Interesting
facts someone passed on to
me.
If we
could shrink the earth's population
to a village of precisely
100 people,
with all the existing human
ratios remaining the same,
it would look something like
the following:
There would be:
57 Asians
21 Europeans
14 from the Western Hemisphere,
both north and south
8 Africans
52 would be female
48 would be male
70 would be non-white
30 would be white
70 would be non-Christian
30 would be Christian
89 would be heterosexual
11 would be homosexual
6 people would possess 59%
of the entire world's wealth
and all 6 would be from the
United States
80 would live in substandard
housing
70 would be unable to read
50 would suffer from malnutrition
1 would be near death; 1 would
be near birth
1 (yes, only 1) would have
a college education
1 would own a computer
When one considers our world
from such a compressedperspective,
the need for acceptance, understanding
and education
becomes glaringly apparent.
The following points are also
something else to ponder...
If you woke up this morning
with more health than illness...
you are more blessed than
the million who will not survive
this week.
If you have never experienced
the danger of battle, the
loneliness
of imprisonment, the agony
of torture, or the pangs of
starvation...
you are ahead of 500 million
people in the world.
If you can attend a church
meeting without fear of harassment,
arrest, torture, or death...
you are more blessed than
three billion people in the
world.
If you have food in the refrigerator,
clothes on your back,
a roof overhead and a place
to sleep...
you are richer than 75% of
this world.
If you have money in the bank,
in your wallet,
and spare change in a dish
someplace ...
you are among the top 8% of
the world's wealthy.
If your parents are still
alive and still married...you
are very rare.
If you can read this message,
you just received a double
blessing
in that someone was thinking
of you,
and furthermore, you are more
blessed
than over two billion people
in the world that cannot read
at all.
Someone once said: What goes
around comes around.
Work like you don't need the
money.
Love like you've never been
hurt.
Dance like no-one's watching.
Sing like no-one's listening.
Live like it's Heaven on Earth.
It's
National Friendship Week.
Pass this on, and brighten
someone's day.
100 People's ring : this message
and 1 CLICK FOR
PEACE make the ring to us.
It becomes the connected ring. I want you come
to 100peopleBBS.
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