here's something i found online that i thought was interesting and worth being read...:
Something for thought
"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;
90 would be heterosexual;
10 would be homosexual;
89 would be non–Christian;
11 would be Christian;
6 people would possess 59% of the entire worlds wealth
and all 6 would be from the USA
80 would live in substandard housing;
70 would be unable to read;
50 would suffer malnutrition;
1 would be near death;
1 would be near birth;
1 would have a collage 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.
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 the fear of harassment, arrest, torture, or death you are more blessed than 3 billion people in the world.
If you have food in your refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof over your head and a place to sleep, you are richer than 75% of this world.
If you have money in your bank, in your wallet, and a spare change dish in 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 US and Canada. "
