Month: May 2022 | the Wakefield Doctrine

Twosday -the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘Why is a Tuesday like a Monday?’

May 31, 2022 By clarkscottroger

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

As with the better Wakefield Doctrine posts, today’s will be long on inference but short on explicit instructions.

Its is well-established that Tuesdays are for clarks, among the most favored of days of the week. (Along with Thursdays and in some few, limited contexts and life stages, Sundays as well.)

Why should this be? Beats the hell out of us, this morning.

Before we get to the tre-print post, a word about the Doctrine: these reprints have probably been more enjoyable for us than the average Reader. Yeah, besides the fact that no creative strain need be endured so early in the day. But serially, it is because we are able to see the development of the content (of this blog) over time. Not merely the style and skill.

The key developments we’ve been noticing of late:

the Everything Rule
that the Doctrine is concerned with the nature (and character) of relationships

The first is, of course, a necessary description of the nature of ‘real’ reality. While the personal reality that forms the context for describing the Wakefield Doctrine is as real as it needs to be, there is not need to limit it in any manner. The three predominant worldviews (clarks, scotts and rogers) are but perspectives on the same thing. From this view, what is real for one is real for all three. It comes down to how (a thing) manifests in a particular personal reality.

The key development to the second errr… development (lol) is the phrase: ‘how we relate ourselves to the world around us’. (This is always followed with the observation/reminder that we did not say ‘how we relate to…’ rather, ‘how we relate ourselves to…”) Accepting a certain responsibility in life not only allows all else, it is the key to using the tools of the Wakefield Doctrine to self-improve ourselfs.

Back to the RePrint (already in progress… what with it being written seven years ago.**)

from a September* day in 2015

Yeah, I know! Didn’t we do a clark-centric Post just last week? So why not something of the scotts and the rogers? Sure, totally going to get to it. But, today is Tuesday. And Tuesday is, in fact, the most clarklike day of the Workweek.

Funny thing about this morning’s post. Well, it’ll be funny if you’re a clark. (there are some scotts and rogers out there who have secondary clarklike aspects and know the Doctrine well enough to find it funny too.) Anyway. So I’m trying to find a topic for a Post today and settle on it, (the topic and today), being Tuesday. The first thing that occurred to me was, ‘well, maybe I should just go back and find some old Posts that have Tuesday as the topic and use them!’ and I laughed. …and thought, “that is such a clarklike thing to think!*”

But it is Tuesday and I am a clark and there’s a good chance that you’re a clark and, even if you’re not, it’s a lead-pipe cinch that you have a significant secondary clarklike aspect. But that’s not important right now.** What is important is telling you why Tuesday is the most clarklike Day of the Workweek. And the reason that that’s important is that this whole Wakefield Doctrine ‘personality theory’ is predicated on adopting a certain, (and deliberate), perspective on the world, your world, today. For reasons not yet fully understood. The connections and associations that comprise the three worldviews that are the three personality types, are totally, and at times, startlingly, true and accurate. They provide us insights to the world ‘as the other person is experiencing it’.

But now I’m out of time! Fortunately, I did go ahead and copy/paste a couple of sections of a couple of Posts that talk about Tuesday. Find them below.

(Hey! Here’s a fun experiment! Well, kinda only fun for me, but if you believe me (and, of the three personality types, clarks are the least likely to be caught lying.***) So…the fun experiment: I’ll write a short description of what makes Tuesday the most clarklike day of the week, without reading the sections from previous Posts. Lets see if: a) I’m still the same person I was in 2013 (or whenever these were written) and 2) whether my writing has improved at all over the intervening years!

Why Tuesdays are the Most clarklike Day of the Workweek
by clark

Tuesdays are the Most clarklike Day of the Workweek because:

they’re not Monday and, Mondays, as everyone knows, are the first of the rogerian Days of the Workweek (’cause … you damn well better accept the fact that the weekend is over and maybe, if you put your nose to the grindstone and get serious and work hard, maybe…just maybe you might be rewarded with another weekend. …maybe)

Tuesday is not Wednesday (with it’s ridiculous name… ‘Hump Day’…. I mean, seriously, who the hell came up with that name!?! ( I know!! I know!!! ” yes, clark?” rogers did because scotts got them to and the scotts had the idea given to them by a clark) still, it’s a stupid name.)

Thursdays are sort of a scott/clark kind of day… work almost done (like the scott cares and, as if the clark really ever takes credit for working hard), maybe an exam the next day… all nighter!! scotts and clarks kind of effort (the rogers study every day, like their schedule calls for)

Friday? gotta give this one to the scotts

Weekend?? sorry…whole ‘nother Post

Thats my 25 words or less! (lol)

From a while ago:

…no, the weirdest thing about clarks is their morning time. (This is not necessarily literal. It is, necessarily, the time between demands and performance. The offstage moment, as the house lights go down). That is the strangest part of ‘the experience of the world from the personal-reality-perspective of clarks (the Outsiders).
It (seems) to be a time of choice, it is (often) a time of desperate hope, it is (always) a time of incredible … distance.
This distance is not as common and simple as physical distance (although, have you ever been in a crowd of people, say an elevator, where your attention is dominated by, say the floor you are intending to travel to, and then you notice that there is a person standing very-next-to-you? you wonder briefly how you could have not noticed them), and (this distance) is not an emotional gulf between people (although, there are times when you are prepared to accept that the person you care so much about just is not invested in the relationship, and then you see an act of selflessness that takes your breath away), no, the distance is none of these.

…and another Post, I forget when this came out:

We all know that Tuesday is the day of the week that is most clarklike, right? The clue was right there in the Title, right? And by the associating of the word ‘mild’, you know have a spot-on assessment of the clarklike personality type, right?
Wrong.
Well, right about the ‘Tuesday is the most clark-friendly Day of the Week’, but t-wrong about the assessment of the clarklike personality type as being ‘mild’. Moderate?, fair… temperate?, sure, why not? even-tempered?, now you are straying… easy-to-get-along-with? getting colder… flat-affect, overly rational? ok…warmer… driven by a disconnected emotional aspect to find the way back home… yow! boiling !
Tuesday is the easiest-going Day of the Week. Rivalled only by Thursday on the lowered expectations scale, Tuesday is the day where you can believe in the promises of the work/school, even commit yourself to giving all to making the week a time of great accomplishment. Without the threat of an Exam (Friday) or even a pop quiz (Wednesday), Tuesday is the day where:
clarks relax
scotts wake up
rogers begin to get annoyed
If you were looking through the eyes of a clark…on a Tuesday morning…and the newspaper headlines read: ‘Meteor to Strike Earth on Friday, Extinction of all Life Certain!’ your reaction would be:
relief because the mess you made of your first serious relationship would finally stop bothering you (…hopefully)
excitement because now you don’t have to worry about having enough money to pay the mortgage
amused because you had a dream in which you felt loved and cherished by all and when you woke up you had a genuine emotional conviction that you were ‘a part of the family’
a sense of vindication because you knew that nothing really mattered
regret as you finally realized that people did not really care about how strange the inside of your head is, they only wanted to believe that you liked and appreciated them
Well, that was …interesting!

*if that doesn’t make sense, you need to ask a clark

**

*** but not for a good reason, at least good from the perspective of the clark in question… we don’t lie because of fear (no, thank you for that thought Kristi, and while we agree that lying is a bad thing and not lying is a good thing….sometimes the underlying reason for not doing something, offsets some, if not all, of the good.)

* eww September

** hokey smoke! a key to writing of time and time travel….

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RePrint Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

May 30, 2022 By clarkscottroger

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

This being a holiday weekend here in Oceania, let’s take a ride in the Wayback Machine and see what we can find.

Well, that was surprisingly difficult.

Wait!! Wait!! Insight moment!

So, as often happens, I had an idea in my head for a reprint post. It was to have been on the topic of holidays and the Wakefield Doctrine. Nothing radical there. The trouble started, (secretly), when I framed the topic as Memorial Day/summer holidays. Heck, it was right there in the first sentence. I wanted to discuss today’s holiday, which in local terms is Memorial Day. All, or most, of the returns on a search of ‘holiday’ came back with a) Thanksgiving and 2) Christmas.

damn. note to self: if one is looking to discover something new, it pays not to imagine what it will look like. And, if one is looking for supporting evidence for an idea best beware of how specific the descriptors are.

Not a complete loss.

Have the post below. And a couple of reminders: the Wakefield Doctrine is gender neutral, culture neutral and age neutral; the Wakefield Doctrine is for you, not them.

childhood memories involving learning to become a better person: …………………………… 6 hours
childhood memories involving learning bad habits and behavior: …………………………… 3 days
childhood memories involving doing something publicly embarrassing to adults: …………. 2 years
adolescent fantasies that result in being scarred for life:
(physically scarred): 3 years (emotionally scarred): 5 years
workplace situations that result in receiving a raise: ………………………………………………… 6 hours
workplace situations that result in being fired: ……………………………………………………….. 3 months
workplace situations that result in being arrested: ……………………………………………………. 4 years
relationship maturity demonstrated in daily life: …………………………………………………….. 1.4 hours
relationship immaturity demonstrated in public: ……………………………………………………… 4 days
a Post trying to illustrate the ephemeral nature of creative ideas: ………………………………….. 75 minutes

Quick reminder about the Holiday tomorrow: If you do not know that July 4th is one of the most scottian of holidays, then you need to write in one of the Comment boxes below 50 times

“scotts love loud noises, it lets them believe they can have an effect on the world“.

Seriously, picture the coming Holiday:

takes place at the height of the Summer season

eating and drinking to excess is encouraged

minimal clothing allowed in virtually all public places (including churches and hospitals)

outdoor sports activities including chasing frisbees, being dragged behind a boat and the use of explosive devices (such explosives, that were it December instead of July, a visit from Homeland Security would be the immediate result)

…minimal clothing

So for you non-scotts reading this, three July 4th Survival Tips:

stay indoors

keep the lights off and the glow of the TV shielded from windows and doors

turn up the air conditioning and ….wear extra clothes

We hope that helps.

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

May 29, 2022 By clarkscottroger

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

This is the Wakefield Doctrine’s contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. Founded, on a dare, in 1982, the TToT bloghop has gone on to become the stuff of legend, a veritable cause célèbre among fans of grat blogs the world around. The premise is simple. The requirements minimal. The execution personal.

Our contribution, (a list of then things, people, places and/or events that have/had/has elicited a feeling/state/recollection/reminiscence of gratitude) for this week:

1) Una (watching Phyllis watching one of our favorite youtube channels)

2) Phyllis (her front yard garden)

3) the Wakefield Doctrine (which for us, has been (a) rolled-parchment diploma, ribbon-hung medal emblazoned with a single word, and a red, heart-shaped pocket watch)

4) the Six Sentence Story the site for flash fiction

5) the era of facile communications, the internet, phones that take pitchas, televisions that do not require aluminum foil to enhance the picture quality and music in a variety combined with an ease of access not even dreamed of when growing up.

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

7) A new serial story! As an experiment in projectile daydreaming, there is a new blog: ‘Tales from the Six Sentence Café & Bistro’. Although it currently boasts only one Chapter, do us a solid, head over there and follow that thang. It will, going forward have some way fun fiction from the Proprietors (Chris, Denise, Ford, Jenne, Mimi and Nick)… with occasional guest appearance of Tom (as the Cook)

8) altering the geophysical character of the front of the house (courtsey of Phyllis and Una) (see photo @2)

9) something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3 …from the Book of Secret Rules aka the Secret Book of Rules: “…as you get past Grat #8 you probably feel…grateful for the approaching completion of your efforts; go ahead and put that bad boy right there at #10.” (ibid. op. cit. BoSR/SBoR 2001- 2022)

music vids

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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine-

May 26, 2022 By clarkscottroger

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

This is the Six Sentence Story bloghop

Hosted by Denise

This week’s prompt word:

FLUID

The tall, thin man was, by both nature and conscious choice, disinclined to place a value on physical exertion greater than necessary to make routine tasks appear effortless.

Being more t’ai ch’i than tae kwon do, more gavotte than gigue, the goal of power was to alter the world in a deliberate manner and, as such, more advantageously viewed as a fluid than a solid; in early life he’d decided the world was not merely a clockwork of moving parts, subject to vector and force, rather an organism moved by appetite, constrained by its environment.

Deciding to walk to work, he smiled at his choice of dress: bespoke sports coat from Dege & Skinner, grey Dockers from JC Penny and, five-dollar black gum sole shoes from a card table set up near the theatre district; his path, characteristically random, resulted in modern steel and glass towers giving way to older, more earthbound structures with less decoration and more loading docks and chainlink fences.

“Wait up!”

Proprietor Mimi was gifted with a voice capable of making a shout from a bus stop be heard as the laughing whisper of a classmate from a time in life when the army of the young was unified in the uphill battle with adults.

Walking beside the man who adjusted both his expression and his gait, the former, a pleasantly involuntary act, the latter simple politeness, Mimi was about to add an admittedly superfluous greeting when the canyon of mills, thrift shops and nightclubs was filled with the sound of sirens.

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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine-

May 25, 2022 By clarkscottroger

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

This is the Wakefield Doctrine’s contribution to the Six Sentence Story bloghop.

Denise is the host.

The prompt word:

FLUID

“I’m telling you, you can’t write a meta-fiction Six Sentence Story in 1st Person POV.”

“Why not?”

“I’ll tell why not, what you just did, referencing a second character, who would be me, yet you’ve yet to establish yourself for the Reader!”

“I’ll have us know, the Reader, having invested a mercifully-small amount of time can see the end of the story; in all likelihood has a bunch of these to read and just don’t care and besides, you’ve no chance to credibly use the week’s prompt word.”

“You’re referring to the word ‘fluid’?

“Booyah!”