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Shmeng of the Week: Soup Cans |
Posted by
SindelChaos on Wednesday, August 21, 2002 - 04:11 AM PST
I was talking to a friend from school he started telling me that I was trying to "find" a label. Then he started telling me how he didn't label people. This thing just sparked in my head about how we are all like soup cans. Everyone has a label whether we like it or not. If one person on this earth does NOT have a label please show them to me and I will photograph that person and they will be worshipped... And labelled
Each soup can has a brand, flavor, ingredients list, and some even have won taste testing awards. They come in groups of vegetable, chicken noodle, mushroom, beef, and so on and so forth.
People, animals, plants, food, industries, transportation, everything has a label. It is the way our world works. Things that don't fit into any other group have a label of their own too...ever heard of the word alien? Prep, Jock, Goth, Punk, Nerd, Freak, Doctor, Psychologist, Chevy, Ford, Dodge, Kawasaki.... allllllllll labels.
But you know the grand thing about all these labels and cans of soups are the fact that no matter what is on the label you will get something different inside every can of soup. You buy a can of Campbell's chicken noodle you may get more noodles than another can of soup, you may get less broth. Hell, you could get a can of soup that has bacteria in it or maybe end up with a can of tomato on the inside.
Each of us, like cans of soup is different and surprising on the inside. That is what makes this world worth living. We are fortunate enough to move around the earth and meet different kinds of people from different labels (sorta' makes you feel sorry for the soups). So no matter how much another person dresses, acts, looks, or sounds like you. You will always be YOU and no one can ever take that away.
So if someone tries to tell you that you are part of a label then tell them "So are you!"
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Re: Soup Cans
by KatB (satanslittlehelper@hell.no)
on Aug 21, 2002 - 04:31 AM
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Great way of putting it :-)
People _will_ form an opinion based on how you look, that's life. If they don't like it, and don't bother to check the facts, well - THEIR BLEEDIN' LOSS!!!!
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Re: Soup Cans
by Psychopixi on Aug 21, 2002 - 04:42 AM
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Heh heh, I really agree with you and I just love this analogy! I got a visual of soup cans walking around making friend with soup from other companies.
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Re: Soup Cans
by Keltin (lanthanein@earthlink.net)
on Aug 21, 2002 - 12:08 PM
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So very true Sindel. What is interesting, is that in most of society (if you sit back and look at it), those who give the labels, are usually looking for a way to make themselves feel or seem superior. Isn't that also what prevails in life today? Those who drive one type of car are "better" than those who don't. It's all based on stereotypes that have been formed by someone, and then just proliferated down through the generations. (i.e. - someone who has more than 1 piercings in an ear is a punk).
It's amazing and refreshing to meet someone who doesn't feel the need to apply labels, but will accept you for who you are, and what you look like. In a way, that person could be seen as a starving 3rd world country. They don't care what type they get, they are just happy that someone cared enough to give them soup. :)
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Re: Soup Cans
by bettie_x (strangersangel@hotmail.com)
on Aug 21, 2002 - 08:46 PM
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Slurs and slang are used to make others seem inferior, not necessarily labels tho they are used as such.
The world is full of sooo much input that the tiny part of our marvelous brains HAVE to put stickers on everything or our head would explode.
Labels are NECESSARY in life.
To describe a person or people, a brand, a description of an item, and it helps us understand it, remember it, know what it does, and everything else. It's our brains chemical filing system.
ANd you are right dearie when you say that even when it looks like the same brand of soup on the inside no two cans are the same, tho they look similar.
Makes you wanna look a little closer at things and people that you categorize, doesn't it?
What I"ve noticed all over the net on darksites is all this "normals" "preppies" and "hicks" and "jocks" and "I HATE it when people label me!"
Bah, you're as bad as them, nameless faceless hypocrites. Guilty as CHARGED!
I label myself simply as a human being...tho I fit into another category for others with different perspectives.
I just imagine myself as being tomato soup with extra goodies while someone else may see just plain old tomato soup.
Good analogy kiddo!
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Re: Re: Soup Cans by Devin (devin-at-vibechild-dot-com) on Aug 21, 2002 - 10:08 PM (User info | Send a Message) http://devin.vibechild.com/ | I agree. That analogy is solid. And very well presented. That's how a short Shmeng article should be written if people want it published and not ripped to shreds in a multipost. |
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Re: Re: Re: Soup Cans by bettie_x (strangersangel@hotmail.com) on Aug 22, 2002 - 01:35 AM (User info | Send a Message) http://bettie_x.tripod.com/strangeasangels/ | I'm rather impressed :)
I'm glad she finally got it up and posted something!
You go girl!
*snicker*
sorry, that's ghetto town coming out in me.
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Re: Soup Cans
by MalevolEnte on Aug 21, 2002 - 11:43 PM
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ABOUT THE LABELS:
IT IS A HUMAN NEED, TO HAVE A NAME WITH TO CALL EVERYTHING. IT IS THE FUNDAMENTS OF A WORLD BUILDED OVER SYMBOLS: IF WE CAN NAME IT, IT DOESN´T BELONG TO US, WE CAN'T CONTROL IT, WE DON´T KNOW IT, AND MAYBE IT DOESN'T EXIST.
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Re: Re: Soup Cans by bettie_x (strangersangel@hotmail.com) on Aug 22, 2002 - 01:38 AM (User info | Send a Message) http://bettie_x.tripod.com/strangeasangels/ | Not so much control (tho that is often the case) as it is understanding.
Try describing grey.
What you can not name you cannot understand, and what you cannot understand you cannot grasp, and what you cannot grasp and the concept that there IS something you cannot grasp is frightening hence fear.
Death has a name (sort of..and many at that) yet it's still ungraspable and frightening...unless you've managed (through a religion or way of thinking/philosophy on life) to "understand" it.
The world is large and confusing and full of things labeled and not.
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