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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

January 22, 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. Every weekend, our leaderette, Dyanne, invites one and all to write a post describing ten, (more or less, see Grat Item Ten below), people, places or things that have caused us to feel grateful.

1) Una

2) Phyllis

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the Six Sentence Story bloghop. The place to go to read, (and post writings), little storyettes based on a different prompt word each week.

5) the internet, (in general), and one of ‘our morning shows’, Lets Dig’ as an example of the good side of technology (in particular).

6) grateful for a fairly dry winter, every day closer to total non-winter. (aka March), means there is less significance to whatever snow we do get

7) “...this is the business we have chosen“. (Hyman Roth, Godfather II) being in real estate means working as much and as long as you want.

8) something, something

9) the Six Sentence Café & Bistro… a virtual, metaphorical hangout, nightspot, ad hoc study hall and dreamatorium

10) Secret Rule 1.3 the rule that reminds us that gratitude can be but a moment’s reflection away

music vids

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Re-Print Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

January 16, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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

So the second coolest thing* happened the other day at the office. Initiating a conversation, an associate texted: what a roger!

I smiled and my pride in being the curator of our little personality theory increased just a bit.

(Full Disclosure: being a clark, I immediately chastised myself for the indulging in pride. Not as in the somewhat more famous religion’s admonition against such self-assessment, more in the ‘keep your feelings to yourself, nothing good could otherwise result’.)

Holy smoke! Being a holiday and all, let’s get all zen koan and say: the preceding post is sufficient for a talented Reader (and student of the human condition) to reconstruct the Wakefield Doctrine.

* first coolest thing? While it has not, to the best of our knowledge, yet happened, would be a person, with whom we have not had any contact, to say the above in our presence.

…ok, we admit it, feeling some guilt about hitting publish on a 180 word post.

… no! now wait just a darn minute!

I (re)-read the following, while scanning old posts for reprint:

The Wakefield Doctrine is for you, not them.

damn! those words, they are correct!

When I engage the world through the lens of the Doctrine, it does not change me. And…. and! it does not change you.

What it does is make available to us an additional perspective on what is going on at this particular moment. Therefore, if our desire is to best relate ourself to the world around us, appreciating how you are experiencing the world is helpful. Doesn’t change you. But our relationship to you, at least in this particular interaction, will surely be different for accepting this understanding of you.

so, maybe it does change us.

but!! The use of the perspective afforded by the Wakefield Doctrine will do nothing, at least directly, to affect the other person. However, not only will we have added to our world by better understanding you, we will be altered. Since the Wakefield Doctrine maintains that while living in one, and only one predominant worldview (aka personality type), we are still possessed of the capacity to experience the world as do the other two, this acceptance moves us a tiny step forward to being the most we can be as people.

cool

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

December 17, 2022 By clarkscottroger

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

This is the Wakefield Doctrine’s contribution, participation and assay into the virtual world of grat blogs. Foundered by L. Rogers (distant niece, twice behooved, of Jack Rogers, who in turn is mis-remembered as the bad-seed brother Mister R). The Ten Things of Thankful is the original Bloghop that Refuses to Die! And it’s both fun and beneficial to bloggers and Readers and, the occasional spouses of them.

1) Una

2) Phyllis

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) editing and updating the static pages of the Wakefield Doctrine website! One page (About) five or six left!

5) the Six Sentence Story the place for reading (and writing) flash fiction

6) Two G^+Girlie Tomorrow. Sunday at 2:30 ET come on by!

7) something, something

8) Less than 1 week ’til Summer! Come on! veinal equinox!

9) This Just In!!

So, we were all watching our favorite morning show, ‘LetsDig18’ and our rogerian host, Chris, made a statement without promoting, prompting or otherwise receiving direction from us. And we literally jumped up from the couch and got right over here. What we experienced: a new rogerian expression!** “…this pond is astronomically deep“

10) Secret Rule 1.3

* Saturday morning 8:04 am on the youtube

** a characteristic behavior peculiar to rogers startlingly funny a brief explanation and examples can be found at the bottom of the page on rogers.

vids (no. do. not. ask. We have no idea as any reasonable or rational ‘Why’ to this week’s vids)

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine- “one of those sitcom memes, where the teacher does not speak” (Language Advisory)

October 4, 2022 By clarkscottroger

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

(dry-scrapey sound of chalk on blackboard)

clarks: Outsiders “…clarks think.”

scotts: Predators “…scotts act.”

rogers: Herd Members “…rogers feel.”

(ringing of a school corridor bell)

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Wednesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

September 21, 2022 By clarkscottroger

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

Today is Wednesday. Usually we’re drafting, or, at very least, thinking about drafting some kind of idea for the Six Sentence Story bloghop. The Six Sentence Story bloghop starts this evening at 6:00 pm (Oceania time).

So, we’d best keep this short, no?

(Funny story: so I did a search of all posts for ‘short post’, got, like 534 returns. ok. searched ‘very short post’. 487…. ‘very short little post’ 328! gave up. scanned the last set of posts. got what’s below.)

Before that, remind us to write more about our Herd-inclined members. On the other side of the Six, of course.

Thanks.

Decoding the Doctrine: the 3 personality types of the Wakefield Doctrine

May 31, 2011

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

Predator!!! Herd Animal!!!   Blue Monkey!!

(Simply convenient terms for a characteristic perception of reality or… hate speech?)

“rogerian indulgence… scottian impulsivity…clarklike irresponsibility”

(Examples of productive linguistic shorthand or…fighting words?)

“Don’t be such a clark!!   Jeez, they shouldn’t say mean things like that, he is such a roger…god, why won’t you just grow up? scott!”

( Honesty or……… slurs?)

As awareness and interest in the Wakefield Doctrine continues to grow, we are benefiting from increasing feedback from Readers. (This) input becomes a useful and significant element in the crafting of the message (in) these Posts. As we know, just as the Doctrine holds that we all have the capacity to experience the world as each of the three personality types, the descriptive terms assigned to each (type) is meant to be multi-interpretive. Often found when describing aspects of human nature, the tendency to exaggerate should never be underestimated. And when you factor in writing skills that are at times rudimentary, the urge to use terms that are easy to misconstrue is just…about…irresistible. But, hey! what are ya gonna do?
The core fact remains, there are three personality types (that) are predicated on each of us experiencing the world in three distinctly characteristic ways. And as we are trying to describe the perception of one (personality) type to another personality type, we are forced to draw the picture in broad strokes…very broad strokes.

It’s funny, each effort to present the Wakefield Doctrine to new Readers seems to bring along with it an example of the validity of our little personality theory. Today is no exception. The use of terms like predator and herd animal to describe scotts and rogers are often met with objections, “yeah but that has such negative connotations“, or “you must not think a lot of our type if you describe us like that…”.

The thing of it is, while people take issue with connotation or implication or insinuation, no one yet has said, “What? What does that term refer to?”

In most instances, when the discussion, say about clarks, gets to the point of, …”and so, the idea that you like to carry sentence fragments around with you…to spread through the few conversations that you have that allow the other person to get more than 3 complete sentences into..you clarks talk like that on purpose?”  … everyone laughs.
Or if someone were to say, “…the print they use on the latex cycling suit is specially formulated to cause the wind rushing by to sound like the commercial jingle of that particular corporation, that way, during a ride, you can hear, ‘have it your way…have it your way at….” rogers (and clarks and scotts) all laugh. And understand, they know that we are talking about rogers without having to be told.

What we are trying to say is that so far, no one has stopped and said, “What? I don’t get it.” Of course this has as much to do with the quality of intellect that the Readers (and Progenitors and DownSprings) bring to the table at this stage of the growth of the Doctrine. We all might as well enjoy it.

No doubt there will come a time, when the Wakefield Doctrine is on a par with Catholicism or Islam or Oprah that we will hear people say, “Hey, did you hear the one about the socially-contexted guy who met a socially-disconnected dream-instead-of-live girl and they ran into the act-without-reflection priest?”

Until then, clarks are ‘head-decorating, mumbling, manipulative funny people and scotts are ‘the Tasmanian devil-from-the-Warner Brothers-cartoon but with higher levels of social skills as represented by the Joe Pecsi character in ‘Good Fellas’ and rogers…’damn they talk so good you want to sit and listen forever…until you wake up and realise they have all left but you still to have to wash the dishes.’

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