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Lawrence Krauss
9/18/2015 6:26:27 PM
jeffrey E. [jeeyacation@gmail.com]
Re: an article you may both hate. or like.
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When I was with him yesterday I told him we were going to caribbean and he asked where.. He has an island in
bahamas, making you two the only people I know who own islands..:) will ask him if he is free then. He is
remarkable in new movie, though the film itself is not fantastic.. he is also a pretty good guitarist., his show
with alice cooper and joe perry in la was great.
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On Sep 18, 2015, at 9:08 AM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:
you can invite depp to visit us when you are in the caribean
On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 4:10 PM, Lawrence Krauss <111). wrote:
Ps. My piece argued against fanaticism.
Lawrence M. Krauss
Director, The Origins Project at ASU
Foundation Professor
School of Earth & Space Exploration and Physics Department
Arizona State University, P.O. Box 871404, Tempe, AZ 85287-1404
Research Office: Assistant (Jessica):
Origins Office (Cynthia):
origins.asu.edu I twitter.com/Ikraussl I krauss.faculty.asu.edu
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On Sep 10, 2015, at 12:02 PM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:
I think religion plays a major positive role in many lives. . i dont like fanaticism on either side. . sorry
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On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 7:52 PM, Noam Chomsky < > 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. —
are much more dangerous. And if some find rational discussion offensive — as, for example, mainstream academics
find dismantling myths of "American exceptionalism" or "Israeli self-defense" or Obama's mass murder campaign,
etc., offensive — so be it.
But I don't see why that should extend to ridicule. That includes astrologists. Astronomers can refute astrology, while
recognizing that perfectly honest and deluded people may believe it and should be treated with respect, while their
beliefs are confronted with evidence. I also don't see why we should ridicule religious dogma, just as I don't think we
should 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 world in the case of
secular dogma) are people who we should be responding to but without ridiculing them. It may be hard
sometimes. For example, when the icon and founding father of sober non-sentimental Realism in International Affairs
informs us that the US, unlike other countries, has a "transcendental purpose," and the fact that it constantly acts in
contradiction to its purpose doesn't matter because the facts are just "abuse 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 major
human disasters.
On Davis, I frankly think that's a non-issue. If she decides she cannot do her job as the conditions of employment
require (including following the law), then she can quit and look for another job. As in any other such case.
Noam
From: Lawrence Krauss [mailto: ]
Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2015 1:51 AM
To: Noam Chomsky jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com>
Subject: an article you may both hate. or like.
hope all is well.
Lawrence
http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/all-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, AZ 85287-1404
Research Office: Assistant (Jessica)
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