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QuintPrint -the Wakefield Doctrine-

February 14, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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

Quick post. Saint V theme. Semi-reflective of the effect of the Wakefield Doctrine on it’s curator.

First the QuintPrint¹

“No, it’s ok. I’m a saint.”

St Valentines is the worst, most contrived and cynical, gyno-centric guy-bait(ing), toy-with-the-emotions-of-innocent-bystanders, holiday on the whole damn calendar. Of course we are all familiar with the origin of the holiday and the internet is positively turgid with countless blogs, and stories and articles that tell us all about Hallmark and the candy industry and the rest of the sordid tale of this day in February. I will not try to compete with these other more skilled and capable Commentators ( and -torinis), as I do not have the time or the ‘writing chops’ to do such a ripe topic justice. Instead, let me tell you about my most lasting memory of Valentines Day.

Third grade, parochial school (St. Imelda*) and a classroom of 25 students. The boys were required to wear blue shirts and blue ties with OLM printed on the front, fortunately ‘clip-on ties’ had been invented by this time, so easy-peasy; the girls wore the catholic school uniform, i.e. plaid skirts white shirt, socks. damn, little did I realize at that pre-pubescent time of my life how potent that little Roman Catholic Church fashion dictates would become for me and countless other men at a later stage of life. (In fact, I am feeling the tug on the cynical side of my writing-self, there is something about the whole, church-sexual-abuse-dress-the-children in outfits destined to become so hawt… lol sorry, again I lack the time or the writing skill to do justice to a topic like this… back to the story.)
So with much fanfare, Valentine’s Day arrives and we 9 year old boys and girls are told that in the afternoon, before the end of the school day, we would have time to deliver our Valentine cards to each other. ( The day before we spent ‘Art Period’ making little baskets out of construction paper and taping them to the front of our desks. These would serve as ‘mailboxes’ for the cards we would receive the next day).
The thing was, the horrible twist to this introduction to the world of love, relationships and rejection was that, the time when class stopped and we were allowed to get up and deliver our little cards was not the end of the school day! It was right after lunch… and it lasted 15 or 20 minutes…as in ‘ now return to your desks and we will continue with the afternoon’ classes’. To sit for 90 minutes staring at the contents of the container on the front of my desk… I will leave it to the Reader to decide the emotional landscape of that afternoon on a February 14th.

Anyone out there not comfortable with finishing the story, or satisfied with their conclusion of this little tale, write us a Comment! Regular Readers know that the rogers gave the biggest cards, the scotts received the most cards and the clarks delivered the most cards….secretly without the recipient ever knowing who the really fun card came from…

Now I better get back to work, before I get in trouble.

Now the refraction*

Let’s make this quick. (Yeah, like that’s ever been a problem**)

How efficacious is this here self-improvement tool, here? We wrote this, way back, in, like 2012. Told a story on our selfs. Am a clark. ok, with a significant secondary scottian aspect. Even still, given how the existential fear (and, we would maintain, the single most powerful ratio-emotional drive) is scrutiny. We read this post, even today and can’t help but say, ‘Damn!’

ok that’s all you get

[New Reader’s? while we all have but one predominant worldview, we have the potential of (a significant) secondary and tertiary aspects. They serve as … as the italics of life. Doctrinistically-speaking of course.]

1) next to Thanksgiving, this has gots to be the most reprinted of posts

* ha ha a little joke₂

2) don’t tell anyone, but it remains a constant source of frustration that my current writing style is so limited

** ba rum bump!

Filed Under: Featured, Psychology, the Wakefield Doctrine Tagged With: Personal, personality types, self-improvement, the Wakefield Doctrine

TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

February 10, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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

This is our weakly contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. Long considered the apex Grat-blog in the ‘sphere. Often imitated, the TToT is still the go-to for anyone needing a quick attitude adjustment.

1) Phyllis —————————————————————–↓

2) Una ———————↑

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) continued non-snowistic climate.

5) the Six Sentence Story bloghop. (Week’s fave Six: ‘Entrée’)

6) the Unicorn Challenge bloghop (Doctrine Pick of the Week: ‘Now, that’s one hell of a development opportunity‘ )

7) writing and such

8) technology that allows a photo of the rather exceptional Sailor’s Warning sky at sunrise yesterday. The photo at the top of this post does not do justice to how red the sky was.

9) something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3

music vids

Filed Under: Featured, Psychology, the Wakefield Doctrine Tagged With: personality types, relationships, self-improvement, the Wakefield Doctrine, Understanding Human Behavior

Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine- “…of crib-sheets, borrowed notes and the mildest of workweek days.”

February 6, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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

Much to do today.

Fortunately, it is Tuesday (Tuesday’s motto: “Sure, why not? the Rest of the week is wide open. Be all you can be today and don’t worry ’bout nothin’)

Hey! Don’t forget them extra cool upper/lower ordinals (?) and, blockquotes for good measure.

This, of course, in response to Mimi and Denise’s comments.

“Yes, you can’t demo html code without it doing the effect, I’ve tried. Maybe if you post a picture of the code it would work.” (M.)

“That was fun (no, Denise, Monday morning (while leaving a comment) is not the time to figure out how to italicize words in the comment box).
I’ll meet everyone in the language lab a bit later! (D)

ok¹. errr ok₁

that should cover all the html that we ever use. now: lets see if’n ‘the Press allows us copy and paste them pyschoglyphics!

For us, once we were told the basic convention (of extra-cool word things) was: using ‘<‘ and ‘>” as brackets always negate the command, as in <something> Object word/phrase </something>

as in: italics on word/phrase <not italics>

lets push this button ….here is the top half showing html tags

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

Much to do today.

Fortunately, it is Tuesday (Tuesday’s motto: “Sure, why not? the Rest of the week is wide open. Be all you can be today and don’t worry ’bout nothin')

Hey! Don’t forget them extra cool upper/lower ordinals (?) and, blockquotes for good measure.

This, of course, in response to Mimi and Denise’s comments.
<blockquote>Yes, you can’t demo html code without it doing the effect, I’ve tried. Maybe if you post a picture of the code it would work. (M.)

I’ll meet everyone in the language lab a bit later! (D)</blockquote>
ok1. errr ok1

that should cover all the html that we ever use. now: lets see if’n ‘the Press let’s us copy and paste them pyschoglyphics!

For us, once we were told the basic convention (of extra-cool word things) was: using ‘<’ and ‘>” as brackets always negate the command, as in <something> Object word/phrase </something>

as in: italics on word/phrase <not italics>

Holy shit! it worked!

Lets quit while we ahead.

This is the way that we know of to put italics and such into comments on another body’s post.

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

January 29, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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

thank Eris we have a certain acceptance of RePrint posts, both as a rhetorical lubricant and a good, old-fashioned placeholder/filler material!

We’re in the initial phase of a project in the ‘real’ world. Definitely be taking the notes, for the progress reports, doncha’ know.

As we all know, the Wakefield Doctrine is both toy and tool. It’s the original, ‘and this dial makes the parents gigantic shoes fit like a glove and this slider shifts perspective to account for the relative elevation of most day-to-day reference points, including (but not limited to) mirrors, sinks, showerheads and bookshelfs,’ device.

but, it being Monday and we gots to provide more value than a three second vid loop (not that it’s all that bad, lol) lets go find a post by searching ‘parental influence’.

didn’t find the full phrase, but ‘parental’ turned up:

Time to get back to the serious matter of the Wakefield Doctrine

March 11, 2011

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

…a unique, useful and fun way to understand why the people in our lives do the things that they do. And this is the place to learn about the three personality types: clarks, scotts and rogers. Everyone you encounter today will be one of these three types, and if you know the type you not only will know why they act the way that they do, you will be able to predict how they will behave in virtually any situation. How cool is that?

But we have had some Readers say to us, “hey you Doctrinaires! We like what we think we read in your blog, but my parents want me to go to college to learn about relationships, personality theories and such. What are we to do in order to convince our parental units to give us all the tuition money directly and let us decide where to spend it, higher education-wise. You know what we mean? Don’t you guys have a talkshow (sort of) and know everything, tell us what to say, yo“!

Alright, we will.
Print the following chart and paste it into a nice binder-thing, like those smoked cellulite term-paper things with the v-shaped plastic thingie to hold it all together. Not only will the following chart prove to be an irrefutable argument for convincing your parents to come across with the Tuition Money, but to totally demonstrate how all helpful the Wakefield Doctrine is, we will be available this Saturday evening to help you slap a big-time close on Daddy and Mom for that money. We want you to start and simply argue with them until they’re just about to get mad and then tell them, ” Now, Father and Mother, if you have any questions about the efficacy of the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers and would like to hear from the actual people behind this Wakefield Doctrine, lets just call them toll free right now! OK? (They will probably say, “OK”! But if they do not, tell them that if they do not call the Wakefield Doctrine, you will take all your clothes and go and live with the hobos or the local Salvation Army/YMCA people or the nearest commune).
Dial this badboy: 1-605-475-2200 access code: 6660467#. (we’ll take it from there…best keep your car running though.)

Advantages of the Wakefield Doctrine over any of those personality theories taught at “colleges” and “universities”

the Wakefield Doctrine Those “real” personality theories

Educational Requirements Yeah, right High School and frickin College and maybe even more!

How long does it take to learn …this afternoon be soon enough? Way, way too long

How much does it cost Fifty-eleven dollars and a subscription to ‘Modern roger’ Way more than you have on you! Like you will be paying it off for the next 15 years

Professional Standards …well, we have hats (for your damn head) Yeah, but you have to pay to join the APA, ACPA, ASPCA

Practical Applications Way too many to mention No, there’s this matter of Professional Standards and Ethics. Total buzzkill

Where do I sign up? Over to the right, yo Not so fast! Lets see some transcripts, and Letters or Reference and Advance Payments

Now here at the Doctrine blog, we are not all, ‘hey! this is serious and you have to pay attention’! No, we have free music to listen to and watch and all.

as vincent vega says,

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

January 23, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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

To (continue from yesterday’s post) and reinforce the shift back to being the source of appreciation, understanding and help applying the principles of the Wakefield Doctrine, a definition:

The Wakefield Doctrine is an alternate perspective on the world around us and the people who make it up. It is predicated on the character of the relationship between us and the world. There are three characteristic relationships. That of:

the Outsider (clarks) in which the world is everything outside the boundaries of our thinking minds. Those born into this personal reality begin with curiosity and develop their social strategies motivated by a single fear, that of scrutiny. clarks know they are different but do not know why. They are governed by the suspicion that it is, somehow, their fault. Avoidance becomes the better part of valor;
the Predator (scotts) to whom the world is… the world. Survival is simple, kill or be killed. And, as a metaphor, the manifestation of this imperative is just as immediate a concern the Outsider maintains towards discovery. scotts know the world is, at heart, as simple as they experience. Hesitancy is sleep and inaction is death. The joy and the fear that cling to both prey and (other) predators is the A1 sauce of the gods. Confirmation that they need only act. Life is to be lived in furious enthusiasm, asking no quarter and expecting none from the world. Valor is the better part of valor.
the Herd Member (rogers) find themselves in a world that is nearly perfect. Recognizing the familiar, they extend their attention and regard to those around them. Commonality is grace and the only sin is to be a nuisance and a burden on others. rogers know the world around them is quantifiable, they begin to organize, take inventory and embrace all they know and, with the care of a bee keeper or snake charmer, keep track of those they do not. The glaze of the flambé are those apart, the different.

We, all of us, develop in personal realities reflecting these three worldviews. In a sense, we all have, in principal, perfect personality types. For the reality we experience as ‘the world’. The Wakefield Doctrine maintains that for every individual, there is only one predominant worldview, however, we all retain the residual potential of ‘the other two’. The application of the Doctrine is as simple as asking oneself:

How is this person relating themselfs to the world around them?

With this question answered, we are in a position to realize two benefits: a) we know more about them than they know about themselfs and 2) we are, if we’re so inclined, in a position to appreciate how the other person is experiencing the moment we share.

Pointers for the (most fun and efficacious) use of our little personality theory:

the Wakefield Doctrine is for you, not them
once you have the three relationships down, you can’t get it wrong
(there are tons of examples of the typical and characteristic behaviors of each of the three personality types in this blog)
you are experiencing the world as one (and only one) of the three
translation is the Seal of Solomon for students of this here Doctrine here
there is something called ‘the Everything Rule’ it will prevent needless complications. learn it.
it’s fun and useful (as one more perspective on the world around us)

no RePrint today.

Don’t forget the bloghops of the week. It’s how we develop and practice our communication skills. Tomorrow and Thursday it’s the Six Sentence Story and on Friday, the Unicorn Challenge. Go there. Read. Participate. Tell ’em the Doctrine sent ya.