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Listen to this ....
This makes you think !!!
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
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
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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 relgous 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,
even in the United States and
Canada.
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.
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