National Friend's Week
Posted: Wed May 21, 2003 11:15 am
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 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 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.
It's National Friendship Week. Send this to everyone
you consider a FRIEND.
Linda
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 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 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.
It's National Friendship Week. Send this to everyone
you consider a FRIEND.
Linda
Thanks for sharing. 