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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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Ffdrkiyeedaeirhhy -the Wakefield Doctrine- “…most of the letters are silent”

August 10, 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 bloghop.

Hosted by jenne and ceayr, it’s really fun to participate, if you are so inclined.

The only limit? No more than two hundred and fifty words in your story. The genesis of which:

Each station had a display of all remaining stops. Brightly LED-authoritative, and of a certain comfort, in a digital 21st C sort of way, they provided the weary traveler assurance the world was organized in a logical and human-sensible manner. The car moved at a velocity that, due to the quality of the engineering, was not discernible, other than the time spent going through stations. On the cusp of one day and the next, we didn’t bother slowing down. In the time it took to glide from one end of the cylinder of light to the next, the display flickered into: Last Stop Taigh Both Fhleisginn

The darkness that followed was of the deepness that awakens the most atavistic lobe of the brain; which, for all of its primitive reasoning, paved the way to becoming an apex predator. Left with fading light fragments, my mind re-assembled them, an over-tired child sitting in an avalanche of favored toys; light-drew-letters/ letters-formed-words/ words-created-a-world: the briefest of messages flared:

Time is not a River. Time is not a stream. The world has no boundaries. Life is but a dream.

Settling back into the seat, my companion smiled randomly and I began to believe that taking the drug he’d offered was something of a mistake.

He turned, facing me, (and our direction of soundless travel); his lips moved without disturbing the air, yet the message was clear and simple:

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

August 5, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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

A couple of things: 1) good discussion this Saturday night past, in particular on the efficacy of the concept of ‘how we relate ourselfs to the world around us and b) damn! that was quick(er) than (usual)… had an idea for number 2, gone!

Probably turn up.

The one thing we did retain, the 1), will be of especial interest to the clarks out there. It has to do with the phenomenon of amnesisa and intent. Sometimes referred to as the New Year’s Resolution Effect. We come to the point of deciding to change, (something within, a trait, bad habit, self-destructive indulgence, like that), and, all charged up with righteous ambition and confidence we… forget the list by the third week of the New Year.

Except, here we’re talking about the Wakefield Doctrine and clarks. We acquire a new perspective on the world, the people who make it up and our ownselfs. We identify with other clarks.

Surely that is the primary miracle of this little personality theory, seriously! We’re not listed, (in the Doctrine), as ‘the Outsiders’ merely because all the cool personality type(s) labels were used up, right? Sure, ‘Warrior of the Shadow Society’ would sound cooler and maybe even relate (motto: ‘Stalking the fringes of well-adjusted people, they almost participate in a valued manner!’) to our people. But we’re the Outsider. (“Say it loud! I’m an Outsider and I’m Proud! hunh!”¹)

Sorry, we were saying: the factor of having others, (of our kind), to identify with is huge. Hell, it’s arguably, in and of itself, justification for all the posts and insights and examples and such*

Anyway, lets make our point and close up.

Every clark has had the experience of deciding to no longer: (fill in the blank with whatever self-identified behavior might be highest on your list of “Things-I-Would-Change-So-I-Don’t-Say-(to myself) ‘Why did I do/Say/Fall-for-That again!!”). We clarks set out in the morning with steely (and, admitted only among other Outsiders), somewhat invigorating optimism to be the person we know we have every right to be.

Then, two sentences into our first interaction, we forget.

Not to worry. The Doctrine has a trick to help you to not forget what you resolve to remember.

… you know the thing we always say, when asked ‘What’s the Point of this Wakefield Doctrine thing’? It is, of course:

“…to understand how we relate ourselves to the world around us and the people who make it up.”

ProTip: we did not say, “how we relate to the world…”; we said: “how we relate ourselves to the world…”

Consider this, meditate, cogitate, reflective-tape this little seven word phrase and you will be far more likely to see the opportunities to act in your desired, new-and-improved, ‘Finally! I don’t have to leave interactions with a bunch of ‘why-didn’t I’s’!

Go ahead. Try it today!

(Warning. like most things in ‘Life’ there’s a lot of learning to make this work real good. Mostly about the characteristic behavior of the three predominant worldviews of our little personality theory.)

here, from the movie Slacker**

** Seriously. If you want to identify the scotts and rogers in your family… oh, alright…make that: in your small group of friends. Put on Richard Linklater’s movie ‘Slacker’.

If you’re a clark, you’ll simply love it. The rogers in the room? They will leave before the clip is over. They might, if the demographics of the room is right, get mad first, then leave. scotts? they’ll laugh. Watch it with you. Get bored and find something fun to do/chase/

1) No. Way. …they wouldn’t!

Yes. Yes we would.

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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’.