Secret Societies

[ハイイロギツネ]

Do you believe there are secret societies? The illuminati?

[crgzero]

The Masons are a secret society, sometimes the best place to hide is right out in the open.

[Naedmi]

The illuminati is real, it's an exclusive group for the rich and elite.

One can only wonder what they might do behind those club doors. I assume they drink expensive alcohols and discuss their exploits.

Or maybe they bathe in the blood of the innocent in hopes of summoning the demon lord.

[permanent name]

引用自 crgzero：

The Masons are a secret society, sometimes the best place to hide is right out in the open.

Perhaps hiding isn't very effective, as the Skyrim parable demonstrates.

[Captain Morgan]

What somebody believes, is actually irrelevant. The Bavarian Illuminati existed, their founder Adam Weishaupt had been a real, historic person etc. Likewise, secret societies like Thule society and Vrill society were quite active, in nazi era germany. With all the works of fiction in our time and the abundancy of nut-jobs and conspiracy-theorists though, you 're going to have a pretty hard time separating facts (and those are quite rare and blurry) from fiction. Also, in order to "hide" something, modern tactics from secret society members is to "ridicule" those who try to cast the eye of the public upon them, theirs and their activity... Or make their accusators enemies to the people. Or "silencing" them, depending on the threat level (of exposure) they face and the potential risk they run (of hitting a target).

I am an old timer. And i used to collect and play decks from the Illuminati card game. Their company offices were RAIDED, many years ago! Computers and merchantise confiscated. A real rage. All that for a mere card game. I don't believe in coincidences.

[White Knight]

引用自 Explosion Hugger：

The illuminati is real...

No, I really don't think so. Seeing as how you have no evidence whatsoever, your extraordinary claims sound foolish.

https://u.osu.edu/vanzandt/2019/02/11/the-illuminati-conspiracy-theory-2/

Of course, the beauty of this particular (tin-foil-hat) conspiracy theory is that you cannot prove (or disprove) the existence of a supposedly "secret" society.

There are many secret societies, all over the world. All of the ones I know about are just businessmen who are community minded. They are networking and looking for opportunities to expand their business interests, etc. It's really just an excuse for retired men to get out of the house for a few hours, a couple of times each month.

It's also true, that any group of like-minded people could organize themselves and have an agenda. Many of us do this everyday. Whether it's neighbours who petition city hall about trees on their street, folks who want to feed the hungry, or those promoting some other group, etc. If one of those groups were made up of people with power and resources, then presumably they could do a lot more than your average retiree.

Your local Rotary Club is likely the closest thing to "The Illuminati" that you'll ever find.

The average street-gang is far more worthy of your attentions than some mysterious and fantastical group of imaginary people.

[Et tu, B?]

Maybe, but not in the "super high-technology" way that Conspiracy Theorists really like to believe, rather, they're small tribes in S. America to Africa, but most of them aren't really secret if people already know they exist.

[𝕎𝔸𝕃𝕋𝔼ℝ]

Currently a member of secret society against secret societies.

[Adversary]

Complotism is both totally legitimate and something I personally subscribe to as per my own paradigm. Illuminati, not so much, as that was a radical sect of Freemasonry that got purged during the Age of Exploration. Course, much like, say, the deep state, the shadow government, the Bilderberg Group, the Rothschild syndicate and what not, it could very well still exist to this day alongside them. After all, what better way to get someone off your trail than to fake your death? Perhaps getting the investigator in on the grift, I don't know.

[Adversary]

引用自 cyberluddite：

引用自 ᚨᛞᚡᛖᚱᛋᚨᚱᛃ：

Complotism is both totally legitimate and something I personally subscribe to as per my own paradigm. Illuminati, not so much, as that was a radical sect of Freemasonry that got purged during the Age of Exploration. Course, much like, say, the deep state, the shadow government, the Bilderberg Group, the Rothschild syndicate and what not, it could very well still exist to this day alongside them. After all, what better way to get someone off your trail than to fake your death? Perhaps getting the investigator in on the grift, I don't know.

The Japanese have a simpler strategy: hagakure, which means "hidden in plain sight."

In the U.S., we use the term "grey man", but it's the same principle.

Eh, makes sense to me. Truth is stranger than fiction, and many threats are indeed hidden in plain sight.

[L1qu1dator]

引用自 Tito Shivan：

The part about meeting in a dark room in a volcano-hidden base to plot how to conquer the world is nice for spy novels, but has very little truth behind.

That's what they want you to think...



... or you're one of them!

[Tito Shivan]

引用自 L1qu1dator：

引用自 Tito Shivan：

The part about meeting in a dark room in a volcano-hidden base to plot how to conquer the world is nice for spy novels, but has very little truth behind.

That's what they want you to think...



... or you're one of them!

Mod paycheck doesn't get you a volcano-hidden base of operations, so we had to settle for a basement with a few lava lamps. It has certain charm, like something out of a Austin-Powers low-budget film.

[ハイイロギツネ]

引用自 n00by：

引用自 Rumpelcrutchskin：

Wont be much of a secret society when everybody knows about them, real secret societies are most likely actually secret, not some celebrity hangouts like Illuminati and Freemasons.

As for Illuminati - there are supposedly two groups within the "brotherhood" - a so-called "white lodge" and so-called "black lodge". What these two do is up to interpretation.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=fh2cDKyFdyU

[Azza ☠]

I don't know what you are talking about...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSBcbpJGWjA

[This place sucks]

I'm a secret society.

[White Knight]

引用自 Tito Shivan：

Mod paycheck doesn't get you a volcano-hidden base of operations, so we had to settle for a basement with a few lava lamps. It has certain charm, like something out of a Austin-Powers low-budget film. :lunar2020playfuldog:

Wait a minute, paychecks and lava lamps? That can't be right? Can it?