Are they in control of the world? Like a lot of conspiracy theorists say they do. Do they even exist? Is the evidence for their existence based upon mounds and mounds of fallacies and misinterpretations?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illuminati
The "illuminati card game" created in 1995. Some of those cards:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illuminati
The "illuminati card game" created in 1995. Some of those cards:
Wow, I have the first edition of that Illuminati game from Steve Jackson. Ultimately it led to their company being raided by the Feds, because the Feds were sure that IT WAS NOT A GAME. The raid almost killed their company. It was a famous case at the time, involving Phrack Magazine and the E911 document.
EFF got on the case and sued the US government with Steve Jackson. They won this case and it set some important precedents.
Much of which have later been undone, but it is a good case to keep in your knowledgebase anyway.
https://w2.eff.org/legal/cases/SJG/?f=background.sjg.html
BTW, if you really want to join the Illuminati...