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%HEALTHY FELLOWSHIP OF BELIEVERS 801115
A healthy fellowship of believers is free of the
guilt and inhibition which are occasioned by taboos and
collusions. Members of a healthy fellowship share a
congruity among beliefs, convictions, perceptions, and the
content of their communicative expressions. They say what
they believe, and believe what they say. They can trust
each other without fear of being mislead because of
duplicity, ulterior motives, taboos, collusions, etc.
Mutuality is the rule. Honesty is the rule and is never
punished. Openness is expected and never inhibited by the
excommunication of any person because of an open and
honest expression.
A healthy community is a healthy fellowship of
diverse believers. A community is more than a collection
of people living together under a set of conventions,
traditions, rules, regulations, institutions, taboos, and
collusions. Commonality without mutuality is not an
adequate foundation for a healthy community. A
conventional community is not a healthy community. A
healthy community is a healthy fellowship of believers who
are free of the guilt and inhibitions which are occasioned
by taboos and collusions.
A healthy community is based upon mutuality in all
personal relationships; as regards: perceptions,
evaluations, judgments, power, and authority. A healthy
community is not dominated by any one person or a small
group of powerful persons. Dominance inhibits openness
and honesty. Authoritarian personal relationships are
dominated by efforts to give misleading impressions, and
the technologies required to give misleading impressions.
To the extent that authoritarian relationships dominate a
community, to that extent the community is diseased, ill-
at-ease.
The scientific community is a group of people about
whom the above observations are relevant. The beliefs,
convictions, perceptions, and communicative expressions of
scientists must be congruous for the scientific community
to be healthy.
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