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By: Robert Monzingo

Worlds Clash

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Lilith, the Princess of Darkness, gives a tour of some spine-chilling episodes in human experience that gives us the opportunity to consider how rational beings can embark on self-destructive campaigns. The Princess is also a provocateur who uses ingenious recitation of old facts. This work presents challenges with stark insights and bold interpretations. Examining events through multiple prisms reveals hidden connections and intricate designs that produce exquisite models of evil, forming a delicate tapestry of cruelty deserving to be hung in the Louvre of desolation.

The chain of dismal episodes forms a litany of horror that embraces mankind in Lilith’s kiss of death. Each event can be strung on a golden cord, forming a necklace of black pearls. The Sisyphean struggle to create a better world involves events that are heartbreaking because the tragedies they embody could easily be avoided with only a small application of rational thought. Such temptation is seductive, however, because reason seldom prevails unless accompanied by a sprinkling of humor.

Robert Monzingo’s academic background is in engineering, and he holds a B.S. degree from Stanford, an M.S. degree from the University of Arizona and a Sc.D degree from Washington University, in St. Louis. He is now retired from the Aerospace Corporation where the author was a senior engineering specialist. He is the principal co-author of two engineering texts (one of which was translated into Russian), as well as the author of a biography of an early California figure.He was employed as a senior scientist at Hughes Aircraft. His desire to understand how things work is not confined to inanimate devices but extends to the world at large. How the world is now is the result of clear identifiable events which demonstrate the current situation did not arrive by dropping from a clear blue sky.
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  • Carmen Bran

    This intriguing tour of world history begins with Princess Lilith inducing Eve in the Garden of Eden to taste the forbidden fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil by using a reasonable, difficult-to-argue-with argument. She next turns her attention to the task of convincing Cain that Abel is the source of his grievance and jealousy, a trait that he should act upon in doing away with Abel. Lilith next reveals her role in convincing Constantine that his cynical promotion of Christianity (a particularly successful promotion) succeeded in raising the status of the religion from a fringe mystery cult to a major world religion. Constantine's vision of the Supreme Deity is a God of power and victory, with a powerful streak of capriciousness, just like the classic Roman gods. Also, his vision of the establishment of the Holy Catholic Church reigned supreme over Western civilization until a challenge arose with the Protestant Revolt and the intellectual confrontation of Michael Servetus/a confrontation that resulted in Servetus's death at the hands of John Calvin (much too Lilith's joy). The Protestant Revolt opened a Pandora's Box of religious quarrels that Lilith was delighted to exploit and thereby derive as much pain, suffering, and death as was humanly possible to achieve. The founding of the U.S. required that chattel slavery be given appropriate constitutional protections, and Johnathon Edwards gave his support to the Constantine God with his influential sermon "Sinners in the hands of an angry God." Modern catastrophes like WWI and WWII continued to plague man's efforts, with the refusal of powerful men to hide the warnings of John Maynard Cains at the Versailles Conference, laying the groundwork for WWII and the rise of the Nazis//a development that left Lilith really in ecstasy at all the death and suffering that resulted. One might suppose that men will be chastened by the horrific experiences of the 20th century to pay more attention to the edicts of reason but modern events do not offer much hope on that score. Nevertheless, it is clear that only a small application of reason will improve things significantly, and hope springs eternal.

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