Received the following from a friend - and I've forwarded it on to friends.
I thought this was well worth the effort of reading. Hope you do too.
I have gotten absolutely *furious* responses from some very aggressive
people who believe
fervently that I should **never** send an email over a few lines long or
which leaves the subject of computers (my job).
But there's a treat at the end of the message which these people will
certainly miss.
Apparently, a sociologist was struck by the contemporary condition of
humanity, and put this document together, I don't know for sure.
Have a great holiday weekend!!
Jerry
73B Black Beauty (LBC content)
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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:
57 Asians
21 Europeans
14 from the Western Hemisphere, both north and south
8 Africans
Of these:
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 *one-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 jar
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.
Send this to everyone you consider a FRIEND. Pass this on, and brighten
someone's day. Nothing will happen if you do not decide to pass it along.
The only thing that will happen, if you DO pass it on, is that someone might
smile because of you.
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