Archives for January 2009

Da Russophile, a Year On

This in about Blogging, and tagged , was written by on January 9, 2009 .

As of today, it’s been exactly one year since I started the Da Russophile blog. Although I have been aware of hostile or condescending Western attitudes towards Russia for a long time, reflected in its mass media, I was finally provoked into joining battle by a particularly annoying and dishonest ‘editorial’ on the La Russophobe […]

Sublime Oblivion – What Might Be Is

This in about Philosophy, and tagged , , , was written by on January 9, 2009 .

This is the first in a series of philosophical essays in which I outline my philosophy of Sublime Oblivion. Here I demonstrate the indivisibility of the material and Platonic worlds and show that our universe is almost certainly a computer simulation nested within an abstract computer program or simulacrum. The consequences of these results are explored.

New Year Special: Year in Review and 2009 Predictions

This in about Futurism, and tagged , , was written by on January 2, 2009 .

Year in Review: 2008 Again, a very happy and successful New Year to Sublime Oblivion readers. It has certainly been a successful year for this blog, founded as Da Russophile on Jan 9th 2008. The original site at blogger has nearly 16,000 visitors, while Sublime Oblivion has been graced by nearly 2000 from the date […]