ILLUMINATI: CONFIRMED

Hello! Welcome back to “You’d Have to be Crazy to Believe This”. I gave my blog little make over because, to be honest, it was ugly. But now I think it looks better but let me know! This Week I want to talk about one of the most Internet famous conspiracy theories. The Illuminati *cue dramatic music*! While #IlluminatiConfirmed is often used as a joke on twitter, what is the Illuminati? Is there any truth to it? Let’s look at the evidence.

The Illuminati is not entirely made up, at all. In fact, they have a long, rich history spanning back decades. In Germany, 1776, Adam Weishaupt,

wanted to join a group to promote what he considered to be the ideals of society: Secularism and Rational thought. He thought maybe he would join the free masons but one thing deterred him; the entry fee. Being a professor, Weishaupt could not afford the fee to enter the free masons, so he started his own group; The Order of the Illuminati.

As any 18^th century group, they had trouble with the church and eventually were banned from recruiting new members. But nonetheless, they prevailed, spreading across Europe and then disappearing underground. But are they still around today? Here is some evidence.

The New World Order

For the most part, it is rumored that the illuminati’s number one goal is to create a “New World Order”. There is a lot of debate about what this entails. Some say the elite 1% wants to put the remaining 99% into concentration camps. (Not sure how that would work because 1% vs. 99% doesn’t seem like great odds.) Others say that the illuminati aim to create one giant all encompassing unifying government for every country in the world. No word on what kind of government this would be though. The one piece of evidence the illuminati conspiracy theorist have as “proof” of the new world order is this clip of president George W. Bush, which I have to admit is pretty creepy.

Because you probably can’t play it he says, “We have the opportunity before us to forge, for ourselves and for suture generations, a new world order. A world the rule of law, not the rule of the jungle governs the conduct of nations. When we are successful, and we will be, we have a real chance at this new world order”

He goes on to say more about how the united nations will govern all countries of the world and so on.

The Symbols

The illuminati have some pretty recognizable symbols. Most people know them from the pyramid on the back of dollar and their famous all Seeing Eye. But they have a few other symbols as well that can be found through out pop culture. One is simply covering one eye with the palm of your hand; another is touching your pointer finger to your thumb and extending your middle, ring and pinky fingers, and lastly the forming the famous triangle by touching your two thumbs and pointer fingers together. As you can see several celebrities have publicly made these symbols, causing illuminati rumors to swirl around them.

Clones

Ok this is a little wild so bare with me. Many illuminati theorist believe that the illuminati is slowly replacing Hollywood elites with clones who will do their bidding. While this may seem completely baseless, there is some evidence.  Many videos have surfaced of these alleged clones malfunctioning. Heres on of those videos of Beyoncé:

And another of Al Roker and Eminem:

So that’s the illuminati! What do you guys think? I personally do not find this one very convincing. But there are a lot of hardcore believers hour there. Well, Until Next time!