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Phase 78.2 .4 -the Wakefield Doctrine-

March 28, 2016 By clarkscottroger

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I had a really good Post written, unfortunately it was (written) in my head only and it was 4:03 am when I read it. I add that second part to let you know how I can claim to know it was a really good post. I’ll try to re-write it here, now.

Most everyone reading this will be familiar with the underlying tenets of the Wakefield Doctrine. Perhaps the most basic and fundamental of these is that we, all of us, live in a reality that is, to certain extent, personal. From this we derive the difference between the Doctrine and the ‘real’ personality typing system, i.e. for us, personality type is a reflection of the reality that we grew up and developed our interpersonal skills in, as opposed to being innate, inherent, instilled or insufferable qualities that came pre-packaged at birth, like a sim card that lets you do certain things but, if you want to do other things, maybe even like other brand phones, then, sure you can, but you have to like, re-program it and that’s not exactly printed on the box the damn phone came in, of course, you could buy an upgrade, but who has the money for that, and you end up, like most of us, hoping that your friends learn something that you can, like, half copy and half learn and then you can improve the phone’s operability and hopefully not fuck it up so much that it doesn’t work.

Did I mention that this Post was originally written at 4:03 am? Well, you know how that time of day can be. In any event, all of you out there are reading this from a personal reality (we call it pre-dominant worldview, or simply worldview), that gave rise to social strategies and ways-of-interacting-with-the-world that we refer to as:

clarks (Outsider) those of us who look around at 4:03 in the morning and wonder how we’re possibly going to get by in the world ‘out there’ today, the distinction (of being apart from the world and everything that goes with it, including, god! especially including the people), tells you everything you need to know to be able to identify the clarks in your world.
scotts (Predator) those of us who look around at 4:03 in the morning and know where they are and what needs to be done in order to move forward without being restrained or restricted, the value of freedom cannot be assigned because it is without limits and, this lack of limits has as much to do with the others in the scotts‘ life as it does with their own enjoyment of life… act and live, protect and preserve the pack and …did we say, live and act (because life is short) yet?
rogers (the Herd Member) ever wonder who buys alarm clocks that have snooze features? yeah. because for our rogerian brethren, even not getting up on time really should be planned out, at very least assigned a quantity (“Hit Snooze and Get 10 Minutes of Sleep!”) who on earth can do that and not lie awake wondering if 10 minutes is almost up or, maybe there’s a mistake in the programming and now it’s like, and hour too late? sorry, rhetorical question. In any event, virtually all of the technology that makes our modern lives so comfortable (and scary) are courtsey of our rogerian friends

That’s the deal with the three personality types. The self-development thing? Well that’s simple enough, my goal is to develop my rogerian and scottian aspects (in balance) with my pre-dominant clarklike worldview. (New Readers: the Doctrine maintains that we’re all born with the potential to live and develop in all three worldviews, we always end up in only one, but never lose the capacity for ‘the other two’). The underlying reason is that purpose of this here, personality here, is intended to help us to appreciate how the other people in our lives ‘relate themselves to the world around them’. Using the Doctrine makes this goal much more attainable, and totally lets us know more about the other person than we have any right to know.

Hey what the hell, is today that Monday?!! zoe’s other blog… the carrot?? Heart and Mind Monday? ok, lets re-arrange the content here and …

I’m happy and pleased to announce that I’ve completed writing the serial story, ‘Blogdominion’! No! seriously, the story is written down (in places other than inside my head) and it has a beginning, a middle and an End. That alone is, for me, a significant accomplishment. I’ll surely be writing more about it in coming days. But I finished writing it and I thank Val and zoe and glenn for being such Constant Readers and providing much appreciated feedback and, I thank Phyllis for doing a nearly-final-does-this-chapter-really-work reading each and every Sunday for that last…. well, the last 23 Sundays plus epilogue. And I appreciate Denise’s tireless efforts in the edit and re-write and final read-outloud process. sine qua non, binyon.

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6:35am Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine-

March 24, 2016 By clarkscottroger

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The world-prompt, this week is: duck

That’s what I get for deviating from the tried and true approach! The post, at least so far, is not the engaging, ‘what-is-our-writer-up-to-this-week’ that I hope to achieve, while ‘warming up’. (One might wonder who is being warmed up, in this pre-Six Sentence Story interludes… the writer or the Reader?)

For this week, t’s surely not me, but then, it’s early (Full Disclosure: it’s no longer early Wednesday morning. It is, 3:21 in the afternoon. Still early by Six Sentence standards, but way closer to what I normally do.)

All this warm-up and hinting to Six Sentence Stories, is, of course, my weekly effort at zoe’s very challenging and satisfying bloghop, the Six Sentence Story. (Write a story of no more than, nor no less than 6 sentences utilizing the week’s prompt).

Duck

Were you and I to walk the suburban neighborhood streets of the 1950s on a Sunday evening, we would see, leaking through window curtains (and those on-end triangular glass inserts in many a front door), a grayish-blue glow, as much the specialized lighting as found in most places of worship down through the ages, as Ed Sullivan, held countless American families in thrall at 8:00 Eastern Standard Time. On one particular Sunday night, in the mid-to-late 1950s, no longer satisfied with his Piper-like control of the minds and thoughts of countless people, from the very old to the too, too young, he decided to reach further into the lives of his audience.

Rather than settle for causing countless Monday-morning-people to hum the songs of the musical acts he presented or, attempt to re-tell co-workers the jokes of the comedians, Ed decided to invade the dreams of the young members of his audience, (let’s not kid ourselves, be it a Church with regal ceremony established over a thousand years of attendance or the wild abandon of spur-of-the-cultural-moment sect imploring divine intercession), it’s always the young that people like Ed crave.

The 1950s, though there were no computers, (other than ridiculous, elephantine machines that communicated by ‘punch cards’, as if for a world of the blind, having only the language of Braille to share information and lives), had something every bit as compelling as the ‘World of Warcraft’, or even, the Facebook, it had the Cold War. The Cold War existed, (for all intents and emotional purposes), in the minds of the people, (especially the young), and we were all instructed how the game, (World War Three ‘Nuclear Armageddon!’) was to be played, and we all, (especially the young), played it out in our minds, our dreams and our hopes for life.

On this memorable Sunday night, Ed Sullivan, a well-respective and admired procurer of wholesome family entertainment, (not quite the foreshadow of the modern day pimp, resplendent in fashion, powerful among the powerless, but close), determined to make sure we were all in the game, immediately after a visit from Topo Gigo (‘the little Italian mouse‘), but before some dinner plate-spinning guy with a pencil mustache, Ed Sullivan presented a Civil Defense animated film, ‘Duck and Cover’ and many in his audience that night (especially the young), had nightmares for well into the early 60s.

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

March 22, 2016 By clarkscottroger

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A short update Post.

The Final Chapter (Chapter 23) in Blogdhominion is out and ready to be read. We haven’t heard the last of this ‘Tale of Computer Life and the Search for Peace and Self-Fulfillment!’ (Working now to compile and print a full manuscript version of the Adventures of Sister Margaret and Them. I’ll be sending a copy to some friends who have volunteered to do a beta-Reading on the story in the next two weeks. If you’d like to participate, let me know, I think it would be fun to get feedback from anyone interested in giving it.

Soon to be Appearing on Jukepop and wordpress: ‘Almira’ this will be the Serial story of one, Almira Gulch, a significant (one might even say, pivotal) character in the story, ‘The Wizard of Oz’. We all, (or those of us who have watched the 1939 MGM motion picture, which, I would hazard to say is pretty much everyone over the age of 39), know how we feel about this woman. ‘Almira’ will be the story of what brought this woman and this girl, (and that little dog), together on a very fateful day in Kansas.

The basis for the idea comes from my most recent contributions to zoe’s Six Sentence Story and a (very creative) suggestion from Kristi and a (very helpful) encouragement from Dyanne. Read the story that is the starting point of what is to follow.

For those who followed along on Blogdominion, this story will unfold Chapter by Chapter. I have no idea, as of this writing, how this will come out. I do know a few things, however,

Almira Gulch was her married name
Almira was born in Lawrence MA, in 1893
and, probably most importantly, she did not die in the F7 tornado that wiped out the small farming town of Circe KA on that fateful day

As to the ‘why?’ of all this industry? One word: ‘the-Wakefield-Doctrine-as-an-efficacious-tool-the-service-of-self-developing oneself,’ Live Demonstration….

And, of course, we’ll continue with our Six Sentence Stories on Thursdays and TToT on the weekend.

Gotta run, I’ve been late posting for the Gravity Challenge 2 mornings in a row!

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine- March Part 2

March 19, 2016 By clarkscottroger

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Friday Night Write 2 weeks in a row! I see now, Sunday Mass never had a prayer!* Sure I start to get comfortable writing my TToT post on Friday evenings, does mean the quality or tone of our TToT changes? I don’t know the answer to that. So, unless someone out there has a thought on the topic of a-chronologic variations in the content of TToT Posts written on Fridays versus Saturday, we’ll proceed with our Post.

(The TToT is the inspired effort of Our Miss Lewis who encourages those with good intent to come to this (virtual) place each weekend and share that which gratitudistic in their lives. Those of us who do are better for it.)

1) Pretty non-eventful week. Many of our Co-hostinae and other correspondinas seem to live lives of constant change and improvement. I find it fun and interesting to gain insight into such lives, and for that opportunity I am grateful.

2) Pretty clever, that first Item, non? No, I don’t think that’s being manipulative, it’s more being opportunistic and forward-thinking!

3) Pretty good thing that last Item reminded me of something this week that I’m genuinely grateful for! (no, there’s no way I can keep up the ‘leading with the ‘pretty” for 7 more Items) but that’s not what I’m grateful for! What I am grateful for is that, because I participated in zoe’s Six Sentence Story ‘hop this week, my contribution (which) had to do with the Wizard of Oz, was that somehow, Kristi made a Comment that pointed to an idea for a story.

4) Pretty straightforward string of events, in that Kristi’s comment lead to another person, Dyanne, who further encouraged the idea… (the idea is for the next story after Blogdominion concludes which is…)

5) Pretty much at it’s final Chapter. I’ve been thinking that seeing how much fun it’s been writing Blogdominion, I should do it again! Write another Serial, that is, aiyee but another totally seat-of-pants effort, now I may come to regret that, especially if I take on a story that I don’t have a clue as to what the plot will be. oh, well, how good can something be for me, if it’s not uncomfortable?**

6) (sorry, out of prettys as Item lead-in.) Well, we’ll have just to struggle on without them.

7) Una and Phyllis alway merit mention on my list, above is Una this evening, below are Phyllis and Una

8) The Wakefield Doctrine and it’s very positive and help contribution to my efforts to self-develop myself.

9) non-Winter weather, always a good thing

10) 1.3 (yeah, despite my intro and the theme of writing a TToT on a Friday night, I’ll be re-visiting this Post before I …er Post it.)

*old, odd reference/witticism back in the day, I believe in the 1970s the Catholic Church introduced Saturday evening Mass, as an alternative to Sunday Mass. The Times, they were a-changin

**said, like, every clark, everywhere (at multiple times in they lives)

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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine-

March 17, 2016 By clarkscottroger

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I really need to write something. Not just to increase the likelihood that I’ll come across and idea that will templatize* into a Six Sentence Story, but to de-something my brain. Funny thing about this writing thing. It’s as much mood, as it is thought, at least for me. Anything I write worth reading, (Six Sentence Story foreplay excepted), is written in the morning (mostly) or at night (if I have to), but rarely ever in the middle of the work day. It’s as if the person I am/become/turn into in order to function effectively in the real world doesn’t have the slightest glimmer of… whatever it is that allows or prompts or inspired the creation of fiction.

huh… go figure. Anyway, this is zoe’s bloghop the Six Sentence Story and every Thursday she invites those so inclined to write a little story using only 6 sentences around a single prompt word. This week’s word is Contract.

Have fun!

Dorothy Gale cried, feeling nothing but anger towards Miss Gulch. Certainly, and Dorothy would be the first to admit, no one should live in fear of being attacked by dogs (or lions, or even monkeys). The thing was, Miss Gulch struck first, hitting Toto with a rake, so, naturally, the Law of Jungle (or Oz, or even home) exerted itself.

But life on the prairie had rules, people respected the social contract, and Miss Gulch was, in economic, educational and all measure of social standing, as far above the Gale family, as they were above their three itinerant workers. Dorothy might as well oppose the lack of benefits and job security that Hunk, Zeke and Hickory faced in their daily lives, being disadvantaged in effective job market skills (or education, or even in the courage to stand up for their rights).

It was part of what her new teacher, (her former teacher was killed in the storm that also destroyed the school building, although most of her classmates were also killed, by happy chance, Dorothy was absent from class that day), who was also the principle would say to the handful of surviving families on the last day of school in the newly dedicated Almira Gulch High School.

*not a ‘real’ word