the REAL Illuminati

[kamakaze]

I was just wondering but does anyone here actually know wht the real brotherhood of the illuminati is??? if you do please explain it to everyone else because i have 2 go. ill tell you one thing though if your a christian you might want to find a new clan.

[Hydrant]

obp! some one has been reading a lil too much Dan Brown

[kamakaze]

whos dan brown?

[drakonfire]

whos dan brown?

:confused:

you have GOT to be kidding me... are you referring to an ingame clan or the secret society from reality?

or have you just been playing to much Deus Ex lately?

[lostandconfused]

Good ol' Angels & Demons.

[Megabyte]

obp! some one has been reading a lil too much Dan Brown

illuminati was not mentioned in "the Da Vinci Code" btw ;) or at least not in any significant manner.

And its just a name, get over it. If you have so much difficulty differentiating a gaming group and such a past organization you have much greater issues than the ones mentioned so far.

[lostandconfused]

illuminati was not mentioned in "the Da Vinci Code" btw ;) or at least not in any significant manner.

And its just a name, get over it. If you have so much difficulty differentiating a gaming group and such a past organization you have much greater issues than the ones mentioned so far.
Not The Da Vinci Code, loser.

Angels & Demons. :)

[Lordofzrings]

go to the illuminatiforums i posted something there,

i originbally started the clan under the name Angels&Demons the name of the dan brown book that the illuminati is in, Its the thing you find on the back of the US dollor bill

[Jeffery]

Illuminati go back MUCH farther than that book. If your knowledge of it comes from Angels and Demons, then you are sorely lacking.

[Hydrant]

Illuminati go back MUCH farther than that book. If your knowledge of it comes from Angels and Demons, then you are sorely lacking.

oh mos def, but they seem to be uberpopular because of that book

[Realist]

Basically, the illuminati were one of many "secret" societies in Europe which were very mildly important in the 18th-19th centuries and virtually irrelvent thereafter.

There's absolutely no reason anyone should care about them, but for strange reasons probably relating to having such a great name, they have a pretty prominent place in the absurd conspiracy theories of centuries worth of conspiracy theorists.

[Megabyte]

oh mos def, but they seem to be uberpopular because of that book


Aye, though not necessarily because of the book itself. I blame Brown for hyping and false advertising myself. Its something i've been researching on why people love his last few books, and why they believe everything in them.

[drakonfire]

and why they believe everything in them.


i myself have been wondering that too, have you read Deception Point? in the beginning of the book is an authors note "All technologies discussed in this book exist" and then he goes on to tell us of things that, maybe i'm just stupid, but i think the government wouldn't really like being revealed, like IM weaponry and slush hydrogen, if those do in fact exist and are as deep a secret as brown claims, then why hasn't someone stopped him from doing all this crap? he has even named many of his sources in the government, oy vay... again, maybe i'm stupid, but i have a hard time believing anything he write

that said his books do make for pretty darn good suspense fiction novels :D

[Megabyte]

Brown does that in several of his books.

He gives a disclaimer that usually goes something like "While the characters are fictional, all locations, organization, technologies, etc are accurately described and are real." People just swallow it whole and believe everything in the book then. The average person goes with the concept "if its in print, it must be real."
Same for TV..if its on TV, its gotta be true. We rarely question these things.

He DOES have some references and research to back up these disclaimers in his books, but its not exactly properly done or referenced many times. Plus its a story book, meaning he can have his "characters" make whatever ideas, claims, or show whatever he wants, and just say "oh..well that part is just fiction" if he ever really gets in trouble.

If you can stand theological discussion, read the "Da Vinci Hoax" which is a sort of walk through his more recent "The Da Vinci Code." Its a REALLY well written go through of his "claims" in that book with research and references to everything. Its hard reading for a lot of people though.

edit: lol, and yes, his books are good, i've got 3 of them. But i treat them as very fictional novels, with little representative fact in them.