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What about the Illuminati? That's correct.
What about the Illuminati now? This first article comes to us
from Express .co.uk with my Sebastian, Kelly dated November
29th, 2019, the title says UFO sightings and the Illuminati
study finds conspiracy theorist, surprisingly ordinary.
Of course you. And I know that we're not so
much conspiracy. Therapist as conspiracy analyst
and of course, word ordinary just like every other person.
That's what you would expect from sample size.
I mean you get people that are that are ordinary people that
are different just like society as a whole UFO, sightings alien
encounters and claims of the Illuminati, may seem bizarre and
outlandish on the internet. But the people behind a piper
conspiracies are far from crackpots wearing a tinfoil hats
a researcher has claimed Notice the phrase has claimed, I find
that to be a little bit of pre bunking going on as article.
Usually the when there's somebody has a has a study like
this. I'll say, has found, but here
they've said has claimed, so they already put a little doubt
in your mind. Researchers at the Australian,
National University are a and you took a deep dive into
online, conspiracy forms to study the people who write them.
The study published in PL PL OS, one that's plus one crawled
through And two billion Ringgit comments to build a profile of
conspiracy. Theorist noticed a word,
trawled, I dare drag it through the garbage dump, okay?
Just look at the verbiage are using surprisingly.
The research found conspiracist on the whole tend to be pretty
ordinary individuals. Not surprisingly.
That's exactly what I would expect according to AAA and use
dr.:. Klein conspiracy theorist audits
are conspiracy form, discuss a wide range of topics from UFOs.
To the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Well, people talk about anything
that doesn't make sense. They're naturally sorting
through the facts and when they catch authority figures engaging
and deception and lies that they can be assured, there's probably
a conspiracy underfoot and that's what they're talking
about. They're trying to make sense of
things, you know, the human mind hates, thus consonants.
It doesn't like it when we're being told one thing.
But we see another that upsets people Oh, so they're just
trying to make sense of it. Make sense of it.
Conspiracy analyst not a conspiracy theorist, dr.
Klein said in the past, before the rise of online forms, like
Reddit, pesky, you'll read it. We tended to only hear about the
most extreme views and those people tended to be action.
And those people tend to naturally to be worried about
talking to someone else about their beliefs.
Yeah, like who the actual SAS it might have been if if a
particular president back of what 1964.
These massive online forms paint a very different picture.
It says the enormous set of comments, We examined.
Should many conspiracy users actually have more sensible
interest for example, conspiracy theories about police abuse of
power are common. That's not so crazy.
These people might believe false things but with good reason
because similar things have happened in the past.
Well, how do you know their faults?
According to dr. Klein's research.
There are significant differences in The Language
online conspiracist. Use compared to other active
Forum members, dr. Klein found, the difference in
language are subtle to make the spirits to stand out from the
crowd of read it. Users you mean they don't speak
like sheep he said you might find they talk more about power
and power structures but their language is not that different
from what originally goes on in the form like politics.
You can't distinguish them from that.
Well, I think to I think to a postulate that we don't live in
a society that contains power power structures would just be
foolish. You have to have power
structures in any society because people have to be forced
to do things that they don't like to do.
Sometimes I would like to speed a lot more than I do but I can't
because I'll get a hefty speeding fine.
And that's the way it has to be because of somebody else.
You can't drive is getting me happens to speed, they could
cause a terrible accident. So this, this is the thing we
have to have laws and we have to have Law and Order in order for
us to all inhabit, the same the same general space.
It's very easy to look at conspiracy theories and think
they're super wacky and that people who believe in them are
crazy. But it's actually much more
continuous with a lot of things. We do every day low-level
theorizing goes on a lot. In everyday life, I'm inclined
to think the stuff you see on Line it's just a strong
outgrowth of that. Well, the things we see online
or it's in exchanging information, it's a place where
we can all talk about stuff that will never see on the news and
we can look at it in an unbiased way or maybe in a way it's
biased toward the truth on top of outlandish, theories, and
wacky claims talker clients. That conspiracist are also very
motivated by current affairs and events.
Yes, people want to know, what's affecting them day-to-day, the
2016 presidential election of Donald Trump, for instance
Market critical, The moment for read it, users dr.
Klein said, for example, read it attracted a whole new set of
users following the election of President Donald Trump.
He also generates quite a lot of infighting amongst users.
This is what makes it such a great way to study social
dynamics. Well, you had an outsider people
were talking about it, unfortunately, at some critical
points in his presidency. He made incorrect decisions like
the lockdown. Which pretty much condemned him
to lose the next election. Unfortunately, but it was just
this notion that this Outsider might be coming in and
disclosing some of the truth, the truth about the JFK
assassination, which he didn't do the truth about UFOs, which
he didn't do the truth about a lot of things.
A few things you expose some things, you did correctly, a lot
of things didn't get done. Just shows you how well,
insulated, the Deep state is I'm sure there was much many, many,
many things going on. He had no clue about maybe if it
has spent a lot more time investigating than tweeting,
would, he would have got more things done, but it's just a
notion that this Outsider could come in and lift this veil of
secrecy that gets people excited dr.
Klein study also looked at how people are drawn to post.
Our conspiracy forms in the first place.
Being able to find like-minded. Individuals on the internet, has
helped conspiracy theorist congregate on forms.
Know, people are naturally going to gravitate Hate toward areas
where they can find information that helps them determine the
truth, okay? They're not looking to be told
what to believe they're looking to.
They're looking to set things straight in their own mind,
they're looking to figure out what's going around them,
because that's just a survival Instinct to be situationally to
be. Situationally aware, is a
survival Instinct. Dr. Klein said, we follow people
who started using Reddit and post it for about six months
before they ended up on our slideshow.
Conspiracy you find you find two people who for example both
started on the popular, ask me anything, read it.
And one ends up talking about conspiracies.
And one, dozen people who go on to post our / conspiracy, also
tend to be over-represented in the political forms but it's not
like they're hyper focused. This suggests a more active
process where people are seeking out sympathetic communities.
This process of finding like-minded.
People is something we see a lot of on the internet.
Well, of course, they're in the political site.
I mean, think about it, you have a few hundred people that run
the country and those people are Given millions of millions of
millions of millions of dollars by lobbyists.
And in turn they write laws that benefit.
Those handlers for those lobbyists, not Millions but
billions. So there is a motive behind the
scenes, then what do behind the scenes is money?
You know, what's a good book? Say the love of money is the
root of all evil. Well, there's an awful lot of
money Lovin going on in Washington, d.c. at every other
world Capital. They're going out there
resources. And so, it's in the interest of
those people. If they're doing things that are
unethical to be said to be deceptive.
Voila, there's your conspiracy and people who have common
sense, who have critical thinking skills, see this
they're interested in it, and then they wonder how far does it
go. Well, how much money is
involved? That should tell you how far it
goes. Now, the next article, I want to
look at here is from vox.com and gets a little bit more into the
Illuminati itself. I just wanted to give you that
first article just to set the framework for what the reality
is that people who ask questions When people ask questions about
things like, I wonder if the Illuminati is real, is this
still exists to secret sought to secret society still exist.
Do they impact our society, our music scene or politics or
banking system? Am I as George Carlin said, not
part of the big group, So let's the naturally curious state to
be in people that have. As I said, critical thinking
skills are just a simple survival.
Instinct of situational awareness want to know who has a
power around me because there's so much hidden power.
Okay. It says, nine questions about
the Illuminati. You were too afraid to ask.
This is by Phil Edwards says this date of January 19th, 2016.
It's got a little video here with it.
I'll go ahead and leave a link on the buy me a coffee site.
It says, when it comes to shadowy cabal is that supposedly
control the world? The Illuminati should be at the
top of the conspiracy theorists list and Illuminati face page
book page has 3.4 million likes Madonna.
Writes songs about the group and YouTube channels calling pretty
much everyone. Illuminati Notch, almost 200,000
subscribers. To sort out the truth about the
Illuminati. I consulted, this is the office
speaking. I consulted a variety of experts
on the subject, Mark a Finster a law professor at the University
of Florida and author, a conspiracy theories, secrecy and
Power in American culture sums up the group's long lasting
appeal. It's absurd on its face that
you've got this scared group, that's the excuse me, this
sacred group, that's more than 300 years old and continue to
see arguments about its relevance.
Today says, the fact that discussions is alive is amazing,
what's amazing to me that he would refer to this as a sacred
group? It says, Illuminati wasn't
always just some crazy chai Mira.
It used to be a very real group with ambitious goals, even
though it doesn't exist anymore. The fact that many people still
have paranoid beliefs about it, reveals a lot about power, our
culture. And of course what we think
about Jay-Z, now you see the little bit of facetious there on
the shisha, sness there on the end referencing Jay-Z the rapper
and all his Illuminati symbol h, And then you see the word
paranoid use. This is this is pretty bunking,
they're trying to set your mind up so that you'll put your, put
your defenses down. Imagine you are that
fleet-footed, Impala drinking at the water hole and you look to
your right? And you see a couple of big old
lines sitting over there. But, you know, another line to
your left, says, don't worry about them.
No worries. Drink, all you want, no need to
be Socially aware we know better.
First question says, what is the Illuminati in a historical
sense? The term Illuminati refers to
the Barbarian Illuminati, a secret society, the operated for
only a decade from 1776 to 1787 5.
This organization was founded by Abraham Weiss.
Hop, a German law professor who believed strongly in
Enlightenment ideals and his Lumen, I'm going to kill this
word illuminant Norton sought to promote those ideals among
Elites. Why Stop wanted to educate the
Illuminati members and reason philosophy, philanthropy and
other secular values. So they could influence
political decision when they came to power.
Now, remember at 1776, of course, is just kicking off the
Revolutionary War, the founding fathers had to use secret
societies to like the Masons. Keep in mind that this this time
there was no First Amendment, no recognition of freedom of
speech. If you were taught, if you were
caught talking openly about these things questioning, the
power of the king, or whoever you could end up dead dead in a
big way, for bar. Very, of course, I think it's
pronounced Baron in German there in South, South East Germany and
this would have been about the time, you know, the Roman
Empire, the Holy Roman Empire I believe It collapsed or is
about, was on the verge of collapsing.
Germany was a collection of different little principalities
of States. Some of them are nominally ruled
by the Holy Roman Emperor. Some by Prince has a lot of
conflict had been going on since but 1500 or something with
Martin Luther King, excuse me, Martin Luther.
And so you had in the context of this, you had this notion of
power. being challenged, the power of the Catholic Church
being challenged The power of all these Petty dictators being
challenged, it was just constant struggle, an upheaval happening
in Germany out of this was born, the Illuminati, this notion that
we can rule ourselves and maybe we are the power.
There is no power. I think the Illuminati even kind
of go forward with a notion of, you know, kind of the no heaven
or hell. But no, God, no, King, justjust
us where the founding fathers, they have loud that idea but
they still In their writings and their philosophies at least what
they shared with the people was this notion that there was a
higher power, whether they referred to it as God or
Providence or whatever. So kind of going down to two
different tracks here. You can just kind of see his
Club back at 1776. You can see the founding fathers
taking one track more toward order and recognition of Human
Rights and then you see the Illuminati here, just saying,
you know what, we're not going to have anything to do with any
of the old order. It's a new order.
As I said you Order and we're going to be in charge pressing
what you end up with, is this small group of people in charge
at the top they replace God or Providence or the king of the
church or whatever at the head of that pyramid and that can be
really dangerous because then there's no accountability what
the founding fathers version of this.
Illuminated thought you had accountability, you, you were
accountable to God, your rights came from the Creator.
You see, so there was this is this notion that there was this
All-Seeing God, maybe they was all set, but it was all seeing
eye and Illuminati difference. So, you know, that the founding
fathers weren't trying to conceal the truth.
They were trying to disperse the truth.
Everybody had the right to bear arms, you know, they had, they
had a right to free speech except for the poor slaves at
that point, that that, that whole situation has been settled
yet, but the concept, Of this illuminated thought this
Freedom, the subject, termination, under the authority
of An Almighty. You had that on the side with
the colonies. But then over here in Europe,
had this much different type of eliminating thought happening.
I said, where there is no Providence, no God at the top of
the pyramid, just a small group of people who have reached this,
almost self-actualize state where they know better.
That's very different. It's very dangerous that goes on
and says in historical sense, the term Illuminati refers to
the Bavarian Illuminati because last is it was pretty ambitious
for six or nine guys, but they really wanted to take over the
world, says Chris hold up, the co-author conspiracy theories
and the secret societies for dummies with Allison on Cannon,
The Illuminati's goals and reputation often.
Exceeded their means hot nap notes in its early days.
Our group was just a handful of people and even at its largest,
it only consisted it on. It consisted of somewhere
between 650 and 2,500 members. The group grew to that size by
becoming a sort of Sleeper Cell within other groups.
Illuminati members joined Freemasons Lodge has to recruit
members for their own competing secret society.
So see, even though the Illuminati may not exist in a
tangible, physical sense today? This.
Philosophy, this concept, this notion of illuminated thought
with man at the top, not God, they're their way of seeing the
world has been incorporated into so many of these power
structures across a planet because they focused on
infiltrating power structures all over the world and
implementing their worldview. Completely different path than
what the founding fathers took. It says, what did the Illuminati
believe? And that's got a picture of it
out here. That the, the owl is, of course,
the symbol associated with it with the Illuminati, I suppose
they would tell you that it because it represents wisdom but
it's also associated with a lot of the dramatic cult activity,
going way, way, way back. It says there were two sides to
the stroke Illuminati. They're odd rituals and our
ideals. The Illuminati did plenty of and
usual things. They use symbols.
Is like the AL adopted pseudonyms to avoid
identification and had complicated hierarchies like
Nova's Minerva land illuminated, Manorville that divided the
ranks and the beginning. Hold up, says Illuminati
members, didn't trust anyone over 30 because they were to set
in her ways. We're ever heard that philosophy
before other reports are rituals are harder to confirm, but we
know that the members were very paranoid and use the Spy like
protocol to keep one another's identities.
Secret. While they were following these
bizarre rituals, they also promoted a worldview that
reflected Enlightenment ideals like rational thought and
self-rule anti-clerical and anti Royal.
The Illuminati were closer to revolutionaries than world
leaders since I saw to infiltrate and upset powerful
institutions like the monarchy because when it says, did the
Illuminati managed to control the world historians, tend to
think the Illuminati are only mildly successful at best to
becoming influential the of Course, there are also those who
believe that you Luminosity successfully took over the world
and still control it the day. If an all powerful group does
dominate the world we probably wouldn't know about.
It says, well look, they didn't have to take over the world,
okay? They released their version of
Enlightenment upon the world and that will and that version was
adopted by an awful. Lot of people and buy an awful
lot of powerful people because it was appealing to them.
The idea that once you reached a certain state of knowledge where
you are certain intellectual class and you combine that with
a certain economic class, all of a sudden, you have more money
and more knowledge than most of the people around you.
Then it's okay, if you take advantage of people because
you're at the top of the pyramid, that's that's poor
opposite to the Constitution said about by the founding
fathers, in which Serve their country people of great,
economic wealth and great intellect serve their country
because they filled it was a responsibility.
They felt as though, rights came from the Creator.
So God was at the top of that pyramid.
It totally changes how you approach life.
It totally changes how you deal with people if you're a powerful
leader and you believe that is Washington wrote many times that
you're being judged by the almighty that you have to act in
a certain way. He was very be conscious of how
you conducted himself. If you are constantly trying to
pursue the most pursue the most ethical path, you know.
In your, you know, in your time and your Society if you're doing
that we are trying to do what you're supposed to do, then
you're much more likely. You're much more likely to treat
the your constituents in a humanely way.
If you just happen to believe that you're the top of the food
chain, then it doesn't matter how you treat them, doesn't
matter. If you tell them about the
secrets of the government, the government has doesn't matter if
you get them disclosure about UFOs or particular.
Medicines that will heal them, are about you, technology, that
we've discovered you. You're going to record that for
yourself because that that helps you remain at the top of the
pyramid. Completely different
diametrically, opposed philosophy because honest is.
Why did the real Illuminati disappear?
It says, they were wiped out Hood up says, people have tried
to revive him over the years, but that's a money-making
scheme. And 1785, the Duke of Bavaria,
Carl, Theodor band, secret societies, including the
Illuminati and Institute is serious punishments for anyone
who join them. Most other groups secrets were
disclosed or published. And if you believe most
historians Illuminati disappeared for the moment of
the display, Adding however, the myth expanded is described in
the conspiracy theories in American history and cyclope
documents found in the homes of high-ranking Illuminati members
like Xavier and Vaughn's wack confirmed.
Some of the spookiest Illuminati theories, like their dreams of
world domination and cultish behavior.
Even though those documents May exaggerate.
The truth about the group says, number five.
If the Illuminati vanished, how did their Legend Live on almost
immediately? After Illuminati were disbanded
conspiracy, theorist about the group spraying up?
The most famous conspiracy theories were authored by
physicist, John Robertson and 1797, who accuse, Illuminati of
infiltrated Freemasons, and a of Augustine Barrel, whose 1790
cysts, 97 history of the Jacobins promoted, the theory
that secret societies, including the Illuminati were behind the
French Revolution. The story ends tend to see these
as the first and a long line of conspiracy theories, though.
Again, for those who believe the Illuminati are in the world,
this is arguably proof of a good spot.
Are now listen that's just stupid to not believe this.
I mean they luminize himself said that their whole point was
to infiltrate these secret societies infiltrate, these
different government organizations and promote their
their worldview. That's not a conspiracy theory.
That's a conspiracy fact. That's why the ruler bar area
disbanded them. There were conspiring against
him. Him and then as far as the
French Revolution goes, well, how else do you think that you
were able to organize Revolution?
You're in a at the time of the French Revolution, the Monarch
that was an absolute dictatorship.
You couldn't have plotted the revolution without meeting
secretly. You would have been found out by
the king spice and killed immediately.
So, secrecy was required. To have this French Revolution
secret. She was required for the
American Revolution. It's what happens after that
secrecy, that's engaged in that's important later on some
of the founding fathers has managed to still interest in the
Illuminati and the United States in 1798.
George Washington, wrote a letter addressing the Illuminati
thread. He believed that had been
avoided but but his mentioning it helped bolster the myth, not
a myth and this is more. This is more stupidity, George
Washington under Stood, the importance of secrecy even he
was in charge of the first spy Spy group.
In the United States. He has spiders all over the
place during the Revolutionary War, he had to to protect them
from the armies of the king. So he understood that his, his
Freemasons Group, which you very much adored, which is a part of
which had probably played a big role for him in organizing
Revolution, he realized that it was being threatened by this
Illuminati movement. Point taken over by new members
and he's upset about it. He's rooted him out.
He says, well, I think we got rid of them all but we're not
sure that's not a conspiracy theory.
Conspiracy fact and the Panic caused by the anti alumina
books, anti Illuminati books and sermons.
Thomas Jefferson was basically, accused of being a member of the
group. Thomas, Jefferson had a little
Beijing. People were talking about him
way back then, so who knows? So these early Illuminati,
panics fizzled out, they gave the group, a patina of
legitimacy that later on would help make a centuries-long
conspiracy seem more plausible. Yeah, they're really missing the
point six are the Illuminati related to the Freemasons.
Well we've kind of gone into that.
We know that they attempted as Washington said they were
attempting to infiltrate the Freemasons and how successful
you were. Well we don't know I'm not a
Freemason number seven. Why do people still believed
that Illuminati today says the Illumined I never completely
disappeared from public culture, it was always burbling in the
background. Well, we know people believe in
it because it's not so much the group as it is, the philosophy
of that group. Number 8, are Jay-Z and Kanye
West and other celebrities in the Illuminati.
It says, we contacted Kanye West and Jay-Z's spokesman but they
did not return our request. Look, who knows if they're in
the Illuminati, they could be in some other secret society.
But when you're going around flashing, the Illuminati gang
signs, There's a thought, maybe you are involved in some sort of
secret society that has been previously, infiltrated by the
Illuminati maybe 100 or 200 years ago.
It says, will the Illuminati kill me for these article?
That's real. Funny, you know like I said it's
not even so much. The group itself is this idea
man at the top of the pyramid the more knowledge and the more
wealth you can acquire, the more able you are to stay at the top
of Of the pyramid, and exploit every single person below you.
That's Illuminati. Okay?
There are the enlightened ones and here's a fun fact for you,
if you type in the word Illuminati backwards, type it in
backwards, all right. After your address bar and push,
enter guess what happens. Takes you right to the NS a--
dot gov site? It's hilarious.
Try try type in the word Illuminati backwards, hit the
enter button. First thing on a page.
NSA, dot-gov check it out until next time, this is UFO warning
over now