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when the moon hit your eye, like a big pizza pie, thats amore

November 4, 2009 By

Consider the topic of love. Love figures into probably 80% of the Posts written and love is at the foundation 50% of the blogs themselves.

Brotherly love, sisterly love, love for family and love of country. Love stinks, love is everywhere, yet all you neeed is love and let me tell you ’bout a girl I love.
Love walks in and love walks out the door. I mean, let us seriously and lovingly consider a love that endures and a love that dares not speak it’s name, all for the love of god and love22,

love, its the sphere in  blogosphere.

Lets take a look, a long loving look, and if you will open your eyes and close your mind, then you will see what the Wakefield Doctrine has to offer you, and me and the person you love… but will never meet.

Love is… because it is clearly such an individual experience, so much so that nearly all of art and a whole bunch of science makes the subject of love a thing to be shared and cherished, feared and resented, a thing to live for and die for the lack of and the surfeit of… (you know…)
Damn! this thing called love has to be everything to everyone and still never be allowed to be understood.

The Wakefield Doctrine claims ‘gnosis by right of assumption’ and seein that that love is a wonderful thing, whatever we say here is as right as anything else that anyone else in the world might say.

(How the fuck can this be?) More the question, how can this love ‘thing’ be as non-rational, irrational, pan-rational, it can drive men to die and women to weep, yet there is no definition to contain it all. But you know and I know that if I never get another comment except for one, it will be here on this topic in this Post.

(…its ‘that old black magic has me in it’s spell’ and ‘let tell you about a thing called love, a crazy little thing called love.’

If there is any such a thing as ‘the supernatural’, we don’t have to look any further than the space that lies between ourselves and the world. Between these two there is nothing else and despite that, this is where love exists. You want to see love, feel it’s power then look no further than the outside of your face.  This is as if god and the devil got bored one day and realised if those new things, Man was going to get to pick between them, it might not be fair. So they agreed, lets make love and hate, fear and courage all the same. That’ll hold the little bastards. By doing this they decided that our thinking, our reflecting, our map, our doctrine, what we think we know about the world we live in, everything there is, is in the final darkness, something that know.

So it leaves us in the position where the sanest thing we can think is: ‘there is no distance between that which I think about and the object itself. That is non-rational. That is love.’

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unh!…good god! what is it good for?

November 2, 2009 By

(Thank you Edwin, great question!)

[The following Post is another in the continuing effort to present the Wakefield Doctrine (aka the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers) in a manner that is accessible, enjoyable and will cause a First Time Reader to go into the Pages of this blog to get more information. The hope and the goal is to write ‘in 25 words or less’ a description of the use and the benefits (of the Doctrine.)]

Thinking, reflecting, considering, having an internal dialogue, call it what you will but the inside of our heads is an always interesting, often busy place. We are, to one degree or another, self-aware. It is this internal environment that we are concerned with today in this Post. To start, a question:
What is the good, the use, the benefit of what goes on inside our heads? 
Most of everything that goes on inside our heads, is our efforts at trying to make sense of the world that we find ourselves in each day. We try, and in doing so, hopefully are able to live out the day as comfortably/profitably/virtuously as possible. 

Set aside the ‘yeah, but you don’t understand how or why my life is the way it is’, for now.
You’re right, no one understands your life.  (Damn! you exist as a pre-supposed Reader! Tell me about understanding another!  To mis-quote Firesign Theatre, ‘how can I know what you feel, thats metaphysically absurd, man!’)
It is not necessary to understand the particulars of a person’s life in order to talk about how we live and act in life.

For the purposes of this Post, lt is agreed that no one can know what is going on in another person’s mind, at least in terms of the personal-reality-specific details.  What we can agree on is that whatever the process, it is probably very similar among all people, young/old, female/male, this culture/that culture, (not counting some fundamentalists and most people who think that  ‘America’s Got Talent’ is great entertainment).  But most people share a similar interior/mental environment.

The thing is we all seem to feel a need for, be attracted to, or require ourselves to create a Doctrine.  A doctrine or a religion or a belief system, the Golden Rule, logical empiricism, call it what you like, all self-aware humans seem to share this need. And what people seem to need is a map.  A map to use to try and make sense of the world.   Everyone, everywhere, has a map in their heads.
These maps are made up of assumptions and values that serve as a guide to ‘getting through the day’.  Examples of assumptions that make up the map: ‘you can’t get something for nothing’, ‘nice guys finish last’, ‘do unto others as you would have them do unto you’, ‘damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead’, etc, etc. You get the idea.

All people acquire and use a ‘map’ (doctrine) in order to make sense of what they experience in the course of living each day. Which is to say inter-acting with other people.  And ‘interacting’ means behavior. Lets say that the common elements in how we choose to interact with other people is a product of following our individual maps. And over time, these common elements become routine and stylized. This will be referred to as behavior.  But first a question that must be resolved before we can continue, the question of…why?

The ‘why’, does not matter in this Post.  It does not matter ‘why’ we all have maps or doctrines or any other term.  Further the ‘how’ of all this doesn’t matter much either.
We can spend the rest of the day or an entire lifetime describing how this doctrine thing manifests itself.  Again, not mattering so much.

The ‘what’ is where it is at. The ‘what’ is the list of elements, landmarks, on your  map.

This is topic of this here Post here.  We are going to look at the Wakefield Doctrine in the context of it being a map, no different from religion or philosophy, morality or practicality.  The question that we need to answer is, does it (the Doctrine) offer us something as a map, that the the other maps do not?  How well does the Wakefield Doctrine serve this purpose and how easy is it to use?

The Wakefield Doctrine (aka the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers) is a simple, fun and useful way to look at the world.  Just like any of the other ‘doctrines’ mentioned above, the Wakefield Doctrine serves as a guide/interpreter of the world we experience,  but without out the excess baggage of  mainstream doctrines such as religion, morality, good citizenship.

What advantage does the Doctrine offer?
Well, for starters it is fun.  Now fun is pointless without value, (stop right there! which of the three thinks that)?
OK, lets set that aside for now.  The Wakefield Doctrine will provide  a map that allows you to see the world as other people sees it.  Even a people you do not know. 
The theory of clarks, scotts and rogers is predicated on the notion that we all have a predilection as to how we view the world at large and these predilections tend to gather themselves into three distinct groups: what we call the clarks, scotts and rogers. 

The rest of this blog addresses the characteristics of each of these three ways of seeing the world. Three distinct maps.

Read. Learn. Comment. Buy a hat.

Pretty simple, isn’t it?

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this is a Doctrine

October 31, 2009 By

Noun

Or this:

  • A belief or tenet, especially about philosophical or theological matters.
  • The body of teachings of a religion, or a religious leader, organization, group or text.
    • The incarnation is a basic doctrine of classical Christianity.
    The four noble truths summarise the main doctrines of Buddhism.

     

     

    “ALright! Alright! the clark is in the house! Give it up for tha gangsta of syllogisms, the Grandmaster of Meta-Funk, our own and only Claaaarrrrrrkkkkkk!!

    Yo, yoo, yo I see my boy roger on the wheels over there, gimme some bass there rog-er, dats the shit.

    SkaOttt, yeah my boy SkaOtt, where you at? YEah, homind, get your scerbic-ass self down here!!

    We gonna rock your frame-o-reference here in the house tonight. SHit, you not one of you gonna reference the world the same.

    SkaOtt tell ’em homind, tell ’em  bout what a meal out them (you made) and dat you come back for more!

    RoGER, kick that beat, make this sorry bunch walk to the rythmn you want ’em to walk.

    Its all our party, y’all be the food and ya be the drink… what you say is what we think.

    Take it out.”

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    Britney Spears, Obama, foreclosures, viagra, teenage vampires, take that, search engine motherf*ckers

    October 29, 2009 By

    (…Ahem)

    Alright, lots to of ground to cover, early morning and not a lot of time to write. Real good news though, I just learned to single space! As in: ‘damn I should be putting this sentence on its…
    own Line!!  May not seem like a big deal, but you try writing when all you can do is paragraphs.

    The current ‘tempest in a teapot’ or ‘Excitabat enim fluctus in simpulo’1 (for you clarks out there) here at the Doctrine is all about Presentation or how do we come up with an approach that will reliably hook-in you, the New Visitor/Reader? Not an unimportant question. In fact, the (correct) answer to this question is the difference between all this effort being either ‘oh yeah, those guys had this blog thing for a while last year’ and ‘she was one of those Wakefield Doctrine writers, man what a roger‘!

    The ‘visitor count’ is running only about 15 a day on average, but until we complete Remedial Writing 101, I suspect we should be grateful that it is low. I would hate like hell to waste a perfectly good ‘reader visit’ because this damn thing is written like we were on drugs or were scottian. The Wakefield Doctrine (aka theory of clarks, scotts and rogers) is, in all seriousness an original and interesting ‘thing. 
    Not on par with ‘Das Kapital’ or ‘The Golden Bough’ or even Sheldon’s ‘Constitutional Psychology’, the Wakefield Doctrine is a way to change how you look at the behavior of the people around you. The Wakefield Doctrine supplies a perspective on the reasons that people act the way that they do and more to the point, the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers offers an explanation for the behavior of the people we (all) have to deal with at home, at work, at school.
    Most importantly, the Wakefield Doctrine provides insight into the minds of those around us. We have all heard the expression ‘you should walk a mile in his moccasins before you judge him (or words to that effect). The idea is that if we can see the world as another person sees it, then their behavior and actions and attitudes becomes understandable. (and predictable2)

    Since this is the Doctrine and the Doctrine sez there are only 3 personality types I will address each of the three, the clarks, the scotts and the rogers. (In no particular order, you will know which statement is for you.)

    The following statements are true:

    This is the Wakefield Doctrine. It has something of value that no other blog can offer. The Wakefield Doctrine is fun, it is educational and it is a way to get the upper hand on your enemies.
    This is the Wakefield Doctrine. It is not for everyone. It may sound familiar, in parts, to what you already know but it is now a product of more than one viewpoint so it has an advantage that your  system does not have, and that is acceptance by others.
    This is the Wakefield Doctrine. Read it. Laugh. Pretend you made it up yourself.

    The pages that follow should ‘fill in the blanks’. Have fun, leave Comments/Replies, buy a hat.

    (The sub-title? Oh yeah. mid-life crises guys here (and) here, younger folks here, political junkies here, and crises groupies here.)

    1)”He was stirring up billows in a ladle” (Wikipedia, of course)

    2) What the hell good is any knowledge if it does not let you predict the future?

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    and now we see as through a glass, clarkly

    October 27, 2009 By

    As established by the roger (Progenitor) in the last Post, all (living) things must evolve. And while not technically a ‘living thing’, this blog is hereby granted ‘honorary-for-the-purpose-of-holding-a-thought-together’ status. (Whew!)  Further, the term ‘garage band blogger’ has been coined and is the keystone metaphor for this process of promulgating the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers, all while creating an entertaining (read: lots of readers) blog.

     So what does this mean? It means that the format of the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers) will change.  And since we have not formatted the specific changes yet, now is the time to vamp.

    (In sitcoms, when the writers needed time off, there was always the ‘flashback’ episode. So without further adieu…)

    Let us consider the world that we all experience in common.

    You know,  none of the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers) is meant to be used to explain the day to day world ‘out there’. The Doctrine is not about politics or economics, it is not about how to earn a fortune through the internet or how to find god and a peace within and it is certainly not about the path to enlightenment. It is about how we can learn to see the world differently. Only by setting aside our most basic assumptions, we can arrive at an appreciation and understanding of the people we live and work with every day. And after all, it is the people we live with and the people we work and play with that make up the world. They are the world. Not the people described in the newspapers or on television or the internet, they are the background noise. Nothing overly real there.

    (So, how are you today? That video at the start of this Post? Jeez, I don’t know.)
    (It just seems to set the tone of this Post better than anything I could think up myself.)

    While at times, with authors changing, this Post seems to run the gamut of style and ease of reading. The goal of each Post is always the same, and that is to present the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers to widest range of readers. This process is not always so smooth, sometimes it gets a little clunky,but it does not give up just because of poor writing.

    So as we continue to stagger from ill-conceived idea to badly executed allusion, for your consideration: Woody Allen on evil.

    (The point of this Post? Hold on, I’m getting to it.)

    ‘Hey, hey Mr clarkscottroger! Is this going to be one of those Posts where there is no point only a series of clips from movies that you string together in the hopes of meeting your self-imposed goal of writing at least one Post a week?’

    Yes, yes it is.

    (Damn, still nothin.)

    I know! Lets do a Poll!! (they take up space and the crowdlette loves ’em).

    Now that was fun, wasn’t it?

    (Still a little too much white space showing. Got to get to work, no time for youtube, I know! Another Poll!!)

     

    So there you have it! Proof of the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers; incontrovertible evidence of the efficacy of the Wakefield Doctrine for the self-development of  marginal personality disorders.

    (Better be safe: HEY SEARCH ENGINES!!: Britney Spears, Obama, foreclosure,free computers, teenage vampires. )

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