Things that make you go hmmm

[theHNIC]

If Earth's population was shrunk into a village of just 100 people, with all the human ratios existing in the world still
remaining, what would this tiny, diverse village look like? That's exactly what Philip M. Harter, a medical doctor at the
Stanford University School of Medicine, attempted to figure out. This is what he found...
57 would be Asian
21 would be European
14 would be from the Western Hemisphere
8 would be African

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 percent 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 pregnant
1 would have a college education
1 would own a computer


The following is an anonymous interpretation:

Think of it this way.

If you live in a good home, have plenty to eat and can read, you are a member of a very select group. And if you have a good house, food, can read and have a computer, you are among the very elite.

If you woke up this morning with more health than illness ... you are more fortunate 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 fortunate, more than
three billion people in the world can't.

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.

Sometimes, we all have to stop and realize just how fortunate we are.


(Be thankfull for what you have and where you are. American may not be perfect, but I rather be here than other places...)



Feel free to add....what things make you go hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

[oblongmelon]

EGADS.

[welfareloser]

i've seen this many times over the years... and it always makes me thankful for all my spiritual and material wealth.

[johnnymk]

Man, does that ever put me in my place !! But in one hour, I will be back to my old ungrateful nature.

[brainsmile]

I once went to the supermarket and asked for half a filleted side of salmon. Then the guy asks me if I wanted the bigger or smaller half?

[Thunder]

crazy

[DoPeY5007]

Originally posted by oblongmelon
EGADS.

realy makes you think

[oblongmelon]

hey dopey...get your old avatar back, it made me laugh.

[welfareloser]

Originally posted by oblongmelon
hey dopey...get your old avatar back, it made me laugh.

i second that! it was sweet.

[DoPeY5007]

LOL...

ok I will tomorrow

[dbax791]

I agree generally with the thought behind this, but you really have to take these email thingies with a big grain of salt. I mean 1/100 people in the world owning a computer?

Let's see 6 billion people * .01 = 60 million, or 25% of the USA alone. I don't buy it.

[YanksFanRy]

Originally posted by gotmilk
If you can attend a church meeting without fear of harassment, arrest, torture, or death...you are fortunate, more than
three billion people in the world can't.

My Comment: That is the only one on the list that doesn't completely apply to me... it's close, but not completely. And it has nothing to do with the 9/11 incidents.

Originally posted by dbax791
I mean 1/100 people in the world owning a computer? Let's see 6 billion people * .01 = 60 million, or 25% of the USA alone. I don't buy it.

Second Quote Comment: Fortunately for us, unfortunately for others, most of these stats do not apply to the United States. Here most people have computers. But in Africa, Afghanistan, Israel, Haiti, and other such countries most people do not have computers. Also, welfareloser says she has seen this many times through the years. Data changes over time, and perhaps now 5/100 people own computers.

[El Scorcho]

wow... this does make me grateful. Just about all of that applies to me... cept for the married parents thing. Well im grateful their still alive