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.
This language was borrowed from Mrs.Riricon.
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