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July 21, 2024 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 bloghop. The goal, (for participants), is to compile a list of ten people, places and things that have elicited the state of gratitude. It, (the list), can be historical, contemporaneous or, (don’t tell anyone), essentially fictional.

(Warning to New Participants: thinking that simply making up a list will insulate you from any emotional blowback on ‘making up a grat list’? Way riskier than you might imagine. So, go ahead, keep it simple, just type-down the stuff that made you think, ‘Whew! Glad that did/didn’t happen!” If it’s your first visit to the TToT and you start to falter and despair of completing your contribution, lets us know. We keep a pack of breeze-dried Grats just for the purpose of helping a new Participant.’

Our list, for this week at the crumbling precipice of Summer, is:

1) Una. A very young chodsky pes. Taken in her home country, the Czech Republic, before her impressive, Air-Miles intensive trip to here.

2) Phyllis (somewhere to the West Northwest of Una, a buncha miles.)

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) something, something

5) the Six Sentence Story bloghop Six Pic of the Week: ‘And the Finalists Are…‘ by Anne McSommers

6) the Unicorn Challenge bloghop. Ya gotta read this one!: ‘Time Passing‘ by jenne

7) Current summer project: Figure out if it’s worth renting a combine for the front and side meadowland.

8) Fern Circles: Kinda hard to see in the photo. Every Summer there appears a depression in the middle of this patch of ferns. About this time, (in July) it appears and grows. The individual ferns are not broken or otherwise destroyed, just bent flat to the ground. And the eponymous cool thing is: a) it grows larger by the week and 2) takes on a spiral pattern. Hopefully we’ll find a way to get more meaningful photation going forward as the process continues.

9) new home office (the computer on the left) A much shorter trip to the office now.

10) Secret Rule 1.3

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

July 14, 2024 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. A grat blog that asks the timeless question: ‘So?’* A voluntary compilation of the people, places and things that we find eliciting, prompting and otherwise gettin’ in our face with a sense of gratitude. (For the thing, not our face(s))

This is our list for this early-Winter week:

1) Una

2) Phyllis

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) safely over-exertioning

5) the Six Sentence Story bloghop. Six Pix of the Week: ‘It’s Only Rock and Roll‘. by D Avery

6) the Unicorn Challenge bloghop. ‘corn Pick…. err Uniaminous… er. ‘Hey! Read This ‘un’ “Spawning‘ by Sally

7) Friend of the Doctrine, zoe, (also former host of the Six Sentence Story) has written a book. ‘Before They Met…‘ (listed over on Amazon, check it out).

8) tree removal… heavy wood sections from Point A to Point 2

9) something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3

* not really coined by Robert Heinlein, but a stand-out usage in his seminal SF novel, ‘Stranger in a Strange Land‘.

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fricative friday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

July 5, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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

This is the Doctrine’s contribution to ‘the Unicorn Challenge‘

A photo-prompt bloghop hosted by jenne and ceayr, it has the simplest of rules: keep it at (or under) 250 words.

to wit:

“Man, this is messed up.”

“I know, right?”

“Hey, our job is to keep the line moving; souls get freed from earthly bodies and present themselves for Judgement.

“Well, there’s a problem, look at this place, what do you see?”

“Job security?”

“Funny, you are.”

“What do you propose, stop helping the dead piece together their life histories? Let them wander the endless corridors of the Mall of All. That’s not the Plan. That’s giving up and then we’ll have a problem.”

“Well, I say we tell Him. He can’t know how bad things have gotten, how far off the Path things are.”

“Oh shit!”

“Him?!”

“No, worse, the Morningstar.”

“Goddamn!”

“No time for prayers, look busy!”

“How in what’s His name’s Name am I to punish the evil when Purgatory is clogged with these… lazy agnostics and aimless Millennials?”

“Sorry, Sir. We’re doing the best we can helping them organize their individual curriculum vitae. It’s just that in the last fifty years… they’ve all, seemed to…”

“Become liberal arts majors?”

“No one recognizes an objective Virtue, an independent Good. They barely avoided self-extinction last century, but then, along came the Internet.”

“Your Boss should’ve gotten to that Mark fellow and had him insert an Eighth Sign of the End Times; maybe after Famine but somewhere before Defection of False Believers… come to think of it, maybe there are only Seven. Well, keep ’em moving. Despite the myth, I don’t have eternity.”

“Yes, Mr. Samael, Sir.”

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘ a day without …. without the 10th letter of the alphabet

July 1, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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

“Don’t worry! I’m an angel. …baby

… who needs that fricken’ ‘G’ wannabe anyway?

We’re typing from our laptop.
At the start of a brand-new day.
Many wise words we wish to impart.
As long as they don’t start with a….

No, serially, we have no letter… (rhymes with ‘play’) No, not capital nor lowercase. We could. we suppose find one of the special characters to stand in for it. But, who needs it/her/him?

We suppose we could search for the etymology of this tenth letter in the alphabet. Maybe suss-out the original gender of the root word. (Smart money’s on it being a roger*)

…anyway.

Lets find.. hey about that year when we tried to be all, ‘You say everyone participates? That it’s the most popular group activity. Well, we guess we could try. Really appreciate being included and all…

‘J’ -the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘~~jokes are the billboards on the road through our worldviews~~‘ and now with cows!!

April 11, 2015

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

You want to hear something funny? (How many times have we all heard that threat?) There is much to be aware of when it comes to jokes and the three worldviews that will serve us well in our efforts to better understand the people in the world around us. Mostly that we can laugh. That, as the old saying reminds us, ‘…the capacity to make jokes is what separates man from ….women’ (bar ump bump!! ) no! wait! I kid women, but this is no laughing matter.

This is abundantly clear in the case of scotts. scottian men are the best of joke tellers. (for them), jokes are the condiments, the way to spice up the prey. (no!, seriously! hear me out!) Go to a party (or any other social gathering), see that group of people laughing? at the center will be your scott and he will be telling jokes. not just any jokes! funny jokes. jokes that are nearly as funny in the ‘set up’, as they are in the punchline. And, if you stay long enough, you will see a curious thing happen. (Appropriate to the demographic of the people gathered around), the jokes of the scott will not only become funnier, they will become more… more outrageous, more scatological, more risqué (to borrow a word that will eliminate any doubts as to my own worldview). And, as we watch this group, you’ll see some people leave, offended by the jokes. and it matters not at all to our scottian joke teller. In fact, that’s kinda what he’s after. This telling of jokes to an audience at a social gathering illustrates a number of things about scotts: a) they are all about ‘being paid attention to’, 2) they are confident and c) they are looking to dominate their prey. And so the joke escalation continues until there is only a handful of clarks and maybe 2 rogers left.

(scottian females? oh, they’re funny too, but on a much more retail basis. they don’t need to attract their prey by telling jokes, their prey walks up to them, (if they’re rogers, and they mostly will be, they’ll have a salt shaker in one hand and a bottle of A1 sauce in the other…lol), and hopes to be selected. You’ve heard the expression: ‘like horseshoes and hand grenades? that’s jokes telling as exhibited by scottian women and scottian men.)

Won’t even try to provide a video sample of a scottian joke teller

Well, we’d say something to the effect of how proud we are to have completed a Monday post despite the lack of a certain letter that will remain un… specified.

Final note: we were typically cryptic with our reference to rogers when talking about our ‘missing letter’. But, as anyone will tell you, if there’s something that puzzles you consider that it was put there by an agency that was grounded in one of ‘the other two’ predominant worldviews.

The problem with interpersonal communication is not in vocabulary, context or the other person wanting to yank yer chain. The problem, (and therefore, the solution), lies in determining the nature and character of the speaker’s personal reality, accepting the fact that if you both do not share the same one, (personal reality, aka predominant worldview i.e. personality type), then there’s some translating to be done. And as it happens, the Wakefield Doctrine happens to be a big-assed Michelin translator book-thingie.

* New Readers? Whoever said, “What about gender and the Wakefield Doctrine!!?!?” You are absolutely correct (scott)…. lol The Doctrine is gender-neutral. a clark is a clark (ain’t nothin’ as obvious as sex gonna get us to admit it!) a scott remains scottian (yeah, baby) and a roger is above all that chromosomal conceit, there are far more important values, (“Do we know you?”)

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

June 29, 2024 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. Foundered* in 1974 by the step-niece of C.S. Lewis and a small group of post-granulated theosophy students at the local college. Rhode Island College, located across the capital city from Brown University, (home, in locale, if not spirit to one Mr. Lovecraft), had it’s own underground of freethinkers, defrocked Rosicrucians and liberal arts majors so, fertile ground for a grat blog. Indeed, the scene was set for the TToT to be loosed upon an unsuspecting world, awaiting only the arrival of the internet.

1) Una

2) Phyllis. right, about. HERE

3) the Wakefield Doctrine Specifically, Grat #9

4) Project completed (Before and After photational proof)

5) the Six Sentence Story Six Pic of the Week. ‘Doggie Smarts‘ by Mimi

6 the Unicorn Challenge. Hey, Read this one! ‘Not Just Dust‘ from co-host, jenne

7) (to) Meadow or Mow? Lastest photation.

8) something, something

9) Phyllis needed something notarized this weekend and we found a place in Westerly offering this quasi-judicial ritual. Upon entering the parcel delivery shop, it became immediately apparent that, in the sole employee present, we were dealing with a clark. Phyllis explained what it was we needed, he brought out his notary seal and placed it on the counter, so naturally I said, “I will give you five dollars extra if, in your backroom, you have some sort of robe or wand or something to wear to enhance the process… you know, like the diploma scene in the Wizard of Oz.” This grat, tied to the Wakefield Doctrine (#3), is that I probably wouldn’t have tried this obvious bit of humor, had I not gained a greater understanding of how I relate myself to the world around me and the people who make it up.

(Being a clark, he could only smile in appreciation of the beneficial effects of the principles of the Wakefield Doctrine on a(nother) clark i.e. your truly)

10) Secret Rule 1.3

* lol

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