My Review of the Top Restaurant in the World
UPDATE: See comments for unrelated comment about evolution debates.
The following moshol has nothing to with the latest RJ post1, and can have different interpretations depending on the reader.
You may be surprised to learn that the official top restaurant in the world for 2023 is not in New York, London, or Paris, but is the Central restaurant in Lima, Peru. Here are some of the Google reviews:
Blah blah blah. All these rave reviews, all this prattle about a “journey” and “cultural diversity” an “unforgettable experience”. It makes me want to vomit. But if you would like to see something really vomit-inducing, take a gander at the food. Or rather, what some people call “food”:
Your “journey” starts with a granite countertop containing these holes filled with nuts, stones, and raw potatoes. Not very impressive so far.
Next up is a bowl of green dish soap
Followed by another vile concoction that looks like Drano in the shape of the skull on Snow White’s poison apple.
For the main course you get a spoonful of gelatinous mush served in a bowl of rocks. Bon appetite!
Finally, for the coup de grace, you are served this fish- or more accurately you are served to the fish, which looks more like the Hydra at the entrance to the Greek underworld. You’ll be lucky to get out of the restaurant with all your limbs intact, and better have an ambulance waiting for you.
Now really, this is what they call a fancy restaurant? The top restaurant in the world? The self-serve counter at my local grocery store serves more appetizing food than this.
But even worse than the food was the service. I was not attended to by polite waiters, and the chef did not smile at me. In fact, I never entered the restaurant in the first place. I never even visited Peru.
So I went to Google and left the following review:
I do think that Trump is a lunatic, but I find it highly ironic whenever Natan starts talking about “The Truth”, while his own reckless disregard for the truth is plain for all to see. This includes when his supporter/alter ego starts trying to justify my ban with the most convoluted and deceptive rationalizations I have seen in a long time. However, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet before you see our review of “Was Rashi a Corporealist”, coming soon!
About this line in Natan's latest post:
"Back when I was having arguments with people about the scientific merits of evolution, I gradually came to a realization that such arguments were a bad idea. Beyond the general impossibility of changing people’s minds in an argument, there was another problem. The whole idea that we were having a “scientific argument” was a farce. Science is about weighing up evidence from the physical world. But for my opponents, the only thing that mattered was their theological conviction that it was heresy. While they may have pretended to be interested in discussing the scientific arguments for or against, this was actually not at all relevant to them - and obviously their “conclusions” about the scientific evidence were predetermined."
This is a vacuous and dishonest way of escaping from the debate, by calling your opponents crazy. He did a similar thing in the back and forth about his revoltingly idiotic article "Was Rashi a Corporealist?", when he was utterly TROUNCED debating Rabbi Shaul Zucker, and then instead resorted to calling everybody who disputed him "biased".
The truth is that the basic idea of design, and thus against random evolution, is an extremely strong philosophical argument that has existed for millenia among many different philosophers of many different cultures. Not a "theological conviction". See more here https://irrationalistmodoxism.substack.com/p/what-we-have-against-evolution
MB - It's hard to watch someone who has thousands of subscribers, i.e. a large audience, bash those who live their lives to serve God. If you care about God and see this person disgracing His name, shouldn't we stand up for ourselves, play his own game and show how fallacious he is being? Is that not something that would move you as well?
Perhaps you don't think of Natan as awfully as the authors here, but I think they've been pretty clear about their mission.