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Date Posted: 19:02:52 03/19/01 Mon
>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 worlds
>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 would have a college education>1 would own a computer>
>When one considers our world from such a compressed
>perspective, the need for acceptance, understanding
>and education becomes glaringly apparent.>
>The following is also something 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 worlds wealthy.>
>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 nobody's watching.
>Sing like nobody's listening.>Live like it's Heaven on Earth.>
>It's National Friendship Week.>Send this to everyone you consider a FRIEND.>
>Pass this on, and brighten someone's day.>
>Nothing will happen if you do not decide to pass it
>along. The only thing that will happen, if you DO
>pass it on, is that someone might smile because of you.>>
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