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Sentence⁶ /_Story -the Wakefield Doctrine-

March 31, 2016 By clarkscottroger

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

Look at how light it is! (The photo above was taken at 6:18 pm 03/30/16), how nice is this DST? Warming up for my Six, not to give anything away, but I’m thinking a play on words might be fun! I mean, I enjoy my Sixes but I also admire the straightforward stories (sometimes fun, other times humorous) that the others write. Although naturally inclined to go the Stream of Consciousness route (I have no idea why), a direct narrative story, one that is also engaging, now that’s a worthy goal. (Author’s Note: having just completed the story let me say, ‘yeah, right!’)

Anyway, we’ll just have to see what shows up, ya know? zoe does this bloghop, this Six Sentence Story, each Thursday and the object is to take the prompt word, this week it’s ‘floor’, and write a story involving the word of the week and using exactly Six Sentences to do so.

The world before him slowly reformed, one sense at a time, his mind re-assumed its responsibility for informing him of his current state of what-the-hell-is-going-on. Vision started the process, but clearly was not up to the task, a field of brown to his left and ‘non-brown’, brightening into too-bright, on his right. (For reasons he sensed he would not have the luxury of exploring), taste and smell joined in their part of forming his world, mostly in the smell of dog, (which triggered an inexplicable bloom of hope and simple happiness), and the taste of wool and dust, (mittens, warmth and sweaty enclosures), both linked, yet neither dependent on the present moment. Hearing returned, like the tumbling of stones under a receding ocean’s wave, a sound that conveyed a sense of huge, (despite it’s fading), seemed to contain the promise of a return that inspired childlike awe, made more bearable by the sounds of distant morning birds, like the first raindrops on the windshield of a speeding car. Touch returned last, always the most comprehensive of his senses, (its countless descriptions formed his presence in and of the world), providing only the disquieting intelligence that he was not standing and the world was receding, like the stages of a light brightening from ‘just barely visible’ to ‘all the light in the world’, the quality of ‘approaching’ or ‘receding’ was losing it’s importance.

He sensed change and felt an ember of not-fear growing somewhere in the middle of where he was.

(Floor)

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Phase 78.2 .4 -the Wakefield Doctrine-

March 28, 2016 By clarkscottroger

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

I had a really good Post written, unfortunately it was (written) in my head only and it was 4:03 am when I read it. I add that second part to let you know how I can claim to know it was a really good post. I’ll try to re-write it here, now.

Most everyone reading this will be familiar with the underlying tenets of the Wakefield Doctrine. Perhaps the most basic and fundamental of these is that we, all of us, live in a reality that is, to certain extent, personal. From this we derive the difference between the Doctrine and the ‘real’ personality typing system, i.e. for us, personality type is a reflection of the reality that we grew up and developed our interpersonal skills in, as opposed to being innate, inherent, instilled or insufferable qualities that came pre-packaged at birth, like a sim card that lets you do certain things but, if you want to do other things, maybe even like other brand phones, then, sure you can, but you have to like, re-program it and that’s not exactly printed on the box the damn phone came in, of course, you could buy an upgrade, but who has the money for that, and you end up, like most of us, hoping that your friends learn something that you can, like, half copy and half learn and then you can improve the phone’s operability and hopefully not fuck it up so much that it doesn’t work.

Did I mention that this Post was originally written at 4:03 am? Well, you know how that time of day can be. In any event, all of you out there are reading this from a personal reality (we call it pre-dominant worldview, or simply worldview), that gave rise to social strategies and ways-of-interacting-with-the-world that we refer to as:

clarks (Outsider) those of us who look around at 4:03 in the morning and wonder how we’re possibly going to get by in the world ‘out there’ today, the distinction (of being apart from the world and everything that goes with it, including, god! especially including the people), tells you everything you need to know to be able to identify the clarks in your world.
scotts (Predator) those of us who look around at 4:03 in the morning and know where they are and what needs to be done in order to move forward without being restrained or restricted, the value of freedom cannot be assigned because it is without limits and, this lack of limits has as much to do with the others in the scotts‘ life as it does with their own enjoyment of life… act and live, protect and preserve the pack and …did we say, live and act (because life is short) yet?
rogers (the Herd Member) ever wonder who buys alarm clocks that have snooze features? yeah. because for our rogerian brethren, even not getting up on time really should be planned out, at very least assigned a quantity (“Hit Snooze and Get 10 Minutes of Sleep!”) who on earth can do that and not lie awake wondering if 10 minutes is almost up or, maybe there’s a mistake in the programming and now it’s like, and hour too late? sorry, rhetorical question. In any event, virtually all of the technology that makes our modern lives so comfortable (and scary) are courtsey of our rogerian friends

That’s the deal with the three personality types. The self-development thing? Well that’s simple enough, my goal is to develop my rogerian and scottian aspects (in balance) with my pre-dominant clarklike worldview. (New Readers: the Doctrine maintains that we’re all born with the potential to live and develop in all three worldviews, we always end up in only one, but never lose the capacity for ‘the other two’). The underlying reason is that purpose of this here, personality here, is intended to help us to appreciate how the other people in our lives ‘relate themselves to the world around them’. Using the Doctrine makes this goal much more attainable, and totally lets us know more about the other person than we have any right to know.

Hey what the hell, is today that Monday?!! zoe’s other blog… the carrot?? Heart and Mind Monday? ok, lets re-arrange the content here and …

I’m happy and pleased to announce that I’ve completed writing the serial story, ‘Blogdominion’! No! seriously, the story is written down (in places other than inside my head) and it has a beginning, a middle and an End. That alone is, for me, a significant accomplishment. I’ll surely be writing more about it in coming days. But I finished writing it and I thank Val and zoe and glenn for being such Constant Readers and providing much appreciated feedback and, I thank Phyllis for doing a nearly-final-does-this-chapter-really-work reading each and every Sunday for that last…. well, the last 23 Sundays plus epilogue. And I appreciate Denise’s tireless efforts in the edit and re-write and final read-outloud process. sine qua non, binyon.

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The Sixth Sentence -the Wakefield Doctrine- (‘I see clarks, scotts and rogers‘)

March 10, 2016 By clarkscottroger

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

What the hell?! How are we in mid-Wednesday mode already?

New Readers? Our friend zoe hosts this Six Sentence Story bloghop each and every Thursday (as opposed to the Carrot ‘artist en scene’ which, rumour has it, meets once a month), I say rumour, because I thought it was every Monday… but now I know. (our boy Oscar is rumored to have said, “There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.” )

I don’t suppose the prompt word this week is rumor, huh? Hold on a second… (this is where I type SOC stuff in order to believe that I’m going to be surprised (in a pleasant way))

Second ……. second

Second

‘You can do this,’ he thought, staring around the room, seeing and acknowledging the other, yet refusing to allow the facts of the present situation to gain too much control of his feelings. There was time for both of them, unfortunately, the time remaining for one was diminishing at an unpredictable rate. He knew that his own fear, (for the future), could not be allowed to dominate, the peace that the other was clearly enjoying could only be maintained by his own feelings of calmness and serenity. There seemed to be no way to maintain this balance, a balance between knowing and feeling. Ironically, the other was, by nature, able to embrace the limitless peace, (found only in the here and now), and thereby be immune to the anticipation of the future in which only one would remain to find the remainder of the path through life.

‘We can do this,’ this second assertion contained the realization that peace, (for him), was to be found in the peace felt by the other, and, with this acceptance become possible for them both.

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Monday Morning Carrot Cake -the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘I went down to the crossroads, tried to beg a ride’

March 7, 2016 By clarkscottroger

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

Friend of the Doctrine, zoe, has this blog, Carrot and on Monday’s does a rather cool ‘hop. People are invited to send in something (they’ve done) in the way of expressing creativity. Of course, creativity is as creativity does, so zoe reaches out beyond the blogosphere and invites everyone and anyone to send samples of their efforts in on Mondays. très cool, non?

Anyway. Every gallery opening has, like hors-d’oeuvres and canapés (usually arranged on stainless steel serving dishes, following a clever thematic… er theme!), the Wakefield Doctrine brought the soda and little meatballs and such.

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Blogdominion Monday! Chapter 21 is out and readable! Hey, moving towards the climax of the story. You can wait for it to come out in print (open to suggestions of editors and the like), or you can read it the old-fashioned way, as it unfolds! (Start at the Prologue…. take a day off from work, half a day if you’re a fast reader and don’t have any distractions at home. Anyone hassle you on it, the Doctrine will send you a ‘(Your Name) totally needs a little time to read the complete serial. Now back the hell off!’ to take to work or wherever.)

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Our Contribution to (the) Carrot is, from September 2011, the following Roadtrip video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXJJFo0KRAQ?list=PL18908905F7AE7250

and some music appropriate to the theme:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yd60nI4sa9A?list=RDYd60nI4sa9A

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ttot -the Wakefield Doctrine- “and the Award goes to….”

March 5, 2016 By clarkscottroger

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

We all know that the year speeds up, it’s apparent rate of passage, at some point during the course of the 12 months of the year. Not a year goes by that I don’t hear someone say, “Boy! where did the year go? One minute it was January and now it’s…” (fill in one of the months of the last Quarter of the year). Good news! I’ve discovered when the acceleration commences, in earnest. This week. The one we’re finishing up. The first full week of March. The year is now, officially, speeding the hell up.

Just thought you’d want to know.

1) Cynthia…

2) road trips (Haven’t been on one in too long. Thinking that, once I get Blogdominion completed, I need to go drive by St. Emily’s and spend the night in the Hilton Chicago/Indian Lakes Resort where the first mysterious death occurred in the story of Unit 17 and the Bloggers and the Nun)

3) hey!! the Academy Awards were this week!! Am I ever grateful? well, no, I don’t really care about the Academy Awards. But I do like movies! This TToT is shaping up to being pretty lame, (except my reference to Cynthia and Una and Phyllis and the Gravity Challenge and Blogdominion and the Six Sentence Story). You want to see one of the best movies ever? and, if you’re a new Reader? and you’re wondering which is your predominant world view, you want some help finding which personal reality is your? Well, do you? This movie (for which I will invoke SR 893.389, chap 3 and count as 4 Items on a future TToT post), will help big time! Lets get you started on the movie, then I’ll come back and tell you what the movie can tell you about your personality type, ok?

5) so, the movie: if you’re a clark, you’ll not only enjoy the movie immensely, but you’ll laugh in recognition to the opening scenes. if you’re a roger you will not make it past, like, the first 5 minutes… you will totally hate it. (not just hate it, but, if you’re watching this with anyone else, especially a clark, you’ll get mad at what a monumental waste of time this movie is, and how can anyone say that this is anything but awful.) If you’re a scott, you’ll enjoy if you’re watching it with another person, be bored and turn it off, if alone.

6) the Book of Secret Rules (aka the Secret Book of Rules) is wonderful. In today’s Post, I’m invoking the ‘at least a million words‘ clause of the Rule. This allows us to use motion pictures as an example, not only of a thing we are grateful for, but the relationships that exist that allow such a thing to be shared and enjoyed. (or something)(lol)

7) Chapter 20 of Blogdominion is out and, well, let me say, that Sister Margaret! Land Sakes Alive! That young woman has more sides that Heinlein’s tesseract!*

8) * well, sure! we’re not limited to staring at the silver screen! here, you want to read a classic short story? Here is Heinlein’s, ‘-And He Built A Crooked House’

9) since we’re all about the movies this week, you want to see a real science fiction, time-travel paradox movie? I mean, probably the best one ever made? Go see, (or rent from wherever you rent movies from), “Predestination” Staring Ethan Hawke… seriously, this movie is amazing and, I might add, based on a short story by the master of time-travel paradox stories, Robert A Heinlein! worth the price of the rental, for sure.

10) SR 1.3