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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

August 11, 2024 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. It’s a recount of the people, places and things that have elicited, stimulated and otherwise inspired the feeling of gratitude. In some circles, this is considered an act of health and an investment in increasing the odds of avoiding the normal(!) and seemingly(falsely) natural tendency to see the negative in the world of our daily lives. And such.

1) Una

oh! the humanity!! (August 2011)

2) Phyllis

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the Meadow and the Fern Circle (ok, might be a little difficult to see the emerging pattern… but maybe that’s for a reason, ever stop to think that?)

5) the Unicorn Challenge bloghop Premium ‘corn. From Tessa

6) the Six Sentence Story bloghop. Six Pick of the Week. From Yingling: ‘Dial‘

7) paint lower deck project (still gotta scrape)

8) something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3

music vids

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Wednesday -the Wakefield Doctrine- “…before our main Feature, a little diversion.”

August 7, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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

One of the things we, (Cynthia, Denise and yours truly), discussed last Saturday evening was the peculiar perception/experience of Time on the part of clarks.

***We interrupt this introduction with an un-necessary RePrint post. We were certain we lacked the time this morning to write an original content post (Original Content Post motto, “If it didn’t exist before, how the hell could it not be new to you?”***)

[New Readers! Did You Know: Even something as non-rational, subjective and kinda-magical as creativity is manifested differently by the three personality types of the Wakefield Doctrine? It’s true. clarks are the genuinely creative ones, their issue is not of this (common) reality; scotts are creative by force of Will, ‘Look! This!! Isn’t It Something (New!!) and rogers, Well, true to their predilection for fine craftsmanship and precision engineering, they manifest creativity as: Novel Re-Assembly. ‘How New and Improved this is, don’t we all agree?’]

RePrint!!

(whew!! kinda starting to get a little...out there, if you get my meaning, if you catch my drift*)

‘Six Sentence, Six Sentence, Six Sentence Story’ the Wakefield Doctrine- “ …and the moon is in the seventh house“*

February 18, 2016

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

*apparently** that line is, in fact, a lyric from ‘the Age of Aquarius’ from the musical ‘Hair!’

** ‘apparently’ because I have a tendency to write first and understand second, particularly on a Wednesday evening, when I’m in Six Sentence Story Warm-up mode.

Back now, bereft of parentheticals and astrixeseses…. so, zoe has this blog hop, Six Sentence Story every Thursday and the object is to write a story employing the word prompt provided and keep it to 6 sentences. (oh man! I’ve been known in the past as having a touch of arithlexia, this week’s Story really challenges the counting system… whole lines, in quotes I am not counting as individual sentences, unless Al stuck a period in them, which happens once….I think)

This week our prompt is ‘Fray’

“Half a league, half a league, half a league onward” he read, the forest outside his window beginning to glow grayly with the approach of Dawn.

“Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them, Cannon in front of them” the poet continued, bestowing hideous honor on the special variety of mass murderer that society produces on a secret timetable, marked by statues in city parks and the dreams of young boys inoculated with malignant dreams of purpose.

“Stormed at with shot and shell, While horse and hero fell. They that had fought so well“, like the drunken patron in lobby of the whorehouse, describing acts of passion as if to repeat them loudly (enough) would reverse the achingly slow destruction of the good, inherent in life of the not-yet-old girl.

“Honour the charge they made! Honour the Light Brigade, Noble six hundred!”

“I know how this ends, it’s bravado and all, one more cup of coffee and into the fray, into the valley of Commerce rode the….” laughing at himself, he hit ‘Publish’.

*phrase courtesy of one of the albums, can’t remember which, (probably ‘Don’t Crush that Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers’) by the amazing Firesign Theatre (c 1960s-1970s)

Well, damn! This is awkward.

It’s Wednesday. The day we write a Six Sentence Story. Today’s RePrint is a Six Sentence Story. Does that cause a time loop…or tunnel… or oh, well

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

August 6, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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Friend of the Doctrine, Mimi, has come to our rescue with a comment that gives us something to stand-on, (in the middle of ‘What-to-Write-Today Swamp’), and scan the horizon. For a path out. To someplace …err interesting.

Commenting on yesterday’s Post, specifically, in reference to the Richard Linklater video click from ‘Slacker’ that speaks to the matter of timelines and multiple universeseses, (arising and branching with each and every decision we make in our lifes), she wrote:

If every reality creates more, reality must be getting crowded.

To which we Reply’d:

… tell me it is not.

lol

(ever watch a child run? down the street, across the lawn? then observe a young adult do the same… is that, what, a bit more determination in their stride, the tops of the arch of their movement a little slower to rise… we don’t have to talk about our running… there is nothing wrong or incorrect (or defective) about it… it’s simply more work, requiring more effort to move under the accumulated life )

Say what you will about our people, but when it comes to asking questions and suggesting inferencae, especially those that require creative insight and dealing with the un-tangible/objective/concrete/provable-to-a-critical-audience, the Outsiders kinda shine, ya know?

New Readers? The ‘Everything Rule’ states, ‘At one time or another, everyone does everything’. This is a helpful and, in terms of making the Doctrine useful, essential insight into the reality of the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers. It means, simply: there is nothing, (no occupation, avocation, hobby, or things-to-do-at-the-summertime-family-reunion), that is exclusive to one or another of the three personality types. The Wakefield Doctrine maintains that a ‘thing’ manifests differently in each of the three predominant worldviews. And...and! the manner in which something manifests is a direct reflection of that (individual’s) personal reality. (ok an easy, but fun example: Physician? Sure. Of course all three are found in the medical profession. Best fit you say? clark: pediatrician, scott: surgeon, roger:oncologist.)

…hey, New Readers. Don’t think we don’t know what you’re doing. “Tell us about….” “Did you ever see? …” “What’s the weirdest thing about the Doctrine...”

Do your assigned reading. Start with the basics. We guarantee everything will fall into place. In fact. we will go so far as to make the following promise: If you’re a clark or have a significant secondary clarklike aspect, no only will this all make sense, but you will begin to extrapolate the underlying principles. Meaning, once you see that the Doctrine is based on the relationship a person has with the world around them (and the people who make it up), you will begin to experience insights about your friends, co-workers and that weird checkout person down at the QuikiMart. You will know without having had to read it in these pages.

That said, it’s considered good taste and best practice to share your insights with other Readers here at the blog. You never know when what you see might be a new understanding of the three personal realities.

Newest of Readers? The three personality types are:

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

Look ’em up (search this blog) or ask another Reader (in a Comment).

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

August 4, 2024 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. A ‘grat blog’ created by our hostinae emrita, L. She started it. We are continuing it.

Here’s our list.

1) Una

2) Phyllis

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) Saturday Night Call-ins

5) the Unicorn Challenge The Week’s Pick. No Contest! Hands Down: Sally’s ‘Fairy Tales‘

6) the Six Sentence Story Six Pick of the Week. sometimes, it’s healthy to kick back and enjoy some silly fun, for that, one easy call:choice: Keith and his Baaamy Inn Sixes

7) finally!! a hummingbird deigns to stop by our Scarlet Water Bar & Grille

8) Fern Circle (Up Date) Nothing new or shocking in terms of photos. Instead, a photo of some of our local fauna who are totally on the list, along with aliens, numerologists and Seventh Day Adventists of suspects in the Mystery of the Fern Circles.

9) something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3

music vids

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘ten somersets he’ll undertake… on solid ground’

July 30, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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

In terms of actual tools that offer genuine effect on one’s personal reality, it’s a given the Wakefield Doctrine appeals primarily to clarks*.

Why should that be?

Part koan/part: ‘Why did the chicken cross the road?’ This question has been the source of that rarest of commodities, mutual identification/solidarity for the one personality type in a position to benefit from it.

This being a Doctrine post written by a clark (with a significant secondary scottian and weak tertiary rogerian aspect) and (it) being Tuesday** we will forego the projectile apologia to our scottian and rogerian brethren and brethrenia. Let’s give them the day off. To go chase shit and discover new sources of referential authority***.

Hey! That footnote reminds us to mention what is surely in the Top Ten benefits of the Wakefield Doctrine.

No…wait. This is our time.

ok… just this once! Then back to whatever self-help, automatic writing exercise this, (as with nearly all other posts), is today.

The heck with that! We all know that we’re doing is nothing more than our habitual, curry-favor with the real people, just to be on the pre-emptively safe side.

Allow us to shift tenses, POV or whatever and say that it was when we identified a certain characteristic behavior of the the Herd Members that offered an insight that makes the life of the clark following this personality theory a whole lot better. We’re, of course, referring to ‘lashing out’. Will leave it at ‘it has nothing to do with you, it is all about them’. The rest, if you need it, (secondary clark- rogers and scotts out there) is contained somewhere in this blog.

We’re running short of time. Have a big day of ‘Fine. You have the Wakefield Doctrine. You must attend a social function full of strangers. Lets see if you can do something different.

…and, no, writing on your wrist:

clarks (the Outsider) abhors being the center of attention but will not tolerate being ignored; are smarter than they need to be but still mistake information with identification; fear scrutiny above all while assuring they will stand out in any crowd, despite taking up a position on the fringes and in the purported shadows
scotts (the Predator) the total life of the party, are as obvious as flashbulb in a pup tent; as with all forms of their kind, the problem with encountering scotts in public is not being noticed, but in trying to run away. the closest (in a pet lion sorta way) to being the friendly one of ‘the other two’
rogers (the Herd Member) if quicksand were, like an element of the atmosphere, this person is attractive and usually not so beneficial, at least when there is more than one of them. (Hint: schoolyard at lunch time after they were singled-out by the teacher for not doing their homework and… you laughed when everyone else stopped. Quit school. Join the circus.)

is not really what we’ve been striving towards the past fifteen plus years. lol

We think we said yesterday something about remembering to imagine the world/immediate situation as the other person is experiencing it. Then, and only then, do you have a shot at deliberate and effective communication.

Will report back tomorrow.

* it is almost axiomatic that for anyone else, (aka ‘the other two’ predominant worldviews), to get caught up in this most excellent alternative perspective on the world around us (and the people who make it up), one must have a significant secondary clarklike aspect

** the most clark-friendly day of the workweek. by far!

*** New Readers? this is the second-most startling and serendipitous insight afforded us when applying the principles of this here Doctrine here to learn more about ‘the other two’.