the Wakefield Doctrine

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

‘Phyllis and Una and Home’

This week’s TToT is gonna be on the photo-centric side. Josie Two-Shoes opens the doors to this bloghop and invites one and all to share the things that inspire the state/emotion/experience of gratitude that we might care to share.

(We interrupt this intro narrative to exert editorial authority and usurp an Item, for this purpose referred to as, ‘Man! Look at what wikipedia says about the editorial we!” Otherwise it will be considered Item 7)

A nosism the use of ‘we’ to refer to oneself

Main article: Royal we
A common example is the royal we (Pluralis Majestatis), which is a nosism employed by a person of high office, such as a monarch, earl, or pope.

The editorial we is a similar phenomena

The editorial we is a similar phenomenon, in which editorial columnists in newspapers and similar commentators in other media refer to themselves as wewhen giving their opinions. Here, the writer has once more cast himself or herself in the role of spokesman: either for the media institution who employs him, or more generally on behalf of the party or body of citizens who agree with the commentary.

Similar to the editorial we is the practice common in scientific literature of referring to a generic third person by we (instead of the more common one or the informal you):

• By adding three and five, we obtain eight.
• We are therefore led also to a definition of “time” in physics. — Albert Einstein

“We” in this sense often refers to “the reader and the author”, since the author often assumes that the reader knows certain principles or previous theorems for the sake of brevity (or, if not, the reader is prompted to look them up), for example, so that the author does not need to explicitly write out every step of a mathematical proof.

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Gratitude for the others in the interworld, both as individuals and groups: You should visit Finish the Sentence Friday, they’ve got the most basic of all prompts this week. We’re in the very beginning of Open Enrollment at the Gravity Challenge… come over, sign up and lose!* It’s no secret that we talk about the nature of reality and such, a fair amount in the Doctrine. Friend of the Doctrine, Cynthia is the person to go to when you, ‘want to see it in stores’¹. Stop over to Intuitive and Spiritual and tell her the Doctrine sent ya. And, finally if you gots a hankering to arrange words in new and surprising sequences, head for the Six Sentence Story, Denise and them will total blow yer mind.**

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Sorry, only 8 and 9 left (see above)

‘The Wakefield Doctrine’ spanning the globe.
Friend of the Doctrine, Alex somewhere in Greece invoking the Rite of Hat.

THIS SPACE AVAILABLE (If any Reader wants to participate, however are not certain, in light of this Post, they are yet comfortable contributing to such a…. literary mélange as is this here bloghop here, feel free to send in your Grat Items and we’ll be happy to post them in this space.

10: Secret Rule 1.3

*  Gravity Challenge joke. Despite what a cursory inspection might lead you to believe, the emphasis in the Challenge in not losing weight; it’s practicing the art of altering one’s reality. (No! Really, ask anyone!) We participate by sending in photos of the readout of our scales each morning (‘cept Sunday). Kristi’s Rule is the best illustration of this principle, i.e. the photo (that is a requirement) need show only that portion of the number that you would post. It’s about change, not status. Ya know?

1) To ‘see it in stores’ is an old colloquial expression for, ‘ok, I get the concept, and sure, the Wakefield Doctrine offers a fun, useful and productive perspective on the world around me, but sometimes I’d like to gain reference points that, while helping me learn to live better in the here and now, has less of the ‘raised eyebrow factor’. Talking about mindfulness and centering oneself in the here and now does not make people look at you funny. Exclaiming, “Wow! She is such a scott!” or “Man, rogers sho do keep us on our toes, emotional-combatively-speaking”, tends to inspire the look.”

** it’s a writing challenge, one prompt word, six sentences, fun.

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

‘A change both for the former tree and the earth that gave it meaning. One moves on, the other remains, subtly changed forever.’

Lets go for brevity

1) the Wakefield Doctrine as a tool for self-improving oneself. If for no other reason it is predicated on the notion that we, all of us, live in a reality that is personal. (Nothing weird or spacey, just personal… as in: my perspective does not create the entire world (the world in common, the world ‘out there’) it does, however, impart values, emphasis and, like the blue-and-red cardboard 3D glasses that we used to get back in the day, to see Thirteen Ghosts, (the original, not the recent version with Tony Shalhoub and the always excellent Matthew Lillard), you put them on and your see the ghosts. Of course the ghosts are there all along, the glasses allow you to see them. Perspective is a lot like cardboard 3D glasses. (cont’d Item 3).

2) Josie Two Shoes. Proprietoress of this here bloghop here. The doors are always open, the lights are on ever weekend, without fail. Thanks, J

3) So, you know how we suggest the best way to determine your own predominant worldview? What?! You don’t?! Welll You learn the descriptions of the three worldviews, the Outsider(clarks), the Predator(scotts) and the Herd Member(rogers) well enough to allow viewing the world through the perspective of each of the three. The view that is least blurry is your predominant worldview. The cool thing is, you have, with the aid of the Wakefield Doctrine, access to two additional pair of cardboard 3D glasses. Get them and you can see the world as ‘the other two’* experience. The amazing thing is that you will find you are able to cope with the worlds of the other two. Maybe not smoothly or automatically at first, but with practice? Definitely. I’ll refer you to one Lizzi Lewis and Cynthia Calhoun. They’ve experienced this. Of course, both are exceptional woman-people, so maybe they’re not the most impartial. But it’s true.

4) Una because she reminds me that today is the only real day there is.

Una surveys the surrounding woods. The broad expanse of flat, green(ish) lawn remains peaceful and un-trodden, little suspecting the presence of the balls, one blue and fiercely dense, the other large and disposed to identifying with the flat earth.
They both bide their time accepting the fact full self-actualization lies with the vigilant dog, who in turn delays her own enjoyment in deference to duty.

5) Phyllis  ya know?

6) The Six Sentence Story is a bloghop that we recommend. It’s a fun way to sharpen your wordage skills. No, seriously, not to make it sound like work or some kind of writing class or something. Well, kinda is, but the big difference is it’s a comfortable, totally supportive environment. I’m like almost always reading a Six by say, Pat or Val or Paul and sit back and think, ‘How did they manage to do that?!’ And then you try to imitate it for your own Six and ain’t nobody be in your face with ‘Copycat! Go get yer own words!’ lol Nope, not even once.

7) The Book of Secret Rules (aka the Secret Book of Rules) (inquire within) At least on Item is brevitic.

8) THIS SPACE AVAILABLE (Any new Reader or random visitor, like what you see? Want to participate? Have only one of two Grat Items? Fret no more! Send them in as a Comment and they’ll totally be placed here with full attribution.)

9) Sunday Supplement: ‘Instability and the Beast’

“The Beast begins to make his bid for freedom…”

“Employing a very risky vaulting maneuver, the Beast attains the edge of freedom…”

“A sleeping captor is no captor at all…”

“Embracing the power of instability, the Beast heads to the car in the enclosure. Every bit a God to the formerly earth-bound Beast, the wheeled vehicle awaits in the canvas cathedral.”

“To walk or to drive, that is the question. The top of the earth is both freedom and restriction to the Beast.””

10) SR 1.3

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* example: I’m a clark. ‘the other two’ are scott and roger