Month: June 2023 | the Wakefield Doctrine

Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine- [a Parchman Farm Six]

June 29, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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

This is our contribution to the Six Sentence Story bloghop.

Hosted by Denise, guided by the simplest of rules: use the prompt word and tell a story in exactly six sentenae

Here, this week, in this particular Six Sentence Story, we return to an old ‘story-world’, that of Parchman Farm. For reasons unknown, this horrific episode in the never-ending story of man’s inhumanity to man, offers a imagination-conducive canvas. Here are links to a few previous Parchman Farm Sixes: ‘Release’ ‘Shake’ ‘Polish’

Prompt word:

SECURITY

“Theys been some talk, of late, about security here at the Farm.”

Still seated on Enola, the Appaloosa that, at least in the company of the Warden, Boss Roscoe was fond of saying, ‘reminded him of who he was and who his charges were’; the man who mattered more than god to most of the men of Camp 8, didn’t bother to take off his hat.

The day in the fields of Sunflower County had been typical of June: angry-red sunrise followed by such spiteful heat that the bent-shadows of the convicts seemed to dig into the soil between the rows of cotton as the men dragged their chains across the open fields.

That the camp boss left his hat on meant one of two things but probably both: he was gonna keep it short and someone was going to regret anew the crime that brought them to Parchman Farm.

As any man still talking after five years at the Farm, might whisper, ‘When a lesson was to be made, the words they flowed like Spring flood waters scouring the lowlands’.

The man on horseback, inclined as he was to mostly do, instead of say, preferred to coat words like ‘prisoner’, ‘discipline’ and ‘security’ in honey, choosing to believe that poison can be made to taste sweet; but the men now standing in front of him looked only at the ground, as fealty to whatever god ruled below came quickly to those long enough at ‘the Farm to forget what freedom felt like.

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

June 29, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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

This is our contribution to the Six Sentence Story bloghop.

Hosted by Denise, guided by the simplest of rules: use the prompt word and tell a story in exactly six sentenae

Prompt word:

SECURITY

There was something wrong about the deadbolt on the front entrance of the Six Sentence Café & Bistro.

Even allowing for the pre-dawn hour, the tall, thin man felt the mental-emotional dissonance that was often (‘…but not always’, the logical voice, every bit the five-year-old boy seeking security in repetition), a harbinger of a spontaneous view of the abyss; he laughed into the dark, the ultimate αποτρέπειν of the natural introvert.

The interior of the empty Café offered, to those so-inclined, a church-vibe: the reddish glow of the neon signs behind the bar suggested either a secret aquarium, all noisily innocuous or, closer to home, the church when he was in elementary school, specifically the incense and brass-smelling alcove where the votive candles were kept.

Long accustomed to letting random memory claim the attention of his conscious and otherwise reasonable mind, the Proprietor heard Sister Catherine admonish his sixth grade class in religion, “I won’t describe Hell to you, that is more properly the purview of the clergy;” the fleeting certainty that the Sister of Mercy was addressing him ignited a glow of pride that he imagined he could still feel, “However, if you are determined to try, let me suggest you add: you are the architect of the hell in which you will be punished.”

The smell of alcohol, ice and cigarettes embraced him like a drunken lover, the residual sensory input of a High Mass for those who believe they are alone in the world.

There was a sound from the one direction he was not looking and the tall, thin man felt a chill, like a herd of spiders wearing golf shoes running up the back of his neck and over his scalp.

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

June 26, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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First thing this morning, we thought, ‘Lets get back to writing original content.’ And, we were, like, “Dude, the Doctrine, like exists, eo ipso (if’n you need to get technical, and being a cloudy Monday morning, that would not be ill-advised). There is nothing you can make up that is not already inherent in everyone’s favorite personality theory, the Wakefield Doctrine.”

‘Yeah, that’s true.’ was the only sensible retort.

So we searched ‘summer school’… ’cause, for many Readers, it’s Summer. Stumbled on the post below.

(Let you in on a little secret: we will read (and, in fact, make available for Readers) every post in this here blog here but, like everything else alive, the definition and insights into the Doctrine have… not changed… more a matter of ‘have become more accurate, more easier to understand because writing is better and such… lol)

…anyway… what cheered me up this morning was seeing that one of the key phrases in these pages was there as early as this post (2013). That phrase: (dit.dit.dit ‘…how we relate ourselves to the world around us and the people who make it up‘.)

It is key because it focuses on the concept of relationships. And the Doctrine in general and the three predominant worldviews in particular are about relationship if they’re about anything.

better save some insights for tomorrow…

Monday Morning (at) the Wakefield Doctrine (“…like that Rosetta Stone thing on TV, ‘cept more useful and way more fun!”)

June 17, 2013

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

The Wakefield Doctrine is a personality theory, it is a unique, useful and fun way to look at the behavior of the people in our lives. With an understanding of the principles of the Wakefield Doctrine you need no longer find yourself saying, “Why on earth would they say a thing like that? I really thought I knew them better than that!” This ‘Doctrine’ maintains that we all live our lives in personal realities (what we refer to as ‘worldviews’). This is not an overly exotic notion, nothing too metaphysical. All of you out there reading this sees the same world, a world where…

…where the supermarkets have big plate glass windows, the parking lots are full of new-car-paint-scraping-carts; that the world is full of a variety of people in an incredibly diverse range of occupations, with the teachers, the nurses, the hookers in the bad part of town, the politicians in the wealthy part of town, and socially we all see the same associations, the boss out to get ahead, the co-workers who refuse to say anything about the bruises on the new worker, the friends our children make at school, the rejection that happens in our mind on Friday while trying to hope for salvation on Saturday night, and in a very personal way we all share the world of hoping to meet the expectations of our parents, trying to endure the pain of seeing them in a nursing home, we hear the ‘why-didn’t-you-say-something-before’ from our spouse in bed late at night, we bear up under the terrible/wonderful experience of helping our pets at the end of their lives, while at some time in the course of this very Summer we will smile and we will frown at the predictable behavior of our husbands at the annual family cookout…

…the world in common is the same for all of us. What the Wakefield Doctrine focuses on, and where our personal reality becomes personal, is that for all of the above common things, people and situations, the important thing is ‘how do we relate ourselves to them, to these parts of life’? It is how what we think we know about/how we tend to respond to/how we feel about these (and every other of the tiny little aspects of life) that the Wakefield Doctrine is about.

The Wakefield Doctrine maintains that we all have the capacity to experience life in one of three characteristic worldviews (these personal realities we just mentioned). At a very early age we ‘pick one’ and that is the world we grow up and develop in: the reality of the Outsider (clarks), the life of the Predator (scotts) or the world of the Herd (rogers). When you know the characteristics of these three personal realities, you will be able to recognize the three personality types. When you recognize the three personality types, you will know more about the other person than they know about themselves. When you understand the nature of these three worldviews and recognise your own predominant worldview (your personality type), you will have new ways to change the things about yourself that you have always wanted to change but have been unable to change (or have changed for a while…).
It is a principle of the Wakefield Doctrine that we all have one predominant worldview/personal reality but that we never lose the potential of the other two worldviews.

The original topic of today’s Post was to have been the latest developments in the Wakefield Doctrine. And as such, might be of limited interest to the causal reader*. But as DownSpring Molly has said in the past, “Don’t worry too much if they understand what you are saying, clark! If they are interested and don’t understand, they will either figure it out for themselves or ask you.”

But rather than tell you the somewhat esoteric, although totally exciting insight into the rogerian worldview, which holds huge potential to increase our understanding of all three separate worldviews.

With the Wakefield Doctrine you may:

identify your worldview as being a clark (which you suspected since the pretty quick after reading this blog) because for you, ‘there is a whole wide world full of people and things and stuff …’out there’

see that your best friend (the one from longest ago) is probably a scott though there is a roger running a close second

decide that this Doctrine has a thing or two that you might find handy and so decide to hang out

find yourself on a damn international conference call with totally cool guys and remarkably attractive womens and yet, you are comfortable (…clark)

need to remind yourself that the Wakefield Doctrine is gender, culture and age neutral

find that the rambunctious scotts and the charming rogers and occasionally scary clarks are actually kinda fun

learn ways to self-improve-yourself… the way that you want to change, not necessarily the way that everyone says you should change..

(bought a beat-up PC and learned how to type…lol)

*yes, on purpose …a little humor for the Writer

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

June 25, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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East Matunuck State Beach South Kingstown, RI

This is the Wakefield Doctrine’s contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. Continuously published every weekend since 2003, the TToT is an open question to all who would participate. The question? Do you feel grateful for any people, places things or events. Well, do you? And, if you’re nodding your head while shrugging your shoulders and trying to look in all directions without being seen, how about you go ahead and write a list of ten of those things. Hurry.

Now, that was fun, wasn’t it? Once a week, times fifty-two weeks, times ten years, that gives us 503 posts! (Times ten? Five thousand thirty-three instances when you caught a sense of the secret-of-the-universe. Well done. You’re free to ignore this insight for another seven days.)

1) Una (chodsky pés)

2) Phyllis (human female)

3) the Wakefield Doctrine (serendipitous insight into the nature of human reality)

4) the Six Sentence Story (bloghop)

5) hypograt (a citation of a person, place or thing/event that, on the surface appears to be only negative, with an effort (which is, in large part, the raison d’être for this weekly exercise) not negative*

6) * a grammatical ‘shelf-stretcher’ especially useful on (relatively) short lists.

7) something, something (sincere, if not gratuitous acknowledgement of a momentary lapse in recall)

8) cottage project continued… (specifically: P’s detailing of the overall landscaping)

9) weird-ass door flower

10) SR 1.3 (a rule from the Book of Secret Rules aka the Secret Book of Rules)

music vids

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One-K Friday -the Wakefield Doctrine- (… a rhetorical mash-up? that can’t be good)

June 23, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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Detail of the painting “God reprimanding Adam and Eve”, by F. Zampieri (1625)

(come on! you knew it was just a matter of time)… this is an attempt to consolidate two of my three three favorite weekly bloghops.

The first is the Six Sentence Story, (I trust Denise, the host, won’t mind). The second, the Unicorn Challenge. (Well, totally crossing my fingers, as I value the opportunity to be here at the bloghop that jenne and ceayr built).

This mashup was not merely a random thought, (I think it might have been Tom or maybe even Nick… lets agree to lay blame on those two ne’er-do-wells), to do my second Six and my first ‘Corn as a single story.

The Six Sentence Story you all know: weekly prompt word/ six sentences only. This week, the word is REPLAY

The Unicorn Challenge: the photo below and a 250 word maximum.

Let us do this thing:

Sister Margaret Ryan felt the transition from asphalt to sand in the ‘oh, yeah? show me what you got’, way she used to hear the words, ‘Pick up your pencils and begin…now‘. Although her morning jog always took her to the shore, eight miles from the convent, she never tired of the challenge; veering left, the clutch of the loose sand brought to mind the myth of Antaeus and her pace always increased.

The sand changed: an increasing supply of endorphins stuttered and the young novitiate stumbled as the earth pushed back; her right foot, denied an unreliable surface, gave way and she fell into the sand. Laughing to herself was inevitable as she replayed the fall, but from the perspective of an innocent bystander: twenty-something woman sprawled on a Maryland beach, crucifix tangled in her bunched-up ‘Property of J.C.’ sweatshirt, short red hair salted with white crystals. Her laughter stopped as her left hand caught on something just below the surface, the soft-rubber sole of a child’s sneaker.

The nascent flood of endorphins now abruptly reversed by a torch-wielding mob of adrenaline and pulling gently, the pink canvas upper sole with the iconic swoosh gave way to flesh and a delicate ankle continuing downwards in the very most improper of directions; crossing herself in the spiritual semaphore of her Order, Sister Ryan reached for her phone.