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Memoir Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

December 5, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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

Still haven’t settled on a title/label/subtitle for this series. (First, Second and Third)

(We have found, mostly through writing RePrint Mondays that a ‘previously on…’ is an enormous help in this type of blogging. Not, as you might think, tho’ in turn, not totally incorrectly, simply put: to remember the narrative that preceded the current post* is sufficient, however, to read the actual text is conducive and, therefore more to the mood/spirit/’yeah! that’s what I was going for’.)

previously on…

Will not go into the full Wakefield Doctrine origin story. It’s: Here. We’re making reference to it today only because this post is reminding us of how unlikely it is to have written more than 2,913 posts and received in excess of 32,000 comments!¹

But that’s not important right now.²

The point that is elbowing it’s way to the topic section of this week’s Memoir post is: there is no way I would have been capable of writing this blog without some serious serendipity.

But, with the idea that today a new Reader might be standing in the upper back of the room (stadium-slant auditorium of course. hey, it’s our fantasy) lets wrap up this week’s train wreck with:

The thing about clarks that is both wonderful and maybe a little sad is that we find that discovering novelty in understanding an otherwise, mostly, incomprehensible world as being fun. Fun in the sense of a five-year-old opens a Christmas present. Promise. Excitement. Satisfaction. All drive the Outsider to smile when encountering either a novel aspect of the world or find ourselves down a path we had not consciously intended to follow. Hence the predilection for quantum story telling (i.e. we forget or willfully neglect the fact that our listeners have not encountered all the facts). And…and! the ease with which we go all neologism on spelling and data and facts. To the point of this paragraph: clarks have a lack of concern about one thing: our commitment to curiosity.

The ‘little sad’ aspect of this, we’ll leave for another Tuesday.

* my dear sweet god! is that the level of entanglement inherent in the literal representation of my writer’s thought process?!?! ba’kha Yeshua** (John 11:35)

** and there it is! the purpose of seemingly random thoughts thrown at an LCD blackboard! to remind ourselfs of a particular stream-of-thought in a section of a river with no name (aka ‘Where we were trying to go with this post’)

ok, being raised with proper blogger manners, half of the 32k would be my replies to comments. that still leaves 17k*** of real people. So, lets consider if it’s possible for all 15,000 to be ‘I want the time you stole with that post that made no sense whatever, I want it back!!’ comments. lets do the division. Round up for the math 3,000 posts divided by 16,000 comments ….
Airplane! of course.

*** who said that a clark’s propensity for neologisms was limited to words? (malapmath might be the proper term for deliberate incorrect math and stuff. sure let’s go with that)

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RePrint Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

December 4, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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

As to the thought, ‘What more is there to say about a theory of personality that has three types and is predicated on (one’s) relationship with the world around them?’

Not so much more information, as with better style. Rather than recitation of data, (an ongoing) demonstration of effects and consequences in the real world.

In other words, the actual topic of pretty much every Wakefield Doctrine post is on any given day, which at the moment would be Monday, we ask: how does this day of the week/that particular occupation/going to the gas station/trying to get ‘A’s in school or find love in a relationship, manifest in the reality of the Outsider (clarks), the world of the Predator (scotts) and the life of the Herd Member (rogers)?

This topic, i.e. reprint posts came up on the call-in show this weekend past. The Why and (the) is it an irredeemable fault or, at least, a less than.

Our position was, in the context of RePrint Monday, was that it was like a prompt, a warm-up, if you will. Not to give away too much insight into the early years, gots to save something for the next installment of our weekly series: ‘عمر خیّام Tuesdays’ * ¹ ‘Hey!!’ (Last week’s installment: Here)

Believe it or not, three hundred fity words in and we’s still gonna post a RePrint post.

Come back tomorrow! Subscribe or like or, better yet, tell someone you encounter in your day today to come here and read and such.

sun don’t shine, the gods look down in anger

December 3, 2009

(Well, oh kay… interesting note to start a Post on… but stranger things have happened in and about the Wakefield Doctrine)(…”this just in”…’clark…the seventies…were…thirty…plus…years ago’…stop…’please, stop’…)Hey Reader! Yeah you!
Do you believe that your (personal) history defines and (pre)determines your future or what? Is there such a thing as the momentum of habit. (The ‘momentum of habit’ is the notion that what we are is simply a more elaborate form of what we have always been.) (Cheery thought, no?)Well? Do you think it does? (Don’t you dare touch that “Back” button.)
(in a fairly creepy, sudden shift to a calm tone…)Do me a favor, (After all, you know something about us here at the Doctrine because of the information we are throwing out into the world by way of this blog.)……Look back on your life. Try and recollect the things you have done, the places you have lived, the people you have known, since as far back as you can.
Now, erase the names of the people, delete the addresses of the locations and take off the labels of the things you have done (job title, education, religious designations). You can still remember your life, can’t you?
Even with names and labels removed/deleted/eliminated, you know that you have been alive, with a life that is yours and yours alone. You know, even without the names, you lived in one place (or many different places), you knew some people (or a lot of people) and you spent your waking time doing this (or doing that).
Your ‘life story’ runs from the first (and often sketchy) times you remember as a child through and right up to now.Pretty goddamn ‘straight’ line isn’t it?
(Come on roger, stop protesting. You what I mean. You are capable of this.)
Look at your life in terms of how many different interests and activities and ways of investing your time is evidenced. How different was your life when you were 7 years old compared to when you were 17 years old?(…or 27 or 77…)
(Yeah, yeah scott, I get the, ‘I gots the girlfriends/boyfriends, thing’ Does not matter. Lose the names, and they (still) are people you shared yourself and your time with, no different than a best friend in second grade or a spouse in middle age or the person in the bed next to yours in the nursing home.)
What I am trying to get across here is that the important thing is not the names of the people, places and activities that comprise(s) your life.
Rather, I am asking you to consider the question, what did they (seem) to add to your life, why did you give them your time!?I want the Reader to consider their lives without the qualification/rationalization/justification that we all impose when we reflect on our lives.

… ‘he was a great friend, even though he was an asshole’… ‘I really liked spending time with her, but I had to because she was family’ … “of course we are happy together! We have beautiful children and a nice home’… ‘I know this is a boring job, but I will stick with it, because otherwise, what will I do?…’maybe I can still pray and maybe its not too late for me…”who will take care of me if I get sick?’…

(These little quotes barely hint at the myriad of ways that we employ to make the fact that what constitutes ‘our lives’, the essential nature and character, if you will, is the same today(as you read this blog) as it was on your very first day at school.)

So?
So what, what is wrong with that, at least I have a life that I can look at and say, ‘hey I’m not doing so bad’!

(You are correct, scott. roger you can come back in the room, we have stopped talking about life as if it were totally unpredictable and un-certain. We won’t talk about interchangeability any more.)

Well, that was fun, wasn’t it? (Yes, I am seriously getting ready to close out this Post for today.) (No, I actually don’t have a more satisfying denouement for todays Post)

(writer leaves, house lights stay off…)

Alright, alright. Seeing that we have some new visitors (from Italy and Sweden and Ghana to name a few) and, of course, Sloveniaaa is in da house!! I will try to impart or at least ‘duct tape’ some kind of coherent point to this Post.

If pressed, I would have to say the point of this (Post) is that our essential natures, (clarks, scotts and rogers), will determine how our lives are experienced and will force a consistency throughout the years (of our lives).
Having said that, I will remind everyone that the Wakefield Doctrine is predicated (yeah! he said predicated, he must be back from wherever…) on the idea that we all have the full range of potential, we are all (potentially) clarks and scotts and rogers.
And, despite how this Post reads, we always have the potential to feel, act, or think in the manner of the other two personality types. In fact, that really is the purpose of the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers).

* ¹ ‘Hey!! lol we apologize to any New Reader who might be a roger with a secondary clarklike aspect on a razor’s balance between getting mad and clicking away or staying to see this if Doctrine thing might not be kinda fun. The clarklike autosome that contains the code for ‘ain’t no reference too obscure that it can’t be fun! should never, ever be underestimated as to the effect it exerts in the life of an Outsider. (The reference to Ghiyāth al-Dīn Abū al-Fatḥ ʿUmar ibn Ibrāhīm Nīsābūrī** will pay off in future Tuesday posts.)

** lighten up… like you didn’t see that coming? we’re just messin’ with any rogers in the Readerverse***

*** damn right we’re claiming that word! Unless someone (most likely another clark) has already coined the term.

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

December 2, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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

This is the Doctrine’s weekly contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT).

Established by Lizzi R in the late 19th C. (aka ‘Someday kids will thank us for wearing so many articles of barely-functional clothing. That and laying the groundwork for steampunk‘ Era) Toiling under the flickering illumination of a glass, brass and gas lamp, she wrote the first blogpost of what initially was to be ‘Fifty Things of Thankful (FiToT). Her descendants thank their choice of deities that the number required on a list was reduced. In no small part due to the unfortunate acronym that would have resulted.

Below is our list of less than Fity things.

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) writing (samples from two bloghops: the Six Sentence Story and the Unicorn Challenge

5) geography (as in being in easy driving distance to the ocean)

6) technology that has developed to the point of making Grat #7 possible.

7) the beach:

8) something, something

9) at the top of this week’s post, one of our favorite photos of Ola (‘big smile, large teeth‘)

10) Secret Rule 1.3

music vids

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drei…dri…fff Freiday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

December 1, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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

Hey, I know! What the hell are we doing here this week when we participated just last Friday?!?!

(New Reader: the Doctrine has been joining jenne and ceayr and their band of mutants on an every-other-week basis. This, today, is quite out of the ordinary. Which is a condition you, if you continue to frequent this here blog here, will see as the rule rather than the exception. In any event, here we are now…)

This is a photo prompt bloghop. Our hosts provide a different pitcha each Friday and invite people to write a story. The hook, besides the TAT-like image to start us off, is a two hundred fity (250) word limit. It’s challenging and it’s fun. So click on the Unicorn Challenge and, at very least enjoy the wonderful imagination and mad story-telling skills of the writers there. And, as long as you’re there… feel free to link your own story.

“I don’t understand why they have to be kept refrigerated. It’s not like when we put them on, the first of each month, there’s a limit to the conditions in which our new Persona will function. I mean, isn’t that the idea, having a different body to show that, deep inside, we’re all the same?”

“Well, dear, it’s a little more involved than that. When you’re older, your Persona will have additional features besides height or weight or race or ethnicity.” The woman in the doorway looked suddenly uncomfortable.

“Geez, Ma, I’m not a kid anymore, I’m in the sixth grade. We’ve a class on the Rules of Equitable Persona. The teacher told us about how, after the Down-Under Insurrection ended with the capture of Jacquier-the-Terrible, the Department of Self-Equality spent billions on the technology; the UN passed the law that each month we get a new body and can be the person they… we always wanted to be. No more racism or discrimination.”

“What?” Stepping from the shower, the boy stood at the State-mandated blue persona transference cabinet and saw the look on his mother’s face.

“About those ‘isms. When you get to seventh grade, there’ll be a special class of physical body added to the system. It’s one to deal with the first and Original ‘isms’. The law limits talking to young people about it until a certain age. But as you get older, you might hear people mention the #MeToo model Persona.”

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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine-

November 29, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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

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

Hosted by Denise, you should try it! Six Sentences only.

Prompt word:

DETAIL

He’d reached the end of his rope…

Accustomed to a life intrinsically conducive to absolutes, he waited for the inevitable qualifier to appear in the Limited Seating Theatre that was his conscious mind. Like the tail-end of a movie’s credits, somewhere between ‘Bestboy‘ and ‘This is a work of fiction, any similarities to persons living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental‘, a certain hedging of every emotional bet would always appear; he waited with the patience of a man who believed he knew himself but hoped he might be wrong.

…almost.

Right on schedule, the despair manifested as a feeling, not so much one of ‘being down’ as it was a decrease in buoyancy; the single-word qualifier offered a condition to an otherwise straight-forward, unambiguous assertion; every drunken Romeo who, after splashing his face with water in a nightclub men’s room, convincing himself the girl accidentally threw her drink in his face.

God lives in the details… ok, sure; wait a damn minute, isn’t that ‘the devil’s in the details‘?

The internal dialogue began in earnest as it always did; the company his mind shared, as he continued his search for the True Answer, was a spouse without form or standing, far more formidable than the shiniest of wedding bands.