Regarding conspiracies in general of course they occur. The US federal government has jailed lots of people for conspiring. Any way you look at it the attacks on September 11th were a conspiracy - a group of people planned, trained and carried out an elaborate attack. The term conspiracy theory is simply applied to any theory that is not supported by the powers that be or the majority of people, who get their beliefs from the powers that be.
I know that men love worldly power and many will sell their souls for that power. That being so I have no doubt people plot ways to acquire power. They often use established organizations or institutions to achieve their goals for the obvious reason that you typically need lots of worker bees to achieve big goals.
Certain conspiracy theories are very kooky and I find wholly unbelievable. Others could be true but how would one really know they are true? Such are really just speculation. I approach the world by truly believing certain events certainly did take place. As for their explanation I’m more agnostic simply because I know I have very limited knowledge and I’m certainly not privy to people’s motivation which only they and God know. Regarding things like Jay Z I would say avoiding his music is good even if there is no such thing as the (modern) Illuminati.
As you said, there are conspiracies, both against governments and by governments. We routinely see reports of terror attacks, and they are usually the result of conspiracies. A bunch of Jihadists get together and plan an attack for example. That’s a conspiracy.
When a black banned government seeks to use underhand methods to get what it wants, that’s a conspiracy. When a couple of people in a company get together to get rid of another co-worker the don’t like, that’s a conspiracy.
So they occur. However I don’t take much notice of the Youtube variety, since most of the stuff on the net is outlandish. And I don’t even know who *Jay Z *is.
However I do remember my old, conservative, wise, prophetic pastor saying that he thought the Illuminati were “alive and well”, and he wasn’t much into conspiracy or end-times theories. In fact, he used to cop a share of Protestant alarmism from time to time from members of his own congregation, but his comment to me was “Whenever I try to track these things down, I find they usually just fizzle out into nothing.”
I’m afraid I developed an enormous respect for his insight and wisdom, so based on his statement, I suspect somewhere there
is a cabal of high powered and / or wealthy individuals plotting to seize power. If there’s anything in the sense of a personal anti-Christ, then there would necessarily have to be a conspiracy leading up to it. He couldn’t do it alone.
But we’re hardly likely to hear about it. If the CIA had trouble just keeping the old KGB in check, we’re not likely to be privy to those sorts of deals. And that’s another reason I don’t take much notice of conspiracy theories - unless the theorists can afford to employ an intelligence army, where’s their proof?
Good idea!
