-Caveat Lector- The following was posted to one of the lists I run...
June > Date: 11/12/01 6:25:30 PM > Subject: Shared thoughts...somewhat humbling > > A friend in Japan sent me this, and reading it does just make one stop and > think... > > 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: 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. > > > It's National Friendship Week. > Send this to everyone you consider a FRIEND. > Pass this on, and brighten someone's day. > <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html";>Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/";>ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
