Here is a blog which asserts that a global conspiracy of transhumanists controls the media and places subliminal messages in pop music such as the Black Eyed Peas music video “Imma Be” in order to persuade people to join the future hive-mind. It is remarkably lucid and articulate given the hysterical nature of the claim, and even includes a somewhat reasonable treatment of transhumanism.
Transhumanism is the name of a movement that claims to support the use of all forms of technology to improve human beings. It is far more than just a bunch of harmless and misguided techie nerds, dreaming of sci-fi movies and making robots.
It is a highly organized and well financed movement that is extremely focused on subverting and replacing every aspect of what we are as human beings – including our physical biology, the individuality of our minds and purposes of our lives – and the replacement of all existing religious and spiritual beliefs with a new religion of their own – which is actually not new at all.
EDIT: I see this was previously posted back in 2010, but if you haven’t witnessed this blog yet it is worth a look.
Good to know that someone’s keeping the ol’ Illuminati flame burning. Pope Bob would be proud.
The thing I find most curious about the Illuminati conspiracy theory is that if you look at the doctrines of the historical Bavarian Illuminati, they are pretty unremarkable to any educated person today. The Illuminati were basically secular humanists — they wanted secular government, morality and charity founded on “the brotherhood of man” rather than on religious obedience, education for women, and so on. They were secret because these ideas were illegal in the conservative Catholic dictatorship of 18th-century Bavaria — which suppressed the group promptly when their security failed.
If CFAR becomes at all successful, conspiracists will start referring to it as an Illuminati group. They will not be entirely wrong.
The thing I find most curious about the Illuminati conspiracy theory is that if you look at the doctrines of the historical Bavarian Illuminati, they are pretty unremarkable to any educated person today. The Illuminati were basically secular humanists — they wanted secular government, morality and charity founded on “the brotherhood of man” rather than on religious obedience, education for women, and so on.
Might I interest you in the theories of Mencius Moldbug?
Please give the poor sap a link to a summary of them; even “A gentle introduction to Unqualified Reservations” made me go tl;dr a third of the way through Part 1.
(What little I know about reactionary ideas comes from this, but I don’t know how accurate that is.)
They modeled themselves after the Freimauers and draw a lot of their membership from them.
Being a member of the Illuminati required a pledge of obedience. I would be very surprised if CFAR introduces that kind of behavior.
You don’t need pledges of obedience to advocate secular humanism.
Like the Freemansons the Illuminati also performed secret rituals.
They were secret because these ideas were illegal in the conservative Catholic dictatorship of 18th-century Bavaria
That not really true. Karl Theodor who banned them was a proponent of the Englighement. He didn’t want secret groups that pledge obedience to get political power.
He didn’t want his government to be overturned. A lot of French people died in the French revolution.
Here is a blog which asserts that a global conspiracy of transhumanists controls the media and places subliminal messages in pop music such as the Black Eyed Peas music video “Imma Be” in order to persuade people to join the future hive-mind. It is remarkably lucid and articulate given the hysterical nature of the claim, and even includes a somewhat reasonable treatment of transhumanism.
http://vigilantcitizen.com/musicbusiness/transhumanism-psychological-warfare-and-b-e-p-s-imma-be/
EDIT: I see this was previously posted back in 2010, but if you haven’t witnessed this blog yet it is worth a look.
Good to know that someone’s keeping the ol’ Illuminati flame burning. Pope Bob would be proud.
The thing I find most curious about the Illuminati conspiracy theory is that if you look at the doctrines of the historical Bavarian Illuminati, they are pretty unremarkable to any educated person today. The Illuminati were basically secular humanists — they wanted secular government, morality and charity founded on “the brotherhood of man” rather than on religious obedience, education for women, and so on. They were secret because these ideas were illegal in the conservative Catholic dictatorship of 18th-century Bavaria — which suppressed the group promptly when their security failed.
If CFAR becomes at all successful, conspiracists will start referring to it as an Illuminati group. They will not be entirely wrong.
Might I interest you in the theories of Mencius Moldbug?
Please give the poor sap a link to a summary of them; even “A gentle introduction to Unqualified Reservations” made me go tl;dr a third of the way through Part 1.
(What little I know about reactionary ideas comes from this, but I don’t know how accurate that is.)
They modeled themselves after the Freimauers and draw a lot of their membership from them. Being a member of the Illuminati required a pledge of obedience. I would be very surprised if CFAR introduces that kind of behavior. You don’t need pledges of obedience to advocate secular humanism.
Like the Freemansons the Illuminati also performed secret rituals.
That not really true. Karl Theodor who banned them was a proponent of the Englighement. He didn’t want secret groups that pledge obedience to get political power. He didn’t want his government to be overturned. A lot of French people died in the French revolution.