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October 8, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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

Hey! Remind us to return to the topic we started yesterday.

Short on time. A RePrint (‘oughta hold the little bastards’*)

New evidence showing: ‘Columbus married and remained in New World after Discovery’ the Wakefield Doctrine and surprises in Life (sorry, I have no idea how this makes any sense)

October 8, 2012 By clarkscottroger (Edit)

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine ( the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers) It’s the real deal, a perspective that will let you see the behavior of your friends and family in a totally new light. Try it!

So, about the Columbus thing. We admit that we made up today’s Title. There is absolutely no evidence supporting the contention that Christopher Columbus stayed behind and raised a family*, but given that today we, in the Currently Dominant Culture of the Western Hemisphere (motto: ” were Number 1!! were Number #1!!! ), are celebrating the Discovery of the New World aka Columbus Day (Coming to the Discovery Channel: “New World Men: Kicking Ass on a Whole New Continent!” )

Now that I’ve got that out of my system, we can on with the serious business of talking about the Wakefield Doctrine. (Alright, if you want a ‘funny Post’, I’ll give you a funny Post! Go to this Post and after you have read it, please come back and tell me what the hell you think is so damn good about it! For reasons not understood, this Post shows up way more than it should in the list of ‘search terms’ (indicators of how Readers come to find the blog.)

You know, in the early days of writing this blog, we would make a point of stating that the Wakefield Doctrine is both gender and culture neutral. What we meant by this is that it does not matter what part of the world you are from, it is the nature and character of your own worldview that matters (personality type-wise). We contend that the worldviews that are the basis of the three personality types are inseparable from the human condition. Further, while standards of behavior may vary from one culture to another, a person who grows up, develops and otherwise matures living in a reality best characterized as the world of Predator and Prey, will be: aggressive, inquisitive, quick to react, action-oriented with a minimum of self-reflection. That reality exists in Zimbabwe and New Auckland as well as Mansfield Ohio. Not only that, but the Doctrine maintains that gender prescribes the capacity/ability (of a person to act a certain way), not their reasons for acting. A female growing up, developing and otherwise maturing in a world where she is the Outsider, will still develop: an insatiable desire to learn new information and facts, be drawn to the fringes of whatever culture she happens to be in and have an abundance of what is referred to as intuition, all that she is permitted (by physiology as well as the local culture) in order to live her life.
The unique insight into behavior and personality types offered by the Wakefield Doctrine is founded upon one’s personal reality. Correctly infer which of the three worldviews the other person is experiencing and you will know more about them than they know about themselves.

Columbus? Not sure which of the three personality types…well, hold on a minute! The following is an accepted approach to figuring whether a person is a clark or a scott or a roger: eliminate the most unlikely of the three worldviews, in the case of Columbus we’re gonna go with, ‘not a clark‘** That leaves us with: scott or roger.

Put me down for: roger! (If you want to know my reasoning, you’re going to have to write a Comment and ask, preferably offering your own choice.)

*”Here’s the story …of a man named Columbo” ha, ha

*alas, a standard in the world-building process for preadolescents growing up in mid-century 1900s is now being identified as but an urban myth! ‘Uncle Don we hardly knew ye!’

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

October 7, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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

Say, why don’t we continue this blogpost-as-metaphorical-classroom-lecture.

…damn! do ya really want a lecture today?

nah

the internet has way more betterer sources of interesting content for clarks than we’re able to produce.

Example(s)L Half as Interesting, Blacktail Studios and, just discovered this weekend, CGPGray.

Homework Assignment: Go to all three youtube channels and tell us which of the three predominant worldviews are manifested by the host/originator/writer. (Hint: this is a total softball question. Easy start to the week). Extra Credit: in your Answers speak to their secondary aspects.

We’ll just stick to our job. Being curator of the Wakefield Doctrine

As often happens, the process of determining the predominant worldviews (in today’s example, these three people) is a fun way to review best practices when it comes to working with the Doctrine, specifically the matter of “Is he/she a clark, scott or roger.”

Just this weekend, (the Progenitor) roger asked the question: “Where are the female rogers?” and Misky, commentationing in the course of the week, asked the kinds of questions that, while on the surface seem simple and direct, in point of fact, manifest an opportunity to present everyone’s favorite personality theory in a new and ultimately increased value to the new Reader.

So, what say we address the following question(ettes):

where are the female rogers?
why does it seem that I am one type most of the time, but clearly another, different predominant worldview, other times? (question paraphrased.*)

Why look at the time. We gots to go.

Tune in tomorrow as we address these two pressing question.

* Paraphrasing Institute motto: ‘Just because you don’t remember something, doesn’t mean you can’t just say what you want the other person to have said!’

speaking of the fun of applying the Doctrine to the world around us, what say we take a listen to a certain clark from days-past as he advises us of possible responses to inclement weather here

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Friday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

October 5, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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As is encumbent upon us, this being Friday and all, we proffer a story from the picture that we saw. jenne and ceayr watch with evident glee and all the mad bloggers submit their tales to thee. yea celebrate, it’s the ‘hop that all await, the Unicorn Challenge photo prompt.

“What the…”

The sky pressed lightly on the rolling hills, brown streaks of hooves and carts, traceries of Man and animal.

“Where am I?”

While normally inert, beyond a fecund earthiness, the ground gave way to pungent exhalations of the herd.

“Better question: What am I?

…Holy shit!”

The sun hid behind the overcast grey sky, dominion established beyond any need to blaze.

“Those Eastern guys were on the money. Jesus Chr… err Jumpin’ Krishna.

Best be careful. No telling what the residency requirements are with this reincarnation stuff. Take it slow and remember your Douglas Addams: ‘Don’t Panic'”

Although developed over a tenure that claims origin in the Garden, the newest god, Practicality, was supreme.

“Look around. OK peaceful group. I must be fully transmigrated… transferred, whatever the word, ’cause I’m hungry. And would you look at that, a whole bunch of food…”

Serving Man, a directive imposed on all other Life, though not clearly sanctioned by the creator, is the reality.

“…still hungry, though. You know what I’m really got a craving for? A big china plate with a Maginot Line of salty French Fries surrounding my favorite meal in the a world.

What? We’re all going to head over to that truck? Sure, be part of the herd, not a worry in the world.”

“…a flame-broiled extra rare hamburger.”

… uh oh”

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

October 5, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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This is the Wakefield Doctrine’s contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop.

(You’ll find a blogger version of this week’s TToT over at the Group in the Facebook and, of course on blogger.com: HERE.)

1) Phyllis —↓ (not Phyllis…rather your photophobic (and some might add, Unreliable) Narrator

2) Una ————————————–↑

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the end of Summer¹

5) (1) the comprehensiveness and implicit sophistication of a Grat Bloghop including the concept of HypoGratuity (see Grat 6 below for reference and/or further explication)

6) our resident expert Mimi will be happy to explain in a manner that, while possibly less of the smart-alec, juvenile approach, i.e. when you get a flat tire but the person who stops without prompting is really: nice/hot/cool/did-we-mention-hot? than we we are capable of… maintaining, as she does, an appreciation of the larger, less self-centered view of life and such

7) the Unicorn Challenge. the ‘corn Pick of the Week. ‘Untitled‘ by Tessa

8) the Six Sentence Story. ‘Hey! Ya gotta read this ‘un. ‘Fallout at W.T.‘ Chel Owens

9) something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3

music vids

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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine- [a Café Six]

October 3, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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This is the Doctrine’s contribution to the Six Sentence Story bloghop.

Hosted by Denise defined by it’s numerical eponymous title.

Prompt word:

CLAW

The sign, in flaking gold-leaf letters against a time-sooted field of white read: East of Éclair and immediately below: Pâtissiers

…the tall, thin man turned to the Bartender, an impatient October wind pushing the brown cashmere scarf, his one concession to end of Summer, perpendicular to the storefront. “You know what we really need to offer our clientele at the Café?”

“Strippers?”

If an acquaintance, familiar with both, were asked what the signal characteristic of the man and woman currently forming a dyad on the seaside village’s brick-paved sidewalk, a shrug would be encyclopedic if not slightly inscrutable; as if to escape further scrutiny, the man in the Harris tweed jacket held the door for the multi-couture’d young woman.

The proprietor was of average height, her figure buxom in a cyclothymic-cheerleader sense and, though dressed in a fashion not atypical of the seaside village in the south of the coastal state, wore jewelry worth more than the shop, real estate included; display cases were set in the middle of the shoppe, glass-encased islands of flaky dough, confectioner’s sugar and a peripheral zephyr of cinnamon.

The tall, thin man smiled at the incidental benediction of a brass bell shouldered aside by the oak-and-glass entrance door; the Bartender, already looking for something to brush the powdered sugar from her lips was muttering, “Lions and tigers and bear claws, oh my!”

Offering his hand to the woman, the Six Sentence Café & Bistro manager smiled, “My associate and I would like to discuss establishing a business arrangement, one we trust our fellow Proprietors, Mimi and Chris and the Gatekeeper and, of course, Tom will surely applaud,” the more subversive of his eyebrows broke loose in the direction of the Bartender, “With or without exotic dancers, of course.”