Necromancy: the occult's way of turning it off and on again.
Kathryn Elizabeth
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Volunteer with homeless and asylum seeker communities in Naarm / Melbourne. Writing a book on apologising. Bi / pan 🏳️🌈
I’m looking for someone who could correct people’s grammar, but doesn’t.
Do philosophy departments have causal Fridays
At 3 am I decided my karaoke name should be Lionel Bitchy.
Today is Election Day in Victoria, Australia, and this is my democracy sausage.
Henry VIII's relationship with the papacy: "They see me Boleyn; they hatin'."
from bourgeois-a to bourgeoisie
"And I've had recurring nightmares
That I was loved for who I am
And missed the opportunity
To be a better man."
— Muse, 'Hoodoo'
If I could have a minor superpower, I'd want to walk into a room and *whoosh* put everything back where it belongs. Then I'd head straight for the British Museum
Recently, a friend asked me whether he should apologise to his ex over an argument.
I asked him what he wanted to happen, and he said, "I want her to think I'm a good person."
"If you're apologising to get something, you're focused on you - and it's not about you. Imagine you sent her your apology from a brand-new email address that you deleted immediately afterwards. You'd never know whether she forgave you or not. Would you still do it?"
"Absolutely not."
"It's very human to want something in return for apologising. But you have to let go of your wants to apologise selflessly. She deserves an apology that's actually about her - not about you."
I think a lot about apologising. That’s what I’m working on: writing a philosophy of apologising.
Apologising is not about you. But the process of apologising is a journey: from someone who did harm, to someone who understands what they did and wants to make it right. Sitting with the knowledge that you injured someone is *hard*, and people often refuse it. But it transforms you — if you let it.