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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

August 18, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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) bloghop. A(n) ongoing record of the people, places and things that elicit the psycho-emotional state of gratitude, it is the only know defense against the all-too pervasive negative energy and such endemic in the ‘real’ world.

Here ya go:

1) Phyllis (not in photo below)

2) Una (don’t tell her we said that lol)

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) our best good neighbor aka a new fence*. (halfway constructed. posts are setting (concrete curing), black vinyl fencing and gate in the coming week.)

5) the Unicorn Challenge bloghop. From Sally: ‘To the Lighthouse with Virginia and Wolfgang‘

6) the Six Sentence Story bloghop. From D Avery: ‘Hatch‘

7) Fern Spiral (do. you set it now?!?)

8) lol (and no, no one was abducted or anything)

9) something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3

* yeah, a little much that reference to David Frost (lol)

music vids

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whydae -the Wakefield Doctrine-

August 17, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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

Below is the Doctrine’s contribution to the Unicorn Challenge bloghop.

Hosted by jenne and ceayr, it is part writing exercise and part TAT (with, being the digital age, a touch of Hermann R’s Kool-aid). But it’s fun and …well, satisfying. You oughta join in this week, It’s easy! This is the prompt image. Write a story with les than 250 words in it, go to the link and hook in.

On with ‘the show:

“You’re just foolin’ me again, Grampa.”

“I’ll have you know that I would never deceive my only grandchild.” Cognitive assessments for the very young are not yet able to measure the sophistication allowing appreciation of the cynical italics he placed on, ‘my only grandchild’. If there were, the notation in the test results would be whatever words replicated the giggle that followed.

“Now I know you’re just jokin’ me.”

The two sat on the low concrete wall. Well, one was picked up and set-down with the sense of fun less appreciated by mother than son; the other sat with the slow care of a pensioner counting coins in his monthly change jar.

“When you look out your bedroom window at night, how far can you see?”

The curious shift in topic had the desired effect; the boy’s eyes lit up in foreshadow of his reaction to the question.

“What you see is not forever-far away. What you see is the other side of Time, where everyone we’ve loved have gone to wait for us.”

“Now I know you’re foolin’.” Another, under-assessed quality of the young human mind, is appreciation of metaphor. Some parents fear the imaginary friends or whimsical excuses for chores missed; the very old and the still-quite young revel in it.

Reverie, a state of being that issues passports more to the immature and the elderly, imbued the lighthouse with a glow of excitement and purpose.

“There you two are! I hope he hasn’t tired you out, Dad.”

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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine-

August 15, 2024 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.

Hosted by Denise, there is but one rule. It relates to the number of sentences in a story. Can you guess the rule?

Prompt word:

HATCH

“Argghh whaddya say ye scurvy bunch of wharf rats, is she guilty as a raven or innocent as a writing….arggrhhh?”

Standing at the rail of the quarterdeck, the captain shouted down at the gathered crew and began to pace back and forth; the defiant, yet winsome, prisoner stood like the next-to last finalist in a Spelling Bee Sudden Death round, her hands behind her back secured to the binnacle, prow draped in hand-me-down silks of the would-be buccaneer; the pirate commander had their fullest, if not fulsome, attention.

The Master of the galleon, ‘Reprehensible’ paced to and fro, his uniform a tattered mismatch from the Royal Navy/Army store; where once hung ribbons of campaigns and medals of honor, were dried animal parts; some for their protective effects as talisman such as the shark tooth or the gannet beak, others, like dried human ears and scarabs of actual beetles, clearly were just for effect.

“Guilty!”

Hearing the ragged consensus, his assessment of the crew, recently brigadoon’d from a discount Club Med resort on the Isle of Onam in the French Chantillys, made it certain the Captain could do nothing ore than deliver the team-building coup-de-grace, “What do we do with mutineers?”

“Make ‘er walk the hatch… walk the Hatch!”

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Wednesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

August 14, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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

Special thanks to Friend-of-the-Doctrine, Cynthia. (Why, yes, that is a genuine Wakefield Doctrine U. hoodie).

The Wakefield Doctrine is a fun¹ tool².

Like the most fundamental, (and, therefore, arguably useful) tools, it offers a flexibility in application and a simplicity in operation.

The tool, that is the Wakefield Doctrine, is comprised of three moving parts, one conditional assumption, a single qualifying limitation and the ultimate in safe and simple On/Off switches.

Application, (of said tool), is of a variety of multitudes beyond a meaningful quantification.

(It being apparent we’ve run out of synonyms for useful, practical and…what’s the word? oh, yeah, ‘cool, productive and fun’, lets get all bullet pointy on this thing.)

So to the three moving parts:

clarks (the Outsider)
scotts (the Predator)
rogers (the Herd Member)

We are, all of us, born with the innate predisposition to relate to the world in one of three manners/styles/character. And these three ‘styles’ (that other ‘normal’ personality typing schemes and theories refer to as ‘personality type’) we call, ‘predominant worldviews’. Ever body’s got one. And, as a bonus, we never lose the potential of ‘the other two’. The two that did not manifest as our personality type remain a potential influence on our lifes and behavior)

Beneath it all, (the fun and efficacy of our little personality theory), is the phrase: ‘How we relate ourselves to the world around us and the people who make it up’.

Oft under-understood, this phrase has one word that accounts for a) it not quite making the most of the value as a tool for self-improvement and 2) missing out on an opp for self-understanding (oursefls). Damn! We gave it away. If we were in a classroom or lecture hall, one might say to the assembled students-to-school, “We did not say, ‘how we relate to the world’, people, we said, ‘how we relate ourselves to the world’ Big-assed difference. What? No, that last will not be on the exam.”

“This will be on the Mid-term!”

(to be continued…)

couldn’t link into photo-caption, so, ‘Thanks, Cynthia!’

1. fun (n.) “diversion, amusement, mirthful sport,” 1727, earlier “a cheat, trick” (c. 1700), from verb fun (1680s) “to cheat, hoax,” which is of uncertain origin, probably a variant of Middle English fonnen “befool” (c. 1400; see fond). Scantly recorded in 18c. and stigmatized by Johnson as “a low cant word.” Older senses are preserved in phrase to make fun of (1737) and funny money “counterfeit bills” (1938, though this use of the word may be more for the sake of the rhyme). See also funny. Fun and games“mirthful carryings-on” is from 1906.

2. tool(n.)Middle English tol, from Old English tol “mechanical instrument for manual use, implement used by a craftsman or laborer, weapon,” from Proto-Germanic *tōwalan “implement” (source also of Old Norse tol), from a verb stem represented by Old English tawian “prepare” (see taw).

Both of above citations aka feetnotes, courtesy of our friends at Online Etymology Dictionary

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

August 12, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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

Where were we?

Before we connect to last week’s series of Doctrine posts, here’s a RePrint. Somethin’ the New Reader should find interesting and…well, accessible.

Let’s take a read, shall we?

FAQs + WD + wtf = Enlightenment and Self-Improvement Wakefield Doctrine-style

August 2, 2011

As the Readership of this blog grows, we are beginning to see questions forming in the minds of our Readers about this here Doctrine here. Signs of uncertainty are as immediate as the interview with DownSpring Joanne ( Episode Eeeleven of Video Friday), and as inferred as the Comment written in response to yesterdays Post.

We all know that it is a time-honored technique, when in the middle of the Summer’Re-run’ season to write a Q & A Post (or as our clarklike Readers might prefer it, Q & I(nference) & (modified)Q & A(interrupted). This saves the really good, original material for the Fall, when everyone is back from vacation and/or holiday and are ready to read online blogs. In addition, the use of a Q & A Post helps Readers who may have a passing interest in the Wakefield Doctrine, by allowing them to see that other people have the same questions*, which makes them? (all together now, rogers!!). Our scottian Readers have no more need for a Q & A than say a polar bear who happens upon an ice floe where 3 seal pups have been abandoned by their mother.

So lets get on with the Qs and the Answers!

Q: Alright, are you guys for real, or what? Sometimes I read things that make sense in a serious and thoughtful way and the next thing I read is something about a girl in an imaginary High School. Whats the deal with you people?
A:Yes, we are for real. At least, as real as can be assumed about anything that you find on the internet. The Wakefield Doctrine really is the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers and there really are people who think in terms of all personality types being clarks or scotts or rogers.

Q: Sometimes I am (a scott) then other times I must be (a clark). Whats up with that?
A: You’re a clark

Q: Hey, wait! You can’t be that sure, on the basis of only one questions!
A: Yes I can. ( I’m a clark) The question you should be asking is, ‘why does it seems that sometimes we are one form, other times others’? The answer is, of course, that we retain the capacity to experience the world as the three types, but have one (of the three) as a dominant view. i.e. clark, scott or roger.

A: I heard that you have been doing this for more than 2 years, what have you learned about the Wakefield Doctrine that you did not know when you started?
Q: How much fun and how satisfying it would be…this is the clarklike answer. There may (or may not) be an answer to this question from the others in the Comment Section of this Post. But I would say, to amplify my answer, I am amazed on a daily basis how damn correct and ‘accurate’ the Wakefield Doctrine actually is! As a tool for self-development it is remarkable, as witness the progression of stunts and Posts, hats (for your damn heads) and trips across the country and latest of all, the Video Friday Interviews. I defy any clark reading this to say that the videos alone are documented proof of the efficacy of the Wakefield Doctrine as a personal development system.

So, there you have it. Questions and Answers and even a damn, borrowed music video. Is dis a system, or what?

* I have been asked to not use my favorite joke about questions, so I won’t**
** …unless you really want to hear it!***
*** in which case you have to go ask DS#1 or Ms. AKH if it is alright

Yes, I have seen three gigantic rogers before…but no, not this gigantic lol

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