Month: December 2023 | the Wakefield Doctrine

free way Friday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

December 15, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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

We made it!

The Doctrine tends toward an every-other week schedule here at the ‘corn’, joining jenne and ceayr and the others here at the Unicorn Challenge.

Do yerself a favor, head over to the ‘corn. Plenty good reading. And, if you got the hankering to take the keyboard out for a stroll, go ahead and link your story (in Comments). The simplest of rules: a) Hey! look at this photo and 2) no more than 250 words, if you please. Tell ’em the Doctrine sent ya.

For her it was the light, an actinic slap of welcome to a newborn. Chloë responded with a most human of strategies, extending her hand across the table.

For him, it was an assault of odor, of such potency, his body wrongly interpreted it as immersion in a noxious ether. Montgomery was assailed by an overwhelming desire to stand up. Instead, he grasped the hand that appeared opposite his own.

In the shadows, a man laughed a guttural cough of merriment and aimed his phone towards the young couple. Bathed in the cold palette of technology, he basked in the approval of the woman in the display; her face an aurora of hues as she watched the man watching the young people.

“Sinè, my love, it’s time to reel in our little fishies.” Donning an waiter’s apron, the man picked up a tray holding two glasses. He sprinkled a shower of crystals into each. The motion caused his sleeve to rise, exposing a tattoo of a symbol combining an asterix and an angular ‘B’, superimposed on a heart.

“I don’t remember anything after that odd woman stopped us on the street.” Confidence returning with the shared strength of their touching hands, Chloë rose.

“Yeah, lets get out of here,” Montgomery threw a £50 note on the drink tray proffered by the waiter and left without a backward glance. Unseen, the man threw the tray against the curved-stone wall, cringing at the tiny voice of the woman raging from his phone.

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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine- [a Café Six Part Three ²/³]

December 13, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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

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

It is hosted by Denise and, other than insisting on six sentences-per-story, she maintains a light-to-a-fault hand on the proceedings.

The funny-looking title? The ‘subtitle’ is a reference to this week’s inter-related stories from Nick (2) and Denise (3).

“…previously on the Doctrine’s Café Six‘, the Sophomore was dragging his feet on his way to the Manager’s office.

Prompt word:

FARM

The tall, thin man smoothed out the crumpled paper with the passionate serenity of a widower smoothing the shroud of his departed, prior to taking his place at the head of a receiving line of one.

The muffled knock on the door was followed by a trapezoid of darkness contorting it’s characteristic sharp-angled shape, as if to minimize the fact it provided passage into the office.

The Sophomore crossed the distance between door and desk almost too quickly, the casual swing of his second-hand overcoat, an unmistakeable imprimatur of youth, was a non-verbal announcement informing all that he was not afraid, but would ask deference to his remarkable intelligence.

Sitting in the lone chair in front of the desk, the young man smiled without cause, remained silent out of caution and occupied his mind with an escalating variety of possible realities extending from the present moment; his friends in the past from which he was mysteriously transported, often chided him on not taking life seriously enough.

The tall, thin man’s fingers ran over the ridges and creases of the letter like a third-generation owner of a subsistence farm sifting dry soil through calloused hands, as if to seek enlightenment, if not salvation.

“Do you know what Hell really is?”

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December 12, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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

A wise(ish) person once said, ‘The first step to self-improvement is developing one’s capacity to form habits. For all its bad rep, (or is that, ‘bad rap’?), creating habits is the surest path to Heaven.’

Damn! The things wise people get to say. (Funny you should ask. Wait ’til you see the symbol ^eR. The check lower on the page. Hopefully there will be some tidbit of new insight into everyone’s favorite personality typing blog.

But here we are again. Tuesday. Attic boxes all around in a circle like we were in the jungle.

Some continuity if you will: (First, Second, Third and Previous Memoir posts)

Damn! We’re going to have to settle on some convention for designating Memoir Posts. One that doesn’t require the copy/paste of links to the pertinent articles.

Hey. The ‘real’ world ate the balance of this post!

… remind us to get more, in the sense of greater percentage of the writing, done earlier than 11-fricken-o-clock!

Thankfully the Wakefield Doctrine is a standalone tool/alternate perspective on the world around us and the people who make it up.

^eR Let’s all agree that this superscript will designate ‘the Everything Rule’. Figure with something like that, the new Reader will stop and ask themselves if they’re really sure what kind of random, personality-type blog they’ve got themselfs into. To the point at hand:

What we designated being in the dominion of the Everything Rule is: How does the choice of ‘wiseman/woman/person’ manifest in the three predominant worldviews of the Wakefield Doctrine?

Who would employ/deploy which? You’re gonna laugh but its: roger, scott and clark. lol* Thought experiment/contest for future branded clothing items: Why is that true? Tell us in Comments.

*no, you’re welcome

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RePrint Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

December 11, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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

This Monday morning is one of the justifications for using RePrint posts. Lots of words written through the end of last week, i.e. three Six Sentence Story posts. We will return to the topic, ‘What’s the Deal with getting Tired of Writing?’ in a little bit.

First our Post-from-the-Past. (It’s got Doctrine ‘splanations and a music vid and ever thang.)

{Before we hit Publish, a note. What we found interesting about posting this post, (yeah, we do read them first, despite, you know, having written them), is our reactions). Our initial reaction was: ‘err, kinda early in the Doctrine process, maybe we should get something a little more on book?’ And, courtesy of whatever forces were part of the whole original Eureka! experience, we almost immediately were, ‘Nah. That was what the Doctrine was back then, in the second full year. Sure, it’s a little rough (lol) and the focus might be a touch blurry.’ But the beauty part is that the second intent prevailed. That gives us hope. Because we all know that dealing with the world around us and the people who make it up is all about habit and routine. Usually, oldest habits trump younger ones. Which helps explain why, when we try to self-improve-ourselfs, all too often, we backslide. When, and this next is way more than we have time for, change is integrated into our lives properly, it lasts. Very much like an organ transplant. Except for it being energy rather than blood. What is critical to assure the new liver/habit has a healthy, normal supply of…}

Ask us again, when it’s not so late on a Monday Morning.

“…of hats and hearts and minds”, correctly understood and properly applied, the Wakefield Doctrine will change your life!

December 8, 2011

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

The Wakefield Doctrine maintains that all people…you, me and the roger who you think you want to show this blog to (but know instinctively that it would be a bad idea), are all born with the ability to experience the world in one of three ways.¹ The Wakefield Doctrine is totally based on the idea that, come a certain age (say 3 to 5 years old) all of us ( even that scottian friend who is so much fun to be with but is so exhausting ) settle on just one of these three ‘worldviews’ and we go on to live our lives as clarks or scotts or rogers. Even though we ‘become’ one of these three personality types, we never lose the capacity to see the world the way the other two personality types see it.

…so there you have the three personality types : clarks, scotts and rogers

The Wakefield Doctrine is both gender neutral and culture neutral. While limitations and conditions may be imposed by the fact of gender or the requirements of local culture, the drive will not change. a scott is aggressive, a roger is sociable and clarks are outsiders no matter what. Sometimes you have to look a little closer at what kind of world the other person seems to be living in. What makes this a critical concept is that the Wakefield Doctrine is built on the idea that personality is not a collection of traits and impulses, interests and desires randomly scattered through the population of humans. The key to understanding and using the Wakefield Doctrine is the willingness to accept the idea that all of us have individual, slightly different but mostly the same realities and that it is the character of the reality we find ourselves in that drives our choices of behavior and therefore accounts for our personality. The advantage to this approach is quite simple, if I know which of the three realities you are in, I will know how you are likely to respond to any given situation.

But most of all the Wakefield Doctrine is fun! Fun to know about, fun to use in daily life, fun to share with certain friends². And the cool thing we are finding is that once you learn to recognise the clarks and the scotts and the rogers in your own world, the rest of the principles of the Wakefield Doctrine will become apparent! Sort of on it’s own, it lets you see the world in a different way. Really. We are totally serious about this. We are seeing this ‘self-learning’ effect with the new Readers every day. Now to be fair, this is saying as much about (you) Readers as it does about the Doctrine. Anyone who finds the personality theory of the Wakefield Doctrine interesting (and who doesn’t?) has the kind of mind that likes to play with ideas. And it is this kind of person who will find the uses of the Doctrine pretty much on their own. A warning! Depending on which of the three you are, you may experience some initial difficulties getting past the initial, “well I get the three personality types, but how do I know which one I am“?
It’s all here in the Posts and the Pages. If you are inclined to do it all yourself then you will find all the information you will need. If you are not so inclined, then just ask one of us! Write a Comment. If you are not feeling like being so…public in your learning phase, then contact one of the DownSprings or FOTDs ( Friends of the Doctrine ). I assure you that they will be more than happy to help, either by sharing their experiences (the clarks), giving you simple instructions (scotts) or happily taking the time to layout the Rules and Regulations of the Doctrine ( if you choose a roger as mentor)³.

(How to choose?… whichever sounds like what you are thinking):

“…alright!! I get the Rules and the Principles but wheres the fun at!!!”  You so need to contact Ms AKH or Alx

“…well, this is all very interesting, and you seem quite sincere about this ‘theory’ of yours…” your only real hope is to contact the Progenitor roger or maybe DownSpring Joanne, right now

“what was the question”…”sorry, I was looking at”…. “what do you mean. ‘only one characteristic quote per personality type’”?”…”oh, I’m sorry, I really meant to follow the rules to the letter as I really think this Doctrine could be useful”  you are in luck! Molly is there, as is DS#1 awaiting your question…

Alright. Enough for today. Got to come up with a Video Post for tomorrow…send in your suggestion for a topic and if we use your idea we will send you a (nearly free) Wakefield Doctrine hat (for your damn head)! HTFU!

Big shout-outs to newer Readers!!  Debbie, yo… write us a Comment, already… Jasmine, Jasmine, Jasmine – come on baby, we are so totally waiting for your comment so we can send you a hat!! Anthea!! Don’t worry, this is a fun place for us kind of people…really!!

1) when we say ‘see the world in one of three ways’ we are totally serious, as in the actual world is ‘different’ for each of the three types….not “clarks choose only to see the (whatever) parts of life” or “scotts are active because they have so much energy” no! we mean the reality, the world itself is (slightly) different for the three personality types….thats why there are three personality types.

2) a word to clarks: the first person you think ‘would enjoy this’ is a roger…the second person you think of is a scott and they are the ones you should tell about this thing.

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

December 9, 2023 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.

We usually provide, at this point of the intro, an insight into the origin and history of Lizzi’s creation. These tend to have a decidedly fabulist flavor. Far be it from us to suggest that there is any effort to mislead the Reader, especially anyone who has taken the time to visit our humble blog.

That said, below is our list of the people, places, things (and dogs) that elicit a state, however transitory, of gratitude.

1) Una

2) Phyllis (out of frame, but never far away)

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the Six Sentence Story bloghop. Fun with a small bag ‘o words

5) the Unicorn Challenge More words, more fun. jenne and ceayr‘s ‘hop is a photo prompt, making it even more TAT(ish) than the Six Sentence Story. The one thing it has in common with the SSS is/are talented and enthusiastic writers (doug an nancy and Liz and Keith are reg’lars. Speaking of the SSC&B, Tom hands in some pretty intriguing stories near ever week and semi-newcomer to the ‘corn, Margaret to mention a few. Visiting them is not the worst investment of your time you’ve ever made. (And that’s not counting anything between your eleventh and twenty-third birthdays, either.) Tell ’em the Doctrine sent ya.

6) Only twelve days until the Beginning of Summer!

7) hypo-grat* That is one totally, underwhelming photo at the top of the post. (No, not Una. She is a perfect lifeform and, despite being black-on-mostly-black** There ain’t no bad photos of her.)

8) Something, something

9) The resource of the internet to compensate for shortcomings here, on the fleshy-digit side of the keyboard. Specifically, the second song, ‘December’s foggy freeze‘, fits nicely, no?

10) Secret Rule 1.3

* hypograt (v. hypo-gratuitacious) those things that, on the surface, (which, at times can be pretty-much the whole magilla for folks like us, at least sometimes), but when considered in more depth, (ref. the TToT’s sensei of Hypograts, Mimi) reveals something to be Thankful for… i.e. having a phone that has a built-in camera. Jeez take technology for granted much?

** third music vid can only be…

music vids