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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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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

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Enter Title Hear -the Wakefield Doctrine- (yeah, a joke… gotta read the post. (well, sure I thought it was funny!))

March 16, 2016 By clarkscottroger

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You remember that thing your parents always used to say, when you were a kid and didn’t want to do something (chores, homework, grow up)? ‘If you’d spend half as much energy just doing it, you’d be done by now!’

Well, today’s Post is/was/will be a lot like that. Got up thinking, ‘better post something, can’t have anyone forgetting what exactly it is that we do ’round this here Doctrine, here’. But I had nothing! Zero ideation. So, naturally, I thought, ‘lets do a reprint!’. (Followed by, ‘yeah, but which one?’) (In turn, followed by, ‘jeez, do I have to think of everything?!!’) Finally I thought, ‘lets see what the visitors are reading!’ and I looked and there was ‘Liverpool New South Wales’ and the following post was what they were linking in on! Fine, job’s half done, right? Incorrect! I copied and pasted and none of the images carried over. Now this normally would not bother me, words being my tool…. er, my weapon?? damn…. words..words being that-friend-who-had-thousands-of-comic-books-and-the-pages-weren’t-even-missing-and-model-cars-not-yet-built-but-wasn’t-really-my-friend-except-I-did-get-to-go-over-to-his-house-once…. yeah, me and words. So I needed to get the photos into the reprint post below (which, with each clever, typed word becomes more and more un-necessary). I figured out how to do it and so, below in a re-print post from a year or so ago.

(I was talking to zoe yesterday and remembered that, based on the idea of personal reality being the manifestation of reality, the population of the world is no more than 1,700 real people. No, really! I’m serious! But I don’t have any more time this morning. Maybe another Tuesday post, I’ll explain how this is true.)

Chapter 22 of ‘Blogdominion‘ is out and ready to be read. Come on down…. looking for Beta Readers pretty soon, yo.

(From September 14 (‘A Day that Will Live Forever in Infancy’ F. Roosevelt)

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

I was going to write about how much the Wakefield Doctrine has changed me and altered the path of my life, for today’s Post. However, seeing how I’m actually writing this yesterday, ( ‘right now’ in the parlance of Time), it’s only natural that we should discuss ‘Time Travel and the Wakefield Doctrine’.

(Before we get any further into today’s Post, (be sure to Comment and tell your friends to read this here Post here), allow me to review two concepts that are part of the underlying principles necessary to a full enjoyment of our favorite personality theory. They are:

‘everyone does everything at one time or another‘ often I will hear people say, ‘oh man! that’s something only a scott would do’ or, ‘my cousin is a firefighter, isn’t that a rogerian job, he doesn’t strike me as being a roger!’ The ‘everything Rule’ is there to remind us that, though the Doctrine tells us that there are three distinct personal realities (aka worldviews), we are all still living in a common world. In this world, there are Firefighters and Fisherman, Surgeons and Gardeners, Prostitutes and Politicians, Teachers and Children…. clarks and scotts and rogers are all of these things and everything else. The (observed) effect of having a particular worldview is not simply that a scott will approach a job or a hobby or a romantic date differently than would a clark or a roger, but the thing that she experiences, the ‘dang an sich’, is manifested in accordance to her worldview. It is this ‘manifesting‘ that is what allows for the different worldviews to interact with the common worldview and still permit the individual differences to be expressed. Not only can we know how a certain thing might manifest for a person, given their worldview, but we can also predict how the person will experience and you know that means!
‘manifesting’ is what accounts for how we will experience (any part of life) and therefore, to an extent, the range of choices available to us…. ( you want an example in real life? well, do you?…then go to our friend Christine’s blog and read this Post and keep in mind (like we need to tell you…lol) she is a scottian woman. And just in case you are tempted to think, ‘but that’s obvious! she’s a scott! Go and see how a certain situation manifests to a roger. Kristi has a Post that could have been titled, ‘A Brief Insight into the Thoughts and Feelings of a Well-Balanced roger on a Typical Day’ here…. read this Post.
( I would cite a Post written by a clark but…. talk about your ‘coals to Newcastle’ ! lol…. check these out: Lizzi (pick a post…any post) or zoe, (interesting for reasons beyond the scope of this Post) or…Denise or Cynthia. G’wan with ye now.
As today’s Post’s subtitle implies, the adventure of traveling in time, where it possible, would be a different experience for each of the three worldviews. rogers, being the technically gifted (they are the reason that we have computers and reliable airliners (yeah, so I’m like 87 years old with that expression) and the natural engineers. Their time machine would look something like:

a clark, well while clarks know an awful lot of things and, are the genuinely creative (of the three personality types), will attempt to forestall criticism (and laughter) by fashioning a machine that will simply look cool and thereby obviate the probing questions, such as: ‘how does it actually work?’ and, ‘does it actually work?’. Their time machine would tend to look something like:

While scott (though not inclined to take the time to build an actual time machine), would simply find one and hot-wired it to take his/her friends on a joyride in:

That being said, this Post is about the Wakefield Doctrine, not time machines. Then again, if the Wakefield Doctrine is all that it’s cracked up to be, surely it could predict how a concept (and common) day dream such as ‘If I could travel back in time and retain my experience and knowledge, yet inhabit my younger body, with no one around me being any the wiser, I would…..

…out of time. So, tell us how you would use Time Travel. (You don’t even have to tell us your predominant worldview… your Comment will tell us that, thank you. lol)

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine- “*…there’s a light**”

March 11, 2016 By clarkscottroger

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Welcome to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT). (‘the bloghop that Lizzi built‘)

1) Lead off Item is the Friday Night walk, which thanks to the return of Daylight Savings Time, Una and I can afford to take a ride to the bank before our walk around the golf course.

2) Daylight Savings Time (that’s the tie-in to this week’s subtitle and music video)

3) The Book of Secret Rules (aka the Secret Book of Rules) which includes the case for items of hypogratitudeness which (are) defined, in part, as “those aspects, occurrences, fundamental elements of every day life, that cause a reasonable person to pause and appreciate that what might be a negative, instead produces an insight into reality, thereby further enriching one’s life and such” Case in point, the following that was the subject line of an email from my cell phone provider:

“$50 Reward Cards: what are friends for?”

No! seriously, this is the actual teaser line on an email from Sprint. It did cause me to reflect briefly on the sad subtext (what someone in marketing must have convinced their boss would be an effective sales strategy). On a positive note, this brief episode made me recall an excellent Post from Friend of the Doctrine Christine, over at ‘the Coop’

4) This week’s activity included the Six Sentence Story, over at zoe’s, but not, despite my own refusal to read the instructions carefully, over at the Carrot‘

5) the Wakefield Doctrine …just because it’s fun and enjoyable to be in a position to know more about the people I encounter than they know about themselves.

6) Chapter 22 of Blogdominion is due to be published this weekend. For those of you not reading along, it’s the start of the climax of the story. You don’t want to miss it! (I’d normally spend some italics-time talking about what the characters are up to in the coming chapter, but I won’t this week, because, well, because this is serious stuff now! For starters Sister Bernadine’s life is in danger… and Orel, well, he knows more than he’s sharing with his young friend, Stephen and Anya, well! don’t get me started on Miz Clarieaux! But, Maribeth… you know, she really deserves more happiness, too bad she’s the person standing in her own way, but… you know, sometimes people just surprise us. Anyway, guess you’re just gonna have to read and discover for yourselfs what happens next!)

7) Phyllis for reading the Chapters (of Blogdominion) before I publish them. This is valuable and important to me, as she is a roger and her reaction to the story provides me with a check on how well I’m communicating with the majority. (Yeah, the general population is 2/3s roger and half a third clark and a half a third scott.) Yes, you’re correct, most of your commercially successful writers will be rogers. Of course, as a student of the Doctrine, you could identify any given author’s worldview simply by reading a sample of their work. rogers are very good tellers-of-tales (as opposed to story tellers, that honor goes to our scottian friends.) ‘Know the Wakefield Doctrine and know a whole bunch about total strangers‘, is the old saying.

8) shout out to the Graviteers (at the Gravity Challenge) if you have a desire to alter your weight, you owe it to yourself to come and check us out, serially! It’s an approach to losing, (or gaining, if that’s your goal). weight that, admittedly is not for everyone, but for those of us who do participate, I’m confident that none of us feel that we’ve done anything but benefit from participation! Ask anyone! christine, val, lisa, kristi, joy or sarah…. they’ll tell you why it’s one of the cooler activities that involve minimal clothing, food and photography!

9) I know I’m forgetting something, but I’m grateful that it doesn’t bother me nearly as much as it might have at an earlier point in my life.

10) SR 1.3 and now the music. (you really should see RHPS at least once!)

**my god! this age thing! I put a simple asterix tying the subtitle reference to this very excellent song/video and let it go at that (along with RHPS in item 10) , and published this last night. I was talking to a person who enjoyed the video and is of an age to have seen it when first released (withholding identities to protect the innocent, but I can say, her name rhymes with denise)… anyway math was done and I came to the realization that probably half of the Readers were not even born when the movie (Rocky Horror Picture Show was released***). Two words: aiiyeee!
***released to the single movie theatre still has shows every Friday at midnight (lol… RHPS joke****)
**** go ask your parents!