Month: September 2021 | the Wakefield Doctrine

Reprint Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

September 6, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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

Full Disclosure: Went looking in the blog anchovies for a ‘Labor Day’ post, preferably from the really, early days. No luck. Went up to 2015 and gave up. I did, however, find one of my earliest Sixes and it kinda foreshadowed my current writing, before acquiring the jones rhetorique, cool. But not a post that said, ‘Happy Labor Day from the Wakefield Doctrine’). Interesting.

…or not.

I grabbed the following as the memory mechanism got all wavy-lines on my reality.

Trust you’ll enjoy.

(Hey, scotts… sure, this is, perhaps after Fourth of July, one of your holidays. Try not to explode the Weber or end up in the emergency room. (Sure, you can take a handful of potato salad and fashion a reasonable facsimile of a softball, but no one will laugh, (unless there’s a clark, standing on the sidelines of the makeshift first base).

Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘Some good-for-you, possibly-good-for-the-other-person things you can do with this here Doctrine here’.

September 21, 2015

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

Only requirement to benefit from the application of the Wakefield Doctrine: be willing and able to allow that, Reality is, to a small but totally certain extent, personal.

So what are the things that you can use the Wakefield Doctrine for, in the course of your day today?

(better) Understand the people in your life.

( better) Understand yourself

(have a lot better chance of success to) Change the things about yourself that you’ve wanted to change, but have never managed to quite achieve.

(pretty much, totally) Prevent other people from changing things about yourself that they want to change, but you suspect is not in your best interest.

(in the way of your people) Have fun.

(promise not to tell them, at least until you get more grounded in this here personality theory, but you will so) Know more about the people you encounter in the course of the day than you have any business knowing, maybe even, more than they know about themselves. cool, eh?

oh, yeah… there is, of course, a certain degree of reading and learning and, most of all, practice required to be a position to realize the above benefits. I will, however, guarantee them, (the benefits stated in easy-to-read-point-points* above). Remember that all the descriptions and examples of the three worldviews are simply clues and imagery to aid you in answering the essential Question the Wakefield Doctrine would have us ask:

‘how does that person relate themselves to the world around them’

…as does a(n):

Outsider (clark) i.e. (for you), the world and all the people are ‘out there’, you know that only knowing will allow you to know that you are known to those you know as being a ‘real person’ (that being said, if you’re a clark, you’re totally fricken creative (not just reassemble the same old parts into a new-looking thing, but (the) bring into the world something that has never existed kind of creative), and you’re a great listener (clinically and certifiably tolerant… to the point of self-destructively so) and you’re funny (but only when you think (or don’t care if) anyone is listening) and you thinking in parentheseses

Predator (scott) alive and not given to introspection, at least not the type of introspection that your clarklikefriend does (and you do have a clarklike friend, because… well because you can’t figure them out!! most of the time they, (your clarklike friend), acts like prey (you know, rogers) and that’s ok, if not a little, well, boring, but every now and then, maybe during one of those times that you play a little too rough (hey, you got to have your fun too, we know! we know!) anyway, every now and then they rear up and knock you … ass-over-teacup** and you’re like, ‘Alright!! lol” ...that friend. In the meantime, you live your life and it unfolds… ’cause, even though you can’t be bothered wasting time thinking about it, you know that today is everything….

Herd Member (roger) today is not just the only day (as it is for scotts), nor is it the day before the real day, (as it is for clarks), today, well today is perfect. Your only concern is to be able to live up to it. There are a million ways your day can go today and some are good and some not so good, but there is only one correct way. You know that the world and reality, (the things you know, the places you’ve been, well, everything but the people that you encounter), are knowable and quantifiable, given the effort on your part. It’s not that success is the only thing that matters today, what is important to you is that you not ‘fail improperly’ today.

that’s enough for today. come back tomorrow, or better yet, ask us questions in the comments.

*Friend of the Doctrine, Christine informs us that the term ‘bullet points’ is frowned upon in today’s phobic-philic culture

**What an archaically amusing expression!

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TToTree -the Wakefield Doctrine-

September 5, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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

Keep your eye on the shed in the photo below at number

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

“It’s about Time, it’s about Space, it’s about a family in a (semi)strange new Place.” That, as hypo-youthful Readers will recognize, is the opening (paraphrased) line from the theme song of a show that is no longer on the TV.

And, when you get down to it, isn’t that the challenge we all face as we write posts in our respective blogs, to be relevant in a constantly-changing virtual world.

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) Landscaping on one side (Before)

4) Purposeful, if not yet complete, change in the landscaping (After)

5) serial stories, ‘the Whitechapel Interlude‘ and ‘the Case of the Missing Fig Leaf‘

6) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

7) the Wakefield Doctrine, of course! (It’s funny, how the ways we look at situations (and people and everything else) can be so real looking/acting/feeling that we easily forget we all possess one of the fundamental keys to reality. And, therefore, a life both enjoyable and good.

8) the movie, ‘Pleasantville’ Watched it again Fruday night. Most excellent film.

9) something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3 From the Book of Secret Rules (aka the Secret Book of Rules)…”[H]ey, you’re, like almost done with yet another list of Ten Things, go ahead, and fill in that Numero Teno spot with this ‘un.” …err, op.cit. ibid and such

music (mostly from the movie cited in Grat 8)

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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine-

September 2, 2021 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 maintains a single, (and singular), rule regarding the stories that are submitted: six sentences only.

Previously, in the Case of the Missing Fig Leaf…

As secret societies went, the Order of Lilith could lay claim to being the oldest and most fundamental; at least from the perspective of human history. Its success in avoiding unwanted scrutiny, was, arguably, the result of the determined efforts of others to deny its existence. Whether one choses to believe the backstory that this, mostly benign, organization was grounded in the divine, or simply one of the countless tales and myths and legends that mankind weaves to ward off the ultimate cold of an un-caring universe, matters not. Of course, the same can be said of a one-man detective agency, in a smallish city. Who truly believes they can make a difference in a world full of people and endless conflict?

This week, the prompt word is:

Nebulous

“I don’t give a shit how cliché it sounds, I need help and you’re the only one qualified to provide it,” standing at the windows in my office, overlooking Empire Street and the Providence Library, was a very angry young woman; a chaotic halo of blond hair framed her face like the achromatic light of camera’s flash, challenging the observer to differentiate between image and after-image.

“I’m Lacey Whitelaw and you need to tell me everything about those fuckin nuns in Switzerland and that asshole professor who bailed on me in the middle of the fricken Alps,” I could hear Old Money dab the obscenities with a cultured lilt; surely more Miss Porter’s than Phillip’s Academy.

All the while, sitting in one of the two client chairs facing my desk, was a young man wearing tailor-torn jeans, a five-thousand dollar tweed coat, Neiman, not Savile Row; he had the look of the least dominant member of a clan of hyaena; hunger isn’t always confined to the digestive system and weakness always shows.

I closed the door on Hazel in the outer office, where she’d greeted my return from lunch with a smile as nebulous a warning as the look on the surgeon’s face approaching a family after an hour of emergency surgery.

My admin was attractive, insecurely brilliant, and had the protective instincts of a lioness; she was upset, but not surprised, at my recent projectile social abstinence; that said, compared to the reception I got from Lou, she was a definite improvement, having better eyes and a body that reminded a guy why stupid decisions aren’t the end of the world.

“I won’t waste your time talking about client privilege, so have a seat next to your ride-along, get out your checkbook, Venmo or whatever it is the money-is-no-object crowd loves and I’ll tell you what you need to know.”