Wakefield Doctrine ( yes, you are right, it does not matter what emotional goloss I would try to stimulate upon your arrival, you’re here …so what?)
I was reading FOTD Mel’s most recent Post over at Mostly Teachable and, as usual, Mel was succinct and direct and made what I thought was a positive recommendation for a book he has been reading. At the same time, (while I was reading Mel’s Post), I was playing solitaire on the computer*. At some point in the mili-second between processing a sentence of the Post and moving the black Queen to the red King the thought came to me, “Ya gotta care more”… this was followed nearly simultaneously with the reactionaryistic thought… “no, you need to stop caring! You always screw up when you care too much”.
Show of hands. Any of you Readers (and we clearly are addressing our clark contingency among you Readers) identify with that?
…I will set this Post out amongst you now. you scotts can sniff at it… rogers can look around and see if anyone is reading it and clarks…. you know what I mean by this statement, but I will wait until you write something… I can wait forever seeing how this is the digital virtual world, I can hit delete any damn time I want and we will all choose, according to our nature to:
- wonder in the back of our minds if the topic will come back (clarks)
- what topic (scotts)
- couldn’t have been important, no one did anything (rogers)
…
you can sit on mountain tops fasting for weeks and having the neighborhood kids come and throw stones and arrange for an enlightened zen master to sneak up on you while you are in the bathroom and shout a question like, “what is 5 pounds flax??’ and you will not get anywhere near the level of understanding of the personal nature of reality that playing solitaire can provide. Want to know what I mean? Then you need to ask.
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Caring too much… while it can be a problem, it is also one of those good things.
The trick is knowing when to stay, when to back off and when to let go.
Of course, there are also those times when one ought to just run — I think those are the times when ‘caring too much’ gets one in trouble.
yeah, agree (especially the care too much aspect)…. remind me to get really obscure if we don’t get anyone else out there to respond I believe you are getting at what I was heading towards.. will be glad to esplain the metaphysics of solitaire
“Caring too much” for a clark is about caring less about oneself.
Your turn Ricky….or Molly. clarks need to dig down deep (someone else, a clark I’m thinkin’, can “decryptify”).
We like people have the ability to travel great distances horizontally, it’s the vertical thing that poses the biggest challenge.
yeah, I agree…it seems that sometimes for clarks fear puts on a disguise and shows up as caring ( I will spare you with the visual of Ms./Mr. Fear taking off the makeup and putting on some attractive clothes and make-up and such and totally tricking us so, so very convincingly
@Molly “The trick is knowing when to stay, when to back off and when to let go...”
clarks think (know) rogers feel (stimulate emotions) and scotts act (and stimulate reactions) so far, so appropriate, but I can’t help but think the questions ( no shit, clark lol) what comprises the elements that constitute arriving at the state of knowing which of your options are best? In a delightfully paradoxical (and frustrating way) clarks always end up with the impossible task! clarks are outsiders right? we do not belong scotts and rogers belong to the others that comprise the world and they are aware of it (stay with me on this….) Everything is by the book. All three act and live according to their respective worlds.
Why is it, when it comes to ‘knowing how to best act’ clarks are the only one of the three that requires including the other two in knowing how to act in our best interest. Sorry, kind of tangled up there….
the thing is, only clarks believe that knowing about the other person is totally essential to making a proper decision about ourselves! no clark ever makes a decision to act that does not, to some degree involve believing we know without doubt… “the effect of this action on them will be…”
@DS#1 by vertically, I assume you are referring to knowing ourselves… the trouble with that is, as long as we are totally outsiders, knowing ourselves requires knowing others…. not necessarily caring about others but know them