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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

October 8, 2023 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.

This week the new season has displayed it’s credentials, albeit, still in a subtle, flash-of-the-gold-detective-badge kinda way. Some trees are showing small (but increasing) percentage of color control issues. Green losing commitment and letting orange, one of the true juvenile delinquents of the spectrum of shades and hues pretty much run riot.

For this week, we are grateful for the following people, places and things…

1) Una

2) Phyllis

3) The Wakefield Doctrine

4) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

5) yard work (actually, anticipation of impending yard work.) the grass and lawn type work is all set for the season. Now it’s a matter of some tree removal. Single or so trees, not large-scale hire someone work. The fun, (in this), is the significant alteration of the world that usually results. We have one tree in mind. Will try to get a photo before posting.

6) technology, of course. While the abuses and annoyances that accompany the …. (we almost typed: ‘conveniences’) but the impact of tech in the last 20 years isn’t hasn’t merely made life easier. It has expanded the world for individual. The blogosphere in which is post is being….err. posted, is the perfect example. Writing stuff to share with friends from any and all parts of the planet. People I would have simply never have encountered were it not for the internet.

7) (historical Grat) road trips that started in Salt Lake City (photo above)

8) something, something

9) Open Book Essay Item for extra credit for any Readers desiring a brief dalliance with the word-slingers at the TToT

10) Secret Rule 1.3

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Teuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine- “…there’s a reason clarks are drawn to the second day of the traditional workweek, ya know”

October 3, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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

So a clark and a scott and a roger are in a raft…

damn! outa time. (for the humor thing, check out our reply to Kristi‘s comment on this week’s TToT.)

I sing the Doctrine Electric

February 8, 2011

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

Another Saturday Night…gas tank on full..dashboard active…Wakefield………… damn! this Doctrine is fun!

In attendance this Saturday: glenn (riding shotgun); Ms AKH ( dans le tableau de bord) and Progenitor roger with a first for this new world of auto-conversation… he made the first ‘call-in’ (while we were already en conversacione).

The weather was fairly inclement, we kept to the route.

But that’s not important now… however, we will be informing you how to participate in our new “Ask a DownSpring” semi-live webcast-ette. But for now lets talk about the reason we are at this here blog here.

the Wakefield Doctrine is a way of looking at the world, but mostly looking at the people in that world

the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers maintains that there are 3 characteristic ways that all people experience the world around them

the Wakefield Doctrine refers to these three ways as living life as clarks, as scotts or as rogers

the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers maintains everything we do and everything we are arises from this view

The Wakefield Doctrine offers one type (clark or scott or roger) the opportunity to see the world as the other two (clark or scott or roger) experience it.

the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers maintains that we start out life with the potential of all three, but pick one and try to forget about the other two.

the Wakefield Doctrine believes that personality type is nothing more than appropriate behavior, that it is the world that is different (in one of three ways) not an individual’s selection of traits and responses and inclinations.

the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers maintains that clarks view the world as an outsider does, that they are apart from everyone else and that everything around them is not supportive, to the point of being inimical

the Wakefield Doctrine suggests that all people are capable of going beyond their chosen way of viewing the world ( clarks, scotts and rogers) and adding to their abilities to cope with the challenges of life.

the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers maintains that scotts see the world as a predator does, to be on the alert for threats from greater predators and to be on the alert for prey comprises most of their day to day lives

the Wakefield Doctrine suggests that by identifying with the way that the ‘other person’ experiences the world we enhance our own lives

the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers maintains that rogers are the ones that experience the world (and life) as a member of, a part of, an aspect of a world comprised of relationships

the Wakefield Doctrine offers everyone the opportunity to understand why the people in our lives behave the way that they do

the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers maintains that if a person can accept the fact that the other person is literally living in a (slightly) different world then conflict is eliminated

the Wakefield Doctrine offers everyone the chance to be more, to live fuller lives, to understand others, to not be confounded by the actions of others, to not be a victim of the behavior of others.

the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers maintains that when it comes to living with others, we pretty much got it covered

the Wakefield Doctrine is not free nor is it easy and it is definitely not for everyone

the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers requires a certain capacity to understand, a flexibility of intelligence that is necessary for a person to not simply ‘get it’ but to be able to use it to their own benefit

the Wakefield Doctrine is a unique, useful and fun way to finally make sense of the behavior of those people in our lives; at home, at work, in school or at play.

That’ll do. New Readers? We are not just all about the work! We ‘borrow’ videos from the youtube and we have ourselfs a good ole time.

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

October 1, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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

Chodský pes breaking the time barrier in suburban backyard.

This is the Wakefield Doctrine’s weekly contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. Cited by Guiness as ‘the clearest demonstration of the carrying Power of the internet, the low bar to admission and testimony to persistence-in-the-face-of-indifference’; this hop invites one and all to share the people, places and things that have recently inspired a sense of gratitude.

1) Una

2) Phyllis

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) bloghops: they’re a way of nudging oneself down the creativity path when, as must happen, we become used to the wonder of reality-creating words and start to think that the TV* will provide diversion, entertainment and wonder for us. This week we participated in the Six Sentence Story and the Unicorn Challenge ‘hops

5) you know how, every now and then, life shifts in such a manner that you think, ‘You know what would be nice? A nightlight. And, not just a little glowey bulb in the wall but something that would, when you wake at unfamiliar hours of the night, would allow you to acknowledge a benign presence and go back to sleep?’ Sorta like watching the LPGA on a weekend afternoon, but more nightish. Welll We found a youtube channel that you will want to stop in at: Action Kid. (We won’t take the fun of discovery away but two words: clark. How do we know? Learn by trying yo. Watch and come back and share your opinion. )

6) The aforementioned technology that has given rise to the blogosphere and the reality referred to as the virtual world.

7) The positive side of the annual death of human-philic weather (aka Summer): is the population of EMLC** outside is way diminished. Mr. Chainsaw (chainsaw motto: While easily the most dangerous hand tool available for purchase without training or mature-good-sense, the only requirement to operate one is the willingness to hold the closest thing we have to an actual, in-the-real-world Tasmanian Devil at one’s side while climbing over bushes and uneven terrain. Advanced students of the Raging Science, will, of course, seek to enhance their credentials by climbing small trees and/or balancing on deadfall while operating), where-were-we? oh yeah! the requirement of owning and operation is the arm strength and mental ability to pull the pull-cord to anger the plastic-enclosed Devil or failing that, a nearby ‘adult’ to help.)

9) something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3

* or whatever it’s referred to nowadays

** Extremely Multi-Legged Creatures

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘…of reprints and comments, both reflective and declarative’

September 26, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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

New Readers? Of late, our preferred ‘jump start’ to writing posts with ‘new’ content is the RePrint post. It does one thing quite well. It eliminates the ‘white-space fever’, the phenomenon that accounts for eighty percent of transitional writer’s block.

so, here’s the RePrint. If you and I are so inclined, I’ll meet you on the bottom-side. (Damn! Ask us about the pronounage*)

Il Barbiere di Siviglia

December 19, 2009

(“La ran la le ra la ran la la.”)

Largo al factotum della città.
Presto a bottega, ché l’alba è già.
Ah, che bel vivere, che bel piacere
per un barbiere di qualità!

Ah, bravo Figaro!
Bravo, brayissimo;
fortunatissimo per verità!
Pronto a far tutto,
la notte e il giorno
sempre d’intorno,
in giro sta.

Miglior cuccagna per un barbiere,
vita più nobile, no, non si dà.
Rasori e pettini, lancette e forbici,
al mio comando tutto qui sta.

V’è la risorsa, poi, del mestiere
colla donnetta col cavaliere
Ah, che bel vivere, che bel piacere
per un barbiere di qualità!

Tutti mi chiedono, tutti mi vogliono,
donne, ragazzi, vecchi, fanciulle:
Qua la parrucca. Presto la barba
Qua la sanguigna. Presto il biglietto
Figaro … Figaro
Son qua, son qua.
Figaro… Figaro…
Eccomi qua.
Ahimè, che furia!
Ahimè, che folla!
Una alla volta, per carità!
Figaro su, Figaro giù
Pronto prontissimo son come il fulmine:
sono il factotum della città.
Ah, bravo Figaro!
Bravo, bravissimo;
a te fortuna non mancherà. ‘
(The above is from a Libretto from different source, if any Italian speaking Readers would Comment if above is even close to video lyrics)

I can explain! Really, I can give you a rational basis for todays…Post?

Look, some Posts are well planned and (hopefully) well executed expositions of an idea or a theme, something that says, ‘we have all been thinking about… now that you mention it… since you asked, the answer to your question is…’ A Post that answers questions or provides valuable information.
The previous Post (‘…Pulled out of San Pedro late one night..’) is a perfect example of a rational and reasonable little Post.

Today’s Post….maybe not as much.
But hey, there was the (…when the moon hit your eye like a big pizza pie…) that was a little bit of the, (as rogermight say) ‘spontaneous conception.’ school of Post writing.And there have been other Posts that seem to show up in the morning, screaming like a chicken with it’s head cut off “…write about this…write about this!!” (Apologies to any PETA PALS, my sub-conscious apparently has managed to get an ‘outside line’, as we used to say in the day of rotary dial phones.)

But it is my Post and you are (my) Readers, so the least I can do is come up with some explanation as to why we are watching opera, lyrics in Italian, video with English sub-titles. Surely there is something in the path I followed this morning (to end up here) that will lend even the slightest patina of rationality.

No, no there isn’t.

So screw it. Here is how it all went down.
Minding my own business this morning and decided to listen to the ‘famous Barber of Seville song’. (There has got to be a secret ‘sons of Rossini’ sect out there planning to attack Warner Brothers and steal all the Looney Tune archives. Bugs and Company having single-handedly destroyed most of this (and other reasonably enjoyable) opera by having Bugs or Elmer (in drag no doubt) doing an acceptable (to my 6 year old Saturday morning cartoon watching ears) rendition of this and other Great Music.

Anyway, not really a fan of opera, but this particular morning as I listened to (Figaro’s Aria), I could hear lyrics! Not just ‘figaro, figaro’. Sure, the lyrics have been there all along, but this time I heard them. This Figaro guy, he was telling a damn story!

And whatever, sub-conscious energy switch was thrown, I was stuck.
I mean, it was instant the hell with work! Find out more about the opera, find a video, do whatever has to be done so that I can to do Post all about this fine piece of music.

So, here you have it. Figaro’s Aria with libretto included.

And, yes Figaro was totally a roger.

* well, the truth of the manner in the choice of non-First Order personal pronouns, i.e. ‘I’, ‘Me’… fricken Mine!! found in nearly every Doctrine post has always been 1/3: ‘didn’t think about, why do you ask?’ and 3/4s” ‘Well, did you read the Eureka post… the one in the About Page… the damn Origin story…. well, did you? No, wait, I got this for you… You did not read a thing that was told to you! Not a problem.’

Be that as it may, we need to move this thing along so’s we can sneak in some useful new content.’**

** no, serially, not a problem… who reads About pages anyway. At least reads it before you’ve come to like the theme.

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RePrint Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

September 25, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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

heading out the door, the weather is cool (in style not necessarily Fahrenheit) southeast wind.

(Just scanned the post below… think I need to reread it later today. Let us know your thoughts…)

Friday -the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘of clarks and Autumn, weather and the tyranny of the mind’

November 2, 2018

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

My second-favorite type of weather totally has me looking up the live version of Robin Trower doing ‘Bridge of Sighs’. Hold on….. all set!

Where was I?

First the weather: darker than it needs to be for 6:30 in the morning, even in pre-time change November. Windy. (For those not familiar with our location, we’re surrounded by a pine woods. As such, the wind acquires an aural presence that is most impressive. Not only do you hear the blowing, you can hear it roaming. The distant approach through the needle-ladened branches grows louder and closer, then it veers off in another direction). Very cool. And the temperature is 69 degrees with the hint of rain. ‘Wuthering Heights’ weather fer sure.

…in any event. Recently I’ve had occasion to talk to people about the Doctrine, (yeah, lol, really!), and the topic has been centered on the question, ‘Well, it sounds all sorts of interesting, but has it done you any good?”

The answer is ‘Yes* and Yes!’

Damn! Running out of time!

Hey! You’re all Readers (‘Readers’ motto: ‘I’m here of my own free will, I get this Doctrine thing. Sorta. No, mostly. Whatta got for us today?’) So I’ll skip right to the answer*.

The Wakefield Doctrine has served as an aide in my attempts to identify with others. With other clarks and, here’s an interesting-discover-something-as-one-writes, with scotts and rogers. Identifying with clarks will tempt some to say, ‘well, duh!’ The thing is, through identification, I’m in a position to share the experiences as well as the knowledge (of others).

So, with clarks, that I know and/or encounter out in the world, I root for their success and I will cringe as they proceed down a path that I may have already travelled to find disappointment or set-back. In this, the magic of identification reveals itself. I feel for the clark who is about to double-down on hope for a future that is based on a false premise; I smile in a shared-joy when I see a clark avoid a no-win encounter with a roger (or a scott). But mostly, and this is something I’ve learned is a benefit for rogers and scotts as well, I learn about myself. And that changes me.

When I see a clark descend into the dark, as all clarks (and I’m learning, some rogers and scotts) must, I feel hope for their return. And that….that! is where the benefit of the Doctrine stands out. I see a clark come up out of the dark. Not only do I know how they feel, I know that they survived. (And the true power of this ‘dark place’ is that it is the dominion of unchallengeable negativity. When caught in its embrace, there is only one voice and it brooks no resistance.)

Knowing that other clarks (and rogers and scotts) have been through this experience and come out the other side does not mean I can defeat the argument of complete nihilism. It does not. What it does do is make the power of the dark less…. all-powerful, all-encompassing. In a word, a perspective of hope.

* this single asterisk stands in for both references: the qualification to my first ‘Yes’ and the inclusion of background information for the benefit of any New Readers.

The Wakefield Doctrine is a perspective on the world, life and the people who populate it (both known, unknown, real and/or imagined). The premise of this ‘theory of personality’ is that we, all of us, are born with the potential to experience the world as having one of three distinct characters: the reality of the Outsider(clarks), the world of the Predator(scotts) and the life of the Herd Member(rogers). At a very early age, for reasons not yet understood, we settle into one of these three, where we grow and develop strategies and styles of interacting, aka personality.

The Wakefield Doctrine looks at personality types as the reflection of the world being experienced by the individual. Not a series of answers on a multiple choice test.

I have fairly poor posture, a tendency to mumble when speaking, a taste for the fringe and a ravenous, near-insatiable curiosity because those are representative of my best efforts to contend with, survive and thrive in the personal reality of the Outsider. A scott exhibits different behavior (yeah, that was for comedic effect…lol) but the fact is, the style of interaction that identifies a scott or a roger tells you about the world they are relating themselves to.

(btw, important: we have one and only one predominant worldview. we never lose the potential to experience the world as do ‘the other two’. This explains why at certain times (usually times of duress) we might exhibit behavior and interests not typical of type.)