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November 21, 2022 By

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

The Wakefield Doctrine maintains that everyone and all of us are: a)born with the capacity to perceive the world as having one of three characteristic natures. This ‘nature’ determines the basis upon which the individual forms and develops their personalities and 2) at an early age the individual establishes their residency (or membership (or backdrop)) in one and only one world. Growing up, a predominant aspect of, (the individual’s), style of interacting with the world is, obviously the character of the reality they are in. While one’s predominant worldview is one of the three, the ‘other two’ are not extinguished. They remain as secondary and tertiary aspects, influences and potential, as opposed to fundamental realities.

…man! we’re out of practice! While we recharge the batteries of the forklift that is clearly necessary in order to move words and phrases about this post, what say we go look in the archives for something a little lighter?

[Damn! I think I remember!* And…and! a fringe benefit of remembering the proper state of mind is to not only feel better, but enjoy an increased level of impulsivity. So here it is…. wait, better call them what were on yesterday’s Livestream,  Nick and Denise and Frank and Mimi and Cynthia (in spirit if not in person). A little more of a ‘setup’ is in order. They were on when the topic we’re discussing came up. The others, Tom and Ford and M. and the others hadn’t yet tuned in.

So the question from Nick yesterday was (paraphrasing here): why is it easier to react negatively (to the world) than positively? Well… this morning: we had to check on a house that might have had some issues with the furnace. Not surprisingly there was a sense of suspense as we drove up to the house. Fortunately, everything was fine. As we drove away, in a better mood, it occurred to us there was a choice in how we could feel. The default choice was ‘Relief’. But the better choice was ‘Celebration’. (Spoiler Alert! The surrounding concept and conclusion is beyond the scope of this intro, but we thought you’d want to know…about the universe and such. lol]

…after all is said and done, what’s in a name? the 3 personality types of the Wakefield Doctrine ( 3 labels account for all!!)

November 29, 2011

Mickey Rourke a clark?1
Prince a clark?
Kristen Stewart a clark?  ( well,  that was kinda easy….just go look at this video)

And what’s with the term ‘clarklike female’?  After all, the Doctrine is gender neutral and you do call (the others) scottian women and rogerian females… why the weird name for the…wait… nah, never mind.

( No! We are not reluctant to answer the question, that is, after all,  how we all learn… well, clarks and rogers in any event.)

The answer, with any luck, will prove to be both simple and obvious

  • a group or multiple scotts results in a pack
  • more than one roger gathering together?  clearly a herd!
  • 2 or 3 or more clark…… results in a… what was the question? (hey they were right here a minute ago!…was there always a floor lamp over there?…wait a minute…

Hopefully that answers the question to everyone’s satisfaction.

scotts are very, very easy to identify…when you see them, chances are they are already watching you! And if you are up for it, take a good look at them, (preferably when their attention is on someone else)  there is no mistaking the gaze, the alertness, they are paying attention. (Go back to the Kristen Stewart video thing above, this time focus on Kelly instead of Kristen)

rogers are not too difficult to spot, given that there are more of them than the other two types ( in any given situation)…besides you cannot help but to run into the roger wherever you happen to be…it is not enough for a roger to gather in a herd…they must find people who are not of the herd in order to get maximum enjoyment from the rogerian experience… now these ‘others’ will be of 2.5 other categories  clarks and scotts  male and female2 and depending on (which) the roger will cause their herd to either interfere with the clarks ( like the old  joke we all loved when we first learned to drive…you know, “Hey want a ride?” just as they reach for the door handle, jump the car ahead… lol now that I remember that it is pretty funny) anyway thats sort of what a rogerand their herd will try to do to a clark…now if it happens to be a scott entering the room  then…er…  think more….  Lunch is served!

clarks are interesting…they have a natural affinity for the company of scotts  and a weakness for the charm of rogers…as to spotting a clark, well that’s another matter, if the clark does not wish to be noticed, then you are plain out of luck! You won’t.. but then again with patience you will see the proof (of the statement about clarks) that they do not want to be the center of attention but will not tolerate being ignored. clarklike females are second only to scotts as being easy to spot… with clarklike non-females** (lol)  it is a little more work, but all you have to do is listen to the conversation going on in the gathering… “we cannot directly know anything is real, but then again it doesn’t matter, because all this is imaginary in the first place…”   ( that sort of thing, along with the sound of scottian laughter and footfalls of the fleeing rogers )

 

* What makes for a dull post instead of a, ‘yeah, that was fun’

  1. Go find the official video of ‘You can leave your hat on’ on the youtube. Watch how Mickey (his character) reacts and relates to Kim’s character. Ain’t no scott and too much humor for a roger (in that context)
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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

November 20, 2022 By

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

This is the Doctrine’s contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) blog hop. As the photo at the top of this post implies, The TToT is an opportunity to reflect on the people, places and things that occur in our lives that otherwise might be missed because of the vastness between our personal concerns and the world in which we exist.

or something.

Lets talk right down to earth in a language that everybody here can easily understand. (MX)

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine: one of the easier weeks to write posts: T-Giving Day! Featuring one of the most popular of Doctrine Posts

4) the Six Sentence Story the place for reading (and writing!) flash fiction and other forms of single-sitting fiction

5) Livestream check your local listing (actually the time is established as 2:30 ET) the topics and content, well, there should be some element of surprise, no?

6) work providing an opportunity to self-improve myself (using the tools of this eponymous blog)

7) the feeling of being done with a live-on-the-internet-in-front-of-an-indeterminate-number-of-people (Grat 5 above) a combination of relief and triumph.

8) Serial stories, and metaphorical landmarks in a virtual world

9) something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3 (from the Book of Secret Rules aka the Secret Book of Rules) Cliff Note version? “Who, exerting an effort, seeing the finish line, does not feel gratitude… put that badboy at Numero Teneio”

 

Music vids

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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine- [ a Café Six ]

November 18, 2022 By

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

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

Occurring but once a week, Denise invites all to participate in the exercise and joy of prompt word story-writing.

It’s fun, exciting and deterministic.

This week’s prompt word:

ETERNAL

“Times up! Pencils down, close your test booklets,” the boy in the back-row desk closest-to-the-door watched, as twenty-five arms moved in unison, (twenty-six, he hastily amended, remembering that Ashley, (oh, wonderful Ashley-from-afar), was left-handed), and thought of ‘A Wrinkle in Time’.

The tall, thin man, noting that the other Proprietors had not yet arrived for the monthly board meeting, (‘Bored meeting,’ Tom‘s favorite bon mot when asked to prepare something to ease the tedium of minutes of the twelve-times-a-year gathering), addressed Húnga, “We humans, lacking the extraordinary sense you and your kind enjoy, are, perforce, compelled to invent novel beliefs to hold back the crushing weight of the eternal truth of Time”.

“That includes you, our most-likely-to-recede,” the words reached him a heartbeat before the teacher smiled for reasons of her own as nearly all the other members of the eighth-grade English literature class smiled for reasons not their own; cardboard applause followed as twenty-six textbooks breast-stroked into a stable, open position and the classroom acquired a golden-yellow hue courtesy of the old window shades and the fall semester sun.

“Consider: Time,” the manager continued, as the dog, laying on a quilt covering the dark-brown leather sofa in the Manager’s office, maintained a posture that demonstrated a level of non-judgmental attention available to men and women only until their first birthday.

“For next week’s book report we will read and discuss Madeleine L’Engle’s ‘A Wrinkle in Time’,” an orchestra entirely made-up of conductors, blue Lindy pens kept time with the teacher’s voice; almost immediately she held up a single finger and the classroom of twenty-five students turned like a clockwork puppet show at the source of the only sound in the room, that of a No. 2 pencil on yellow paper, scraped smoothly like a güiro solo, the boy in the back-row desk, closest-to-the-door looked up and said, “What?”

Hearing the other Proprietors arrive in the café beyond his closed doors, the tall, thin man stood, “Well, as always, I’ve loved the time we spend together,” Húnga exposed his teeth in the winning smile of his species; as the two approached the office door, the man paused, “Oh yeah, thanks for reminding me, I should invite all the Proprietors to join the GateKeeper and the Bar Tender on the Livestream this weekend“.*

 

 

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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine-

November 17, 2022 By

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

This is (one of) the Doctrine’s contribution to the Six Sentence Story bloghop.

Curated by Denise, attended by over ten thousand Readers and, on average, twenty-six contributing writers.

Prompt word:

ETERNAL

The day waited, with desiccated patience, for the man to accept that his eyes were open.

His surroundings, familiar in a way that reassured, even as anxiety gathered, was the expected empty bedroom; like a newspaper left in a car’s rear window for a week, his hope for an eternal and consistent sense-of-self was deprived of the certainty of contrast; ‘you’d never’ became ‘maybe’ and ‘not possible’, a new undefined section of an expanded map.

The man decided to try and get a cup of coffee, (or something), so, with the methodical confidence of the long-indentured, he first visualized the trip to the kitchen in the next room; upon standing he was buoyed by the fact that, other than the feeling he was wearing socks made of foam rubber, proceeded from the bed towards the door to the kitchen.

The apartment was cold, all the lights were on and the sun threw a harsh rectangle across the top of the gas-on-gas stove; on the rare evenings he wasn’t alone at home, he would point to the refrigerator immediately next to it as a perfect example of the cast-iron irony of an unimaginative landlord.

As the man repositioned himself in bed, instant coffee an undeniable, if not somewhat pyrrhic a victory over the enemy that his remaining friends tiredly whispered warnings, he heard the sound of running water coming from the closed-door bathroom.

As the door to the bathroom creaked open, the phone next to his bed rang.

 

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘the shortest of Posts?’

November 15, 2022 By

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

So, let’s try this. We’ll write the shortest post we can today. And then, only after reaching the point of ready to hit ‘Publish’,* we’ll search the archives using the phrase ‘the shortest of posts’.

…ok, so we wrote the post. (In this very wordpress blog). Can’t recall what we wrote (it’s there in the archives, June of 2009, but that’s not important right now*** What is important is what happened once I could see nothing to add to the post.

We clicked on the blue rectangle on the right side of the dashboard: ‘Publish’

We closed our (WordPress) blog.

After a moment, we turned off the computer.

Another moment, (in advance of the rumbling of the soon to be over-used metaphor of an avalanche), and we got up from our desk, walked out of the room, went to the garage, got in the car and drove away from the house.

…we did return eventually.

 

The Shortest Wakefield Doctrine blogpost:

The Wakefield Doctrine is an additional perspective on the world around us and the people who make it up. With the insights made possible by employing this perspective, we have an increased probability of self-improving ourselves. And, as a bonus not to be abused, we will be in a position to know more about ‘the other person’ then we have any right to, increasing our chance to see the world as they are experiencing it.

Searching all posts for ‘the shortest of post’, the result, (actually the only search return, which is surprising. Well, like they say, there is always an opportunity to learn something each and every day. And a way old post from October 2011(!)

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

There is an old saying,  “the first 2 things you say about a person (or an idea),  are actually  the least important thing and it is, in fact,  the  3rd  thing that you say that  is at the heart of how you feel” (about an idea..or a person).

The Wakefield Doctrine is… a way of classifying personalities,  …it is a tool to understand the behavior of others and …it is a perspective on ourselves and the people in our lives. People we meet here at this blogsite… have questions …are curious (about what we are trying to do) and  … enjoy sharing ways to implement the tool that the Doctrine represents. The driving force behind most  Posts is the need… to produce new content on the subject of the Wakefield Doctrine, …to illustrate ways to derive a direct benefit from the knowledge of the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers and… bringing a life-map to those what are looking for one.

Recently, we have had a Reader, a certain  TonyB  (from over at ‘the BlogCatalog’) ask the question, “What is the Doctrine about?”
While we always look forward to reading what people say about/ask about the Wakefield Doctrine, this one is the question that causes the greatest concern. You might even say that this particular question is the spiritual opposite of the time-honored semantic trap, ” Tell me, do you still beat your wife/cheat on your husband?”
After all, the considerable effort to put up this web site and (to) write these Posts and (to) provide information is all in the service of a single idea, i.e. ‘getting as many people in the world to know about the Wakefield Doctrine as possible in the shortest period of time’. So when we have a Reader write (lol) we are excited (happy) and when we read the actual question being asked, we are excited (concerned). The first thing that we thought when reading the question that TonyB (from the Blogcatalog) wrote was, ‘just how badly are we explaining this very simple concept’?
If, TonyB (from the Blogcatalog), himself a writer of blogs, cannot figure out how the Doctrine works from reading it, what chance does an average person have to understand and enjoy the usefulness and fun that the Wakefield Doctrine offers?

 

(seeing how DownSpring glenn and DS#1 are into the ‘pome thing’, (with all their cutlets and rhyme-schemes and such),   if I may):

there once was a lad from the Vinyard
who looked, as a child  only  inward

if I find the other two
I  will know what to do

 so the Wakefield  Doctrine was authored 

 Alright already!  We had better go easy on the artsy stuff or we surely will hear from a roger (or two) and god knows what our newest scottian FOTD (Friend of the Doctrine) Alex will write if he thinks we’re  ‘gettin soft on them Readers…ya gotta make ’em sit up and pay attention!!  ( HEY!!).

 

* we haven’t told the story of ‘The First Wakefield Doctrine Post’? (ok. not recently enough to remember**)

**yeah, well that is one of the benefits of Birthday Progression. The mind and the memory become more and more like an Etch-a-Sketch on the dashboard of a teenager’s car on the first night of being left home alone by vacationing parents.

*** thanks for the borrow out to the genius screenplay writers of ‘Airplane!’

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