Everyone who is in the illuminati

Or Lady Gaga's videos. Or that hand thing that Jay Z does. Or the way Barack Obama shakes hands with the pope. But surely this can all be attributed to people reading too much into innocuous happenstance, because believing that we're all being controlled by secret organisations is much less frightening than accepting the lonely purposeless reality of life on Earth?

Shut up. Everyone's in the Illuminati. Even the Guardian? Especially the Guardian. What are all those articles about quinoa for, if not to deliberately make it too expensive for Bolivians and further the rise of McDonald's, which is also part of the Illuminati, in the developing world? Do say: "Every third letter of every fifth sentence of this article makes up an anagram.

Decode that for the real truth. The Illuminati: the secret society pulling the strings of every major organisation in the world. You only have to look at that hand thing Jay Z does, or Lindsay Lohan's tattoos, or the Guardian's articles on quinoa to know that everyone is part of the great conspiracy. They would then send in more letters, contradicting these claims.

They hoped that these contrary points of view would get people to view the news a little more sceptically. Instead everyone just got very excited about the Illuminati, and the myth spread worldwide. Yes, the music industry in fact controls the planet, via, we must assume, the rise of free music-streaming services, which are rapidly causing their own demise.

Alternately, none of these people are in the Illuminati, because, rather than sending hooded figures to deal with pesky internet writers who put it about, they deliberately encourage the rumours.

Something to ponder. This article is more than 3 years old. Martha Gill. They did use rituals — most of which remain unknown — and pseudonyms were used to keep the identities of members a secret. The novice would then promise to sacrifice personal interests for the good of the society. Here, it is depicted as an instrument of paternalistic reason, keeping a watchful eye over the newly democratic nation.

There is no official link between the all-seeing eye and the Illuminati — the proposed connection probably stems from the fact that the original group shared similarities with the Freemasons, who used the image as a symbol of God. Some people believe that the Illuminati controls the world today, suggesting that they are so secretive that few are aware of it.

There were between 2, and 3, Illuminati members by Some sources say that renowned writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe also joined, but this is disputed. In , Karl Theodor, Duke of Bavaria, banned the creation of any kind of society not previously authorised by law and the following year he passed a second edict, which expressly banned the Illuminati. During the arrest of suspected Illuminati members, compromising documents defending ideas such as atheism and suicide were found in their possession, as well as instructions for carrying out abortions.

This cemented the belief that the group was a threat to both the state and the Church. The Illuminati then seems to have disappeared, with some people believing that it continued underground. Adam Weishaupt was eventually stripped of his post at the University of Ingolstadt. After being exiled from Bavaria, he spent the remainder of his life in Gotha, Thuringia, dying in