Beyonce and the Illuminati

At the Super Bowl on Sunday, Beyonce flashed the Illumanti triangle and it caused the stadium lights to fail. Either that or she was referencing her husband Jay-Z's Roc-A-Fella Records "dynasty sign." I prefer the former.

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MooseDesign

Wouldn’t the deluminati cause the lights to fail?
- PhosPhorious
  
  No way, dude. . . we’re through the looking glass. . . .
http://twitter.com/intensitystudio Antonio Carrasco

Yes, because when a secret society wants to remain secret, they flash hand signals during the most watched television event of the year. lol
- howaboutthisdangit
  
  The Illuminati is the honey badger of conspiracies. Bring it on, they don’t care! They laugh at the Righteous Right’s pathetic attempts to expose them.
  - Felton / Moderator
    
    Illuminati badger don’t give a shit.
- theophrastvs
  
  yess…. that would be quite silly… [elaborate dismissive gesture]
Quiche de Resistance

I you liked it then you should’ve put the Eye of Providence on it.
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  All the single lizards, all the single lizards,
  All the single lizards, all the single lizards,
  All the single lizards, all the single lizards,
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jandrese

Listen, if you’re going to find hidden meaning in every goddamn triangle you see, you’re going to end up like Dan Brown.
- http://twitter.com/EleOcho L8
  
  Well, I don’t blame them for trying to end up like Dan Brown. I mean, it’s not worth the bad reputation, but there’s still good money on it:
  
  “Readers snapped up over one million hardcover copies [of Dan Brown book 'The Lost Symbol' in one day] across the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. [...] ‘The Da Vinci Code’ sold 80 million copies worldwide. It was made into a film starring Tom Hanks that grossed more than $758 million.”
  
  http://www.reuters.com/article/2009/09/17/us-books-danbrown-idUSTRE58E5Q720090917
Navin_Johnson

Sadly has some relevance to the sad truther-nut story that BB posted earlier. Somebody, Marilove I think, was pointing out correctly (in those now closed comments) how this paranoia is egged on and fueled by some big “news” outlets/personalities, Fox, Glen Beck etc. Coincidentally this “Illuminati” nonsense originated on his site “The Blaze”, by their “Science & Technology” writer natch…….

Anyway, it’s clearly a personal message to me.
http://twitter.com/Listener43 Listener43

We asked her not to be quite so obvious.
Ryan Blunt

That’s a diamond press, 1-2-1-1. HAVOC!
Jorpho

It’s a brilliant photo. Eyes off to the side, irises like vertical slits, teeth ever-so-slightly bared, eldritch glow coming off the hair.

To Photoshop it further would be an injustice, though no doubt people are busy doing that anyway.
lev36

She was actually giving the signal to immanentize the Eschaton, but a crew from the Justified Ancients of Mummu hacked into the power grid just in time to shut her down.
RayCornwall

It’s DDP’s Diamond Cutter. Feel…the…BANG! (And then do some yoga.)
http://twitter.com/callmeike G. Blake Meike

That “triangle” sign has another meaning, entirely, in Voudou…
http://fallsastar.com Crashproof

Nothing to see here fnord. Move along fnord.
http://twitter.com/missshenna Lithi

I can only imagine what Yield and school crossing signs do to these people.
franko

and here i thought they cut the power trying to STOP her performance.
http://twitter.com/chrisjimson chris jimson

I am the Illuminati, and I approve this message.
Antinous / Moderator

You have to admit, no real human being could possibly look that smooth and flawless.
hypersomniac

Play this for your friends who won’t shut the fuck up about the illuminati symbolism they saw in a Gaga video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQZxP-W4zUw
Frank W

Put in a pinch of Masonic symbolism and you get double the press. That’s the occult secret here.
Dr. Sideshow

In Italy, that’s the sign for the female reproductive organ.
http://aturtleback.livejournal.com/ turtle

Yeah, she made that sign when Kelly sang “the rock I’m rocking.” So definitely Illuminati and not her husband.
kiptw

I reach.
Navin_Johnson

I think a lot of people were imagining that very thing while watching.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_OAUXAA362EXWLYVMPJOKLFB5JQ Incipient Madness

While I don’t really like her music that much, I think that’s a little strong. And she’s done a ton of charitable work here in Houston, including building a couple of annex buildings for St. Joseph’s Hospital. While I’m not really sure I’m OK with supporting Catholic institutions given how things are going, I can say she’s helped a lot of people. Beyonce’s family was not old Southern black gentry. They are postwar New South achievers from the SW Houston suburbs just a couple of generations off their Brazos River farms. I love seeing a local girl make it big, and she hasn’t forgotten where she came from.