- set a goal that is not 'get the other to admit they are wrong'
- LOVE - Listen, Observe body language, Verify their point, Empathise even if you don't agree
- find common ground
- take a break before you argue
- agree on small points, defer the bigger points
- compliment the other
- acknowledge that the other is allowed to feel what they feel
- don't raise your voice
- "What is it about you are feeling that I don't understand"
- if you are wrong you can't afford to lose your temper, if you are right, you can
- discuss, don't argue
- agree to disagree, we don't have to agree
- just because you are quiet doesn't mean you are peaceful
- in an emotional argument, hug the person and reassure
- "I don't want to fight. (NOT BUT) I need to tell you something that's concerning me"
- it's better to be happy than right
- don't keep score of past arguments
"Here's a novel idea to save the planet: Remove the main cause of its woes - homo sapiens. The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement (VHEMT - pronounced "vehement") proposes the phasing out the human race. "When every human chooses to stop breeding, Earth's biosphere will be allowed to return to its former glory, and all remaining creatures will be free to live, die, and evolve (if they believe in evolution)," offers the movement's website. But 'it's going to take all of us going'." See www.vhemt.org SOURCE: Email invite. I thought I was the only one who thought like this. Everyone I know thanks the universe that I didn't study microbiology. I would have developed a human-specific killer virus. WE are the vermin.
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