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Here is a post that i copy and pasted off of X-prox's weblog. im not sure how many of you follow the link there but i thouhgt this was worth copying. but x-prox is not accually the writer of it, he got it from an email, so i dont feel so bad about stealing it.

Subject: One Hundred People

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, north & 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 worlds
wealthy.

If your parents are still alive and still married...you are very rare,
even more rare 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.




hope ya'll enjoyed it. make sure to check out the LNR/artichokes collaboration poll on the sidebar, and you better pick the right one.
Ian