Post by red on Jun 13, 2005 21:01:50 GMT -8
SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT
If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people:
• 57 Asians; 21 Europeans; 14 from the Western Hemisphere, both north and south; and 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 would be from the United States
• 80 would live in substandard housing
• 50 would suffer from malnutrition
• 1 would be near death; 1 would be approaching birth
• 1 would have a college education
• 1 would own a computer
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 world's wealthiest people.
• If you can read this message, you are more blessed than over two billion people in the world that cannot read at all.
If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people:
• 57 Asians; 21 Europeans; 14 from the Western Hemisphere, both north and south; and 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 would be from the United States
• 80 would live in substandard housing
• 50 would suffer from malnutrition
• 1 would be near death; 1 would be approaching birth
• 1 would have a college education
• 1 would own a computer
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 world's wealthiest people.
• If you can read this message, you are more blessed than over two billion people in the world that cannot read at all.
