Wealth - The whole world in a single Village

[Avid6eek]

READ ON TO THE END - THEN PAUSE FOR THOUGHT <BR><BR>If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100 <BR>people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, it <BR>would look something like the following: <BR><BR>There would be: <BR><BR>57 Asians <BR>21 Europeans <BR>14 from the Western Hemisphere, both north and south <BR>8 Africans <BR><BR>52 would be female <BR>48 would be male <BR><BR>70 would be non-white <BR>30 would be white <BR><BR>70 would be non-Christian <BR>30 would be Christian <BR><BR>89 would be heterosexual <BR>11 would be homosexual <BR><BR>6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth and all 6 <BR>would be from the United States. <BR><BR>80 would live in substandard housing <BR><BR>70 would be unable to read <BR><BR>50 would suffer from malnutrition <BR><BR>1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth <BR><BR>1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education <BR><BR>1 would own a computer <BR><BR>When one considers our world from such a compressed perspective, the <BR>need for acceptance, understanding and education becomes glaringly <BR>apparent. <BR><BR>The following is also something to ponder... <BR><BR>If you woke up this morning with more health than illness...you are <BR>more blessed than the million who will not survive this week. <BR><BR>If you have never experienced the danger of battle, the loneliness <BR>of imprisonment, the agony of torture, or the pangs of starvation...you <BR>are ahead of 500 million people in the world. <BR><BR>If you can attend a church meeting without fear of harassment, arrest, <BR>torture, or death...you are more blessed than three billion people in <BR>the world. <BR><BR>If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof <BR>overhead and a place to sleep...you are richer than 75% of this world. <BR><BR>If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in a <BR>dish someplace ... you are among the top 8% of the world's wealthy. <BR><BR>If your parents are still alive and still married... you are very <BR>rare, even in the United States and Canada. <BR><BR>If you can read this message, you just received a double blessing in that <BR>someone was thinking of you, and furthermore, you are more blessed <BR>than over two billion people in the world that cannot read at all. <BR><BR>Someone once said: What goes around comes around. Work like you <BR>don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's <BR>watching. Sing like nobody's listening. Live like it's Heaven on Earth. <BR>

[Avid6eek]

lol....doesn't mean anything to me either....I just got it in my email and passed it along to all you here at PCStats <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif" border="0">

[Comixion]

Fine with me, as long as I'm the one with the computer.<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif" border="0">

[Caveman Basser]

Why Stevio?? You gonna learn how to use one? <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif" border="0">

[CHE]

He already knows how to break 'em so I guess using 'em is next on his list <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif" border="0">

[Caveman Basser]

Right Right.. <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif" border="0">

[grafton26]

even better to be 1 of the 6 rich people in the world , then you could buy as many as you want

[CompSnake]

where you gonna buy em from? if there were only 100 people how are the computers gonna be manufactured?

[Comixion]

<br><br><< <i>He already knows how to break 'em so I guess using 'em is next on his list <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif" border="0"></i> >><br><br><BR><BR>shutup CHE, you...you...Maxtor blaster.<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif" border="0">

[CHE]

Listen up, Pastey, I'm not the one who electrocuted a coworker's drive to cover up my ineptitude with FDISK. <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif" border="0">

[Comixion]

uhh....ummm....aint my fault, my fingers slipped and it touched objects it should have stayed away from. So, there. tattletale.<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-blush.gif" border="0">

[CompSnake]

hahaha, how'd you manage that one?

[NaSTy]

tell him ^^ <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif" border="0">

[Comixion]

<br><br><< <i>tell him ^^ <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif" border="0"></i> >><br><br><BR><BR>aint gonna do it. <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-blush.gif" border="0">

[Caveman Basser]

Stevio could f|_|ck up a wet dream right Stevio?

[CHE]

More than once I'm here to say <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-disgusted.gif" border="0">

[NaSTy]

<b><br><br><< <i>READ ON TO THE END - THEN PAUSE FOR THOUGHT</i> >><br><br></b><BR>Anyone^^

[Comixion]

<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-blush.gif" border="0"> Ok lets talk about something else.<BR><BR>What are you wearing CHE?

[CompSnake]

Dont change the subject