# My invitation to join the Illuminati finally came in! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 13, 2014, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-invitation-to-join-the-illuminati-finally-came-in/686036 "2014-04-13T20:09:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-invitation-to-join-the-illuminati-finally-came-in/686036/21 "2014-04-14T03:33:17Z")
fnord ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-invitation-to-join-the-illuminati-finally-came-in/686036/22 "2014-04-14T03:40:52Z")
I have seen the fnords. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-invitation-to-join-the-illuminati-finally-came-in/686036/23 "2014-04-14T03:41:38Z")
If this thread is disappeared tonight, I’m going to be VERY suspicious! ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-invitation-to-join-the-illuminati-finally-came-in/686036/24 "2014-04-14T03:58:26Z")
> [@Rick](#): > > fnord Pardon me, did you happen to see my Norwegian Blue? I’m told he’s been pining for the fnords. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-invitation-to-join-the-illuminati-finally-came-in/686036/25 "2014-04-14T04:30:40Z")
Hi everybody! fnord I’m back! And everything’s perfectly all right!fnord It’s a beautiful spring day here, and things are just getting better and better!fnord ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-invitation-to-join-the-illuminati-finally-came-in/686036/26 "2014-04-14T13:01:39Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > Ignore this, **RevTim** - if you have to send all your passwords and banking information to Nigeria to get into the Illuminati, it’s totally worth it. Done and done! > [@Clothahump](#): > > I thought my charter membership to the SDMB carried reciprocal membership with the Illuminati. WTF? 😕 Sorry, I think it’s only the 99ers. And we’re only now getting our invites, looks like. ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-invitation-to-join-the-illuminati-finally-came-in/686036/27 "2014-04-14T15:11:15Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > Since no one will take this post seriously, I can tell you the truth\*: > > There are four levels of secrecy to what you colloquially call “the Illuminati”. First there are the national security apparatuses like the CIA and NSA that are publicly known, but have classified agendas. Then there are the **really** secret intelligence agencies that use the first level as fronts. Then there are the ancient orders that secretly control the intelligence agencies, and through them national governments. Above them are the Old Ones, the less said the better. It’s inferred that beyond even that is something known only as The Next Level a.k.a. The Unknowable- which sure enough no one knows anything about. Well, yes, but there is also the important distinction to be made between the known to be unknowable unknowable, and the not not known to be unknowable unknowable. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-invitation-to-join-the-illuminati-finally-came-in/686036/28 "2014-04-14T17:59:35Z")
> [@njtt](#): > > Well, yes, but there is also the important distinction to be made between the known to be unknowable unknowable, and the not not known to be unknowable unknowable. You know? ---
**Author:** ![natthebrat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/8797f3/32.png) [@natthebrat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/natthebrat)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-invitation-to-join-the-illuminati-finally-came-in/686036/29 "2014-04-14T20:51:55Z")
did you email that link? I got the same email and I am curious ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-invitation-to-join-the-illuminati-finally-came-in/686036/30 "2014-04-14T20:58:23Z")
> [@natthebrat](#): > > did you email that link? I got the same email and I am curious Wonderful. Let us, I mean me, send you a ‘special’ email with a ‘special’ attachment that will explain everything. _Everything_…fnord ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2014, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-invitation-to-join-the-illuminati-finally-came-in/686036/31 "2014-04-15T01:17:40Z")
Someone just hit the forward button with the wrong group in the “TO:” Minions instead of Multi-Milionaries. Could have happened to anyone. ---
**Author:** ![AHarris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bcef8e/32.png) [@AHarris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHarris)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2014, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-invitation-to-join-the-illuminati-finally-came-in/686036/32 "2014-04-15T02:51:40Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > You’d think the Illuminati would have their own domain. It’s security by obscurity. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2014, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-invitation-to-join-the-illuminati-finally-came-in/686036/33 "2014-04-15T13:04:31Z")
You don’t think that maybe the Illuminati simply rule the world from Raleigh, NC? How is that so implausible? Oh right, I’ve been there, never mind. ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2014, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-invitation-to-join-the-illuminati-finally-came-in/686036/34 "2014-04-15T13:31:01Z")
Raleigh, NC? Isn’t that where Barney Fife went to be a detective on a big city police force? ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2014, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-invitation-to-join-the-illuminati-finally-came-in/686036/35 "2014-04-15T13:52:39Z")
Whatever you do, don’t reply. The godlike power is pretty sweet, but the parties are boring. ---
**Author:** ![Deke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/cab0a1/32.png) [@Deke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deke)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2014, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-invitation-to-join-the-illuminati-finally-came-in/686036/36 "2014-04-15T13:59:18Z")
> [@Ranger\_Jeff](#): > > Raleigh, NC? Isn’t that where Barney Fife went to be a detective on a big city police force? Does that mean Barney Fife was Illuminati? Would explain a lot. ---
**Author:** ![rja898](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eb8c5e/32.png) [@rja898](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rja898)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2014, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-invitation-to-join-the-illuminati-finally-came-in/686036/37 "2014-04-24T06:57:34Z")
🙂 > [@Revtim](#): > > Suck it proles, I’m a 1 percenter now! > > I want to join how where when and what will I get set the deal! > Seems legit! ---
**Author:** ![Superhal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Superhal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superhal)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2014, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-invitation-to-join-the-illuminati-finally-came-in/686036/38 "2014-04-24T07:09:21Z")
Man they’ll let anybody in nowadays. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2014, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-invitation-to-join-the-illuminati-finally-came-in/686036/39 "2014-04-24T08:01:39Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > Hi everybody! fnord > I’m back! And everything’s perfectly all right!fnord > It’s a beautiful spring day here, and things are just getting better and better!fnord How was Tahiti? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2014, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-invitation-to-join-the-illuminati-finally-came-in/686036/40 "2014-04-24T20:54:48Z")
> [@Deke](#): > > How can I join? Put $3125 in a box and bury it in your back yard. One of their underground agents will contact you. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-invitation-to-join-the-illuminati-finally-came-in/686036.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-invitation-to-join-the-illuminati-finally-came-in/686036.md?page=3)