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[1] Rent-Free Life (RFL) is an organization for positive social change by focusing on personal ideals, including freedom, be it financial or otherwise. It carries out its mission by creating bongos, independent wealth-building friend groups, each of which should lead its members to rent-free life through ownership of products and services. A bongo community is necessary for a community project or complex product. The organization’s purpose is to provide progressive guidance to those who want to empower low-performing students, employees, or members with positive peer pressure to increase their self-motivation and, thus, productivity.
[2] A complete understanding of the above paragraph requires some fluency in Thumoslang. The second half of this chapter explains how and why.
[3] Bongo One Providence (Bongo1PVD) created the RFL idea on the last day of November 2022; see Chapter 33, The Origin Behind the Idea of Rent-Free Life. A few days later, Lyonel Fritsch helped the group formulate the mission statement. Nickantony Quach followed up by creating basic web pages for RFL: its homepage, directory, and visitor center. The link Ri4C.com/RFL acts as the shortcut to everything RFL.
[4] Leading the development of RFL are two 2020 graduates of Classical High: Alec Mustafayev (pictured, left) and Lyonel Fritsch (right). They want other residents of Rhode Island to collaborate on discharging Thumoslang at scale to carry out the mission of RFL, serve its purpose, and realize its vision.
[5] Alec Mustafayev is the first who grew up with Thumoslang since high school. Lyonel Fritsch is the first who grew up with Thumoslang since college. They and Norman Baker (pictured, left) helped Nickantony Quach (right), the creator of Thumoslang, produce the first three books written to teach Thumoslang, including this one. Listed below, they are available online entirely free of charge.
- Life in 184 Words, also known as Thumoslang on the Run (OTR)
- Thumoslang for Character Renovation (TCR)
- Toothpaste Against Loneliness & Distractions (TLD)
[6] Included in the Thumoslang teaching material are The Dictionary of Thumoslang (pictured above) and THUMOS: Adulthood, Love & Collaboration (pictured below), also known as the Original Thumos Textbook (OTB). The suffix -lang comes from the fact that Thumoslang is the formal vocabulary used in the original Thumos textbook to specify the original rules of Thumoslang Philosophy.
[7] A complete understanding of the first paragraph requires some fluency in Thumoslang. The vocabulary’s immense power rests with its thumbnail definitions. The first 1,000 appear in The Dictionary of Thumoslang. More Thumoslang fluency means higher command of Thumoslang thumbnail definitions; see the dictionary’s back cover, presented below. Consider the following thumbnail definitions, then reread the first paragraph, also presented as the last paragraph.
- Organization; that means, a coherent community.
- Community; that means, a variety of groups with shared principles.
- Coherence; that means, resistance to separation.
- Positive; that means, supportive energy.
- Social change; that means, a new social order in society.
- Society; that means, an ordered community.
- Focus; that means, saying no to all else.
- Personal ideals; that means, the most personally meaningful milestones.
- Milestones; that means, chronological objectives.
- Meaning; that means, the description of the importance.
- Importance; that means, more consequential.
- Consequential; that means, significantly necessary.
- Significance; that means, considered worth.
- Worth; that means, exchangeable value.
- Value; that means, the level of usefulness.
- Freedom; that means, no restraints.
- Restraint; that means, holding back.
- Mission; that means, goal-oriented operations.
- Operation; that means, planned activity.
- Goal; that means, a reachable target.
- Target; that means, aimed destination.
- Destination; that means, the ultimate purpose.
- Bongo; that means, a wealth-building friend group.
- Judgment; that means, imposing metrics.
- Imposing; that means, applying as compulsory.
- Compulsory; that means, legally required.
- Metrics; that means, standards of measurement.
- Imposing; that means, applying as compulsory.
- Friend; that means, a judgmentless companion.
- Companionship; that means, the shared experience.
- Wealth; that means, passive income.
- Judgment; that means, imposing metrics.
- Purpose; that means, value to others.
- See Appendix 34A below.
- Progressive; that means, in stages.
- Guidance; that means, influencing actions.
- Empowering; that means, giving authority.
- Authority; that means, assigned power.
- Power; that means, influencing potential.
- Potential; that means, latent usefulness.
- Influence; that means, affecting behavior.
- Performance; that means, fulfillment realized by actions.
- Fulfillment; that means, satisfaction by actualization.
- Motivation; that means, ongoing goal-directed performance.
- Productivity; that means, advancing deliverables.
- Product; that means, a formal deliverable.
- Deliverable; that means, an acknowledgment of use.
- Acknowledgment; that means, accepted existence.
[8] Rent-Free Life (RFL) is an organization for positive social change by focusing on personal ideals, including freedom, be it financial or otherwise. It carries out its mission by creating bongos, independent wealth-building friend groups, each of which should lead its members to rent-free life through ownership of products and services. A bongo community is necessary for a community project or complex product. The organization’s purpose is to provide progressive guidance to those who want to empower low-performing students, employees, or members with positive peer pressure to increase their self-motivation and, thus, productivity.
Appendix 34A The Concept of Purpose
[9] To appreciate the meaning of purpose as a concept, consider the following sequence of Thumoslang thumbnail definitions; see Chapter 33, Neither Idea Nor Family Possible Without Purpose, of the book Thumoslang for Character Renovation (TCR).
- Perpetual; that means, endless repetition.
- Process; that means, perpetual steps.
- Conclusion; that means, process outcome.
- Decision; that means, an action-oriented conclusion.
- Consideration; that means, weighed decisions.
- Deliberation; that means, documented consideration.
- Deliberate; that means, with deliberation.
- Service; that means, deliberate assistance.
- Benefit; that means, service to others.
- Usefulness; that means, offering a benefit.
- Value; that means, the level of usefulness.
- Purpose; that means, value to others.
[10] Did you notice a strong connection between the concept of service and the concept of purpose?
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