About this thread.
This thread is based on the Modern Day Illuminati and not the historical Illuminati from the 1700s although there is a history section based on the 1700s Illuminati. This thread is to educate people on the Illuminati. This is quite a long thread ans i hope you enjoy it as it took a LONG time to write. Fell free to leave your opinions below as i love a debate.

The Illuminati.

What is the Illuminati.
The Illuminati refers to a conpiratorial organization/secret society which allegedly masterminded several events and disasters, and attempt to control world affairs through governments and worldwide corporations to establish a new world order.

History.
The Order of the Iluminati was a secret society founded by a university professor by the name of Adam Weishaupt on 1st of May 1776 in Germany. The movement consisted of advocates of freethought (Viewpoint of Science and Reason.), secularism(The Principle of Seperation between Government and Institutions.), liberalism, republicanism and gender equality, recruited in the German Masonic Lodges, who sought to teach rationalism through mystery schools. Ten years later the order of the Illuminati was infiltrated, broken up and suppressed. In the 1800s Conspiracy theorist began speculating that the Illuminatti
survived the supression and became the masterminds behind the french revolution, the illuminati were accused of being subversives who were attempting to secretly organize a revolutionary wave in Europe and the rest of the World in order to spread radical ideas and movements and create a world noocracy and cult of reason. During the 1900s, fear of an Illuminati conspiracy was a real concern of world rulers and their oppressive reactions to this unfounded fear provoked the revolutions they sought to prevent. In the 20th century facist propagandists popularized the myth of an illuminati conspiracy and claimed that it was a subversive secret society that serves the Jewish elites in order to devide and rule the world Skeptics argue that evidence would suggest that the Bavarian Illuminati was nothing more than a curious historical footnote since there is no evidence that the Illuminati survived its suppression in 1785.

A New World Order.
The New World Order is the concept that the Illuminati and other secret organisations with a globalist agenda are conspiring to rule the world through a world with only one government which replaces all other governments along with their laws and ideologies.

Mass Surveillance.
Conspiracy theorists concerned with surveillance abuse believe that the New World Order is being implemented by the cult of intelligence at the core of the surveillance-industrial complex through mass surveillance and the use of Social Security numbers, the bar-coding of retail goods with Universal Product Code markings, and, most recently, RFID tagging via microchip implants

Modern Day Influences.
Many of the Illuminati's modern day influences are through the media including sources like the music industry and the film industry.

Control.
Conspiracy theorists believe that the New World Order will also be implemented through the use of human population control in order to more easily monitor and control the movement of individuals. The means range from stopping the growth of human societies through reproductive health and family planning programs, which promote abstinence, contraception and abortion, or intentionally reducing the bulk of the world population through genocides by mongering unnecessary wars, through plagues by engineering emergent viruses and tainting vaccines, and through environmental disasters by controlling the weather (HAARP, chemtrails), etc. Conspiracy theorists argue that globalists plotting on behalf of a New World Order are neo-Malthusians who engage in overpopulation and climate change alarmism in order to create public support for coercive population control and ultimately world government.
Skeptics argue that fears of population control can be traced back to the traumatic legacy of the eugenics movement's "war against the weak" in the United States during the first decades of the 20th century but also the Second Red Scare in the U.S. during the late 1940s and 1950s, and to a lesser extent in the 1960s, when activists on the far right of American politics routinely opposed public health programs, notably water fluoridation, mass vaccination and mental health services, by asserting they were all part of a far-reaching plot to impose a socialist or communist regime. Their views were influenced by opposition to a number of major social and political changes that had happened in recent years: the growth of internationalism, particularly the United Nations and its programs; the introduction of social welfare provisions, particularly the various programs established by the New Deal; and government efforts to reduce inequalities in the social structure of the U.S..
Social critics accuse governments, corporations, and the mass media of being involved in the manufacturing of a national consensus and, paradoxically, a culture of fear due to the potential for increased social control that a mistrustful and mutually fearing population might offer to those in power. The worst fear of some conspiracy theorists, however, is that the New World Order will be implemented through the use of mind controla broad range of tactics able to subvert an individual's control of his or her own thinking, behavior, emotions, or decisions. These tactics are said to include everything from Manchurian candidate-style brainwashing of sleeper agents (Project MKULTRA, "Project Monarch") to engineering psychological operations (water fluoridation, subliminal advertising, "Silent Sound Spread Spectrum", MEDUSA) and parapsychological operations (Stargate Project) to influence the masses. The concept of wearing a tin foil hat for protection from such threats has become a popular stereotype and term of derision; the phrase serves as a byword for paranoia and is associated with conspiracy theorists.Skeptics argue that the paranoia behind a conspiracy theorist's obsession with mind control, population control, occultism, surveillance abuse, Big Business, Big Government, and globalization arises from a combination of two factors, when he or she: 1) holds strong individualist values and 2) lacks power. The first attribute refers to people who care deeply about an individual's right to make their own choices and direct their own lives without interference or obligations to a larger system (like the government), but combine this with a sense of powerlessness in one's own life, and one gets what some psychologists call "agency panic," intense anxiety about an apparent loss of autonomy to outside forces or regulators. When fervent individualists feel that they cannot exercise their independence, they experience a crisis and assume that larger forces are to blame for usurping this freedom.

Alleged conspirators.
According to Domhoff, many people seem to believe that the United States is ruled from behind the scenes by a conspiratorial elite with secret desires, i.e., by a small secretive group that wants to change the government system or put the country under the control of a world government. In the past the conspirators were usually said to be crypto-communists who were intent upon bringing the United States under a common world government with the Soviet Union, but the dissolution of the U.S.S.R. in 1991 undercut that theory. Domhoff notes that most conspiracy theorists changed their focus to the United Nations as the likely controlling force in a New World Order, an idea which is undermined by the powerlessness of the U.N. and the unwillingness of even moderates within the American Establishment to give it anything but a limited role.
Although skeptical of New World Order conspiracism, political scientist David Rothkopf argues, in the 2008 book Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making, that the world population of 6 billion people is governed by an elite of 6,000 individuals. Marxists, who are skeptical of right-wing populist conspiracy theories, also accuse the global power elite of not having the best interests of all at heart.

Criticisms.
Skeptics of New World Order conspiracy theories accuse its proponents of indulging in the furtive fallacy, a belief that significant facts of history are necessarily sinister; conspiracism, a world view that centrally places conspiracy theories in the unfolding of history, rather than social and economic forces; and fusion paranoia, a promiscuous absorption of fears from any source whatsoever.

Sources: Youtube Videos, Wikipedia and My Knowledge from Reading and Watching Documentarys about the Illuminati and Conspiracy theorys.

Hopefully this has educated some people into the history of the Iluminatti and what they do and what they are about. Thankyou for reading and be sure to leave your responses as i love a debate - Halford.