Illuminati help: Illuminati, Freemasons and The New World Order are a pretty interesting topic and I’d really like to hear some of the conspiracy theories. - Help.com

Theories are endless, so I just don’t bother anymore when it comes to that isssue. However, I know that these organizations are out there and that their plans are not good.

You can find whole websites devoted to the nut jobs that believe in this stuff so you likely will only get rehash comments here. However, before you get sucked into believing any of it, try to have a critical mind about it all — which it seems like you already do. First, some of the more alarmist individuals believe these groups are trying to create a single world government, reduce the population and concentrate power among an elite group of intellectuals and monied people. This is often overlaid with religious hysteria and Christian fears of the anti-Christ and millennialist who see signs of the ‘end times’ unfolding as laid out in the book of Revelation. The conspiracy idea is being pushed by individuals who feel powerless. They see their control slipping due to demographic changes (namely angry white men, southern and western US), and economic changes buffeting them through globalization. It is an intellectually lazy way to blame others. Basically, a manufactured boogey man.

The problem with their argument is fundamentally one of logic. A few (of many problems): Why on earth would a group of people who supposedly get rich off the masses want to wipe out billions of people from whom they derive wealth.

Secondly, google Occam’s razor. This is the idea that the simplest explanation is usually the correct one for a given situation. conspiracy almost never pan out because the involvement of more than 2 people in anything almost uniformly results in one of the conspirators selling out the others for gain.

Finally its an issue of numbers. Let’s imagine that 1/1000 of 1% of the US population is ‘in the know” Well, that’s still 3000 people. 750 if you cut out folks under say 21. What’s the likelihood of 750 people keeping a secret, or managing to coordinate and agree on a strategy over such a long period of time without some disagreement occurring that led to a internecine rupture or split. I mean the US Congress of 535 people can barely agree on lunch.

I will grant that a small percentage of people probably control the levers of power through world society - financial, political, academic, etc… What doesn’t hold water is that these groups work in concert with one another and have a master plan. Power is too diffuse and spread over different overlapping and intersecting areas.

I don’t think it’s a secret society anymore if you have celebrities flaunting it. Or maybe they’re just trying to revive something that died a while ago. The illuminati were a group of scientists that the church rejected cause of their teachings (I read Angels and Demons). I’m not sure that that’s true. Or that they still do exists now. But that was a hell of a book.
Freemasons I’m not too sure about, it’s supposed to be the elite groups of society. Not sure how they started and what their goals are today but I mean if the statue plaque does say it’s a gift from the masons then I guess they did exist. Rockefeller played a big role with regards to the society.
A lot of people do take it over the top and some stories might be ridiculous, but they sure are fascinating.