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November 4, 2023 By

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) bloghop. A quatra-monthly exercise in gratitude. (Why the heck should we do that?) In case anyone is wondering why the Doctrine devotes the time each week to creating a list of Ten (10) people, places and/or Things that have (That’s right someone did!) come to be identified with the psycho-emotional state of grat (“I’ll say, psych…psycho!!) itude, the reason is quite simple. We, all of us, have a choice to take the path negative or the path positive. No, not that we set out to have bad things or good things happen. But we do have the choice in perspective. …enough of the lecture.

For this week:

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) Six Sentence Story

5) digital photos (aka, ‘My phone, why d’ja ask?’) Keeping loyal to theme, ‘How can you claim to know whether the glass is half full or hall empty, if you can’t see inside?’ (see photo at top of page)

6) (ruh roe) autumnal photation! (not that it compensates for the lack of temperature, but here’s the view from Ola’s bridge (Grat #7)

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8) something, something

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10) Secret Rule 1.3

 

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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine- All Saints…

November 1, 2023 By

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

 

Prompt word:

TURN

“Hey, where the hell is everyone?”

“I learned a new word…or fact… or whatever the term for the crumbs of insatiable curiosity… gotta be a cool Greco-Romanian fricken word for it,” the tall, thin man paused, very much a person interrupted by the voice of a compelling, if not overly visible, agency; the path he took upon leaving the Manager’s office, while tempting to describe as random and pointless, going from bandstand to bar, back to dance floor, then sitting for a moment at a random table only to rise and move through the mostly dark, entirely empty Six Sentence Café & Bistro, betrayed a certain competence as he ended up at the waitress station at the end of the bar closest to the perpetually dark hallway where his journey this evening began.

“It’s ‘compline’ which is something to do with the Liturgy of the Hours and, while not as cool as some of the others, like Terce,” the man’s tailored shirt sleeves were turned-up un-evenly, his bespoke jacket left hanging on a mic stand on the low stage that ran along the back wall of the Café, a chromium valet reflecting the blood red of the nearest Exit light, “I wanted to tell someone; anyway, compline… those Latins with their declensions and cases, always misleading the average Joe, compline is the last prayer of the day so you’d think it’d have, you know, special powers.”

“It don’t,” the tall, thin man stood still in the empty club, as if waiting on a memory, but then continued with the non-voluntary effort of a drowning man rising out of the water,  “You’d think with that kind of effort, scheduling the whole day, down to every syllable of every word you’d speak out-loud, it would fuckin work.”

“But it don’t…”

The Proprietor stood at the new jukebox and stared at the neon-lit list of songs and felt nothing and, if for no other reason than to drown out the silence, continued,

“You know the worst thing about ghosts? The worst thing about ghosts is that they’re almost real and we’re never, ever, no matter how hard we try, allowed to forget the almost.”

 

 

Compline… no, wait, lemme look it up for ya.Here, int Wikipedia , it says,

Compline tends to be a contemplative office that emphasizes spiritual peace. In most monasteries it is the custom to begin the “Great Silence” after compline, during which the whole community, including guests, observes silence throughout the night until after the Terce the next day.[1] Compline comprises the final office in the Liturgy of the Hours.

 

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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine- All Souls…

November 1, 2023 By

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

(We usually write the week’s Six Sentence Story on Wednesday evening or Thursday morning. This Six I wrote Tuesday morning of this week which also was Halloween.)

Prompt word:

TURN

{No, don’t stop reading; these, our efforts to communicate, call them interludes, are being noted by the Sentence Counter and our supply of semicolons has been sharply curtailed; your predisposition to our kind having been established, we trust you will need a minimum of help with the instructions to follow in turn.}

“My last question is, as a writer, which is worse: seeking to manipulate the Readers of your stories into accepting fiction as fact or (that) you wish only to engage them and, with a little luck, move them emotionally,” recognizing the trap buried in her first statement, the speaker, trying to create a safe haven with the second, continued, “I’m serious, despite my physical appearance and confident manner,” with a subtlety of gesture so powerful it could only have been an issue of chromosomal imperative, the young woman pushed rebellious blond locks back from her face, into questionable restraint behind an ear, “It’s possible we might all be characters in a story of unknown origin; you can accept that, can’t you?”

{Ok, they’re on to us; in keeping with the code of the non-unreliable Narrator, I say, ‘It looks like you’re in the crosshairs of this story, the game is afoot and do not, under any circumstance, evince any objective, external reaction to me, or especially, to your being in touch with agencies of a higher plane.“}

I’d fought my parents and my friends and my high school counselors over the matter of curriculum in this, my first year here at Miskatonic University; from the moment I found the school’s site while scrubbing away a day of normal by wandering the Dark Web, a passion grew as the medications waned and memories of my earlier years scrawled subtitles to silent dreams of self-destructive behavior; sure, I’d chased a nightmare but I’m awake now and I can handle this cute little intern’s efforts to trip me up.

{Very good; your reputation as an apt pupil clearly is justified, nothing like the modern-teenage-angst melodrama that some of your generation wear like temporary tattoos, all first-glance-shock/soap-and-water washable; we leave you with words as a shield against the intrusions of the everyday world, this young lady, for example, who is so well-endowed to capture your trust and block your chosen path, heed: Reality exists only in the Mind. }

“You’ve done very well this last year and everyone is so proud of you, its just that the time you spend alone writing your little stories, especially here in this place, might not be the best way to assure a complete recovery.”

 

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October 31, 2023 By

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

This is being written on Halloween day. Surely there is a post, buried like a high school social trauma, that ties our favorite personality type(s) to this most clarklike, scottian, rogerian* day of the year, at least as it manifests here in Oceania.

Man! We’re all typity-mc-type typey this morning. Gotta bring it home.

Reprint:

the first of the mandatory holidays, the Wakefield Doctrine does, in fact, claim to be able to tell you which are your favorite holidays!

October 25, 2012

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine ( the theory that, while very challenging to understand, is sort of self-selecting for the kind of intellect that makes the effort worthwhile! )

Seeing how we have a number of new Readers and even some new FOTDs1 a little backstory on the presence and prominence of holidays, vis-à-vis  the Wakefield Doctrine, might be in order.  Holidays are fricken huge with us. Any questions?2

First up: Halloween!

I was thinking about making this a Quiz and offering a prize for the correct answer. But when I thought about Halloween (and) the visuals flooded my mind, I realized there could be no question which of the three personality types of the Wakefield Doctrine ‘own this day’… even if you are here for the first time… if you are a total new Reader (as in “ Well, I have read about 177 words about the Wakefield Doctrine, why do you ask?” ), you will get this one right!
As a matter of fact! I am so sure that, with a simple description of the Doctrine, you will know the correct answer,  we will give you a free Wakefield DocTee! All ya gotta do is write a Comment and tell us your answer. (some restrictions may apply3).  Ready?

The Wakefield Doctrine maintains that what people call ‘personality types’ are the normal, appropriate, and entirely healthy strategies that a person will develop in their effort to get through life. What we do differently from the other systems of personality types is maintain that there are three characteristic worldviews (the personal reality that you wake up to each morning4) and our three personality types are the natural outcome from living in these realities:

  1. the world of the Outsider, ever apart, never quite fitting in and most important (to living in this reality), this personality type, the clark will think, “I am here and the world is out there..damn, I better figure this one out before anyone notices“
  2. the life of the Predator, active totally full of life, always on the move, this personality type, the scott will say, “Hey, screw all them head games! life’s too short! I don’t care if you don’t like me…as long as you don’t ignore me! Did I say, Hey! yet?”
  3. the environment of the Herd member, always ‘a part of’, very sure of how things should be, this personality type, the roger feels that, “whats to worry about? if you are following the rules then you will be taken care of, no one suffers in life…unless they brought it on themselves… you know, breaking the rules…not living the right way!“
There you go. Three personality types. One Holiday:
…where everyone gets permission to be someone/something else, the successful participant in this Holiday is the person who hears, “Wow! I’m shocked and amazed! I would never have guessed that was you”
Halloween is the Holiday of :  a) clarks or 2) scotts or c) rogers  because…
…you know this one! take your time, think it through, we find that with a lot of the Doctrine, your first ‘guess’ is the correct answer. A little relaxing music, perhaps?

 

1)  totally people like Cyndi…(Cyndi actually has us on her website’s blogroll, can I get a “damn!”!)

2)  better than answering questions, go read some of the previous holiday-centric Posts like  “J’accuse!…”

3)  sorry, DownSprings and Progenitors not eligible.

4) we mean the personal nature of the reality that you experience, that everyone experiences, nothing too metaphysical or weird or nothing, but it is critical to getting a benefit from the Wakefield Doctrine that you appreciate that we do mean ‘reality’, as in real, not something like a choice in how you feel about it, or a preference that you make about the nature of the cultural institutions in your life or even a bias towards one view of cause and effect over the other…. no we mean that the world is one of predator and prey to the scott and the nature of the world and everything in it is about a clark being the outsider…

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* Who shouted, “What about the Everything Rule?”1 Very good. Who says only clarks get the Wakefield Doctrine**

** ok… other than scotts and rogers with strong secondary clarklike aspects

  1. the Everything Rule: Everyone does everything at one time or another. Simply put: the Wakefield Doctrine is all about how we relate ourselfs to the world around us2. The characteristics, the quality, the nature… the personal reality we all exist in is directly related to our relationship (to it). We are, all of us, born with the potential to experience one of three (and only three) relationships: that of the Outsider (clarks), the Predator (scotts) or the Herd Member (rogers). We grow and mature and practice and learn and resign ourselves to a certain style of living and acting (aka personality type) in these ‘personal realities’. (For the Wakefield Doctrine), our personalities are not the modified/negotiated/adjusted to/ list of qualities, tropisms, drives, wants, fears, ambitions or desires that become routine and habitual. Out personality types are (from the Doctrine perspective) the best we could do to survive and thrive in the world as we experience it.
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Monday RePrint -the Wakefield Doctrine-

October 30, 2023 By

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

Just a quick second to restore the prime to the rhetorical (and metaphorical) Doctrine explainage-pump. We’re thinking we want to discuss the balance of antipathies among the three predominant worldviews. Read this olden one first.

hey, did anyone else just hear a bell?

May 24, 2010

The Wakefield Doctrine maintains, that since there are three types of people, experiencing three (fairly) different realities, then what is written in these Posts must be lost on the other two.  Today we are writing to one of the three  today, and tho’ there is no need to say which of the three ( clark or scott or roger ), there is only one target.

This Post has something that you want, it has something you need and it has something that will give you an edge, today.  If you read all of this Post, you will agree that the knowledge you can get from it is worth more than what you have to give for it.  Guarenteed.  And I can prove it to you.

You are skeptical at this point, as you should be.  Yeah, everybody makes claims for what they are selling and they are all lying.  But this is different, this is something that you can prove to yourself and you can do it right now.   What I might sell you is a tool.

This tool will not make you better at what you do.
This tool will not get rid of bad habits.
This tool will not make you popular.
This tool will only help you do what you already want to do…

If you answer a few simple questions, then what this new skill will do for you is cut down on the distractions in your life…
…you do have distractions in your life, don’t you?  You do want to have less distractions and more time to do what you enjoy, don’t you?

Then here is what you do…

At the bottom of this page, right below the music video, is a place to leave a Comment.  Go there now, you can come back and listen to the video later…

Answer the following questions:

a) of the three types, the most reliable/the one to have at your back in a fight is:
b) of the three types, the one most likely to already have your back is:
c) of the three types, the one that is the biggest pain in the ass, the most trouble/least fun is:
d) if I could change anything about either of the other two I would:

Alright…done.

(the mandatory Wakefield Doctrine lesson in this Post is), we know that we all have the complete range of qualities of all three (clark, scott and roger) and at the beginning of life we are most likely able to see the world from (the) different viewpoints.  As we “learn to live and deal with the world” we become more and more habituated to one of the three.  As we see the world through the eyes of (a clark or a scott or a roger) the world becomes more and more the world that a (clark or a scott or a roger) would find themselves in.  Nothing fantastical in that, we just see the world a certain way and our ways of living are appropriate to that world. (“…come back little scott! come back!” ) lol (“…run roger! ruun!!…”)

(aiyyee. vid not available! Not to worry. Just step over the low-fence of the blockquotes and we’ll talk a little before you have to turn over the light configurator, get dressed and get out there into the world)

ok ok. here’s a quick music vid

 

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There! Made it! Take a penny please.

The primary dynamic antipathies among the three are, not surprisingly, grounded in ‘what’s the worse thing that could happen’*

damn! where’d the time go?**

The most antithetical qualities are for:

  1. a clark to be a roger
  2. a scott is to be a clark
  3. a roger is to be a scott

Essay homework, yo. Why would that be and, 2) does an understanding of the point of conflict for all three yield a productive insight into one’s own relationship with the world around you

Well, does it, punk?***

* a true foundational keystone to virtually any and all cultures with an interest in locking in membership beliefs of those young candidates. Who just muttered, ‘fuckin’ aye’

** yeah, if you found that rhetorical question not only interesting but something you could imagine spending some part of your day exploring it’s implications, you’re in the right place. Outsider

*** you’d think, but no, he is a total roger

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