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Rick Spence

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1494 total appearances

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#451 โ€“ Rick Spence: CIA, KGB, Illuminati, Secret Societies, Cults & Conspiracies

I think that Weishaupt gave them to him. I think he engineered the exposure of his order because it gave him publicity. By being exposed in Bavaria, you gained great renown and they continued to recruit after this. And the Bavarian government actually bans the Illuminati four different times. Why? Because apparently the first three times didn't work. So the fourth one does.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#451 โ€“ Rick Spence: CIA, KGB, Illuminati, Secret Societies, Cults & Conspiracies

I think that Weishaupt gave them to him. I think he engineered the exposure of his order because it gave him publicity. By being exposed in Bavaria, you gained great renown and they continued to recruit after this. And the Bavarian government actually bans the Illuminati four different times. Why? Because apparently the first three times didn't work. So the fourth one does.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#451 โ€“ Rick Spence: CIA, KGB, Illuminati, Secret Societies, Cults & Conspiracies

You can notice that it's like papal bans on Freemasonry. They just go on and on and on because this clearly isn't working.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#451 โ€“ Rick Spence: CIA, KGB, Illuminati, Secret Societies, Cults & Conspiracies

You can notice that it's like papal bans on Freemasonry. They just go on and on and on because this clearly isn't working.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#451 โ€“ Rick Spence: CIA, KGB, Illuminati, Secret Societies, Cults & Conspiracies

You can notice that it's like papal bans on Freemasonry. They just go on and on and on because this clearly isn't working.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#451 โ€“ Rick Spence: CIA, KGB, Illuminati, Secret Societies, Cults & Conspiracies

You have no idea what's going on inside. Yeah. It's like a black box. If I set a black box on this table, we can see that there is a black box. What's in the black box? A cat? Who knows? In fact, the secrecy might be the very thing that makes it even more popular. Adam Weishaupt, again, there is no more... more convincing than a concealed mystery. Give people a concealed mystery in the fuss.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#451 โ€“ Rick Spence: CIA, KGB, Illuminati, Secret Societies, Cults & Conspiracies

You have no idea what's going on inside. Yeah. It's like a black box. If I set a black box on this table, we can see that there is a black box. What's in the black box? A cat? Who knows? In fact, the secrecy might be the very thing that makes it even more popular. Adam Weishaupt, again, there is no more... more convincing than a concealed mystery. Give people a concealed mystery in the fuss.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#451 โ€“ Rick Spence: CIA, KGB, Illuminati, Secret Societies, Cults & Conspiracies

You have no idea what's going on inside. Yeah. It's like a black box. If I set a black box on this table, we can see that there is a black box. What's in the black box? A cat? Who knows? In fact, the secrecy might be the very thing that makes it even more popular. Adam Weishaupt, again, there is no more... more convincing than a concealed mystery. Give people a concealed mystery in the fuss.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#451 โ€“ Rick Spence: CIA, KGB, Illuminati, Secret Societies, Cults & Conspiracies

So we need to make the order mysterious for that exact reason. Always hold out the possibility that special knowledge that no mere mortals have other than you have in that way. So he senses a lot of things. The use of vanity and ego to recruit people to influence both men and women. It's quite sophisticated.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#451 โ€“ Rick Spence: CIA, KGB, Illuminati, Secret Societies, Cults & Conspiracies

So we need to make the order mysterious for that exact reason. Always hold out the possibility that special knowledge that no mere mortals have other than you have in that way. So he senses a lot of things. The use of vanity and ego to recruit people to influence both men and women. It's quite sophisticated.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#451 โ€“ Rick Spence: CIA, KGB, Illuminati, Secret Societies, Cults & Conspiracies

So we need to make the order mysterious for that exact reason. Always hold out the possibility that special knowledge that no mere mortals have other than you have in that way. So he senses a lot of things. The use of vanity and ego to recruit people to influence both men and women. It's quite sophisticated.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#451 โ€“ Rick Spence: CIA, KGB, Illuminati, Secret Societies, Cults & Conspiracies

And as you might expect from a professor of canon law trained by Jesuits. So I certainly don't think that it ceased When it was banned in Bavaria. Because everybody just scatters and goes elsewhere. Like Paris.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#451 โ€“ Rick Spence: CIA, KGB, Illuminati, Secret Societies, Cults & Conspiracies

And as you might expect from a professor of canon law trained by Jesuits. So I certainly don't think that it ceased When it was banned in Bavaria. Because everybody just scatters and goes elsewhere. Like Paris.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#451 โ€“ Rick Spence: CIA, KGB, Illuminati, Secret Societies, Cults & Conspiracies

And as you might expect from a professor of canon law trained by Jesuits. So I certainly don't think that it ceased When it was banned in Bavaria. Because everybody just scatters and goes elsewhere. Like Paris.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#451 โ€“ Rick Spence: CIA, KGB, Illuminati, Secret Societies, Cults & Conspiracies

Anybody can call it. You can go out and form a club and call it the Illuminati.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#451 โ€“ Rick Spence: CIA, KGB, Illuminati, Secret Societies, Cults & Conspiracies

Anybody can call it. You can go out and form a club and call it the Illuminati.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#451 โ€“ Rick Spence: CIA, KGB, Illuminati, Secret Societies, Cults & Conspiracies

Anybody can call it. You can go out and form a club and call it the Illuminati.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#451 โ€“ Rick Spence: CIA, KGB, Illuminati, Secret Societies, Cults & Conspiracies

And you also notice something goes back to when we were talking about much earlier, when we were talking about intelligence. Remember mice? Ego. Ego, yeah. It's a means of recruitment and control. That's a great Achilles' heel in human beings, the exploitation of ego.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#451 โ€“ Rick Spence: CIA, KGB, Illuminati, Secret Societies, Cults & Conspiracies

And you also notice something goes back to when we were talking about much earlier, when we were talking about intelligence. Remember mice? Ego. Ego, yeah. It's a means of recruitment and control. That's a great Achilles' heel in human beings, the exploitation of ego.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#451 โ€“ Rick Spence: CIA, KGB, Illuminati, Secret Societies, Cults & Conspiracies

And you also notice something goes back to when we were talking about much earlier, when we were talking about intelligence. Remember mice? Ego. Ego, yeah. It's a means of recruitment and control. That's a great Achilles' heel in human beings, the exploitation of ego.