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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.
K.Leipold |
