Month: June 2021 | the Wakefield Doctrine

TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

June 20, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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A picture is worth a thousand words, so Fred R Bernard would advise. Well, that would imply, in the course of a thousand Wakefield Doctrine posts, we’ve supplied Readers with over (carry the six, hold the polynomial and praise the lord) at least ‘One Million Words!’ Let make that Grat 7

And, to continue our excursion into the realm of mathematics, like when we were young in the winter and tried to cross a puddle that was more than ankle-deep by the simple expediant of running and trying to lift our feet, even as the fractal-polygons of ice submerge under our weight*, we would say, “Lizzi would be proud.’ (And, as host, Dyanne might nod in approval.)

I would not deny gratitude (or the clarklike-facsimile) for the following this week.

1) Phyllis ———————–↓

2) Una —————————————————-↑

3) Ola

4) Bella

5) the Wakefield Doctrine

6) Hypograt* The beginning of winter this weekend.

7) To celebrate the use and abuse of photos as post enhancement, (you know, like Hamburger Helper for rhetoric and prose), here is the photo used on this date in 2012

8) the Book of Secret Rules (aka Secret Book of Rules) for providing us with such a helpful concept as Hypogratudinal Thankfuls; those people, places and things that we could live without, however our lives would, somehow, be diminished, had they not occurred.

9) serial stories: ‘the Whitechapel Interlude‘ and ‘the Case of the Missing Fig Leaf‘

10) Secret Rule 1.3 which, ‘hey, it’s the long[est] day of the year, don’t sit behind a keyboard like it was the windshield of a car with a tank full of gas and no speed limit, get out there and do shit ….et al; ….sic transit gloria mundi, y’all’

* If memory serves me well, and who would deny that, at this stage of life, surely we’ve edited all but the most obscure recollections, the better to support our current secret biographies; this strategy doesn’t seem to never work, albeit on occasion, accompanied by a price much higher than originally anticipated. And that observations speaks volumes to the question ‘Do we remember what we want to or do we remember only what we need to?’

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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine-

June 16, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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This is the Six Sentence Story bloghop

It is brought to you by Denise.

It has but two rules: using the prompt word, make the sentence count come out to Six. No more, no less.

Previously* on the Whitechapel Interlude: Anselm found lying in the middle of a cobblestone street in the Marylebone section of London by Brother Abbott and Sarah who return him to the safety of the headquarters of the local chapter of the Order of Lilith. To the young Brother, the calendar year, ‘1885’ has acquired a set of quotation marks to distinguish from others that seem to occupy hidden corners of his memory. Ministered gruffly by his bearded mentor, and tentatively by his wistfully mysterious lover, respectably, Anselm is taken before the Reverend Mother who must determine if he has suffered harm, presents a threat or is a newly enhanced asset to the Order.

The prompt word:

REMNANT

“Have you suffered any harm,” The Reverend Mother’s voice had the soft edges of genuine concern, yet her eyes glittered like a blade being sharpened before a battle-eve campfire, “that you are aware of, Brother Anselm?”

I thanked the goddess for Brother Abbott’s training, though I doubt he’d approve of the compliment, given my defenses were aroused by my Mother Superior’s qualifying phrase, which stuck like a worried wife’s greeting to her spouse returning at three o’cock in the morning. Her’s were words of comfort lofted towards me like a soft rope with more loops and cinches than a simple lifeline; I knew I was home, where I stood was not as certain.

For some reason, the title of Defoe’s adventure story, ‘Robinson Caruso’ came to mind; it was a favorite of mine as a boy, appealing to my desire to believe that, were I to find myself in such a situation, I’d have the strength and ingenuity of the castaway.

Turning my mind inward, as much to escape the glare of scrutiny as might the hero of the story seek shade from a tropical sun, I had a quiet epiphany, ‘Can a person, rescued from the most dire of circumstances, ever be truly free?’

Dragged out onto dry-land, painful stones and grit made tolerable by virtue of being alive enough to experience them, I felt the life I had before joining the Order float down among the childhood trauma and dreams of youth, the loom of life shuttling on without cessation, become but a scrap, one more remnant.

N.B.: * It’s no secret that part of the reason I participate in, (and enjoy), this bloghop is the opportunity to improve my writing. Two ways to do this: a) read the other Sixes and try to figure out how the writer achieved whatever effect that resulted in an exceptional story-ette and 2) to execute a task that is semi-beyond my current capabilities, specifically, this week, it’s to write an effective ‘Previously on…’ which we’re all familiar with if we watch any number of tv series e.g. ‘The Magicians’. ‘Castle’, ‘Warehouse 13’ among others. I must admit I’m surprised at how difficult this recap(ping) can be. I believe the goal is not to merely recapitulate the narrative, as it is to present the most recent plot changes that affect the main characters, while still providing a degree of backstory. Clearly first-time viewers are the target audience, as much as avid fans.

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Wednesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

June 16, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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Hey, today presents an interesting opportunity for a Wakefield Doctrine workshop/experiment.

(New Readers: the Wakefield Doctrine is a perspective on reality, the world and the people who make it up*. It posits that we, all of us, have the potential, at birth, to grow up and develop in what amounts to three distinct realities. These realities, referred to as ‘predominant worldviews’ are:

the reality of the Outsider(clarks) this individual, once they come to the realization they are separate and apart from most people around them, learn to interact with the minimum of accidental or inadvertent exposure; scrutiny is to be avoided at all costs; genuinely creative, erratically accomplished, this personality is endlessly curious, oddly fun and engaged in a life-long search for the information that would allow them to join the ranks of the ‘real’ people of the world.

the world of the Predator(scotts) a true child of Nature, this predominant worldview is all about living and surviving in a world full of potential pleasure, rife with danger and un-detected threat, and never stopping, lest they are over-come by the forward momentum of life; impulsive, mercurial and open in both interactions with others and their desire to live the fullest of lives, they are at home only in the objective, next-minute-next, here and now

the life of the Herd Member(rogers) everyone who isn’t a clark or a scott; while a clark(Outsider) lives in the shadows of the social fringe, bringing novelty and newness into the world and the scott keeps everyone paying attention to the fact that life is limited, (and way too short). Our Herd Member builds a stable, if not rigid, world that allows continuity to exist for all three; life, to the Herd Member, from the moment they encounter anyone else, is one of belonging and relationship, the coin of their realm is nothing less than emotion and confidence in the fact that everything is quantifiable and there is a Right Way to live.

Still with us? Great! We’re all born with the potential to live life in one, (and only), one of these realities, but, and this is key, we never lose the potential to experience the world as do ‘the other two’. In fact, some of us have what we refer to as a ‘significant secondary aspect’. This is where qualities not common to one’s predominant worldview, (aka personality type), is in evidence. Most often in times of duress, a person, say a scott might suddenly, in an emergency, become thoughtful and creative (instead of impulsive and ….impulsive) and become, for the situation, more able to deal with the circumstance.

Which brings us to the topic of today’s post: using the principles of the Wakefield Doctrine to self-improve oneself.

Wait! One more insight.

The Wakefield Doctrine also has what’s called. ‘the Everything Rule’, which, simply stated is, Everyone does everything, at one time or another. What it means is: while one predominant worldview might make an individual more likely to suceed at a given task/job/occupation/avocation/life-style, none of these, (tasks/jobs/occupations/avocations/life-styles) are the exclusive domain of any of the three. Sure, a scott has the desire to hunt and stalk and therefore might be well-suited to being, say, a surgeon or a singer. A roger, living in the quantifiable universe of the Herd Member may, having no difficulty learning the hard sciences, make an excellent engineer, might also be an outstanding musician or chef. clarks, well, first you gotta spot ’em.

The take-away here is: we all have within, all and every quality that self-improvers and life-coaches dream of. It’s just a matter of applying the principles.

To that end, this evening we** will be ~~trying~~ doing this week’s 20 Minute Briefing Real Estate Briefing as a solo act. Not so much to prove it can be done, rather the goal is to see how deliberately one might access their secondary and tertiary aspects in real time. (In case anyone was wondering about the predominant worldview of the test subject…lol).

The thing of it is, this blog represents a real-world/real-time example of the manifestation of a secondary aspect. The ‘voice’ our posts have developed over the years is neither that of the person who started writing in 2009 nor is it, for that matter, the person typing today. But seeing how much we enjoy some posts (‘specially back in the 20012 to 2014 years), the goal of this experiment is to see if’n I can talk the way I (sometimes) write.

This evening at 5:30 on the Facebook or youtune

Be there or be accused of reminding others in your social circle that you make them think of a figure defined by four lines at 90 degrees to each other!

So lets see how this link works!

* still one of my favorite jokey sayings…. like, as if, the world isn’t made up by the people who populate it lol

** still favor the editorial ‘we’ and, if you’re an advanced student of the Doctrine, you will surely divine the writer’s worldview on the basis of preferred pronouns.

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Re-Print Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

June 14, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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Mad comments on this reprint. Not that they show. Kitchen sink principle can, with proper application of perspective, can be resisted. Heck, it can be overcome.

They, (past Comments), can be instructive and encouraging to re-read. Sorta like what people write in each other’s year books, ‘cept no one knows there’s no, “Next! Year!♥! Falls just a short Trip” (signature with the excess enthusiasm of youth here).

There is no bitterness or, even cynicism in that last description. There is only an attempt to self-remind myself that most of what makes a day seem difficult is energy. And, by energy, we mean more ‘spirit’ than an excess of ” Mg²⁺, ADP, inorganic phosphate Pi, H⁺, NH₃, ROS and heat“*. What slows down many of us is the clutter of life experience. ‘Oh, man! The day I have coming up!’ … ‘Sorry, just got too much on my plate this Monday‘ … ‘No fricken way!’

It isn’t, (ioo**), the amount of work we face. It isn’t even the resources we can muster to deal with and, ideally, succeed in completing the day. It is about the energy we have going into it. And…and! the ironic part? It isn’t even that…that last thing? About having enough energy? It is, as the Wakefield Doctrine encourages, ‘appreciating how we relate ourselfs to the world around us’.

Briefly, then on with the reprint.

The thing with getting older and not feeling like: a) there are not enough hours in the day or 2) you don’t have enough energy/strength/stamina, is that it all starts with our opinion/relationship with the world/reality/today. That thing the Doctrine maintains, ‘how we relate ourselves to the world around us and the people who make it up’? It’s talking about the present-singular. It is not talking about:

the ramifications of incomplete or insufficient performance of the tasks and duties that lie before us today
the guilt and/or un-realistic hopes for changing how people regard us
the elimination of future problems
the resolution of past, remembered events, not from a mere historical perspective, but an emotional perspective

None of those.

There is not enough energy, or time in the world, to assure a guaranteed successful complete. (Hokey smoke! Did you just read that?!! “…too assure a guaranteed….” ayiiee***)

In conclusion: the problem with not having, (or being certain we don’t have), enough energy to deal with the day ahead, is about how we define: ourselves, our world.

what? oh yeah!! the reprint!!

‘of flowers and friends, predators and insights’ the Wakefield Doctrine (a personality theory that you will enjoy learning)

June 5, 2013 By clarkscottroger

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

DownSpring Cyndi is doing a hop over at her blog ‘Pictimilitude‘ The theme is ‘flowers’ and seeing how the topic of this (reprint) Post is the scottian worldview, it’s only natural for me to include a photo of a bloomin’* pine tree, innit?

In any event, this post on the scottian personality types is what the visitor Readers from North Cottage-cheese-on Rye, Cambrian Keep, Northlands UK were looking at yesterday. Now that I see that ‘in print’, it does prompt me to bring the focus on the issue of ‘secondary aspects’. There would appear to be a marked predominance of the scottian worldview as (the) secondary aspects for a lot of the clarks that be learning about this here personality theory here. I say this because, Friend of the Doctrine Melanie has a post today at ‘Scribbles and Smiles‘, which is an excellent illustration of how, with the inflection** of a (clark’s) secondary aspect… i.e. one who can be nearly un-noticeable (a lot of the time), becomes totally the center of attention. Considerer (although she has not yet determined for herself, the nature of her secondary aspect***) also demonstrates the delightful quality that is sometimes found in clarks, i.e. we may not insist on being the center attention, but there is no way we will be ignored (if we so choose).

So…here is our contribution

scotts, ‘prey drive’ and the Wakefield Doctrine (“Mr. Gorbachev, feed that dog!”)

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine. If you are looking for a self-improvement tool, or an easy-to-use system for self-development, then you have totally stumbled on to the right ‘place’!

The Wakefield Doctrine has a thing about looking at people, you know, how they act and stuff? …we guarantee that if you got the smarts to understand this, (and not everyone does), then you will know more about that other person than they know about themselves. Pretty frickin cool, no? But if you’re looking for one of those, “Six Ways to get any Boy to Like you” or “Satisfy the Woman in your dreams!! ” or ” How to get your Boss off your back!” self-improvement things then stop reading. Right now.
This Wakefield Doctrine thing is so not that kind of personality theory. (Not saying that you won’t be able to ‘satisfy the Woman in your Dreams’ or ‘get your Boyfriend a Job’), just that what we have here takes a little more….  flexible intelligence. So. Read already!

No, the Wakefield Doctrine is not like those other self-development books….the Wakefield Doctrine is fun and it is useful and it is fun…

Today we are going to talk about scotts! (Want to get a quick overview of the Doctrine?  go here and read….be sure to come back!)

scotts, scotts scotts! where to start?   … hell, it’s Thursday, lets take the easy way out just to get the ball rolling, so to speak.¹

Some bullets points relating to the nature and character of the scottian personality type:

scotts are totally emotional but in a way so very different from rogers, mercurial is the right word for the emotional characteristic of scotts

scott in a band? the ‘front man’ every time (don’t believe me? go look at the photo of the progenitors, click here  those three mugs were in a band together (yeah, I know!) and can you tell me who the front man was?…hell you know which one is the Progenitor scott without anyone telling you, don’t you?)

at a party scotts will introduce themselves (…..to everyone)

when confronted with a threat or other fear-generating situation, a scott will choose to attack rather than flee

scottian females can be ridiculously sexy or quick witted, …hardly ever both.

(female) scotts can be spotted because they have prominent throat tendons (go ahead….ask us why)

Seeing how the scottian population is of late growing here at the Doctrine, lets cater to their totally famous short attention-spans and use a video that shows us a scott doing what they do best! Watch and learn, binyons!

How scottian was David Caruso’s character? how clarklike was DeNiro’s character? and the cop that backed down to the scott?, not too rogerian ! Hell! he was the only one in the scene to have a hat on his damn head!
So lets review:

clarks think, scotts act and rogers feel.    scotts are often wrong, but never uncertain.  scotts make good leaders, (at least when decisive action is required…when long-term objectives take precedence over short-term victory…not so much).     scotts are ‘the life of the party’… scotts are the best of joke tellers and are natural mimics.  scotts will feed on rogers and enjoy the challenge of clarks… scotts will give you the shirt off his back/ the use of her boyfriend but will not tolerate being ignored… they are un-selfish and short-sighted… ingenious and stupid… emotional and shallow… sexy and predatory… endearing and dangerous… get the picture?

* bloomin’ we trust DownSpring Considerer to vet our use of English idiom here…

** a rogerian expression

*** it is custom, here at the Doctrine to allow the individual to be the final authority on their predominant worldview as well as secondary and tertiary aspects

Hey! Winter is less than two weeks away. Spend each intervening day enjoying this non-winter time.

* quoted from some Gatorade web post, about the by-products of exercise ha ha

** ioo: In Our Opinion… stickin with the non-specific pronoun

*** Admittedly, I might be mistaking my interpretation for that of other people reading this and be totally off-base****

**** …nah, this is the Wakefield Doctrine If you’re still reading, you can identify

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

June 12, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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Not the actual ’64 Belaire Wagon that was my first car, but this one illustrates the iconic ‘primer-red bleed-through’ that many Chevys of this vintage exhibited.

Ten Things of Thankful. Created by Lizzi. Hosted by Dyanne. Beautifully manifested and expressed by Mimi and Pat and Lisa.

Dragged behind a 1964 Chevy Belaire wagon, past ocean-beaches and urban residential danger-zones, driven by a blogger who, being willfully incapacitated both rhetorically, psychologically and, surely, spiritually, nevertheless refuses to turn over the keys to his keyboard to the few remaining friends he can claim in the blogosphere.

For this week’s list of the people, places and things, (including events, real and imagined), that elicit a sense/feeling of gratitude:

1) Phyllis

Too) Una

III) the Wakefield Doctrine

For) Short fiction and bite-sized story-ettes, the Six Sentence Story is always a sure bet. Too bad there wasn’t a universal read-text outloud app so we could listen to Six Sentence Stories as we drove along in our automobiles or were stranded in a line at the Minute Dry Cleaners. Any suggestions as to voice talent selection?

pfff-ive) The number of edits to the average TToT …five? The phonetic to the left of the parenthesis?

Sex) Made ya look! But, so as not to be totally-guilty of gratuitous Grat Item baiting, not that there’s anything approaching noticeable love scenes in either of the two on-going serials, there are emotional connections… in the Whitechapel Interlude, clearly there is something going on between Anselm and Sarah, but possibly, (at some point in future installments), also between Brother Abbott and the hunter demon inhabiting a portion of Sarah’s mind. As to ‘the Case of the Missing Fig Leaf‘ Diane Tierny, the hostess of the Bottom of the Sea Strip Club and Lounge is tending a secret orchid of affection for our protagonist who, for his part can’t seem to make a commitment to his friend and client, Leanne Thunberg. Given the slow healing to follow being divorced by his wife, Haley, Ian is a good example of how difficult it can be to distinguish a callous from a scar.

?!?!) See? (Not to worry, that should be the last of the ‘what the?!?!’… well, of the salacious variety, at any rate. To paraphrase Nietzsche, “Those who scorn the non-sensical have left their imagination locked in a childhood trunk.”)

Ate) A new summer and a new crop of thistles… in the side yard, aka the Lawn of the Triffids. (No, Una is not allowed anywhere near the side yard.) This year: New Paths!

June 12, 2021

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T*n) Secret Rule 1.3 Because the Book of Secret Rules, (aka the Secret Book of Rules), is surely a gift from whatever deities eventually become mythologized as the culture of the internet, (in general), and the blogosphere, (in particular), develop a history of sufficient length to allow us early denizens to make up stories about our first experiences here in the virtual world.

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