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Subject:  Something to ponder....
  
>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 
> 
>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: 
> 
>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. 
>  
>It's National Friendship Week. 
>Send this to everyone you  consider a FRIEND.