Month: May 2020 | the Wakefield Doctrine

TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

May 23, 2020 By clarkscottroger

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This is the TToT blog hop.

Kristi is the host.

Gratitude is the theme.

Simple seems to be style this week.

One through Ten, by image or by writing, the gratitude-inspiring people, places and things are shared.

1) Una

2) Phyllis

3) the Wakefield Doctrine ’cause it’ll tell all about them what live around you and those people you encounter out there, in the world. and…and! can I get a “Hey, how good is that there Doctrine there?” lol. Welll Its so good it can tell you the personality types even in these pancake days. Ready?

scotts? too easy. (If you’ve done your Doctrine reading), you will recall that a primary identifier/physical characteristic of our scottian friends is found in their eyes. They will jump out at you like…. er…like a leopard from the deep brush at the hapless and soon-to-be-dinner for her pack… The eyes of a scott are never simply looking, never not paying attention, always focused on their surroundings.
Our rogerian brethren, well, lets just say, they’ll be fashionably masked, (possibly gloved), definitely exhibiting a Paris runway attitude and will never, ever, be found walking the wrong way in the RICE/BEANS/SOUP aisle in the supermarket.
clarks? they’re the ones that totally at home with this new normal.

4) the Hobbomock Chronicles. Working on the next Episode, (stop back tomorrow).

5) Thistles. Several years ago, one of these totally-prehistoric plants showed up in the backyard. Nice colored flowers. Lethal leaves. Well, this year, it would appear they like it here. Have limited their expansion to the side yard. Not allowed in the backyard. That’s Una’s area. Unless Phyllis is taking her for a walk and she can avoid the puncture wounds.

6) Pond Project. Gots to clean the algae…. its at a point where it will kill whatever it is that lives in the water. Given my propensity for taking on projects that are unrealistic as to my current physical condition, I’ve decided the best approach to rake it all off the pond.

7) (hypograt)… time having been as funny (as the the world has been strange) these past couple of months, it suddenly dawned on me, only four more weeks of Summer left!

8) THIS SPACE AVAILABLE Anyone out there in the ‘sphere thinking, ‘You know, that looks like fun. But I don’t know. Those other post are so well written, thoughtfully-composed and elegant in their sharing of moments of gratitude. … wait a minute, did this Doctrine guy just rhapsodize on an invasion of thistles in his lawn and sound positively giddy at the prospect of raking a pond?!!! Heck, I might give it a try. If only there was a quick way to see if I like it.’ The Wakefield Doctrine is at your disposal. Send in a sample Grat Item. I’ll post it right here, with full attribution.

9) something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3. “…the completion (or pending completion) of a list of Grats, aka Things of Thankful, is, in and of itself, something to be grateful for and totally qualifies for this list.”

music

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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine-

May 20, 2020 By clarkscottroger

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This is the Six Sentence Story bloghop.

Denise hosts it, each and every week, inviting one and all join in.

All she asks is that the story you would submit be comprised of six sentences (not five or twenty-five) only.

This week’s prompt word:

ETERNAL

His eyes opened as deliberate and slowly as an ocean tide, his mind, despite the manacles of age and illness, knitted the irregularities of illumination into a hospital room; centering all was the technology at his bedside, offering its assessments on a computer-driven schedule, blue indicator lights gave off the indifferent cruelty available only to gods and psychopathic personalities, a quality reserved for the eternal and the heartless.

The silent pulse of the heart monitor stuttered and the hall outside the room grew brighter, he felt a thudding in his chest and a synchronous roar in his ears; his thoughts sharpened in surprise at the decidedly visceral character of what he suspected was his shuffling off the mortal coil.

Then two things happened: first, he heard the ‘ckk-chuff-shish’ sound of feet scuffing on ground covered in pine needles, looking down he saw they were his feet and the second thing was he realized that he just looked down at the ground.

A Cheshire-smile floated briefly at the memories of the life of an inveterate dreamer, making his decision most unsurprising; he closed his eyes on the cold blue lights dying into a demanding red and, following the scent of pine sap and spring, looked around the wooded afternoon.

At the end of the path of dry-brown pine needles, a lawn mower sat at the edge of a freshly-cut lawn, approaching the open area he was greeted by the sound of a dog barking with the unfettered joy only dogs are capable of producing when reunited with their humans.

A bright light flashed from a dense grove of trees to his left; the man hurried to meet the dog, leaving the technology to provide an explanation that would satisfy the third shift nurses.

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Wednesday -the Wakefield Doctrine- “wait, aren’t you supposed to be on edge and self-absorbent because there is a Six Sentence Story tomorrow?… oh, of course not! you’re a clark!”

May 20, 2020 By clarkscottroger

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A little, impromptu post, if I might. Promptued* by a comment from, Friend of the Doctrine, Mimi.

“How much we do owe the Rogers. And now i understand why when asked why i believe what i believe, i go so far to into the logical explanations that some people wonder if i have a degree in theology or something.”

Indeed.

M’s comment serves as a perfect cascading explanation of the Everything Rule, which states: Everyone does everything, at one time or another. What it means is where the cascading begins.

First level: “…when asked why I believe …far to into the logical explanations …degree in theology or something.”

From the perspective of the Everything Rule first: clarks, scotts and rogers can be religious in ways that corresponded to some or all religious beliefs, tenets, systems and such. Theys Buddhist scotts and there are Wiccan rogers and clarks among the ranks of Jehovah Witnae. They all remain, Predators, Herd Members and Outsiders, because those labels refer to the reality in which they respectively live. We call these personal realities (one’s) predominant worldview. It is what you experience. Note: I did not say ‘It is what you see or hear when you and I walk down the street, on our way to lunch in a popular restaurant’. It is what you experience.

ok, so that’s the first level.

The second and equally interesting perspective focuses our attention on how a thing (or hobby, occupation, belief system) appears when one of the three personality types exhibit it. We refer to this as ‘manifesting’. For example, ‘How does mainstream religion manifest in an Outsider(clark), Predator(scott) or a Herd Member(roger)?’

Brief aside*** It is clear that, based on the characteristics and personal qualities of the three ‘personality types’, each might have an affinity for a given thing (or hobby, occupation, belief system). We might say, for each predominant worldview, there are certain activities more in sync with it than others. A scott tends to be a more effective cop than a clark, a roger who is an accountant will, all things being equal, be more successful than a clark and while there are clarks who are standup comedians, there will be a difference in audience size, (Don Rickles versus Steven Wright)

The point is, the common world is made up of many things (hobbies, occupations, belief systems, likes, dislikes and pet peeves) but when you’re looking at a given person, remember that it, (the aforementioned list of everything that makes us human), is manifested, in part, as a reflection of the reality in which that person lives.

Predominant worldviews are not personality traits, tropisms, appetites or instincts, they are the reality of the person.

Thats the fun part.

Thanks out to Mimi for providing such an observation as to engender this discussion.

*ha**

** ha

*** well, I am a clark

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine- (a post from 2011… from what I gather, I started to get pretty amusing around then.)

May 19, 2020 By clarkscottroger

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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.

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)

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

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

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

May 16, 2020 By clarkscottroger

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‘Objects in the mirror might appear more significant than they actually are.”

This is the (weekly) Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) post. You’re invited to our host, Kristi and the others, reflectioning on those people, places and things that elicited a sense/feeling/emotion/appreciation of gratitude. Seeing how the time that has elapsed since the founderinae, Lizzi created this bloghop, is abstract and fairly subjective* consider everything/anytime fair game. Write ’em if ya got ’em.

New to the TToT? Freedom Hall for all, on one condition: good intent. Surely there is no better manifestation of this principle than Item Six (in the list below).

So bring your photos and feelings, videos and oblique references, it’s all permissible. The beauty part, (as Lou Collins used to say), is that you will find, ‘in this ‘hop’ everything from insightful and well-ordered reflection to rhetorical train wrecks and stream-of-consciousness(SOC) ramblings, like this here post here.

Our list this week:

1) Una

“A dog, a window, a mirror. Sure, you go ahead and tell me how there is only one, single, unchanging reality. ..I’ll just wait right here.*
* I wouldn’t, if I were you…consider where ‘here’ is, if I were you.

2) Phyllis

3) Wakefield Doctrine. This handy little personality theory will let you better understand the people in your life. With sufficient study (of the principles of said Doctrine) and a healthy amount of imagination (to see what is not necessarily visible to you in your predominate worldview), you can know more about the other person than they know about themselves. No, really!

4) the Hobbomock Chronicles. This week we have Episode Sixteen. The process of writing is one of those (many) secret opportunities for gaining insights into myself as much as learning to write. Shout out to a couple of people who’ve been very supportive, (our own) Mimi and Robert Birkhofer (who writes some excellent stories over at the Mad Puppeteer ) Hey, guys, thanks for the readation.

5) the Six Sentence Story a bloghop that continually challenges those so inclined to develop our skills. Each week, not only a prompt word, but examples from the other participants of how to wrap the right words around an idea to allow it to be enjoyed by others.

6) the Book of Secret Rules (aka the Secret Book of Rules). It is license to let the imagination off-leash for a little time of fun and reflection. Like a dog park with a secure fence, yet room to work up some decent fun-time velocity.

7) Friend of the Doctrine, Kerry. I had a line in an earlier draft that mentioned SOC, stream-of-consciousness. This, in turned, triggered memories of a few years back, when we were doing Friday Night vid chat (yes, a presage of the current popularity of such gatherings, ‘kept we were mostly clarks in an environment that felt quite natural.) In any event, Kerry used to mention this SOC bloghop that she enjoyed writing in/for/to. She’s still over at her blog, say hello for us at Her Headache

8) Weather: warming enough to convince the apple tree that its safe to try again, one more year.

9) THIS SPACE AVAILABLE (motto: Send a grat in a comment and see your words in lights!***)

10) Secret Rule 1.3 The oldest and surely most venerable of the items in the grab-bag of rhetorical anarchy known as the Book of Secret Rules (Secret Book of Rules), whole-heartedly embraced by the Wakefield Doctrine

* 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?

** who said, ‘There seems to be a pattern here with this ‘writer’. lol

*** metaphorically speaking, of course

(came across this artist, watching the series, ‘Lucifer’)