- don't use You statements, use I statements - "You never kiss me!"; "I like it when you kiss me."
- apply tolerance before you speak, remember things are not right or wrong
- accept differences, even if they are fundamental
- be specific about what is a End Type Issue, with yourself
- use the word feedback (bletch! I can translate people!)
- don't attack during times of stress, wait for the right moment
- if someone criticizes you, say "Let me think about that, I will come back to you about that."
- oversensitive people may be hiding from their weaknesses, confident people are more likely to take criticism in their stride
- treat criticism like an opportunity
- the criticiser has to put effort into How they criticize
- engage the help of the criticizer
Dawkins has become outspoken in his atheism , coining the word "bright" (as an alternate to atheist), and encouraging fellow non-believers to stand up and be identified. intelligent design is creationism redressed creationists are right that evolution is hostile to evolution statistical improbability of the complexity of design - intelligent design but the intelligent designer wouldn't have made such a hash - why would the designer be bothered with disapproving of our sex lives, favor our side in the war Dawkins suggest rocking the boat - attack religion as a whole taboo of speaking ill about religion - Douglas Adams said, sacred ideas at the heart of religion, holy cows, you can support any operating system you want, but the challenge of religious ideas is off limits science and religion are corrosive to each other - religious explanations are trivial and improbably, teaches people to accept authoritarianism takes the example of famous scientists and imagines ...
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