Do you ever look up so much information that you start knowing too much and it actually interferes with people?

My aunt (an educated psychiatrist who went to school for 12 years) let it known that she thought my freeze dried meals were unhealthy by making a passive aggressive remark about my whole foods meals. She doesn't believe that freeze dried food retain their nutritional value. I tried telling her that it's nutritionally the same and she tried telling me that was only my opinion. Then I said that it's not, it's been tested by the scientific community and found that it retained 97% of its nutrients. She said it was only an opinion, meanwhile she told me that supermarket food was fresh while I told her it's likely been sitting there months losing nutritional content and the soil that's degrading actually significantly lowers it even further.

Then, I told her that if she just dislikes me enough to say passive aggressive comments like that underhandly, she could just tell me straight up, I told her that I'd respect her a bit more if she was just straight up. Then she told me that I was the one being passive aggressive even though she started it. She said that "she loves me" and she can have an opinion over freeze dried food and that has no ties to my character even though she totally aimed it at me.

This isn't the point though, the main point is.. I am well aware that I know more than even someone with a Harvard or whatever uppity liberal degree she has and even someone who went to school for 12 years. You may think I'm bragging but at the same time, it has its downsides and that's one of them. I find that the more I know, the less I'm able to get along with people because most of them don't want to be corrected, they just want to be right in their own heads and don't care about anyone else except themselves. They just want to like what they like and any chance to bring a person down they will hyper judge someone out of their own ignorance of certain subject matter.

You can't school these people, just have to grit through the temporary stupidity (I say temporary because people can be dumb in some subjects while knowledgeable in others) and nod your head.

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Jackaloftheazuresand · 26-30, M

Only in the case that I found out birds are dinosaurs and then had a big argument with people about how they aren't suddenly reptiles because of that

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SatanBurger · 36-40, FVIP

@Jackaloftheazuresand Sorry if your father has been a curse though, they should always be blessings but it doesn't always work that way with family.

Jackaloftheazuresand · 26-30, M

@SatanBurger Not to focus on that however.

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"It matters not the outcome if what you will gain instead is a heart deepened in the knowing. That experience carves the soul and the very thing that empties you shall surely make you whole."

SatanBurger · 36-40, FVIP

@Jackaloftheazuresand OMG. I love this and never heard of them before but the lyrics are really relevant. Thanks.

WhateverWorks · 36-40

I’m not really sure the root issue of what you described is intelligence or lack there of on either part. It sounds like your aunt has a combative, passive aggressive personality. in the end, it doesn’t really matter if they are right or you are right. your food and your body have no impact on their life whatsoever. there’s no reason to give you a hard time about it.

JimboSaturn · 51-55, M

Sometimes our education is so specific, that we don't know about other fields of study.

SatanBurger · 36-40, FVIP

@JimboSaturn Yeah but about freeze dried food is an easy google search. I wish that people would just look things up before acting like I'm the dumb one or that facts are a matter of opinion.

JimboSaturn · 51-55, M

@SatanBurger lol so true you can just look up anything now, no excuses

SW-User

let it known that she thought my freeze dried meals were unhealthy

That's not passive aggressive though, sounds more like straight up to me.

Sometimes there's just too much information out there and it can make us think we know more than we do. We can get bogged down in it. It's always changing an evolving, and it depends on how legit the sources are too.

SatanBurger · 36-40, FVIP

@SW-User

That's not passive aggressive though

It is though because I paraphrased a conversation and didn't enlighten further. Yesterday she asked why I took my freeze dried meals, I said that I thought it nutritionally adequate. She seemed like she agreed and I heard nothing about it. Then, we passed by someone smoking their meats which I said that smelled great so then she stated something like "oh yeah smoked meats right there in the smoker, that's how you know it's healthy, not like the freeze dried meals from some other country." Then kind of made a comment about how freeze drying isn't healthy or something.

And I knew she aimed it directly at me because only I brought freeze dried meals with me so it kind of just seemed like an off the cuff thing to say that wasn't related to cooking meat outside but underhandedly aimed at me.

Then we got into a whole conversation by me saying freeze dried retains 97% of its nutritional value which she told me was just my made up opinion for some reason.

Sometimes there's just too much information out there and it can make us think we know more than we do

That's true but in this case I know what I say is correct and I can prove it.

SatanBurger · 36-40, FVIP

I'd also like to mention that they spray produce with preservatives so it lasts longer in the supermarket. It's not "fresh" contrary to belief.

MartinTheFirst · 26-30, M

@SatanBurger Also fruit they actually intentionally age as well so that it will ripen just as it gets to the market. They pick the fruit before it has ripened and then use ripening agents (some form of gas) that will bring it it's color, such as mangos. I'm not sure if it affects its taste if it ripens off the tree or on the tree but I would assume it could make it more bland

SatanBurger · 36-40, FVIP

@MartinTheFirst Yeah I get all paranoid about that, I have no idea if the food is still the same or not nutritionally. It's nice if it is, just that the argument my aunt uses about supermarket produce being the "better" than freeze dried because it's fresh is not true. Those apples likely come from developing worlds months in advanced and then ran through factories and on floors and through many people's hands by then.

Same thing with frozen, frozen carries a risk of hepatitis and ecoli but still, it's often frozen after its picked so frozen veggies/fruit can be more nutritionally adequate than "fresh produce."

MartinTheFirst · 26-30, M

It's not very relevant but I still remember my vehicle oriented friends laughing at me when I said my moped had a sports air filter, they didn't think it would make any difference to how it operates but later on I read about it and it actually does... A lot of people really just need to google everything.

SatanBurger · 36-40, FVIP

@MartinTheFirst In the end you had the last laugh lol because it did make a difference.

MartinTheFirst · 26-30, M

Yeah I know so much useful stuff that I can generally give a pretty good tip on most things people wonder about, to the point where they believe I make it up on the spot and that I'm bullshitting.

SatanBurger · 36-40, FVIP

@MartinTheFirst Yeah I guess it's not only me that it happens to. You know how annoying it can be, not really annoying, it's how people act that is the issue. Just when people act rude or they don't bother to look up your sources or they have some sort of issue where they just don't bother.

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