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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

July 22, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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

It is said that the Wakefield Doctrine can be the most efficacious of tools for self-developing oneself.

This is true.

This assertion will come as no surprise to most Readers, as there are nearly as many self-improvement schema, systems, programs and secret-religions as there are personality type/typing/this-is-you.

Of course, the Wakefield Doctrine’s Kyrie Eleison is different.

The road to self-improvement is about (our) relationship with the world, not: the things-we-know, the skills-we-hone or the focal-length of our emotions.

New Readers? That, that last line? Classic Hint. (Totally gonna be on the Exam). What our writer friends might refer to as foreshadowing So, if you haven’t been doing your assigned reading, you better hope your neighbor doesn’t mind your looking over at their notes. This is about to get all bullet-pointy.

The Wakefield Doctrine maintains that if we’re out to change our lives, then it is not about learning things and facts, skills and routines. It it about changing the way we relate ourselfs to the world around us and the people who make it up.

Someone just mutter, ‘Jeez, asking much?’

Yes. Yes we are. (Well, no. No we are not.) The thing about the Doctrine is that it recognizes the nature of each of the three predominant worldviews’s relationship to the world. All without judging, criticizing and, otherwise saying, ‘Well, you know, things might go smoother for you if you just realized/did/accepted (fill in the complimentary quality from the diametrically opposed predominant worldview)

Enough for the morning.

(We’re not just the Curator of the Wakefield Doctrine, we’re also a Student* too! And, today begins Practice Number IIXVVXCCMM)

(…to be cont’d)

* …to school there.

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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine- [a Café Six]

July 10, 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: our stories, (inspired by the week’s prompt word), must be exactly (and only) six sentences in length.

Prompt word:

CONE

“What do you call the frozen dairy-product desert originally created by an unknown zen monk in a monastery during the Tang Dynasty?”

The tall, thin man, walking out of the perpetually semi-dark corridor that led to the Manager’s office, stopped next to Mimi, posing the question without preamble or the slightest hint of a set-up.

The Bartender, backing through the double-swinging doors from the kitchen behind the bar, turned and placed a platter holding four stemmed crystal vases of sundaes.

In an alcove marked ‘Reserved for the Raconteuse‘ halfway along the street-side wall, opposite the small stage, a laptop computer awoke, casting a friendly blue light towards the Proprietors and Tom, who, folding his apron, stood next to the cash register.

An orphaned cell phone, on the bar end nearest the entrance to the Six Sentence Café & Bistro began to jitter on the polished-wood, a late-stage alcoholic flamenco dancer after a three-day bender; on it’s screen, a text message from the Gatekeeper: “Don’t even think about saying it.”

“An Ice Cream Koan,” the tall, thin man, like an itinerate priest offering a blessing to a congregation, smiled to himself.

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TToT-the Wakefield Doctrine-

July 6, 2024 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. Founded in 1989 by (putative) step-niece of CS Lewis, the TToT continues as the preeminent, [Latin: nominative praeeminens; to rise above, project forward, attract others by force of humility, itself a seeming contradiction, if not oxymoron.]

The idea (of this bloghop and most grat-blogs) is to look, see, accept and relate (to others) the people, places and things that incite, inspire, engender and otherwise cause a state of gratitude. (Or, maybe that’s backwards and it is the gratitude that identifies… whatever.) List. Ten. Things.

1) Phyllis (——————————————————————————————⇒)

2) Una ——————————————————————-⇑

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the decision to let ground-cover be ground-cover, i.e. the Year of the Yard Meadow

5) the Unicorn Challenge bloghop This ya gots to read: ‘Waiting‘ by ceayr

6) the Six Sentence Story bloghop Six Pic of the Whee: (Untitled)

7) did we mention ‘the Wakefield Doctrine’ yet? damn, we did. anyway, as you can’t avoid hearing/reading if you come to this blog more than once, the Wakefield Doctrine, besides being as fun as sitting in an airline terminal with your two best friends and making droll/scandalous/catty remarks at the human river passing you as you wait for a relative to disembark, is a tool for self-improving oneself. We submit, as supporting evidence of the beneficial effect of recognizing one’s secondary and tertiary aspects: Grat #6 (or implications thereof)

8) something, something

9) First child of the Uncertainty Principle, change and opportunity are the original double-edged sword, no? Although never explicitly denied, (though cool as the thought-experiment, referred to as Schrödinger’s Cat remains to this day), the possibility exists that maybe there was a third outcome, whereby the cat becomes a zombie.

10) Secret Rule 1.3 (which states, in part, “…[t]he item in a List that implies there are less un-claimed Items than currently extant in (said List)’ having evoked a sense of relief (sic) at nearing completion, can be cited (ibid. op. cit.) as an Item. by Practice and Convention, placement for such supra-collation indicia Number 10. binyons.” BoSR/SBoR 1989-2024.

music vids

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Wednesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

July 3, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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

~~What about the any internal symmetry inherent in the three predominant worldviews of the Wakefield Doctrine?~~

~~Surely a question on ever one’s mind,~~

~~The three (predominant worldviews, aka characteristic style of relating to the world around one and the people who make it up are:~~

clarks (Outsiders), scotts (Predators) and rogers (Herd Members)

~~Reminder, yo. None of the three are bad. None of the three are good. All three represent a idealized whole person. Sorta.~~

Which is why looking at the an element common to all three (though manifested differently, of course) will gain us insight into our own personality type while providing hints at how to take advantage of certain qualities of ‘the other two’.

Hold on! Wait a minute! We’ve, somehow, almost forgotten a major holiday!

How major? Nothing less than: as-Thanksgiving-is-to-rogers (or) Halloween-to-clarks big, thats How….errr major.

Here in Oceania every mid-Summer we hold a celebration of… well, kinda like the Summer Solstice that every culture, (since Lilith walked out of the Garden), observes but with food and explosives. The 4th of July! (cue the fireworks, Mt. Vesuvius-backyard-charcoal-grills, strip-volley-ball-games),

anyway, we’re working on this week’s Six Sentence Story, so what say we Christmas Club this bad boy (you remember those, right?) with a RePrint (just check, this is, like totally-as-often-reprinted as the eponymous ‘Feast of St roger’s Day post’) Post!

From July 3rd 2012:

a chart providing the average shelf-life of ideas for Posts* …..the Wakefield Doctrine ( happy scottian Holiday!)

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine ( the personality theory that you can learn, understand and use today!! )

childhood memories involving learning to become a better person: …………………………… 6 hours
childhood memories involving learning bad habits and behavior: …………………………… 3 days
childhood memories involving doing something publicly embarrassing to adults: …………. 2 years
adolescent fantasies that result in being scarred for life:
(physically scarred): 3 years (emotionally scarred): 5 years
workplace situations that result in receiving a raise: ………………………………………………… 6 hours
workplace situations that result in being fired: ……………………………………………………….. 3 months
workplace situations that result in being arrested: ……………………………………………………. 4 years
relationship maturity demonstrated in daily life: …………………………………………………….. 1.4 hours
relationship immaturity demonstrated in public: ……………………………………………………… 4 days
a Post trying to illustrate the ephemeral nature of creative ideas: ………………………………….. 75 minutes

Quick reminder about the Holiday tomorrow: If you do not know that July 4th is one of the most scottian of holidays, then you need to write in one of the Comment boxes below 50 times

“scotts love loud noises, it lets them believe they can have an effect on the world“.

Seriously, picture the coming Holiday:

takes place at the height of the Summer season

eating and drinking to excess is encouraged

minimal clothing allowed in virtually all public places (including churches and hospitals)

outdoor sports activities including chasing frisbees, being dragged behind a boat and the use of explosive devices (such explosives, that were it December instead of July, a visit from Homeland Security would be the immediate result)

…minimal clothing

So for you non-scotts reading this, three July 4th Survival Tips:

stay indoors

keep the lights off and the glow of the TV shielded from windows and doors

turn up the air conditioning and ….wear extra clothes

We hope that helps.

Una’s favorite drown-out the sounds of scottian celebration songs:

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘ a day without …. without the 10th letter of the alphabet

July 1, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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

“Don’t worry! I’m an angel. …baby

… who needs that fricken’ ‘G’ wannabe anyway?

We’re typing from our laptop.
At the start of a brand-new day.
Many wise words we wish to impart.
As long as they don’t start with a….

No, serially, we have no letter… (rhymes with ‘play’) No, not capital nor lowercase. We could. we suppose find one of the special characters to stand in for it. But, who needs it/her/him?

We suppose we could search for the etymology of this tenth letter in the alphabet. Maybe suss-out the original gender of the root word. (Smart money’s on it being a roger*)

…anyway.

Lets find.. hey about that year when we tried to be all, ‘You say everyone participates? That it’s the most popular group activity. Well, we guess we could try. Really appreciate being included and all…

‘J’ -the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘~~jokes are the billboards on the road through our worldviews~~‘ and now with cows!!

April 11, 2015

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

You want to hear something funny? (How many times have we all heard that threat?) There is much to be aware of when it comes to jokes and the three worldviews that will serve us well in our efforts to better understand the people in the world around us. Mostly that we can laugh. That, as the old saying reminds us, ‘…the capacity to make jokes is what separates man from ….women’ (bar ump bump!! ) no! wait! I kid women, but this is no laughing matter.

This is abundantly clear in the case of scotts. scottian men are the best of joke tellers. (for them), jokes are the condiments, the way to spice up the prey. (no!, seriously! hear me out!) Go to a party (or any other social gathering), see that group of people laughing? at the center will be your scott and he will be telling jokes. not just any jokes! funny jokes. jokes that are nearly as funny in the ‘set up’, as they are in the punchline. And, if you stay long enough, you will see a curious thing happen. (Appropriate to the demographic of the people gathered around), the jokes of the scott will not only become funnier, they will become more… more outrageous, more scatological, more risqué (to borrow a word that will eliminate any doubts as to my own worldview). And, as we watch this group, you’ll see some people leave, offended by the jokes. and it matters not at all to our scottian joke teller. In fact, that’s kinda what he’s after. This telling of jokes to an audience at a social gathering illustrates a number of things about scotts: a) they are all about ‘being paid attention to’, 2) they are confident and c) they are looking to dominate their prey. And so the joke escalation continues until there is only a handful of clarks and maybe 2 rogers left.

(scottian females? oh, they’re funny too, but on a much more retail basis. they don’t need to attract their prey by telling jokes, their prey walks up to them, (if they’re rogers, and they mostly will be, they’ll have a salt shaker in one hand and a bottle of A1 sauce in the other…lol), and hopes to be selected. You’ve heard the expression: ‘like horseshoes and hand grenades? that’s jokes telling as exhibited by scottian women and scottian men.)

Won’t even try to provide a video sample of a scottian joke teller

Well, we’d say something to the effect of how proud we are to have completed a Monday post despite the lack of a certain letter that will remain un… specified.

Final note: we were typically cryptic with our reference to rogers when talking about our ‘missing letter’. But, as anyone will tell you, if there’s something that puzzles you consider that it was put there by an agency that was grounded in one of ‘the other two’ predominant worldviews.

The problem with interpersonal communication is not in vocabulary, context or the other person wanting to yank yer chain. The problem, (and therefore, the solution), lies in determining the nature and character of the speaker’s personal reality, accepting the fact that if you both do not share the same one, (personal reality, aka predominant worldview i.e. personality type), then there’s some translating to be done. And as it happens, the Wakefield Doctrine happens to be a big-assed Michelin translator book-thingie.

* New Readers? Whoever said, “What about gender and the Wakefield Doctrine!!?!?” You are absolutely correct (scott)…. lol The Doctrine is gender-neutral. a clark is a clark (ain’t nothin’ as obvious as sex gonna get us to admit it!) a scott remains scottian (yeah, baby) and a roger is above all that chromosomal conceit, there are far more important values, (“Do we know you?”)