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Offline Thoughts

The online world is great for so many things. It’s great for making you laugh, it’s great for entertainment. And every now and again you come across people or ideas that literally blows your mind.But I still think some of our best thinking happens offline. So, join me, Nessa, on Offline Thoughts as I chat about some of the things I think about when I’m not online. Your feedback, thoughts and comments would be really appreciated! Send them to offlinethoughts.podcast@gmail.com.

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61:41

Our Enemies Are Thriving: Unpacking the Karma Myth

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2025/02/10

If karma is real then... why are my enemies thriving? Why do bad people get away with bad things? Why do bad things happen to good people? Tune in to this episode to chat about karma and other beliefs in cosmic justice like heaven and hell. Key words: karma, heaven, hell, Catholic Church, politics, justice, activism Please send your thoughts and questions to offlinethoughts.podcast@gmail.com.Articles and resources: Theodosiadi, M. and Vavouras, E. (2023), Religion as a Means of Political Conformity

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80:27

Alcohol: A Drug Like Any Other

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2025/02/03

Like many people during January I completed "Dry January" - a detox we undertake yearly to check that we are still in control of the alcohol we consume (and not the other way around). Is alcohol a drug? Are we all addicted? Do we choose to become lifelong drinkers? A month of clarity helps us answer these questions honestly. Key words: dry January, drinking culture, drugs, functioning alcoholismPlease send your thoughts and questions to offlinethoughts.podcast@gmail.com.Articles and

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72:08

Inside Elon Musk & Trump's New Nazi America:...

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2025/01/27

Just when we thought it couldn't get any worse it did - Elon Musk does the Nazi salute. Trump pardons January 6 Capitol building rioters, begins mass deportations, repeals Civil Rights-era legislation, and calls for focus on execution of imprisoned illegal migrants.Key words: Elon Musk, Donald Trump, Nazi salute, mass deportations, Great Replacement conspiracy theoryPlease send your thoughts and questions to offlinethoughts.podcast@gmail.com.Articles and resources:The Guardian (2025), ‘The gesture

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61:19

Bonnie Blue: Breaking the Victim Myth Around Women's...

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2025/01/20

Bonnie Blue burst onto the national stage with her provocative marketing strategies for her OnlyFans account - recruiting young university students for filmed sexual acts. Most recently she became the internet's most infamous sensation when she allegedly had sex with 1,057 in just twelve hours. Often we are told women who engage in these kinds of extreme actions of self abuse are broken women who come from sad backgrounds. But what if women are not just victims of their circumstances but active

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76:27

Wombs for Hire: Does Commercial Surrogacy Exploit...

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2025/01/13

Surrogacy is booming—but at what cost? This episode looks at the dark side of the industry: the economic coercion of vulnerable women, exploitation in poorer countries, and the shocking ways in which surrogate mothers are treated by commissioning parents and surrogacy agencies. Do couples who can't have children for whatever reason have the right to them? Even when surrogacy isn't commercialised or for-profit, is the choice by women to subject their bodies to pregnancy and birth the ultimate act of

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60:38

Privilege and Violence: Why Luigi Mangione Is No...

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2025/01/06

In the early hours of 4 December 2024, 26-year old Luigi Mangione walked up behind UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson and shot him dead. What followed was a five-day manhunt for Mangione. What made this case stand out in the public's imagination were many factors - an attractive and wealthy perpetrator from a powerful family, the theatre of the killing (a 3-D printed gun and silencer, engraved bullets, a manifesto railing against a broken healthcare system and corporate greed) and the public's

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93:33

100 Men in 24 Hours - Lily Phillips Proved What We...

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2024/12/23

OnlyFans describes itself as a revolutionary platform that gives its creators the freedom to produce highly personalised content for their fans. It should describe itself as a platform for prostitution that lures young women into engaging in activities that will ruin their lives, stigmatise them and trap them in poverty. The stats are clear - the average OnlyFans creator makes $150-180 per month and approximately 80% of creators make less than $100 per month. Lily Philips and others like her are the

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54:16

TikTok Ban, Anti- China Propaganda & Zuckerberg’s Win

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2024/12/16

The TikTok ban will come into effect on the 19th of January 2025. Right now, it seems its fate is sealed – the House of Representatives has almost unanimously agreed to pass it under “national security” concerns, Congress has given it the rubber seal of approval, and President Biden has signed off under executive privilege. Despite public opinion being united in their opposition to the passing of the bill - the people will not have a say. TikTok is scrambling to find a legal avenue to challenge the

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67:10

Moving in Silence: Protect Your Goals from Sabotage...

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2024/12/09

Often the first thing we want to do is share our good news and accomplishments with the people around us. However, the response we receive is sometimes unexpected - we can be met with ambivalence or negativity where we anticipated praise and encouragement. Recognising that people - even our loved ones - can be limited by their own insecurities, envy and self-limiting beliefs teaches us that sometimes the best way to achieve our dreams is to not share them at all.

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76:06

Does Sex and Race Still Matter? Unpacking Trangender...

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2024/12/02

Intersectionality politics tells us that coalitions united around a shared goal are not free of internal power dynamics. It also teaches us that victimhood is complicated - it is possible to be simultaneously both a victim and the oppressor in certain contexts. This episode takes a look at some of those complexities as well as the parallels between the transgender and transracial movements.Please send your thoughts and comments at offlinethoughts.podcast@gmail.com.

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58:33

Developing a danger radar & recognising red flags

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2024/11/25

The upside of growing up in unsafe environments as a child is that people often grow up to be discerning adults who have a highly attuned ability to read the hidden meanings behind what people say and do. Sometimes this is useful in simply being able to recognise red flags that indicate certain people don't wish us well. Other times this skill serves to keep us safe and to keep danger at bay.

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69:37

Toxic Friends: Why We Keep the Ones Who Hurt Us

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2024/11/18

Sometimes we find ourself in a series of bad friendships. We form friendships with people who take from us, treat us poorly, are unkind, or, in the extreme, who that don't wish us well. Although it's easy to play the victim, the truth is more complicated - in some ways we cultivate these friendships and keep these types of friends close because they fulfil some other need we have. That could be the need to be needed, to play the hero or martyr or perhaps to feel superior in some way.Please share

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90:49

Elon Musk Exposed: Election Meddling, Wealth...

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2024/11/11

Elon Musk is a man of many myths, a professional exaggerator and liar. From lying about founding PayPal and Tesla (he didn't), to lying about the death of his son and divorce from his second wife. Looking at his family history we get a little insight into the man - his father had two children with the stepdaughter he raised since she was four years old. What really defines Elon Musk though, is his capacity to wield his enormous wealth to sway public opinion and influence the democratic process

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65:11

Who’s Watching You? The Hidden Price of Your Data

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2024/11/04

The saying goes that there's no such thing as a free lunch - if you are not paying, usually it is because you are the product. Every day we interact with platforms to read articles, share thoughts, upload our posts, make purchases, conduct research or otherwise just leisurely scroll. These platforms often have required billions of dollars of investment and many years of hard work by the brightest minds to be developed, yet we pay nothing to use them. If you have ever thought this is too good of a

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65:18

Quitting Kanye: Fame, Mental Health, and Finding...

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2024/10/28

Few have been through as many public controversies as Kanye West. During the last ten years the public has had a front row seat to Kanye's erratic, impulsive, and emotionally unstable antics. Many of these have not only been deeply offensive to many people, but they have left in their wake a destruction of his personal and business relationships, an alienation of his fanbase, a loss of credibility and increasing isolation as many in his circle publicly distance themselves from him. What is often

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84:38

Age-Gap Relationships: Provider and Protector - or...

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2024/10/21

Age gap relationships have existed since the dawn of time. There are many appeals for both parties - often the younger partner is looking for financial provision and protection, and the older partner is looking to hold onto their youth for a little longer. Whilst they're not necessarily always inherently predatory - they often are. Sometimes the younger partner only comes to realise this years later, long after the damage has been done. Send any questions and comments to

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70:39

Hetero Hangups - internalised homophobia in LGBT...

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2024/10/14

Heterosexuality as the standard, strict gender norms and negative LGBT societal messaging create in LGBT people feelings of shame, self-hatred and a deep desire to conform to the straight world - often at the expense of their own psychological well being. This episodes focuses on the symptoms of internalised homophobia and how to deal with it.Send any questions and comments to offlinethoughts.podcast@gmail.com and they will addressed in a future episode.Materials you might find helpful:Williamson,

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66:19

Villains, victims and vices – the cautionary tale of...

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2024/10/07

Sex, power, and corruption are inextricably linked. Control over others becomes easier when their deepest secrets are at risk of exposure. P Diddy and Jeffrey Epstein are examples of men who used people's vices against them (often through extortion and blackmail), before finally becoming victims of these same vices. They are the tip of the iceberg. Sexual blackmail and extortion is deeply baked into the deepest recesses of government and power structures, and sex has always been leveraged by both

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81:42

Luxury Labels to Landmines: How Fashion and the...

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2024/09/30

While it's generally understood that high-end fashion brands market prestige and status, it’s less obvious how this same manipulation is mirrored in military recruitment, which primarily targets people from low-income backgrounds. Both these industries prey on people's insecurities and their need for self-worth, offering false promises of value and social mobility. By commodifying both goods and lives, luxury brands and the military create illusions of empowerment, when in reality, they profit from

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71:17

Puppets, puppeteers and the propaganda machine

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2024/09/23

Mass psychology is used to shape our beliefs, desires, and actions. Whilst we may be aware that the advertisement and public relations industries are specifically designed to manipulate our desires and behaviours - we sometimes don't realise that propaganda is endemic in our educational system, our politics and that we often don't know that we have been propagandised. Send any questions and comments to offlinethoughts.podcast@gmail.com and they will addressed in a future episode. Materials you

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