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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.
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