Those Poor Misunderstood Illuminati
The Illuminati, I’m prepared to say, are woefully misunderstood. How exactly it all happened, I’m not sure. But somewhere along the line, public perception of the mysterious group and Illuminism, the philosophical ideal behind it, got ridiculously entangled with just about every kind of conspiracy theory out there. Untangling all those strands [...]
Category Archives: Conspiracy
Lending, Secret Societies, Canon Law
October 15, 2007 – 1:49 pm
Another set of threads to tie together out of recent conversations here:
Religious/ethical prohibitions against usury
Role of the Knights Templar and consequent secret societies in the origins of modern banking
Obviously, when it comes to secret societies, reliable information is exceedingly hard to piece together. But we could sketch out a tentative line of descent from the [...]
Conspiracy Theater
September 24, 2007 – 6:15 pm
“Secrets are the very root of cool.” - William Gibson
You’ve heard the rumors before, and un-named “official” sources can now finally confirm, thanks to leaked documents: everything is a conspiracy.
And if it’s not, then that’s just because it isn’t organized well enough.
I’ll admit: I used to really get off on conspiracy theories. They are [...]
The Conspiracy Samurai
September 18, 2007 – 1:15 am
Excellent interpretation of the “Way of the Samurai” in relation to conspiracy theory over at ‘Waking the Midnight Sun’. Cadeveo writes:
Every day, when one’s body and mind are at peace, one should meditate upon being run down by United Nations tanks, water-boarded at Gitmo, tazered, poisoned by chem-trails, shot by secret society/intelligence agency assassins, being [...]
