OT - If we could shrink the Earth.....

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If we could shrink the earth's population to a Village of approx. 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 Americas, 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

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.