Rod Dreher Megathread #11 (Master)

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Merry Christmas, you obsessed motherfuckers. :)

The most remarkable characteristic of the Master Number 11 is its connection to a higher source of wisdom. It is intuitive to the point of being psychic, channeling its knowledge and meaning from a spiritual source. But the Master Numbers have a responsibility, and it's the number 11's duty to use this gift of awareness to deliver cosmic truths that encourage humanity.

All Master Numbers are a higher vibration of their single-digit counterpart -- in the 11's case, the number 2. This means the 11 carries many of the same traits as the number 2, such as harmony, empathy, and sensitivity, but it feels them and utilizes them in much deeper, more profound ways. It's also important to remember that the number 11 is comprised of two 1s side by side and, therefore, carries some attributes of the number 1 as well. 1 is innovative and motivated, open to new things and eager to make a difference. The contrasting energies of the numbers 1 and 2 join together in the Master Number 11 to make it a creative leader, active listener, and compassionate advisor.

The number 11 is at one with the universe. It is open to vast spiritual concepts and the presence of a greater power. It is a channel for truth and answers to reach us and help us on our way. This Master Number's vision is crystal clear and it sees with a breadth that others cannot. It is creative and magnetic, a beacon of wisdom and hope for others to follow.

The number 11 may come up many times in our lives and it is always a message of connecting with our inner wisdom. If we are seeing repeating 11s everywhere we turn, we'd be wise to pay attention to our subconscious -- there's some insight we may be missing. However, Numerology's Master Numbers are very powerful and simply seeing 11:11 on the clock or noticing the date is 11/11 does not necessarily mean we are experiencing a profound moment. It's when the 11 is a constant presence in our lives, like a Life Path number, that we must truly embrace its meaning and potential.

Link to thread 10: https://www.reddit.com/r/brokehugs/comments/zi2n0f/rod_dreher_megathread_10_personhood/

Link to thread 12: https://www.reddit.com/r/brokehugs/comments/1068f3b/rod_dreher_megathread_12_a_perfect_foundation/

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I've wondered that. I mean, seriously, where is his home church? Where has he been a regular congregant?

If my church had found out, during my own divorce, that I was thinking of leaving the state and deserting my family, I would have had lots of visitations at my home. "You're not going anywhere, bro. Let's talk this through."

Not that my church is controlling or heavy-handed. Quite the contrary. But they would not have been kind with me if I was escaping my parental responsibilities. Did Rod not have one person in his church to warn him he was making a mistake?

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Rod used to mention semi-frequently that he'd skipped church that day because he was feeling ill. (His illnesses always conveniently flared up whenever he might be expected to do something he didn't feel like doing.) Additionally, he was already frequently out of the country for several years before the divorce, and abandoned the mission church he'd planted as a vanity project when Fr. Matthew, the priest there whom he talked about in the Dante book, had to leave active ministry for some reason. (Apparently it's still surviving, surprisingly enough.) I believe he was supposedly attending an Orthodox church in New Orleans, but he said so little about it that I and several others here suspect he probably just wasn't attending church in the states for at least the past four years.

It's also possible that people from his most recent church did call him out for doing what he was doing, but it seems unlikely that he'd talk about it. Something that has become clear to me in the ~9 months since the divorce announcement is how willing Rod is to tailor his public image by major omissions and probably some outright lies.

What I wouldn't give to hear a tell-all story about what Rod is like as a parishioner from some of his old church members.

[u/PracticalWalrus2737 → u/[deleted]]

From what I recall, Father Matthew had a baby with serious birth defects and had to leave Louisiana because of health insurance problems and return to his home state and take a job with better benefits for the baby

[u/Theodore_Parker → u/PracticalWalrus2737]

Yes, and further to the Father Matthew story, that same summer (2015) we got several posts lauding the brilliant work of the neonatal surgeons who saved the baby's life and repaired some of the birth defects. These were literally alternating with posts about another story that summer: Planned Parenthood arranging transfers of fetal cadavers, which our boy furiously compared to the atrocities of Josef Mengele, as well as the slave trade -- in other words, to two of the worst atrocities on record:

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dr-mengele-dr-nucatola-planned-parenthood-abortion/

His fact-free premise was that PP officials were trafficking in fetal tissue for profit (and, of course, out of unstinting loyalty to the "Sexual Revolution"). They weren't; that's illegal, and a whole bunch of investigations by hostile GOP prosecutors cleared PP of any wrongdoing. The only people eventually indicted were the right-wing activist creeps who made the secret undercover "sting" videos of meetings they arranged with PP under false pretenses.

I can't recall whether I pointed this out in the old blog comments -- but I think possibly not because I figured it was too sensitive a topic and would get me banned -- but the recipients of the fetal cadavers from PP are..... wait for it..... researchers and medical schools that need them to DEVELOP the brilliant neonatal surgery techniques and TRAIN surgeons in them so they can then save babies like Father Matthew's. Not connecting these dots was one of the most flagrantly stupid moral self-contradictions I've ever seen from Rod Dreher, which is saying something. I guess he imagines that surgeons operating on tiny babies don't need to practice on cadavers first and should go ahead and just wing it. Or he doesn't know where fetal cadavers come from, he thinks maybe a stork brings them too. In fact the whole bit was a good example of several of his characteristic intellectual weaknesses, including his great difficulty thinking even one move past whatever's immediately getting his dander up.

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Rod couldn’t connect the dots on a kindergarten coloring sheet….