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Definitions of community as "organisms inhabiting a common environment and interacting with one another". [http://www.science.org.au/nova/010/010glo.htm Nova: Science in the News]. while scientifically accurate, do not convey the richness, diversity and complexity of human communities. Their classification, likewise is almost never precise. Untidy as it may be, community is vital for humans. [[Scott Peck]] expresses this in the following way: "There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community."
Definitions of community as "organisms inhabiting a common environment and interacting with one another". [http://www.science.org.au/nova/010/010glo.htm Nova: Science in the News]. while scientifically accurate, do not convey the richness, diversity and complexity of human communities. Their classification, likewise is almost never precise. Untidy as it may be, community is vital for humans. [[Scott Peck]] expresses this in the following way: "There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community."
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We know that any child can best relate himself to [[reality]] by first mastering the relationships of the child-parent situation and then by enlarging this concept to embrace the family as a whole. Subsequently the growing [[mind]] of the child will be able to adjust to the concept of family relations, to relationships of the '''community''', the [[race]], and the world, and then to those of the [[universe]], the [[superuniverse]], even the universe of universes.[http://www.urantia.org/cgi-bin/webglimpse/mfs/usr/local/www/data/papers?link=http://mercy.urantia.org/papers/paper8.html&file=/usr/local/www/data/papers/paper8.html&line=52#mfs]
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