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From: jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> Sent: Friday, September 18, 2015 6:30 PM To: Lawrence Krauss Subject: Re: an article you may both hate. or like. or we can visit him on his On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 2:26 PM, Lawren=e Krauss <mailto: > wrote: When I was with him yest=rday I told him we were going to caribbean and he asked where.. He h=s an island in bahamas, making you two the only people I know who own isla=ds.. :) will ask him if he is free then. He is remarkable in n=w movie, though the film itself is not fantastic.. he is also a pretty goo= guitarist.. his show with alice cooper and joe perry in la was grea=. <=iv style="word-wrap:break-word"> Lawrence M. Krauss<=span> Director, The Origins Project at ASU Co-Dir=ctor, Cosmology Initiative Foundation Professor ./b> School of Earth & Space Exploration and Physics De=artment Arizona =tate University, P.O. Box 871404, Tempe, AZ 8=287-1404 R=search Office: , Assistant (Jessica): Origins Office (Cynthia): </=iv> <mailt origins.asu.edu <http://=rigins.asu.edu/> I C240I krauss.faculty.asu.edu <http://krauss.faculty.asu.eda> <=div> On Sep 18, 2015, at 9:08 AM, jeffre= E. <jeevaca=ion@gmail.com <mailtoleevacation@gmail.com» wrote: you can invite=depp to visit us when you are in the caribean On Thu Se 10 2015 at 4:10 PM, Law=ence Krauss <mailto wrote: Ps. My piece argued against fanati=ism. EFTA_R1_01610874 EFTA02490059 Lawrence M. Krauss Director, The Origins Project at ASU <=b> Founda=ion Professor <tel School of Earth & Space Exploration and Physics Department=/div> Arizona State University, P.O. Box 871404, =span>Tempe, AZ 85287-1404 Research Office: ,Q=A0Assistant (Jessica):40 /=pan> Origin= Office (Cynthia): origins.asu.edu <http://origins.asu.edu=> I I </=pan>krauss.fa=ulty.asu.edu <http://krauss.faculty.asu.edu/> <DA866S43-7401.4A5A-8E50-FD32E33ASOEC.png> Sent from my iPhone On Sep 10, 2=15, at 12:02 PM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmaitcom <mailto:jeevacation@gmail.com» wrote: I think religion plays a major posi=ive role in many lives. . i dont like fanaticism on either side. .=C24> sorry On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 7:52 PM, Noam Chomsky <mailto <=span> wrote: Thanks for sending. A wide=area of agreement, but not total. On confronting dogma, I of course agree — though in=my opinion the secular religions — nationalist fanaticism, etc. =E2404 are much more dangerous. And if some find rational discussion offensive — as, for example, mainstream academ=cs find dismantling myths of "American exceptionalism" or =E244Israeli self-defense" or Obama's mass murder campa=gn, etc., offensive — so be it. Q=A0 But I don*=99t see why that should extend to ridicule. That includes astrologis=s. Astronomers can refute astrology, while recognizing that perfectl= honest and deluded people may believe it and should be treated with respect, while th=ir beliefs are confronted with evidence. I also don't see wh= we should ridicule religious dogma, just as I don't think we shou=d ridicule the much more pernicious secular dogmas. Rather, we should respond to irrational belief with argument and evidence =while recognizing that their advocates (like most of the intellectual worl= in the case of secular dogma) are people who we should be responding to b=t without ridiculing them. It may be hard sometimes. For example, when the icon and founding fathe= of sober non-sentimental Realism in International Affairs informs us that=the US, unlike other countries, has a "transcendental purpose,Q=804e and the fact 2 EFTA_R1_01610875 EFTA02490060 that it constantly acts in contradiction to its purpose doesn't matter because the facts are just "=buse of history" while real history is "the evidence of history as our minds reflect=it," then it's hard to avoid ridicule. But we should= There's no point ridiculing virtually the entire IR profession and=the major journals, even though such extraordinary irrationality leads to =ajor human disasters. On Davis, I frankly think that's a non-is=ue. If she decides she cannot do her job as the conditions of employ=ent require (including following the law), then she can quit and look for another job. As in any other such case../u> Noam <1=> From: Lawrence Krauss Imail=o mailto Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2015 1:51 AM To: Noam Chomsky mailto >; Jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com <mailto:jeevacati=n@gmail.com» Subject: an article you may both hate. or like. <=span>hope all is well. Lawrence http://ww=.newyorker.cominews/news-deskiall-scientists-should-be-militant- atheists</=> <http://www.newyorker.cominews/news-d=skiall-scientists-should-be-militant-atheists> Lawrence M. Krauss Director, The Origins Project at ASU Co-Director, Cosmology Initiative Foundation Professor School of Earth & Space Exploration and Physics Department Arizona State University, P.O. Box 871404, Tempe, A= 85287-1404 Research Office: Assistant (Jessica) 3 EFTA_R1_01610876 EFTA02490061 Origins Office (Cynthia): /=> orig=ns.asu.edu <http://origins.asu.edu/> I- I krauss.faculty.asu.edu <http://krauss.f=culty.asu.edu/> =u> =C240 please note The informat=on contained in this communication is confidential, may be attorney-cli=nt privileged, may constitute inside information, and is intended only =or the use of the addressee. It is the property of JEE Unauthoriz=d use, disclosure or copying of this communication or any part thereof =s strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. 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