Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4224349-20150108233407/@comment-28584561-20150122105352

Per Ankh wrote: GNX has a point. Why else would Steven Universe's version of the US put a diamond on the dollar bill in the exact same spot as the Conspiracy-inducing unfinished pyramid? " Conspiracy-inducing unfinished pyramid"

Gosh, people really need to educate themselves before jumping to conclusions like this (BTW, I hope you were just joking).

Let's clear some things up. Yes, the illuminati is real, yes, it does exist, or did exist. The illuminati (known back then as "The Order of the Illuminati") was a secret society of german philosophers that was created in 1776 but was later disbanded by the government because of fear that they would overthrow them. The society's goals were to oppose superstition, obscurantism, religious influence over public life and abuses of state power (ironic isn't it?). A lot of people thought they were still working and hid underground, some thought that they were the reason for the French Revolution, and so the Illuminati as the center of worldly conspiracies began.

The Eye of Providence or The All-Seeing Eye is closely related to the illuminati because. . . . know one really knows why, actually. The eye of providence is depicted in many religions as god or something of very high power. With the earliest known use of an eye symbol was the egyptians and the eye of horus, which symbolized protection and royal power. But is quite befitting since the modern illuminati is said to be watching our every move. The actual symbol for the illuminati was called the owl of minerva.

The unfinished pyramid is actually finished, in the sense that the pyramid need not need additional steps. If you count the steps that the pyramid has on the back of a dollar bill, youd count to 13, which symbolizes the original 13 colonies of the united states. It isn't even connected to any conspiracy outside of the supposed illuminati.