument that she could be the next president. And all of a sudden, Peter Thiel's
00:01:11.660multi-city lecture series on the Antichrist and the End Times is starting to feel a little bit
00:01:17.240too real. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:01:28.920welcome back to the show sorry i forgot one austrian painter just won some big horse race
00:01:43.060austrian painter is the name of the horse so we what we got plague we got doctors killing women
00:01:50.700because they won't like cook dinner anymore a president aoc and hitler winning horse races
00:01:57.180I'm starting to think Peter Thiel is now very famously doing his Antichrist lecture series in this city, in Nashville, starting to feel like it's a little more of a news conference than it is an academic discussion of theology.
00:11:12.080Not that I have any reason to hide that.
00:11:14.380I find Peter Thiel to be a very interesting guy.
00:11:15.820But the whole thing is shrouded in such kind of mystery and publicity that some paparazzi-like reporter was taking pictures of the people coming in last night.
00:11:26.900And I'm only irritated about this because he got a really bad picture of me.
00:11:57.920If the lecture series comes to a city near you, I encourage you to go check it out.
00:12:02.860One thing that the lecture got me focused on, though, regardless of the specific details
00:12:08.620that Peter was talking about is what it means to think about the Antichrist, what it means to think
00:12:15.320about the end times. In the Middle Ages, people thought about that a lot. In modern times, you had
00:12:22.720some groups of evangelicals who talk about it a lot, but generally speaking, we don't think that
00:12:26.940much about the Antichrist. We don't think that much about the end times. I'm not that worried
00:12:29.520about the Antichrist or the end times. We could be living in the end times. Some generation is
00:12:33.560going to be living in the end times, but I'm not that worried. I just want to do what God wants me
00:12:37.380to do today. It's not up to me to know the day or the hour, not even the son, but only the father
00:12:42.060knows the day or the hour. So I don't spend too much of my time thinking about that. But it seems
00:12:47.400to me worth thinking about the end times and the Antichrist. Because when you're thinking about the
00:12:54.720end times, you're thinking about the future. When you're thinking about the Antichrist, even
00:12:59.720something so scintillating, so mysterious, so scary as the rise of the Antichrist, that means
00:13:07.080you're thinking about the future. And one of the real problems that we have in our very decadent
00:13:12.760culture is we're always just thinking about the past. We're always just relitigating the past.
00:13:17.480We're nostalgic for the past. Nostalgia is history after a couple of drinks. We're fighting
00:13:22.300yesterday's battle. Yesterday's war. Conservatives are particularly guilty of this kind of thing.
00:13:27.360And I do wonder if some of the talk about the Antichrist in the end times
00:13:34.020is to get us focused on the future again. Some of the discussions about the Antichrist in the
00:13:42.140Middle Ages, they came from these mystical, very interesting esoteric thinkers. One of them in
00:13:47.720particular is a thinker named Joachim of Flora, Joachim da Fiore. And he was this 12th century
00:13:57.080writer who believed that there were three stages of history, the era of the father before the
00:14:02.840incarnation. Then there was the era of the sun that was coming to an end, according to his
00:14:09.340calculation, around Joaquino's time. And then somewhere in the 15th, 16th centuries, you would
00:14:15.440enter into the age of the spirit. And I think that theory of history is wrong, and I think it's
00:14:20.300anti-Christian in a way because it's creating divisions within the Trinity that I think are
00:14:24.180contrary to Trinitarian theology. But it was an influential theory. It helped to influence Dante,
00:14:28.300which is where I first got acquainted with the thinking of Joachim of Flora. And in a weird way,
00:14:34.140Joachim does seem to have predicted the Protestant revolution, this idea where you're going to have
00:14:38.280a diminishing of the authority of the church, and you're going to have people going directly
00:14:42.640through their own interpretation to the spirit. Now, in some ways, that was also a self-fulfilling
00:14:46.440prophecy because those ideas began to take hold and influence people. And in any case,
00:14:51.360there the middle ages were the high point of our civilization beginning with the enlightenment and
00:14:59.580the modern era we start to look back with disdain on the middle ages we call them the dark ages
00:15:04.220we say there was no scientific advancement it was all superstition and mysticism and woo woo
00:15:09.340but that's not true actually the great art the great intellectual advancements we made
00:15:14.480really did occur in the high middle ages and it's kind of been downhill ever since we've had some
00:15:19.620tech improvements, but generally speaking, it's been downhill ever since. And so you think there's
00:15:24.020something curious here that when we're thinking about these very mystical concepts in the middle
00:15:31.540ages, we're thinking ahead to the future and we're helping to build the future. And one of the great
00:15:36.240problems that we have today is we're not focused on the future. We're lamenting a past that is gone
00:15:42.800or on the left, they are constantly trying to relitigate the past, rewrite the past, tear down
00:15:48.240statues, rewrite history. Nobody seems to be focused on the future. Not good. And if the way
00:15:55.240that we can get people thinking about the future is to scare them about the Antichrist, I don't
00:15:59.120know. Maybe that's a good way to do it. In any case, I do encourage, having been to the lecture
00:16:02.980last night, I do encourage you to go. They're very interesting. Other signs of the end times,
00:16:07.400we've gone from medical assistance in dying, assisted suicide, euthanasia, whatever the
00:16:12.020euphemism. We've gone from that, targeting really elderly people in immense physical pain who have
00:16:20.180hours to live and you're going to hasten their death, to terminal diagnoses generally, to
00:16:28.580doing euthanasia against the patient's will, as we just saw at a nursing home a few weeks ago,
00:16:36.060to now, even in the New York Times, you have doctors who were influential in implementing
00:16:42.640assisted suicide who were sounding the alarm bell because a 70-year-old woman
00:16:46.700tried to get a doctor to help her kill herself because she could no longer cook as well.
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00:32:11.120Did you really even think about how much pain you would bring your own two daughters?
00:32:20.440By the way, Ashley Flynn was the best thing that ever happened to you.
00:32:26.260You had the best life ever, and you decided to throw it away for a girl who was half your age.
00:32:36.820You truly don't understand how much you hurt my life.
00:32:41.120and i wish you could feel the pain i have been through something so tragic and to know that it
00:32:50.560was my father was just shocking okay so is absolutely brutal by the end of it she she says
00:32:58.340you know by the way look you should repent i'm never going to visit you really strange the camera
00:33:03.180zooms in on caleb flynn and he he's having some kind of emotional reaction it looks like he's
00:33:08.200sobbing. There are no tears. There are no tears, but there is a lot of sweat. What's weird is he's
00:33:14.280not, he's got a tissue in his hand. He's not mopping his eyes. He's mopping his forehead.
00:33:19.640It's not just that it's purely a performance, like he's a psychopath. He's Patrick Bateman.
00:33:24.100He doesn't feel anything. Liquid is coming out of him, but it's coming out of his head,
00:33:29.840like the top of his head. It's not coming out of his eyes, coming out of his nose,
00:33:33.560But he's clearly going through something here, listening to his daughters, who are much more grounded, much more in tune with reality, and much more caring and consoling than he ever was.