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

So, before we continue on to the reprint, which, if I must say, is rather old school Doctrine post (in the best sense of the word(s)). It was a time of near boundless energy, limitless enthusiasm and constant discovery of how our little personality theory was out there, waiting to be organized and enjoyed by all.

Speaking of reprints, here is Mimi’s Comment on Sunday’s post:

In my introduction to this week’s TToT, I made the following assertion:

‘Seeing how the time that has elapsed since the founderinae, Lizzi created this bloghop, is abstract and fairly subjective* consider everything/anytime fair game.

[The footnote:] * lol …that phrase right there, “As the time…elapsed since…is…fairly subjective” Can I get a “No, but it’s true!” from the clarks out there?‘

To which Mimi referred in her comment

‘Of course time elapsed is subjective. How long a minute takes depends on which side of the restroom door you are on.’

Not only is this the correct answer. It is consistent with the principles of the Wakefield Doctrine. Allow me to elaborate and I will try to keep it under 700 words.

The nature/character of the three predominant worldviews (personality types) can best be described in the phrase: clarks think, scotts act and rogers feel. The mind, the body and the heart. clarks live in a reality that is rational (even when it’s totally looney), scotts exist in a world that is directly expressed, (“I scream, therefore I am!”) and rogers…rogers! they live in a reality both wonderfully complex and defying of all rational …reason, a world manifested as pure emotion.

Now the perspective that our friend Mimi so elegantly elicits with her example, emotions are non-rational. (No, not irrational, non-rational) (ok, maybe irrational…sometimes) But, and this is the cool part for us writing this post, a number of years ago, we made the ‘discovery’ that the world of a roger is a-chronologic, as in, ‘without time’. A better way to say it, is that, in the reality of the Herd Member, time is an optional extra, a nice suit that his/her friend wears on occasion. That said, it, the distinction between the past and the present, the difference between now and age six years and four months is insignificant and inconsequential.

So, as Mimi shows us in her comment: Time, or rather, the compelling effects of time, the true power of time is both non-rational, emotional and totally rogerian.

Thanks M!

Apparently the world was going to end (again) back in 2011. May 22nd from what I gather from the post below.

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Not to be read until May 22, the Wakefield Doctrine Guide to the Endtimes….

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

“… and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.”

You made it!! Apparently there are some who believed that May 21, 2011 was the beginning of the End Times. That was the predicted day that all the Good People were going to get on the bus and move up to Heaven.

….so now that all the rogers on the planet have left the room, we can finally talk seriously.

Show of hands…who did not think that clarks and scotts were going to be left behind, rapturously speaking?  Come on, you know that even though you were hoping that your rogerian aspect was going to blossom at the last minute, you know that you would have had a problem keeping a straight face when the announcement, “Would all the Saved, please proceed to the up-bound escalator, please!”

So what is it about the rogerian personality type that makes them the one that you ( clarks and scotts ) know will be voted ‘personality-type mostly likely to be Saved’?   Is it (because):

• rogers are the friendly ones
• rogers are the glue to whatever social fabric you might care to consider, civic, religious, scientific
• rogers require rules and traditions, they are in fact the only ‘reason’ that history of human civilization has any continuity whatsoever
• rogers are behind the creation or and perpetuation of virtually all human institutions, religious, civic, political whatever
• rogers do not create, they maintain, they assemble, they are the machine operators
• rogers are the engineers, accountants and physicians
• rogers are the judges, the firefighters and high school teachers (except for gym teachers)
• rogers believe in a quantifiable universe to such a depth that it is not seperable
• (when you are new to a neighborhood), rogers are the ones who come over to introduce themselves, and they will appear in a group ( herd)

It has been said that without the rogerian personality type, we would all be still living in caves and looking over our shoulders when we found something to eat or drink.  ( ‘What was that?! Lord Amighty! theys scotts in dem woods’!!)
That rogers are responsible for organised religion goes without saying; that they do this, not for the benefit of clarks and scotts, but simply because it makes sense is what is often overlooked. Recent discussion in Ms. AKH’s blog and DS#1′ Girlie Deluxe and even the Progenitor roger‘s ‘Bag ‘n Tag  focused on the rogerian female. The consensus appears to be that as rogerian males are the source of the traditions and conventions, mores and morals (that) form the fabric of a lasting society, it is left to the rogerian female to indoctrinate the young people into the rogerian view of the world. At the risk of repeating ourselves, this is a good thing, otherwise there would be no stability among people so that culture has the chance to develop, which in turn creates the foundation of a  civilized society.  In a sense we owe everything to the need of rogers to conserve the past. Without a past, technology would not have a foundation of discovery to build upon and this blog would have to be done using smoke signals.

The most interesting thing to come out of (this recent) discussion is the concept that rogers‘ live (life) by storyboard’ Just as scotts live in and of the present, rogers are located in the past, and because of this must spend much time making sure that the future comes out right. This is simply because rogers live in a quantifiable universe, and therefore it is about conservation and organisation. No less an authority than DownSpring phyllis tells us that : ” we (rogers) live in a box. It is a box that contains everything that is in our lives and it contains everything that will happen. This box might be small or it might be huge, so huge that we cannot see all of it at one time but knowing it is a box is what matters. And boxes are good things, they keep everything in reach”
Living by storyboard simply means that rogers are more concerned with the accurate reproduction and placement of the things (objects and emotions, actions and reactions) from the box into the moment they are about to live.  If you have ever gone up to a roger and caught them by surprise, the likely response will be , “hey! come on, I’m busy! why are you interrupting me?”  and now we know why, they are busy getting the moment just right.
There is a commercial you used to see for a camera (or some such device)and the tagline is ” lets you make memories’…  that is the world of rogers.

(Hey you know the music we used to listen to in clubs and bars in the late 70s and 80’s? Call it rock music (for lack of better word) well the rock music of the 21st Century is Country Music)

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apropos of nothing I can think of, I got a line stuck in my head while writing the intro, I’ll let Gene and Cleavon speak for themselves.

https://youtu.be/ZZvT2r828QY

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(for my own listening pleasure as I finish this Tuesday post):