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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

July 9, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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

This is the Wakefield Doctrine’s contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. Appearing weekly since 1978, the TToT asks the question: “Sure, your shoelace broke that morning you were running behind because you were up all night with nightmares that involved lovers made of wet-linen bedsheets, friends who had a FB reel that you needed to see (’cause it was fricken’ wicked funny) and, and…such.

But the true and genuine benefit of writing these weekly blogposts is found in how it allows us: more choice in our day, in general, and in how we relate ourselves to the world around us and the people who make it up, specifically. Not a positive thinking thing so much as a practice in perspectives.

1) Una (spotter)

2) Phyllis (being spotted)

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) weird-assed door flower

5) the Six Sentence Story

6) a pile of dirt (aka no-cost cardio)

7) the health (and physical capacity) to move the above dirt from ‘there’ to ‘elsewhere’. With assistance, of course, from Phyllis and Una (Grat(s) 1 & 2)

8) something, something

9) a call in conversation with Friend of the Doctrine, Cynthia. Always enjoyable, informative and fun. (If’n you have or website that’s gotten like, that shirt that you love but has become so worn-out that you feel relieved (and dissappointed) when you remember not to wear it to certain occasions, or, maybe you’re thinkin’ a website would be good to have.) Cynthia has that all-to-rare combination of empathy, imagination and a grasp on how to get it done. You probably should stop over at her site. Tell her, the Doctrine sent ya.

10) Secret Rule 1.3 “… of course you can use the impending completion of a TToT post as an Item! jeez, that you should have to ask! be sure to make it Number 10, we’re not without a sense of propriety, already. that you should have to even ask. oy vey” (ibid. op. cit. yo)

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Too(s)day -the Wakefield Doctrine-

June 6, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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

…before we return to yesterday’s post’s topic… lets return to yesterday’s post’s topics!

While the Reader can be forgiven for not reading the Comments on either, the most germane are those in response to the One-K Friday post. Specifically, the observation by ceayr to our contribution to his (and jenne‘s) prompt photo, to wit: “You hit us with all these intriguing details, then leave us not only high but, not to put too fine a point on it, also dry. Excellent piece, if sadly incomplete.”

As is the case with most who are possessed of his predominant worldview* he is both nearly right and almost wrong,

The thing of it is, while in other ‘hops (say, the Six Sentence Story) the word count is not limited. With skillful (willful) use of semi-colons a Six can be of impressive length. Serial Sixes are possible. A story can, overtime, weave it’s way among subsequent prompt words like the snake slithering in for the kill while the protagonist, armed only with a pitch fork with three broken tines, tries to stop it.

The Unicorn Challenge is not so… (an adjective to convey guidable with excessive capacity for retaliation… like 90% of films since ‘A Bad Day at Black Rock’). It’s prompt is a photo. And… and! There is a word limit. Two hunnert fity words. Tough crowd over at the ‘corn’.

As with most writing prompts, there is, on the parts of all participants a responsibility to not ignore the prompt. There’s a rule in most fiction (real or imagined) that the narrative must remain consistent and reasonable to the Reader. (In Orson Scott Card’s book ‘Characters and Viewpoints’: Whenever you tell a story, you make an implicit contract with the reader. Within the first few paragraphs or pages, you tell the reader implicitly what kind of story this is going to be; the reader then knows what to expect, and holds the thread of that structure throughout the tale. . . .)

Damn! Getting off topic.

So, for today: I will at least try to continue the (implied) serial story I started this week at the Challenge. Or not. As a service to Readers to better allow them a sense of the character Detective-Captain Anton Rilke, a link to when he first appeared in an Ian Devereaux serial Six. Click Here

*in Part Too of today’s post: Mimi Commented: “Good reprint, i especially like warning to Clarks not to skip around.”

In addition, (to asterix footnote), pertaining to yesterday’s Doctrine post: One of the earliest Rules (of proper behavior) here at the Doctrine was, ‘No one has the authority to declare, reveal and/or assign a label of clark, scott or roger to another person‘.

It is for each of us to discover for ourselfs. While it is fun, (and great practice), to discuss the predominant worldview of other people, as we mentioned yesterday, ‘The Doctrine is for you, not them.’ Furthermore, for those who might argue, “yeah, but, suppose they pick the wrong predominant worldview?”

Real simple: You can’t get it wrong.

You can’t break it. You can’t alter it. Any person with a genuine interest in exploring the benefits of this unique, productive and fun perspective on the world around us and the people who make it up, will, eventually understand their predominant (plus secondary and tertiary aspects).

out of time!

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

May 14, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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

This is the Wakefield Doctrine’s contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop.

This week, we provide photo-clues to the people, places and things that have caused us to feel gratacious.*

1) Una

2) Phyllis

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the Zombie Christmas Project Chapter: Ate (No, as a matter of fact, we have not given up on this yet…)

5) the paint-the-porch project (Warning! Strictly Filler Grat here. The picture? So that’s what imparts credibility to a: “I’m grateful for Ace (‘Ace-is-the-Place’) Hardware store” So, that all it takes to claim grat legit these days!!?

6) sure, why not? have you read any Wakefield Doctrine TToT lists before this?!? Hey! nearly genuine Grat: I remembered to take a Before photo of the paint-the-porch-aganza (funny how, as a clark, I rarely remember to document those of my efforts to alter the world.)

Before:

After:

7) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

8) something, something

9) weird-ass animal noises in the middle of the night… sounds like we have a family of jackalopes or chupacabra what moved in to our woods… like a feral cat on LSD. If we hadn’t already completed this week’s TToT we totally would have added: ‘Indoors’ (subset: walls and windows and doors that don’t open less’n you want them to.’)

10) Secret Rule 1.3

* not a ‘real’ word

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

May 8, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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

all right, enough with the fiction and the story-telling

… ok, enough with the fiction.

The Wakefield Doctrine is a perspective on the world around us and the people who make it up. As a perspective (note: an additional perspective) it affords one of the opportunity to appreciate reality in a slightly different way. And, with the proper intent, this means we can be better at whatever it is that we would be better at, in life.

We are, all of us, born with the potential to experience the world from one of three relationships. These three relationships are, what in less fun and useful personality schema, would be referred to as the three personality types of the Wakefield Doctrine:

the Outsider (clarks)
the Predator (scotts)
the Herd Member (rogers)

While essential to the understanding and use of the Wakefield Doctrine, we’ll return to the characteristics of the three later. (That said, most Readers who return to this site more than twice* upon understanding the nature of the what we refer to as (the three) predominant worldviews), extrapolate most of the qualities, characteristics, quirks and peccadilloes** of this thing of ours.

At a very early age, one of these three ‘realities’ becomes enduring. It is the world the child experiences. It is in context and (in) relationship to this world the individual develops the social strategies and styles of interacting with the world around them and the people who make it up. aka their personality.

(Note: we have but one predominant worldview. We retain the potential to experience the world as do ‘the other two’, these are referred to as secondary and tertiary aspects. For some these can be significant and therefore an element in their behavior, for others, barely there, no influence.)

The difference between this and other systems of understanding: we have the perfect personality type for the reality we experience, for the world in which we are living.

Before we leave for the day:

the ‘goal’ of the Wakefield Doctrine is to allow us to better appreciate how we relate ourselfs to the world around us and the people who make it up.

So today: read up (among these posts) the descriptions and characteristics of the behavior and interpretation of everyday life from the perspective of: the Outsider (’cause neither of the other two wake up in the morning and try to figure what they’ll do in the world that waits them, ‘Out there’); and the Predator (hey, did you really think they’re completely asleep and that was why they’re staring at you like that, as you insist they will benefit greatly by waiting and reflecting finding inner serenity); and the Herd Member (sorry, as friendly and organized and remarkably social, you’re the one at risk, not them, they know and will be happy, no, they will be grateful for the opportunity to show you the Right Way).

Come, on! It’s more fun than you think. Wait, given the demographic of the four-time Reader, you already know that.

Warning! If you persist in learning the realities reflected the three relationships of the Doctrine, you will begin to see the clarks, scotts and rogers in your everyday world. The thing of it is, there’s a real good chance that you won’t be able to not see the clarks, scotts and rogers in your world.

Tomorrow: ‘the Everything Rule’

* the first is chance, a good friend’s recommendation and/or boredom; the second is confirmation to settle the ‘no, fricken way!’ and the last: ‘huh, this person reminds me of something on that site…’

** not that the Wakefield Doctrine cares about self-reported characteristics…way unnecessary

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Too/Two/To-sday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

April 18, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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

So, we’re in the midst of wrestling with the issue of how to approach the big Six Sentence Café & Bistro ‘Poetry Slam’ that will be happening at the Six Sentence Story bloghop the day after tomorrow.

You’re all invited to stop by and watch (aka ‘read’) the fun. Or, if you’re so inclined, participate. (We’ll drop a ton ‘o links at the bottom of this post to better spread the word.)

For anyone not familiar with the context of the venue, the Six Sentence Café & Bistro is a virtual …err Café & Bistro? Don’t want to say, ‘metaphorical’ because, while that was the basis of it’s creation and earliest iterations, it has, by virtue of the same magic that, (were you a certain age), and you were driving in your car and saw a sign on a roadside restaurant that read ‘Arnold’s’ or (switching to a more urban setting) ‘Cheers’ (with steps down from a Boston sidewalk) or in the middle of rural america and and came upon ‘the Double Deuce’ you’d know what the inside looked like before you got out of your car.

That, through the mgic of ‘repetition’ in the virtual world is what we have with the SSC&B

It’s a place to go where you can count on it being the same anytime you visit.

But that’s not the original theme of today’s post. (That said, if you need directions or interior descriptions don’t hesitate to feel free to ask: Denise or Mimi or Tom or Nick or Ford or Chris or Jenne for descriptions of the ‘physical’ setting.

but, it’s a short-post morning, so we need to be brief.

The Wakefield Doctrine is a perspective on the world around us and the people who make it up. It proposes that, instead of a menu of characteristics and typical behavior and tropisms that, when assessed will result in a score that puts a person into (a) personality type, the Doctrine relies entirely on the nature of (a) person’s relationship to the world. We have three ‘personality types’: clarks(Outsider), scotts(Predator) and rogers(Herd Members). The parenthetical is the hint as to the relationship, the names are the fun part.

Anyway. We’re born with the three, settle into one, but retain the potential of ‘the other two’. (Still with me?)

The beauty part of the Doctrine is, accepting that a child can perceive themselves as one half of the three relationships, it’s not a stretch to imagine that, when I was growing up an Outsider, the behaviors for interacting with the world would reflect that perception. As a result, one can say, I have the best personality given the nature of the reality I grew up in. (New Readers? That’s where the quality within yourself comes to the fore. If you’re still reading, then one of your traits is to enjoy playing with ideas, imagining things for the fun of it and simple intellectual flexibility. Welcome to the Doctrine. Your friends on the out-wave of the swinging exit door? Don’t worry about them. They’ve already forgotten or decided this was stupid. We’ll just keep with ourselfs, ok?

damn! Still didn’t get to the topic!

The topic was to have been: the role and effect of secondary and tertiary aspects as manifested in the Wakefield Doctrine.

While we said that everyone has one and only one predominant worldview (clark, scott or roger) we retain the capacity to experience the world from the perspective of ‘the other two worldviews’. It is a potential, not necessarily an actual. Some people are all predominant worldview, others a predominant with a significant secondary or tertiary (worldview).

In the interest of time and the fading hope of tying this to the intended topic, in the context of the preceding, I’m a clark (predominant worldview) with a significant secondary aspect (scott) and a weak tertiary aspect (roger).

I’ll be participating in the online ‘Poetry Slam’. And enjoying it.

That is an example of how secondary aspects manifest, when using the additional perspective on the world around us and the people who make it up.