~*~ As The World Turns ~*~

[FeistyLaraCroft]

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 would be Africans

52 would be female 48 would be male

30 would be white 70 would be non-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 USA.

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 (yes, only1) would own computer.

When one considers our world from such a compressed perspective, we realize the need for acceptance, understanding and education.

And, therefore...

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 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 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 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 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 read this message you are more blessed than the over two billion people in the world who cannot read at all.

As you read this and are reminded how life is in the rest of the world, remember just how blessed you really are!

[sassypants]

Kewl post .....ty 4 sharing..............

[FeistyLaraCroft]

Originally Posted by sassypants

Kewl post .....ty 4 sharing..............

Thanx........

[queen isabella]

I bet that 1 PERSON WITH THE COLLEGE EDUCATION AND THE COMPUTER WAS A woman! LOL

[mystical]

Originally Posted by FeistyLaraCroft

[roadkill]

thanks for sharing. we all just need to get along

[FeistyLaraCroft]

Originally Posted by queen isabella

I bet that 1 PERSON WITH THE COLLEGE EDUCATION AND THE COMPUTER WAS A woman! LOL

LMHO..........Ya probably right about that

[FeistyLaraCroft]

Originally Posted by mystical

[FeistyLaraCroft]

Originally Posted by roadkill

thanks for sharing. we all just need to get along

[nolet]

thank you lara you are a sweet person