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Diese Nachricht habe
ich aus den Tiefen des Internets gefischt. Es ist die ursprüngliche
und vollständige Version. Der Autor ist unbekannt.
Stimmt es wirklich,
dass wir, die 'Einprozentigen' am Computer, zu den glücklichsten
Menschen dieser Erde zählen? Mit Sicherheit nicht. Hoher Lebensstandard,
Komfort, Reichtum, Technik und grenzenlose Freiheit, vor allen Dingen
aber hohes Bildungsniveau, bedeuten absolut nicht automatisch auch
Glück und Zufriedenheit.
Seltsam, aber wahr.
> 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.
>
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> 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.
>
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