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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

June 26, 2022 By clarkscottroger

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

“What?!”

This is the Wakefield Doctrine’s contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. Considered by some, to be the most sophisticated of the so-called ‘grat blogs’, the TToT has weathered savage criticism (“Thank heavens it’s only once a week!”), tepid support (“Ten?!?! Well, sure, I suppose one could come up with ten things”) and faint praise, (“I suppose you could say they mean well, at least the bloggers who don’t go off on rhetorical tangents like firecrackers in a flamethrower factory, or worse flood the Reader’s mind with metaphors that, in a sense, the neural pathways employed during reading are like rivers and, subject to over-flowing when confronted with excess….like that odd Doctrine blog”.)

Since 1998, the Ten Things of Thankful has been providing those with the interest, a fresh supply of uplifting reading, inspirational reflection upon the daily world and a challenging, if not subversive, commentary on the Life Virtual. So sit right back and you’ll read a post, a post with a dreadful hook, a view of life that will make you want, to stop and read a book.

1) Phyllis

2) Una (ever the gracious host smiles a welcome to Alex)

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) Triffids In the side-yard, growing like ….like alien vegetables evolutionarily committed to the adage the best offense is a good defense. Try soaking in a hot tub for six hours and then running out and throwing yourself down in a field of thistles (aka Triffids)… you likely to attack them? (lol…sorry couldn’t resist the imagery)

5) serial stories: ‘the Whitechapel Interlude‘, ‘the Case of the Missing Fig Leaf‘ and ‘Tales from the Six Sentence Café & Bistro‘

6) (the) Six Sentence Story bloghop

7) an office (for the real estate thing)

8) a field, a rake and a wheel barrow (for exercise)

9) something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3

Music

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RePrint Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

June 20, 2022 By clarkscottroger

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

Lets keep it simple this Monday. A brief intro/exegeis*

Glad you mentioned it. One of those Doctrine descriptions: a clark abhors being the center of attention but will not tolerate being ignored.

From June 20 2010

…(a) Dude!!! (b) oh man! no frickin way (c) Jay, call me what you want, but you gots to see a doctor!..

(Now that we have had our little Sunday morning humor.) We are entering the week of the 26th of June, which means the week of the Firstaversary of the Wakefield Doctrine…yay

(Which might as well be the topic of today’s Wakefield Doctrine, Lesson of the Day.)
When it comes to celebrations in general and anniversary(s) in particular… clarks do not enjoy them, scotts doand rogers make them a part of their life. In terms of adding to our understanding and use of (the Doctrine), what does knowing this do for us? Two things: if you are curious about yourself, you can consider the reasons and ramifications of (your types) response to these events…which pretty much makes you a clark; if you are curious about how the other two relate to celebrations then, that makes you a clark (or possibly a momentarily bored scott). Let’s look at the easy one first.

rogers love anniversaries, cause they are the benchmarks of tradition, the markings of history, all the things that make up the world (as a roger perceives it);
scotts like anniversaries and will glady accept an invitation for a simple enough reason, contained in one word: buffet
clarks do not like celebrations and/or anniversaries in general because they are affairs that by their very definition celebrate fellowship/shared experience/belonging

(…are we almost through here?…I have an Invitation to the Sherwin Williams Wall Paint Exposition…”Drying through the Ages“…have to pace myself here…)

Lol. Yeah sometimes it do get a bit tedious…

…speaking of tedious…actually speaking of nothing to do with this Post, I have made ‘pop music’ a project. That is to say, I (recently) made a conscious decision to acquire a taste for pop music. Now this is such a clarklike thing to do that no further explanation should be required. But I will anyway, cause we gots way too much white space still left.

The thing of it is, both scotts and rogers live in real worlds, to wit:
scotts one of appetites and aggression and rogers, damn! rogers live in a perfect world, each and everyone one of them. ( …ok the paint drying exhibit will wait…how can rogers all live in perfect worlds?…huh?… ) Well, I’ll tell you. Rogers perceive the world in terms of what is quantifiable, accountable, provable. That is why they make such good engineers, accountants and doctors and priests. ( …hold on! I get the engineers and accountants, I will even give you the doctors…but priests? tell me how the representative of a religion is the same as an engineer… go ahead…I’m waiting… )

Here it goes…rogers believe in the quantifiable, the measurable. They believe in tradition and history and the preservation of culture and… religion. While not scientifically provable as say engineering, (religion) is totally quantifiable. For example…the Ten Commandments (not Six for the children and Fourteen for adults in business) Ten. That is the quantifiable way to live a life. And since “organised” religion is a part of all civil society, rogers are the ones who will be found in the position of Keeper of Rules, Dispenser of Wisdom. ( …perfect world….rogers….the point?… ) Oh, yeah.
The point here is, the only way a person can maintain the fiction of a quantifiable world is to limit the world to quantifiable things and then forget that they set the limits!

Thats how rogers can live in a perfect world. ( …oh-kay….and this has to do with Pop Music…how?… )

rogers live in a quantifiable world, where all is understandable, all is predetermined. clarks, on the other hand, live in a world that is unquantifiable.
clarks being the creative one of the three, allow for any and all possibilities, choosing to believe in anything and subsequently believing in nothing.
clarks can wake up one day and say, “Pop Music really kind of sucks. A lot of people seem to like it though, I guess I better listen to it and acquire a taste for it”.
(scott: “wtf! that don’t make no sense at all, you don’t like then it is not likable! wtf!!). ( roger : “well I can tell you why you should like the likable things and as for the unlikeable things, well there just is no need for them…lets talk about me…)

The project has been successful. I can listen to Pop Music with a sense of appreciation (“sense of appreciation” what a clark!! ( roger and scott))

Well, thank you Miss Sullivan for your help in finding the topic of the day.

And to close, Mr. B! Do you have some music that might illustrate the point here today? (oh, sorry about the harsh reference to you and your by-now-totally-aging scottian-wife-who-must-be-so-not-liking losing her youthful powers).

* no, you’RE absolutely correct, we can’t resist using a cool word whenever possible. And, to the roger out there: as a matter of fact, we did look it up. We spend a lot of time with dictionaries and other reference sources, that’s have the fun (lol**)

** back in the days of today’s Reprint, we became aware of a certain skill-deficiency when it came to the writing. Being a clark (note: a clark possessed by an interestingly intense, pervasive, and good-thing-this-obsession-wasn’t-like-for-chocolate-or-jogging, drive to bring the principles of the Wakefield Doctrine to as many people as possible… anyway, one of the things we got a kick out of was making up words. (To our credit, they were in such a context that the Reader would figure out what we meant. To their credit, they laughed with good-natured enjoyment). Where were we? Back up to the initial asteroid.

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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine- ( a Café Six)

June 15, 2022 By clarkscottroger

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

This is our contribution to the Six Sentence Story bloghop

Denise the host.

The prompt word:

STROKE

The door out to the roof was a flaking-rust-and-grey metal that made the Sophomore think of Medieval battlements and overdue term papers.

Stepping out onto the roof itself, he was struck by the size of the open area, broken up by a variety of levels, platforms, inclines and structures; suddenly remembering a book by Edwin Abbott that lit up the dark loneliness of early adolescence, he thought, ‘This would pass as Heaven to the inhabitants of Flatland’.

Most of the roof was covered in a relatively-small gauge gravel, the surface was rough enough to allow for non-slip walking in the winter but, if seized by the impulse to lie down, it was smooth enough to require only two beach towels.

“Screw the gamma or infrared or whatever rays we should be screening, since the ocean will not come to the Bistro, let’s agree to pretend the beach has come to the Café, shall we?”

The Sophomore tried to feel as relaxed as the supine man now lying on a rectangle of long staple Egyptian cotton beach towels, but gave up immediately and opted for a double-elbow, elevated upper torso position on the towel next to the tall, closed-eye man to his left.

“Young dude, we’re almost an animate semicolon; and, for the record, I love this song,” the man remained motionless during the gale of laughter he unleashed on the high-urban beach where both man, and semi-man, lay singing…

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Wednesday -the Wakefield Doctrine- Bonus Post

June 15, 2022 By clarkscottroger

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

Hey! Reader Advisory: this is very much a graduate-level Doctrine Post. Which, of course, is a total catnip description to any clarklike Readers.

So, here you go:

Let’s say you’ve gotten mad at someone, someone at a distance, say a customer service rep for a large, all-powerful, faceless mega-corporation. You’re promised a call back to explain the unexplainable.

With us?

How do you use the principles of the Wakefield Doctrine to make sure your attempt to exact a pound of virtual flesh from the voice-only representative of this 21st C Mammon?

Simple!

First: determine the predominant worldview of the person to whom you’re speaking.

Second: if they’re a

clark (Outsider) make them understand how, in both the grand and the mundane scheme of things, meaningless they are
scott (Predator) impress upon them how truly and irrefutably powerless they are
roger (Herd Member) let them know, in no uncertain terms, how insignificant they are

There you go! Free and unsolicited advice from your apparently way immature curator of the Wakefield Doctrine tool chest and museum.

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

June 12, 2022 By clarkscottroger

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

This is the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. Founded in 2003 and kept in a jar by the door*, it has been the most admired and imitated grat blog since 2013 or so

1) Una

2) Phyllis

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) serial stories ‘the Case of the Missing Fig Leaf‘, ‘the Whitechapel Interlude‘ and ‘Tales from the Six Sentence Café & Bistro‘

5) the Six Sentence Story

6) Seeing how so a company-man we tend to be, when I say our host, Dyanne posted the first post (err… she posted), back in 1993, we’re all, “We gots to join in. Hey gang! Lets put on a play!’

the tao of gratitude -the Wakefield Doctrine- (a blog hop that will not only be fun… but useful too!)

June 7, 2013

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

…and welcome to the Inaugural Edition of the ‘Ten Things of Thankful’ blog hop.

The idea-child (to organize a blog hop with ‘Ten Things of Thankful’ as the central theme), of ‘the Considerer’. Her idea of a Saturday blog hop offers to demonstrate an aspect of the internet that is truly remarkable. To have a community created by the thoughts and ideas (shared by) people from all over the planet… coming into existence for a day…spreading outwards through the blogosphere, passed along, modified enhanced then to fading from view…only to return again, different yet the same. How cool is that?

and…and!! there are 9 co-hosts! (the afore-mentioned Considerer), and

A Fly on our (Chicken Coop) Wall

A Woman’s Place

Bringing the Sunshine

Finding Ninee

Icansaymama

Shoved to Them

Steps into Parenthood

the Wakefield Doctrine

Each week…

That’s about it for me, for this Post. While familiar of with use and value of compiling a gratitude list, creating a list is an interestingly arduous task! Not that I am ungrateful, ( non-grateful?? anti-grateful?? hypo-grateful??? lol), for the things in my life, I have not engaged in a formal exercise before this…I will, without a doubt, be sharing my thoughts and impressions as the weeks progress.
And I am also a big advocate of bloghops… especially for those of us who spend a lot of time writing a blog. The hop (like this one right here) is an opportunity to ‘get out… meet new people, read blogs that you might not otherwise come into contact with… so add your blog to the place below that says sign up here… it’ll be fun.

List of 10 things about/within/comprising my life today 06/08/2013 that I feel grateful for:

coming to know interesting people such as Considerer, simply because there is no way I would have met her, were it not for her blog

having the time available to write this post

seeing examples of Posts as written by the other co-hosts

having a family (wife and dog*)

having known the perfect dog…Ola

living in a climate that is only bi-annually of intolerable climate (lol)

the 3 or 4 years spent on fishing boats

the friends that I have

the enemies that I do not have (at least not in large numbers)

the invitation from Considerer to co-host this here bloghop here

Now the hard part! There’s supposed to appear some code for a button and an invitation to join us… all I need to do is get it right…. hold on….

Your hosts

A Fly on our (Chicken Coop) Wall, A Woman’s Place, Bringing the Sunshine, Considerings, Finding Ninee, Icansaymama, Shoved to Them, Steps into Parenthood, The Wakefield Doctrine

7) oh, yeah… we’ve got three more grats to do! Well, you know we didn’t get this far by freezing up under the metaphorical spotlight, did we? Clearly the obvious grat is to the countless hostinae that took up the Brísingamen after our Founderini left to search for the fifth corner of the world.

8) hey! That reference to Brísingamen makes us think, (with gratitude), of the more subtle effects of writing stories, both large and small; specifically the tendency to absorb ideas without necessarily being aware of its origin. In this case, while searching out symbols of female power for this grat, we stumbled across a reference to a story from Norse mythology, where Loki stole a necklace and Heimdall was charged with returning it to Freya. But just before completing the search circle, we remembered a Six Sentence Story that was part of a small cycle of stories about Parchman Farms. While not 100 percent certain that we didn’t start with wikipedia, it’s way fun to think that the story has been sitting in our memory since seventh grade when I first started reading mythology. ha! Time travel does exist!

Hey! Puzzle resolved!! (Who said, “What are you talking about ‘puzzle’?!! We’re still working on who these people, clark, scott and roger were, if they were even real and how we can get our Free 2 Night/1 Day Vacation to Palm Coast, Florida!” Anyway, if you want to read our version of the story, Click Here.

9) something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3 because if it wasn’t a secret, how much power could it possess? Full Disclosure: I must be on borrow jag. This last, (’cause we’re at number Ten? lol), was from a snippet of the movie I watched last night. The original: ‘If it was easy, everyone would do it.’

* you’re right, the Beatles

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