You may be wondering who inhabited Frugality Cottage before it became a non-residential sort of cultural institution. That information is usually provided in the attic, if you are willing to search for it there yourself.
You may expect your experiences here to be much like a narrative.
But how does your pleasure in narratives relate to your expectations?
How does your pleasure in any experience relate to your expectations?
Do you gain a great deal of pleasure out of making discoveries about the truth?
Perhaps you want to allow your mind to wander around the virtual garden plots surrounding Frugality Cottage.
Have you recently been practicing analytics in an attic, or anywhere else for that matter?
If you are relatively unfamiliar with Frugality Cottage, do please make
the time to read all the introductory notes in a short while.
Perhaps you usually assume no-one has done any preparatory work to make your experiences more pleasurable than may otherwise be possible.
Have you adequately acknowledged the time and effort put into preparing this area of the Internet for your various virtual visits?
How do you compare liminality with changes in culture, and changes in language and changes in narratives and changes in scenery and changes in circumstances and changes in taste?
- Intelligent Frugality and Liminality - Part One
- Intelligent Frugality and Liminality - Part Two
- Intelligent Frugality and Liminality - Part Three
- Intelligent Frugality and Liminality - Part Four
Do you prefer narratives about the past or the future?
Do you prefer narratives about reality or fantasy or a mixture of the two?
The library here is mostly for notable moments, not necessarily narratives.
What makes a moment notable, and memorable, for you?
How do you identify the narrative of any online community?
How do you identify the narrative of any other community or group?
None of the narratives here are easily identifiable to outsiders. That is a deliberate communications policy established long ago by the Council of Enlightenment.
The mission, however, has never changed. It will most likely always remain the same, namely to help you make the world a much better place than it would be without you.
Perhaps you are more interested in Nilkawtzone narratives than Adelaidezone ones.
How do you usually ascertain whether a narrative, and a plot, interests you?
How do you usually ascertain whether a character in a narrative, or a person in the real world, is worthy of your time, your attention and possibly even your long-term emotional investment?
Perhaps you prefer to avoid all sorts of emotional investing. That is often wise.
Investing in relationships, whether in community settings or more private ones, should always be assessed reasonably.
How do you prefer investing in trustworthy collaborations, and for what purpose?
How are you shaping the narrative of your future investment experiences?
Sophisticated stories can involve multiple layers of meaning and parallel interpretations of events.
How often have your assessments of meanings been at cross-purposes to those of other people?
Are you sure you are adequately capable of investing in evidence when developing narratives about the 21st century world through the factual and/or fictionalised, lived experiences of various persons?
The narratives in the Adelaidezone are always shaped accurately by history, including contemporary history, in all its facets. This is even true when expressing Twakinesque magic realism and Twaklinological satire.
The same accuracy applies in relation to science, of course, at least when absolutely necessary.
Perhaps you are mainly here for storytime.
Have you noticed a plot here at all, other than in the garden?
Perhaps you would rather read a guidebook rather than a storybook.
Perhaps you wish to know more about the history of this location.
Perhaps you are more interested in learning about future opportunities.
You have now had the chance to experience twenty-one episodes in this series.
You have also been invited to develop your own episodes, based on the ones here, with suitable respect for the intellectual property presented philanthropically from Frugality Cottage, and elsewhere in the Adelaidezone.
Perhaps you have already developed a twelve-minute presentation relating to episode twelve.
Perhaps you have already developed a thirteen-minute presentation relating to episode thirteen.
It would obviously be wise to present the episodes in a linear, numerical way, as presented here.
Perhaps you have not even made a start on your eight-minute presentation in relation to episode eight.
Who has already experienced your one-minute presentation in relation to episode one, and why?
What value has that presentation had for yourself and for your audience members?
What value has this series already had for you, and how do you know?
Perhaps you are wondering how many episodes will be in this series.
The answer will be provided later this year.
This is really only the beginning.
Are you prepared to live authentically for as long as you may live?
Learning anything involves a journey from unfamiliarity to familiarity.
Have you ever been an apprentice or journeyperson in a craft or building trade or through a system of appropriate or inappropriate patronage?
While there are many opportunities here to advance your education to the quaternary level, you may also be seeking employment opportunities.
If the latter is the case, please be clear about your intentions, your motivations and your expectations.
Your values will be very carefully examined by the assessors.
Intelligent frugality is associated not only with simple living but also
with reasonable comforts. It provides elegant sufficiency and enhances
creativity.
It embraces the old when the old is reasonable or beautiful or informative or otherwise intrinsically valuable.
It embraces the new when the new helps to solve problems the old cannot address.
How carefully have you studied systems and systems theory?
What do you know about ethics and aesthetics?
How deeply have you studied axiology?
What do you know about ecological economics?
Do you usually associate philosophical discussions and economic discussions with cottages?
Have you ever spent time sipping tea in a sitting room anywhere, pondering over the value of anything in your life?
What have you been learning about, and from, Frugality Cottage, and why?
Why do people stay in various interpersonal relationships not in accordance with their needs, values and interests?