{"id":118,"date":"2006-07-25T20:38:14","date_gmt":"2006-07-25T20:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/nucleus-import\/?p=118"},"modified":"2006-07-25T20:38:14","modified_gmt":"2006-07-25T20:38:14","slug":"fascinating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/fascinating\/","title":{"rendered":"FASCINATing&#8230;.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    FASCINATing&#8230;.. <br \/>\nIf we could shrink the earth&#8217;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:<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThere would be:<br \/>\n57 Asians<br \/>\n21 Europeans<br \/>\n14 from the Western Hemisphere, both north and south<br \/>\n8 Africans<\/p>\n<p>52 would be female<br \/>\n48 would be male<\/p>\n<p>70 would be non-white<br \/>\n30 would be white<\/p>\n<p>70 would be non-Christian<br \/>\n30 would be Christian<\/p>\n<p>89 would be heterosexual<br \/>\n11 would be homosexual<\/p>\n<p>6 people would possess 59% of the entire world&#8217;s wealth and all 6 would be from the United States.<\/p>\n<p>80 would live in sub standard housing<br \/>\n70 would be unable to read<br \/>\n50 would suffer from malnutrition<br \/>\n1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth<br \/>\n1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education<br \/>\n1 would own a computer<\/p>\n<p>When one considers our world from such a compressed perspective, the need for acceptance, understanding and education becomes glaringly apparent.<\/p>\n<p>The following is also something to ponder&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>If you woke up this morning with more health than illness..you are more blessed than the million who will not survive this week.<\/p>\n<p>If you have never experienced the danger of battle, the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture, or the pangs of starvation &#8230;you are ahead of 500 million people in the world.<\/p>\n<p>If you can attend a church meeting without fear of harassment, arrest, torture, or death&#8230;you are more blessed than three billion people in the world.<\/p>\n<p>If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof overhead and a place to sleep&#8230;you are richer than 70% of this world.<\/p>\n<p>If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in a dish someplace &#8230; you are among the top 8% of the world&#8217;s wealthy.<\/p>\n<p>If your parents are still alive and still married &#8230; you are very rare, even in the United States and Canada.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FASCINATing&#8230;.. If we could shrink the earth&#8217;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:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":546,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/546"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}