Month: August 2023 | the Wakefield Doctrine

TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine- “Nothing says ‘Summer’ (for old people) like ‘reruns’

August 19, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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This is the Wakefield Doctrine’s contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop on it’s One Hundred sixty-third anniversary! Long a beacon for those of us with an abiding interest in: self-improving ourselfs, finding other bloggers of like-mind and making sure we don’t lose writing-momentum. (This last is, actually, kind’ve a real thing. Taking time off from this admittedly odd pastime/avocation involves a very real risk of not returning. Not that that is a bad thing. Only if it was not intended.

[ed. damn! found the TToT post I was looking for…on the first try! from the beginning. the links actually, still kinda work!]

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the Six Sentence Story

5) Mimi (who, if you want to get a laugh, visit her site, not sure which day, and I won’t link into it (the humor feature but it’s a regional humor thing. up here in New England there’s an old, old act called ‘Burt and I’ so I guess every region (at least those with a strong culture or mix of cultural influences) seem to have them.

6) hey! we should do the Summer Re-Run thing and count (it) as 6-8!

Re-Run TToT from August Two-thousand Thirteen! (a vid ‘oT to boot!)

‘… the Top Ten Ts of T for the 11th Week!’ the Wakefield Doctrine (well, if you must know, for a lot of different reasons!)

August 17, 2013

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)I am ‘happy’ to have another Post to contribute to the Ten Things of Thankful bloghop. Created by Considerer with the aid, support, encouragement and participation of Christine and them, this is not your typical bloghop. While there is nothing wrong with the ‘typical’ bloghops (I participate in the Twisted MixTape Tuesday run by Jen (My Skewed View) and Kristi (Finding Ninee) and Finish The Sentence Friday Janine ( ‘mommyholic) and Kate (‘bottle of Whine) and Stephanie (‘for Real) and Kristi.

What makes our TToT different is that it is a true ‘weekend blog hop’. By that I simply mean that it starts this morning and ends tomorrow night. If you want to participate you can do so at any time this weekend…and (here’s the difference) people come and read and Comment throughout the weekend, so if you have trouble today (I am a great example, I have to work today, so I’ll get this Post in and read who ever is around…later in the middle of the day, I’ll pop in and see what’s going on…then the end of the day and so on). And… Comments? that’s a little different here too! Jump in anywhere we totally believe in cross commenting. So… I think I have put this off as long as I can… my List of Ten Things:

(…yeah, I know!)

(too late to quit now!)

(…lets wrap this up!)

Ok… I had fun doing this…. (did someone just imply that they were….?)

Number 10 I am grateful that I am able to submit the above as my TToT of this Week.

We’re here all weekend (‘try the veal’) Be sure to tip your Waitress… and Comment (‘dammit! Jim I’m a Wakefield Doctrine writer, not a videographer!)

9) something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3

music vids

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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine-

August 17, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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

Hosted by Denise

One rule: Six (and only six) sentences per Story.

Prompt word:

ABƧTЯACT

“What the hell are you talking about now, Samael?”

“Language, Michael,” the Voice, as low in volume as it was high in Presence, had the world already been created, would have reverberated like a bell in a hail storm;

“I’ve gathered you, my first Creations, here for your thoughts, suggestions and feelings on my Plan, so that it might be as perfect as each of you,” a noise, the combination of a snort of condescension hidden under a laugh managed to disguise it’s author among the archangels.

“Well, Father, what your favored one here fails to understand is that among the many creations you plan, this ‘Man’, by virtue of being in your Image, must be perfect; leave it to the Light-Bearer to cast aspersions.”

The Presence paused, slowed by the words of the one He created to protect the Heavenly City, “So, tell us Morningstar, what do you think I am doing wrong?”

Lucifer stood and began to move, paused as aeons fled, seemed to think and turned to face the group, “All of your ‘living creations’ are perfect; they celebrate the moment, express their natures and conform to your Design,” a smile grew on the First’s beautiful face, “Especially, this ‘Dog’; I must say, Father, you really nailed it with this delightful creature, even I would be proud to call them one of my own.”

“But giving your… ‘Man’ the one thing all your other creations lack, the capacity for abstract thought and it’s bastard son, Free Will, well, it’s like giving a child a loaded gun and insisting they will learn in their own time what it’s for; not really the act of a caring parent, don’t You think?”

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Wednesday -the Wakefield Doctrine- “We interrupt this post about rogers with a video of a clark!!

August 16, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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Seeing how we’ve apparently gotten into a ‘Before They were Famous’ series of RePrint posts, let’s finish it up with an earliest post on rogers.

Damn! A lot of posts have our Herdonian brethren as primary thematic focus if not the clear topic/subject matter. Let’s go with this one, as we have a Six Sentence Story to ‘find’.

“Sing a song of Sixpence, a pocket full of rye…” what is it about rogers and the Past? the Wakefield Doctrine pauses, reflects and offers you Pie*

January 26, 2012

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Sing a song of sixpence,
A pocket full of rye.
Four and twenty blackbirds,
Baked in a pie.*

* Many interpretations have been placed on this rhyme. It is known that a 16th century amusement was to place live birds in a pie. An Italian cookbook from 1549 (translated into English in 1598) contained such a recipe: “to make pies so that birds may be alive in them and flie out when it is cut up” and this was referred to in a cook book of 1725 by John Nott.^[1]^[2] The wedding of Marie de’ Medici and Henry IV of France in 1600 contains some interesting parallels. “The first surprise, though, came shortly before the starter—when the guests sat down, unfolded their napkins and saw songbirds fly out. The highlight of the meal were sherbets of milk and honey, which were created by Buontalenti.
( source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sing_a_Song_of_Sixpence )

Well, didn’t they know how to have fun back in the 1600’s ? ( ” Hey, Ephesus!! dude, yo when her Majesty the Queen Mother sees the birds fly up from the table, she will surely impart a smile upon thee…dawg” )

Be that as it may, today we talk about the thing that rogers have for the Past. Lets dispense with all the work of constructing a well-crafted narrative and get all Bullet Pointy on this bad boy! So, ‘The Past’ and the rogers? Welll…we’ll have you know that:

rogers live for the Past (as scotts live in the Present and clarks live for the Future)

most ‘Historians’ are clarks and yet rogers are the people who you think of when you are interested in knowing something old, or out of date or archaic, what the hell!

the more involved the family tree, the more you need a roger, and not just because they love Yellow #2 Pencils**

in order to maintain a coherent history, you must have an internal consistency… rogers love repeating patterns

the past is ‘a place’ that rogers know they can be alone and by themselves, at least for a little while

hey, it’s really rather simple! …the farther back in time a tradition or a practice or a dogma extends, the bigger the herd that has come to be associated with it and, like scotts…for rogers ‘more is more’! …following is the epitome of this ideal:

…Ken Burns…

This quality of the rogerian personality type is one of the most positive and essential, not only to the rogerian people, but to mankind as a whole. It has often been said that rogers are responsible for society and a (certain) continuity of civilization, without which we would all still be living on the savannah…darting down to the stream in the evenings nervously keeping one non-stereoscopic eye on the treeline, alert for the sudden movement of a scott! As a matter of fact. I was talking to a rogerian friend, Valerie about the Doctrine and the positive contributions of her people to life and I put it this way, “Yes scotts are active and loquacious and really get things done, but would you want to fly across the country on a plane designed and built by a scott?”

I believe at that moment, Valerie understood and become proud of her people***

Tomorrow is Friday so get your ears out, it is Video Friday!!

** …and nice, clean, full-sized #2 Pencils! certainly not what you would find in your hands if you made the mistake of asking a scott for a pencil!! (think teeth-marks, stubby and prone to smudge)

*** which emotion, of course, was immediately transformed into a sense of fervent righteousness and a total conviction of the deficiency of all non-herd members

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

August 15, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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Well, yesterday’s early post on the topic of clarks was fun. Let’s see if’n we can’t find one on scotts of a similar vintage. As everyone other than the first-time Reader knows, scotts are the second of the three predominant worldviews of the Wakefield Doctrine. (The three, for the benefit of the first-time Reader, are: clarks (Outsiders) scotts (Predators) and rogers (the Herd Members). Each, while maintaining a common heritage and an innate potential to combine synergistically, designates a characteristic (and distinct) relationship between the individual and the world around them and the people how make it up.

scotts, as a predominant worldview are probably the most fun, in a ‘Sure, I have enough in my checking account to make bail, whaddya have in mind for tonight?’ sorta a way. But, I don’t want to step on any lines that our twelve-years-younger author may have for us in the ‘print.

“Everyone has a plan ’til they get punched in the head”… M. Tyson

March 6, 2011

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers )If you think we are going to make fun of Mr. Tyson, you are wrong. …and you are a scott.

Which is all we need to jump start this here Post here…scotts

scotts ( sk’-ott ) ( !! )
n.

the second of the three personality types comprising the Wakefield Doctrine

a person born in a section of the UK ( country referred to as United Klingons)

scottian ( sco’- shun)
adj.

to be aggressive, either physically or socially

to be quick-tempered, mercurial

to act in an impulsive, yet confident manner

the scottian personality as defined in the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers is the personality type for whom the world is a jungle, literally and/or figuratively. scotts live in a world of predator and prey, hunter and hunted, a world in which the only meaningful social order is that of ranking; as most pack animals do, the scottian personality is constantly challenging the others in the (social) environment to see who is dominant and who is submissive.

We kid scotts, but they are not only fierce and aggressive ( the scottian male ) and attractive and fierce ( the scottian female persons), they are loyal and highly protective friends. Of course, the word protective is rather close to possessive, so if you are a member of a scotts‘ pack you can expect a certain degree of direction (from the pack leader).
Now it is Sunday and we really are not going into a long, technical, clarklike, boring exegesis of the scottianpersonality types. But then we are ‘leading the Post’ with Mike, so we would be remiss if we did not talk a little about our scottian friends. to wit:

If you have a scottian friend then you are most likely a clark; if you are the friend of a scott, you are roger….and if you don’t know what this means, then you are a scott.

As with the other two types, our description of the scottian personality is exaggerated for purposes of illustration and identification and dramatization. Never, ever, forget that the Wakefield Doctrine is built on the fact that we all have the potential of the three personality types and it is only a predominance of one (over the other two) that makes us clarks or scotts or rogers. Further, those of you who are still reading this have a certain…proclivity…flexibility of intelligence that makes reading these Posts fun. Most people, no matter if they are clarks or scotts or rogers can see beyond their own realities sufficiently to allow for the Doctrine to be the thing of beauty that it is for many of us.

Lets wrap this up, for now. You all probably expect a Joe Pesci or Jack Nicholson video clip to serve as illustration, but you would be totally wrong.
We need to not ignore them scottian female people. Well, we can ignore them but the results would be…less than that attractive…but wait a minute! that all depends if the ‘ignorerer‘ is a clark or (another) scott or a roger. While it is beyond the scope of this Post to delve into the scottian females’ response to frustration…suffice to say it would be exciting. Simply know that scottian females are as aggressive and impulsive and confident and as stupid (at times) as are their male counter-parts. They just look better (to half the population) doing it.

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RePrint Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

August 14, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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Simplest of search parameters for today’s eponymous post.: the earliest 14th of August available.

Full Disclosure: Interesting search results. This (Publish)Date yielded what seems an inordinately-high level of August fourteenths. No, we didn’t survey, correlate, gather, analyze and dramatize the numbers. (My rogerian aspect is tertiary and quite faint. You’re welcome to go and do the research with your sines, cosine chi squares and margins of error. Really?!? Margins of Error?!?! Who other than our Herd brethren would include the precise measure of how wrong they are in their calculations as making the product of their effort more convincing!?)

Seriously.

That said, this post is about the Outsider. We’d be risking the perception of exaggeration (by our Readers) if we were to now digress into what it is about the ‘Margin of Error’ concept that would make a sane person want to throw the keyboard down on the ground. So, we will not. If you really want to know, ask in the Comments.

be more of a clark? on purpose? are you serious?!? the Wakefield Doctrine

August 14, 2012

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

We all know that:

clarks think

scotts act

rogers feel

(and) ..we all know that scotts are the confident ones, they are the ones who do not hesitate to act, scotts are the natural leaders and when they shout to the group (and there is always a group around them), when it comes into the head of a scott to move, to act, to do something (because they are bored) and they say, “Hey!! Lets go this way! (most) people follow immediately, without hesitation or question.

(and) we all know that rogers are the confident ones, they are the ones who know all about the matter at hand, the whys and the wherefores and most importantly, they know about who else has been/is/or will be involved in the activity that you are curious about, rogers are the organized ones and when they say, “You should do it this way, (most) people will follow (the directions).

So what about the clarks?

(well) everyone knows that clarks are:

possessed of/by/with a really great sense of humor, well …better make that a rather odd sense of humor

a very caring and sensitive person, well …at least once you get to know her and not be put off by the weirdness

smart, so smart that its, well …not smart in terms of grades or day-to-day real life decisions, but in every otherway!

organized, has everything in his head, well organized on some level but if you need to remember something you said last year or the name of the actor in a 23 year old movie!

attractive, well not in what you might call the conventional way, but when you see how she offsets the tattoos with the boots and it, somehow ties together, kinda spooky actually

creative really more than anyone, well if creative is about the things that never were and will never be, then you have the right person

intuitive, she has a way of, well, I think she holds back how much she understands

weird well duh!

If you are (still) reading, then you are what we call a scott or a roger or a clark with a certain level of flexible intelligence*… and in an effort to increase the odds that you will continue reading, we will say this: if you are a scott then you have what we call a secondary clarklike aspect and if you are a roger, then you have what we call a secondary clarklike aspect. As you know, while we all develop as one predominant type (clark or scott or roger ) we always retain the capacity to experience the world as the ‘other two’ types. We call these two types the secondary aspect and the tertiary aspect. They have an effect on how you express your predominant personality type, but that is beyond the scope of this here Post here. Suffice to say, if you are not a (predominant) clark, then your secondary aspect most likely is clarklike because it is the insatiable curiosity and tolerance of the unknown that keeps you reading, despite all your instincts to the contrary.

So about the music that follows… the fun of totally enjoying a song by Bill Monroe, then hearing something like the Fred Hammond tune from yesterday’s Post and then having ‘Blue Rondo a la Turk’ come on the radio and smiling for the pure joy of the wonderful and horrifying variety of things to appreciate that is available to you, when you are a clark.