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-----Original Message----- From: KKARMA@aol.com [mailto:KKARMA@aol.com] Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 6:01 PM To: Dorah98@aol.com; genecar@webtv.net; barbiequeen2001@hotmail.com; jacl41@home.com; avedon@bellatlantic.net; Jlihaas@aol.com; huntman@stargate.net; DTRP3@aol.com; ptaylorraiff@genesismedical.org; Mbam4@aol.com; RUDIPOO@prodigy.net; catcher012@home.com; b5schultz@earthlink.net; RASeacord@yahoo.com; Ftracey@aol.com; USMATELOT@aol.com; UFAlumni@aol.com 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.
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