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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:

bullet57 Asians
bullet21 Europeans
bullet14 from the Western Hemisphere; north and south
bullet8 Africans
bullet52 would be female
bullet48 would be male
bullet70 would be non-white
bullet30 would be white
bullet70 would be non-Christian
bullet30 would be Christian
bullet89 would be heterosexual
bullet11 would be homosexual
bullet6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth
and all would be from the United States.
bullet80 would live in substandard housing
bullet70 would be unable to read
bullet50 would suffer from malnutrition
bullet1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth
bullet1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education
bullet1 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 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.
Sing like nobody's listening.
Live like it's heaven on Earth.

-- Selected, June 2001 --

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