Just stop and think.....

[roo27]

Now we all like a moan from time to time but how often do we stop to see just how lucky and advantaged we realy are ?

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 nonwhite
# 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.
# 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.

If you can read this thread, you are more blessed than over two billion people in the world that cannot read at all.

Now dosent that make you think.

[sweetkitty]

thanks, roo, for this thread... anymore to say..

[fred913]

I think you've covered everything there Roo and every word hits home if you are capable of thinking at all, brilliant thread.

[sexynomore]

Roo, you put things in perspective. Most of us here blessed as stated above except for a few here who has health issues.

Thanks,
T.xx

[crinkle62]

nice thread Roo.... it really does make you sit back and think. xx
but one thing i'd like to add,

CONGRATS ON YOUR SPELLING HUN..WHAT AN IMPROVEMENT!!

[fred913]

He, he, he, Schoolmaam Crinks, does Roo get a gold star teacher instead of a rap across the knuckles with the ruler.

[jimggoldwing]

Roo gets an A in art class ---- he does such a wonderful job with his cutting and his pasting...

[Earp10]

nice thread roo

[Pocket_Ducks]

Aint statistics great?

cheers for the post roo, more to think about

kwak

[JackSpades]

Originally Posted by jimggoldwing

Roo gets an A in art class ---- he does such a wonderful job with his cutting and his pasting...

yes teacher allows roo to use child safety siccsors.Thank god he no longer eats the glue.