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FOOD FOR THOUGHT

发表于 2001-12-12 16:06:13 | 显示全部楼层 |阅读模式
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 nonwhite
> >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 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.
>
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