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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 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 US. 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 ponder... If you woke up this morning with more health than illness... you are more blessed than 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 pands 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 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. If you can read this message, you just received a double blessing in that someone was thinking of you, and furdermore, 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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| Now when you climb into you bed tonight And when you lock and bolt the door Just think of those out in the cold and dark 'cos there's not enough love to go round |
| And sympathy is what we need my friend And sympathy is what we need And sympathy is what we need my friend 'cos there's not enough love to go round |
| Now half the world hurts the other half And half the world has all the food And half the world lies down and quietly starves 'cos there's not enough love to go round |
| And sympathy is what we need my friend And sympathy is what we need And sympathy is what we need my friend 'cos there's not enough love to go round |
| 'cos there's not enough love to go round |
| Rare Bird "Sympathy" |
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