Month: March 2020 | the Wakefield Doctrine

Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

March 30, 2020 By clarkscottroger

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

So, I was working on ‘the youtube’ this morning,* and you know how, on the homepage, they have row after row of, ‘You might be interested in...’ videos and clips and such? Well, the Machine’s suggestion normally holds zero attraction, until this morning, when my eye was captured by the title: ‘Friday Cows’.

What an odd title for a youtube vid! The page is usually full of ‘Joe Rogan and Some Other Guy Show How Wicked Funny They Are’ and ‘SWAT team rescues a Chicken’. I mean those make sense (and, surely are enticing), but ‘Friday Cows’?!?!

Welll…

See for yourself.

Look out viral videoville… Una is in da house!

While I got your attention… the Wakefield Doctrine is a perspective on reality, the world and the people that make it up. We all have the potential to experience the world in one of three characteristic manners: as an Outsider(clark), a Predator(scotts) or the Herd Member(Roger). At an early age, we all settle into one of the three and develop in response and appropriate to the world we find ourselves in. The Wakefield Doctrine is not an Answer, it is one more perspective on the world. And who wouldn’t benefit from an additional perspective? Applying an understanding of the Wakefield Doctrine, we are in a position to see the world as the other person is experiencing it. And that is not a bad thing.

Plus, study real hard and you will know more about the other people in your life than they know about themselves.

Feel free to wander through the posts on this site. Ask questions. Relax and have fun.

* no, seriously. One of my responses to the Cordoba is to learn to edit videos…real quick. That way I can have my properties available online for a preliminary introduction. Then, if someone is interested, they’ll know if it’s worth the trip to go and see in person.

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

March 28, 2020 By clarkscottroger

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

“Una, stick her tongue at a passing dog? Preposterous! She would never….”
(Well, I’m sure they did something to warrant it.)

This is the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop.

Each week Kristi opens the ‘hop and invites all writers and people and such who are so inclined to link-in with their own accounting of Ten(ish) Things that elicited a feeling of gratitude in the previous week …(or month or that great summer between junior and senior year when the job actually enhanced the two and a half months of total Neverland; or the time that person said the thing that, though they had no deliberate intention, made possible a moment of clarity that improved your life).

Like that.

Without further adieu or ado… (kinda works either way). These are the things that incite the subjective experience of gratitude.

1) Una

2) Phyllis

3) the Wakefield Doctrine: Among a ton of other qualities and benefits, its support of the notion of personal reality. Which, in turn, is a reminder that if there was a true and virtuous gift from a certain tree of knowledge, it would be perspective. Surely one would be hard pressed to argue that making the effort (and paying the price*) to see the world as the other person is experiencing it isn’t a benefit to one’s own life.

4) the Hobbomock Chronicles This week: Episode Twelve. Probably go live tomorrow or today (Sunday or Saturday, depending on when this arrives here…at the TToT.)

5) technology: two words: Music From the Before Time, (so very long ago) as we’ve posted below.

6) Cynthia (Friend of the Doctrine) and an outstanding example of the benefits that result from diligent effort in the name of self-developing oneself. Total power of example, is all.

7) Six Sentence Story bloghop fun and learning with wordage. It’s a challenge to write anything off a prompt word. It’s six times more trying to write a story off a prompt word and make that story be of six sentences in length. No mo’ no less. Six. You owe it to yourself to stop by and read (and, maybe even, write a story of your own).

8) THIS SPACE AVAILABLE (No! Serially! If you’re on the fence about doing a whole post and sending it in, try a single Grat Item. Send it in a Comment and I’ll totally put it here at Numero Eighto

9) something something

10) SR 1.3. [chap 3 para 4.2: …[t]he Book of Secret Rules (aka the Secret Book of Rules) has one requirement, the individual citing a (given) Rule, must, perforce present an argument, no matter how specious, that the invoked Rule provides for the situation. example: SR 1.3 which states (in part) that the near-completion of a Grat List is, de facto, a reason to feel grateful and, therefore, is a legitimate item to include, nay, conclude a TToT list with.”]

* to quote a total fan of the Doctrine, “Ay, there’s the rub.” The price (of enjoying the benefits of perspective) is the highest of all. It is to surrender to the fact/opinion/possibility/dogmatic assertion that what you know of the world and reality, might not be the final and definitive description. And, the ironic part of this is that most of this first step, this surrender of self-defined certitude of the nature of reality is not as world ending as a part of us would insist. The threat, we hear in our heads, is that if we give up on our definition of the world being the only one, we will lose everything. Many would testify to the notion that we don’t lose one world, we gain a whole bunch of other worlds. Enough of the metaphysics, lets experience Grat Item 5 from the above list, with the second of the two music vids.

music

That was fun… who said, ‘Hey! Another one. That was so long a time ago.’

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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine-

March 25, 2020 By clarkscottroger

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

This is the Six Sentence Story.

Hosted by Denise, it is her challenge to write a story of six, and only six, sentences employing a prompt word.

It’s fun and exciting; it will improve the writing of those of us still working on our rhetorical chops. (You will be forgiven for laughing at the sudden visual of Alexander Hamilton, complete with apron and cleaver, standing in a colonial-era butcher shop. (No, I have not idea.))

Warning: this is Six is unfair to those Readers and writers who happen, by no fault of their own, to be age-challenged. To best appreciate the Six, you must be this ⇑ old.

Prompt word:

SAFETY

Pressing with his index finger, the man hesitated; the glass smooth steel moved from left to right and then back again, under increasingly clumsy digits. The combination of narrow gauge and a circled-loop at one end, imbued it with a diabolical power to resist his efforts, threatening to spring free from his tenuous grip.

The baby, with the trusting innocence of a puppy short-leg-galloping into the veterinarian’s office for the first time, waved as many parts of his body as possible.

Desperate, the man realized that, though close to completing his mission with no permanent injury or excessive blood loss, the concentrated forces caused the length of sharp metal to be at its most lethal. Abandoning all thoughts of self-preservation, he transferred as much of his weight as possible over his hand and, suddenly, the sharp-end was trapped in the metal hood.

“There’s my two brave boys,” crossing from the doorway of the nursery, the woman swept the baby up in her arms, fingers discretely checking the two safety pins securing the diaper and smiled at her husband, “I knew you could do it!”

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

March 22, 2020 By clarkscottroger

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

Yow! Still way strange world out there.* But the day is, to a large extent, as we would live it. That mostly suggests we avoid allowing fear to select the path we walk. Same world, same messed-up problems, but the choice of paths is ours. (My favorite writer in such matters metaphysic, Carlos Castaneda, has his protagonist, don Juan, say, ‘ The challenge for us each day is to find and walk, the path with heart’. As with any good writer, that (phrase) offers a scaffolding for our own ideas and beliefs as much as it is an instruction for a course of action.)

As always, we start this weekly exercise by thanking our host for being here and inviting all to share the people, places and things that elicit the feeling of gratitude. Thanks, Kristi.

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine just because

4) the internet in general and wikipedia (and the like) specifically. It is truly everything in the world a clark would enjoy. For instance, we’ve all heard the famous ancient Chinese curse, ‘May you live in interesting times’. Seems like it’s not: ancient or Chinese. From what I read, the origin of the saying is more closely connected to …. ready? A relative of one of England’s Prime Ministers! ….yes way.

5) * from the lead line of the introduction, a quick Wakefield Doctrine Insight. (If clarks as Outsiders, scotts as Predators and rogers as Herd Members doesn’t make you smile and think, ‘Yeah! Old Doctrine shit. Lay it on us!’ Then you would be well-advised to open another browser and come back here and do one of two things: a) read the ‘About’ page and/or ‘What is the Wakefield Doctrine’ 2) search in the search box for any post from 2011 to 2014 or ’15 and read away (we wrote about the Doctrine incessantly back then), or c) read this post or this one

In any event, the asteroid is to remind us of one of the crucial characteristics of clarks, in comparison to scotts and rogers, i.e. how we perceive the world at large. Very simply, to us, the world is ‘out there’. Apart from us. To be accurate, it’s more a matter of us (clarks) not being a part of the world, at least the way that everyone else seems to be. That’s why, of the three, it is only a clark, upon waking, will consider their options when they must deal with the world ‘out there’.

6) the Hobbomock Chronicles this week we’re already at Episode Eleven! (Good thing I’ve decided that there will be ‘Books’ making up the Chronicles. We’re currently reading Book One of the Hobbomock Chronicles, even though I haven’t titled it so.) Come on back and check in, around afternoon time. The link to Episode Eleven will be live.

7) Watcha looking here for? lol, very good! If you followed the trail back up here, my compliments and gratitude. While the (whatever you call the footnote designation where it’s a little number next to the last word of a reference) was not marked, I thought, why not? These guys are not put off by a little roundabout, meandering trail to a point that may or may possess a shelf-life sufficient for everyone to stumble upon it. In any event, hope you are enjoying the music, all credits to the creator of the video and/or the artist who wrote or otherwise pulled the music out of that place that does not exist for anyone other than those truly creative people. Which makes me think of an aspect of the Doctrine (yeah, I know, what are the odds?)… the Everything Rule. This ‘rule’ reminds us that the Doctrine is not really that weird. While the three predominant worldviews (clarks, scotts and rogers) are, in fact, separate and distinguishable realities, they all exist in a common world. And, the rule reminds us, no one of the three has anything exclusive to themselves. There are not things that only clarks do, there are not skills found only in one, there is not even qualities, like creativity as we started talking about in this item, that one has and the other two do not. The Everything Rule says: how these things, qualities, characteristics manifest is what is different among the three. And, so, creativity. All three are capable of being creative. How they experience (and then express) this quality is what distinguishes one from the other two.

8) THIS SPACE AVAILABLE

9) the picture at the top of the post? I was out showing a house yesterday and I thought, ‘Hey! This could be a Grat Item! What with being a real estate broker and having clients I enjoy working with, looking at interesting houses in a coastal community.‘ Sure, that works as an Thing of Thankful.

10) Secret Rule 1.3

* sorry, this astroid has been promoted to Full Grat Item, currently at Number Five (with a bullet)

Music: In an uncertain space, musical aesthetically-speaking, so, since the Wakefield Doctrine, its ownself, allows for three predominant worldviews, far be it from me to not apply the same standard to this week’s music. In no particular order ⁷ relative to our three realities

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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine-

March 18, 2020 By clarkscottroger

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

This is the Six Sentence Story bloghop.

It is hosted by Denise.

She provides a new prompt word each week.

You write a story of six (and only six) sentences employing the above mentioned prompt word.

This week, the prompt word is:

Question

“Class, the first que…” the collective imagination of the fifth grade at St. Dominiques swayed like lace curtains at an open window, held captive, but not prisoner.

“Sister Margaret, I have a ques…” from the back of the classroom, wrist and elbow clearly at cross-purposes, a boy’s hand sank and rose, as tentative as his voice.

“Here we go again, Silent Zachariah with his endless q…” preadolescence relationships, as baking mud pies and cardboard spaceships are to mature romance; in the Battle of the Sexes; the stakes have not yet been established for either side, remains a game of the innocent.

“Remember, children, there is no such thing as a stupid quest…”

“Yeah except when asked by a certified dweeb…”

“Oh good, Clarice, you just provided the exception to the rule…” Twenty-three fifth grade children began to laugh; after a moment they were joined by the novitiate nun, Clarice and Zachariah at her side, one holding on possessively, the other shyly; both laughing.