the Wakefield Doctrine

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)

You remember that thing your parents always used to say, when you were a kid and didn’t want to do something (chores, homework, grow up)? ‘If you’d spend half as much energy just doing it, you’d be done by now!’

Well, today’s Post is/was/will be a lot like that. Got up thinking, ‘better post something, can’t have anyone forgetting what exactly it is that we do ’round this here Doctrine, here’. But I had nothing! Zero ideation. So, naturally, I thought, ‘lets do a reprint!’.  (Followed by, ‘yeah, but which one?’) (In turn, followed by, ‘jeez, do I have to think of everything?!!’) Finally I thought, ‘lets see what the visitors are reading!’  and I looked and there was ‘Liverpool New South Wales’ and the following post was what they were linking in on! Fine, job’s half done, right?  Incorrect! I copied and pasted and none of the images carried over. Now this normally would not bother me, words being my tool…. er,  my weapon?? damn…. words..words being that-friend-who-had-thousands-of-comic-books-and-the-pages-weren’t-even-missing-and-model-cars-not-yet-built-but-wasn’t-really-my-friend-except-I-did-get-to-go-over-to-his-house-once…. yeah, me and words. So I needed to get the photos into the reprint post below (which, with each clever, typed word becomes more and more un-necessary). I figured out how to do it and so, below in a re-print post from a year or so ago.

(I was talking to zoe yesterday and remembered that, based on the idea of personal reality being the manifestation of reality, the population of the world is no more than 1,700 real people. No, really! I’m serious! But I don’t have any more time this morning. Maybe another Tuesday post, I’ll explain how this is true.)

Chapter 22  of ‘Blogdominion‘ is out and ready to be read. Come on down…. looking for Beta Readers pretty soon, yo.

(From September 14 (‘A Day that Will Live Forever in Infancy’ F. Roosevelt)

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)

I was going to write about how much the Wakefield Doctrine has changed me and altered the path of my life, for today’s Post. However, seeing how I’m actually writing this yesterday, ( ‘right now’ in the parlance of Time), it’s only natural that we should discuss ‘Time Travel and the Wakefield Doctrine’.

(Before we get any further into today’s Post, (be sure to Comment and tell your friends to read this here Post here), allow me to review two concepts that are part of the underlying principles necessary to a full enjoyment of our favorite personality theory. They are:

1. ‘everyone does everything at one time or another‘ often I will hear people say, ‘oh man! that’s something only a scott would do’ or, ‘my cousin is a firefighter, isn’t that a rogerian job, he doesn’t strike me as being a roger!’ The ‘everything Rule’ is there to remind us that, though the Doctrine tells us that there are three distinct personal realities (aka worldviews), we are all still living in a common world. In this world, there are Firefighters and Fisherman, Surgeons and Gardeners, Prostitutes and Politicians, Teachers and Children…. clarks and scotts and rogers are all of these things and everything else. The (observed) effect of having a particular worldview is not simply that a scott will approach a job or a hobby or a romantic date differently than would a clark or a roger, but the thing that she experiences, the ‘dang an sich’, is manifested in accordance to her worldview. It is this ‘manifesting‘ that is what allows for the different worldviews to interact with the common worldview and still permit the individual differences to be expressed. Not only can we know how a certain thing might manifest for a person, given their worldview, but we can also predict how the person will experience and you know that means!
2. ‘manifesting’ is what accounts for how we will experience (any part of life) and therefore, to an extent, the range of choices available to us…. ( you want an example in real life? well, do you?…then go to our friend Christine’s blog and read this Post and keep in mind (like we need to tell you…lol) she is a scottian woman. And just in case you are tempted to think, ‘but that’s obvious! she’s a scott! Go and see how a certain situation manifests to a roger. Kristi has a Post that could have been titled, ‘A Brief Insight into the Thoughts and Feelings of a Well-Balanced roger on a Typical Day’ here…. read this Post.
   ( I would cite a Post written by a clark but…. talk about your ‘coals to Newcastle’ ! lol…. check these out: Lizzi (pick a post…any post) or zoe, (interesting for reasons beyond the scope of this Post) or…Denise or Cynthia. G’wan with ye now.
   As today’s Post’s subtitle implies, the adventure of traveling in time, where it possible, would be a different experience for each of the three worldviews. rogers, being the technically gifted (they are the reason that we have computers and reliable airliners (yeah, so I’m like 87 years old with that expression) and the natural engineers. Their time machine would look something like:

a clark, well while clarks know an awful lot of things and, are the genuinely creative (of the three personality types), will attempt to forestall criticism (and laughter) by fashioning a machine that will simply look cool and thereby obviate the probing questions, such as: ‘how does it actually work?’ and, ‘does it actually work?’. Their time machine would tend to look something like:

While scott (though not inclined to take the time to build an actual time machine), would simply find one and hot-wired it to take his/her friends on a joyride in:

That being said, this Post is about the Wakefield Doctrine, not time machines. Then again, if the Wakefield Doctrine is all that it’s cracked up to be, surely it could predict how a concept (and common) day dream such as ‘If I could travel back in time and retain my experience and knowledge, yet inhabit my younger body, with no one around me being any the wiser, I would…..

…out of time. So, tell us how you would use Time Travel. (You don’t even have to tell us your predominant worldview… your Comment will tell us that, thank you. lol)