Organization
Nashville Scene
21 mentions across 1 edition.
Mentioned in
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…this doesn't show", gaps, and murky items 64–68 in section 3; - Appendix E, the verification log. - Sources: the Nashville Scene (lectures 1–2), Politico's recordings via Fortune, Gizmodo and Times of India (Politico itself blocked), an attending Epoch Times reporter's X posts…
Changelog (v10 → v11, 20 Oct 2026)October 2026 - [V]
…politicians pushed back), then Nashville (Fortune) [V] (v2 had the Rome date as unknown and omitted Paris; the Nashville Scene's "third iteration" wording doesn't count Paris.) - Nashville, Grand Lodge of Tennessee, 28 Sept 2026. Journalists weren't allowed in, but the Scene…
2.1 Peter ThielOctober 2026 - [V]
…one existential risk that nobody seems to want to discuss … the risk of a totalitarian one-world government." (Nashville Scene) [V] - Remaining talks: "The End of Empire" (Oct 5), "Velocity of Antichrist" (Oct 12), "New Rome" (Oct 19) [V] All four lectures are covered in…
2.1 Peter ThielOctober 2026 …"Dialog" network; this is a local tie, not a link to the sponsor (corrected v11; see Direction 5). REPORTED (Nashville Scene). 14. An ambassador at a Temple-preparation site. Huckabee's first official settler visit included the red heifers raised for a Third Temple, a…
3. Murky and startling circumstancesOctober 2026- [V]
…government's Palantir ties (Fortune). Nashville: Vanderbilt's chancellor appears in Thiel's private Dialog network (Nashville Scene) [V] DOCUMENTED no deal or decision is shown.
3. Murky and startling circumstancesOctober 2026 - [U]
…No full transcript or recording has been published. Everything below comes from (a) organiser pages; (b) the Nashville Scene which obtained transcripts and recordings of lectures 1 and 2; (c) Politico's Decoded which obtained recordings of lectures 1 and 2 (both…
Direction 5: Thiel's Nashville lectures (added v11, 20 Oct 2026)October 2026 - [V]
…"one of the last remaining regions in the Western world with authentic Christian belief where it still thrives" (Nashville Scene, 29 Sept) [V] - Titles: "The End of Empire" (5 Oct), "Velocity of Antichrist" (12 Oct) and "New Rome" (19 Oct); the opener's title was not…
5.1 The series: format, hosts and venueOctober 2026 - [V]
…Empire" (5 Oct), "Velocity of Antichrist" (12 Oct) and "New Rome" (19 Oct); the opener's title was not published (Nashville Scene) [V] The final lecture went ahead as scheduled (Pamphleteer listing, 19 Oct) [V] and a reporter posted from it (X) [R] - Audience: "hundreds"…
5.1 The series: format, hosts and venueOctober 2026 - [V]
…scheduled (Pamphleteer listing, 19 Oct) [V] and a reporter posted from it (X) [R] - Audience: "hundreds" (Nashville Scene) [V] An attendee told Politico it was more than 300 people at roughly eight men to one woman, as relayed by a book site (The American Antichrist…
5.1 The series: format, hosts and venueOctober 2026 - [V]
…Daniel Diermeier, appears in leaks as a member of Thiel's private "Dialog" network; Vanderbilt did not dispute it (Nashville Scene, June 2026) [V] Correction to murky item 13: the Scene ties Dialog to Nashville through Vanderbilt, not through the sponsor.
5.1 The series: format, hosts and venueOctober 2026 - [V]
…existential risk that nobody seems to want to discuss … and that is the risk of a totalitarian one-world government" (Nashville Scene) [V] - On government: "As a thought experiment, which part of the U.S. government do you think runs the worst? The post office or the DMV is like a…
5.2 What he said, lecture by lectureOctober 2026 - [V]
…humanities department where they're not doing anything. … The NSA is like some esoteric science thing" (same source, Nashville Scene) [V]
5.2 What he said, lecture by lectureOctober 2026 - [V]
…be. And if you were too scared, maybe you need to pray a little harder and anchor a bit more on your faith" (Nashville Scene, 8 Oct) [V] - "This is the challenge with the people making AI in Silicon Valley. Almost none of them have any other faith on which to anchor or…
5.2 What he said, lecture by lectureOctober 2026 - [V]
…of them have any other faith on which to anchor or relativize discussions about the technology" (same source, Nashville Scene, 8 Oct) [V] - In Q&A: "The undercurrent of all these lectures is that it's certainly not moral to despair. It's not right to think that something…
5.2 What he said, lecture by lectureOctober 2026 - [V]
…think that something like the Antichrist is inevitable or there's nothing you can do about it" (same source, Nashville Scene, 8 Oct) [V] - The Scene 's paraphrase, without a full passage: he cast "woke-ism" and effective altruism as roads to American fascism, named "a…
5.2 What he said, lecture by lectureOctober 2026 - [V]
…comments". He also placed his 2009 essay on democracy and freedom in the Enlightenment tradition (same source, Nashville Scene, 8 Oct) [V; Scene paraphrase, wording not published in full] - The katechon (the "restrainer" of 2 Thessalonians) was the theme, with Carl Schmitt…
5.2 What he said, lecture by lectureOctober 2026 - [U]
…means it", and his aim is to "persuade" people that disruption "is going to get worse in order to get better" (Nashville Scene). - Fortune analysis (July 2026), opinion: "Thiel's Antichrist looks, with extraordinary precision, exactly like the people who want to regulate…
5.5 Reactions (opinion sources)October 2026 - [U]
…restrainer that preserves order by resisting change may end up reproducing the logic it opposes" (Pamphleteer). Nashville Scene "Advice King" humour column opinion (Scene). - Not found: a public response from Vance, the Vatican or Obama to the Nashville remarks (Politico…
5.5 Reactions (opinion sources)October 2026 . Source URL Fetched What it confirms --- --- --- --- Nashville Scene, lecture 1 (29 Sept) link Yes Venue, "hundreds", transcripts obtained, two Thiel quotes, Hunt quote, the lodge's disclaimer, lecture titles…
Appendix E: Verification log (v11, Direction 5)October 2026…Venue, "hundreds", transcripts obtained, two Thiel quotes, Hunt quote, the lodge's disclaimer, lecture titles Nashville Scene, lecture 2 (8 Oct) link Yes Three Thiel quotes; paraphrase on violence and "Christ's more militant comments"; Howard (opinion) Nashville…
Appendix E: Verification log (v11, Direction 5)October 2026…Yes Three Thiel quotes; paraphrase on violence and "Christ's more militant comments"; Howard (opinion) Nashville Scene, Dialog leak (26 June) link Yes Diermeier in Dialog leaks; Vanderbilt did not dispute. Corrects murky item 13 Tennessee Star (17 Sept)…
Appendix E: Verification log (v11, Direction 5)October 2026