# How about that Illuminati?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-that-illuminati/196548
**Category:** Great Debates
**Created:** [August 20, 2003, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-that-illuminati/196548 "2003-08-20T23:20:20Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@Thylacinewas\_taken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thylacinewas_taken)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2003, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-that-illuminati/196548/1 "2003-08-20T23:20:20Z")
What does everyone have to say about the Illuminati?
According to Cecil they existed and have since fizzled out.
According to the friend I’m talking to now they are behind everything.
Can someone give me some convincing evidence one way or the other?
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### Author:  [@Atreyu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atreyu)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2003, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-that-illuminati/196548/2 "2003-08-20T23:43:34Z")
[sub]fnord[/sub]
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### Author:  [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2003, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-that-illuminati/196548/3 "2003-08-21T02:20:31Z")
Your friend’s wrong.
No, really.
Hey, look over there! Isn’t that neat?
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### Author:  [@Beryl\_Mooncalf\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beryl_Mooncalf_1)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2003, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-that-illuminati/196548/4 "2003-08-21T04:19:07Z")
At their web they say they ,and they .
I don’t thi .
You can see for you lf he e.
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### Author:  [@SentientMeat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SentientMeat)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2003, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-that-illuminati/196548/5 "2003-08-21T12:02:31Z")
If you mean the Bilderberg Group, here is an extremely [illuminating article](http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4149485,00.html) by Jon Ronson on former member Denis Healy.
There are indeed very powerful people in the group, but then again same can be said about any given celebrity party. It does not exist to _make decisions_, merely to discuss the issues of the day in a social, or at least less formal, environment.
As the article relates, it can be difficult to get everyone to meet up and so perhaps sheer logistics is the reason it is “fizzling”.
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### Author:  [@Meatros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meatros)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2003, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-that-illuminati/196548/6 "2003-08-21T12:11:26Z")
Uh…I suggest this thread be shut down ASAP! People, change your names and move-THEY WILL BE COMING FOR YOU!!!
Uh-oh, there’s an agent heading toward my office…
😃
Har-har, just kidding…
[Here’s the Skeptic’s Dictionary’s take](http://www.skepdic.com/illuminati.html)
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### Author:  [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2003, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-that-illuminati/196548/7 "2003-08-21T12:21:31Z")
Destroying evidence that might point to the tru…er, I mean…Locking duplicate thread.