<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1141" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY style="COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: " bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial>I thought this was interesting. </FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial>I know it is not Humor, so I couldn't put it there.</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial>Maybe we should have an OT list?</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>John M. Ross<BR>Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada<BR><A href="mailto:jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca">jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca</A></FONT></DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">--<BR></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> <TABLE cellSpacing=1 width=* align=center border=0> <TBODY> <TR> <TD align=middle><FONT face="comic sans ms" color=#000000 size=3>If we could shrink the earth's population to a<BR>village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing<BR>human ratios remaining the same, it would look<BR>something like the following.<BR></FONT></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE> <TABLE cellSpacing=1 width=* align=center border=0> <TBODY> <TR> <TD>  </TD></TR> <TR> <TD align=middle><FONT face="comic sans ms" color=#000000 size=3>There would be:<BR></FONT></TD></TR> <TR> <TD>  </TD></TR> <TR> <TD align=middle><BR><FONT face="comic sans ms" color=#000000 size=3>57 Asians<BR></FONT></TD></TR> <TR> <TD>  </TD></TR> <TR> <TD align=middle><FONT face="comic sans ms" color=#000000 size=3>21 Europeans<BR> <P>14 from the Western Hemisphere,<BR>both north and south<BR> <P>8 would be Africans<BR></FONT></P></TD></TR> <TR> <TD>  </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE> <TABLE cellSpacing=1 width=* align=center border=0> <TBODY> <TR> <TD align=middle><FONT face="comic sans ms" color=#000000 size=3>52 would be female<BR>48 would be male<BR></FONT></TD> <TD align=middle> </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE> <TABLE cellSpacing=1 width=* align=center border=0> <TBODY> <TR> <TD>  </TD></TR> <TR> <TD align=middle><FONT face="comic sans ms" color=#000000 size=3>30 would be white<BR>70 would be non-white<BR> <P>70 would be non-Christian<BR>30 would be Christian<BR> <P>89 would be heterosexual<BR>11 would be homosexual<BR></FONT></P> <TR> <TD>  </TD></TR> <TR> <TD align=middle><BR><FONT face="comic sans ms" color=#000000 size=3>6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth<BR>and all 6 would be from the USA.<BR></FONT> <TR> <TD>  </TD></TR> <TR> <TD align=middle><FONT face="comic sans ms" color=#000000 size=3>80 would live in substandard housing<BR> <P>70 would be unable to read<BR>50 would suffer from malnutrition<BR> <P>1 would be near death<BR> <P>1 would be near birth<BR></FONT></P></TD></TR> <TR> <TD>  </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE> <TABLE cellSpacing=1 width=* align=center border=0> <TBODY> <TR> <TD align=middle> </TD> <TD align=middle><FONT face="comic sans ms" color=#000000 size=3>1 (yes, only 1) would have<BR>a college education<BR></FONT></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE> <TABLE cellSpacing=1 width=* align=center border=0> <TBODY> <TR> <TD>  </TD></TR> <TR> <TD align=middle><FONT face="comic sans ms" color=#000000 size=3>1 (yes, only1) would own computer.<BR></FONT></TD></TR> <TR> <TD align=middle> </TD></TR> <TR> <TD>  </TD></TR> <TR> <TD align=middle><FONT face="comic sans ms" color=#000000 size=3>When one considers our world from such a compressed perspective,<BR>we realize the need for acceptance, understanding and education.<BR></FONT></TD></TR> <TR> <TD>  </TD></TR> <TR> <TD align=middle><FONT face="comic sans ms" color=#000000 size=3>And, therefore...<BR></FONT></TD></TR> <TR> <TD align=left><FONT face="comic sans ms" color=#000000 size=3>If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof<BR>overhead and a place to sleep, you are richer than 75% of this world.<BR> <P>If you woke up this morning with more health than illness, you<BR>are more blessed than the million who will not survive this week.<BR> <P>If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in<BR>a dish someplace, you are among the top 8% of the world's wealthy.<BR> <P>If you can attend a church meeting without fear of harassment,<BR>arrest, torture, or death, you are more blessed than<BR>three billion people in the world.<BR> <P>If you have never experienced the danger of battle, the loneliness of<BR>imprisonment, the agony of torture, or the pangs of starvation,<BR>you are ahead of 500 million people in the world.<BR> <P>If you can read this message you are more blessed than the over<BR>two billion people in the world who cannot read at all.<BR></FONT></P></TD></TR> <TR> <TD>  </TD></TR> <TR> <TD align=middle><FONT face="comic sans ms" color=#000000 size=3>As you read this and are reminded how life<BR>is in the rest of the world, remember<BR>just how blessed you really are!<BR></FONT></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>