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If The Earth was A Village!
If we could shrink the earth's population to village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratio remaining the same, it would look something like the following:
There would be:
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57 Asians
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21 Europeans
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14 from the Western Hemisphere, both north and south
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8 Africans
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52 would be female
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48 would be male
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70 would be non-white
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30 would be white
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70 would be non-Christian
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30 would be Christian
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89 would be heterosexual
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11 would be homosexual
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6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth and all 6 would be from the United States.
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80 would live in substandard housing
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70 would be unable to read
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50 would suffer from malnutrition
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1 would be near death
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1 would be near birth
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1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education
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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 many others. 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 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.
Author Unknown
/////////////////////There is something spiritual and magic about old book stores and libraries.
Maybe it is just the smell of old books bringing back forgotten childhood memories, or maybe there is a deeper spiritual connection I can’t explain, but every time I am in a library I feel connected to a higher wisdom and my creativity and inspiration take flight.
There was a public library by my apartment building where I would spend hours every day. I would take my stack of books, go outside in the park, lay down under a majestic eucalyptus tree and read until my back started hurting.
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The Pole Shift / Reversal in 2012
source: www.howtosurvive2012.com by Patrick Geryl
Author Patrick Geryl came to the staggering conclusion that the Earth will soon be subjected to an immense disaster. The cause: upheavals in
the sun's magnetic fields will generate gigantic solar flares that will affect the polarity of the entire Earth. The result: our magnetic field will
reverse all at once, with catastrophic consequences for humanity.
Massive earthquakes will demolish all buildings on the planet, and instigate colossal tsunamis and intense volcanic activity. In fact, the Earth's
crust will shift, sweeping continents thousands of miles away from their present positions.
There is ample evidence in the literature of ancient civilizations that such disasters have occurred in the past and also clues that they knew
when another such calamity would occur. The Dresden Codex of the Maya for instance, contains the secrets of the sunspot cycle, about which
our modern astronomers know almost nothing!
In his books, Patrick Geryl continues his scientific analysis of the millennia-old codes of the Maya and Egyptians that refer to the coming
super-disaster. He determines that both cultures arose from an antediluvian civilization which was able to calculate the previous polar shifts
and that we should take very seriously their calculations that place the next reversal in 2012!
////////////////////summarizes 2008 it probably is 'Humanity in Crisis'.
./////////////////////Certainly neurones, hormones and other brain chemicals
play a role in all of our experience, and the brain as a physical system
allows experience to take place at all. But there are several other
layers of things involved in our experiences, from the physical world
itself, through the cultural schemas, models and languages through which
we cognize the world, to the structure of the brain, and finally the way
that neuronal structures are able to re-organize and re-model the world
in their own medium.
Judy writes: "Those who meditate increase blood flow to certain areas of
the brain and (probably reflexively) decrease it to other areas, so
perhaps it is all a matter of oxygenation, and there are no
brain-produced biochemicals involved at all."
Judy, this is so wrong it is hard to know where to start. Meditation is
about learning to create a space between stimuli and our response. When
we create that space, we free ourself from the automatic responses and
give ourselves room for a creative response. Within the space itself,
one experiences one's being as being, which allows one to experience
consciousness in its fullness. Whatever the relationship between
consciousness and blood and other chemicals is, we don't know, but
meditation is about consciousness, not blood and hormones.
Judy writes: "I think there are people who do have some sort of
experience of an Other of which I may be incapable. I'm pretty sure that
the accompanying conceptualizations bear almost no resemblence to
whatever may actually be out there."
If its all blood neurons and hormones, what is a self? What else could
the self be but an illusion, and if the self is an illusion, than the
truth is that all is otherness relative to that illusion. But of course,
it is not all blood, neurons, and hormones, and the self, like culture,
is composed of narratives. But beyond the narratives, there is no
essence -- the narrative is generated out of the otherness of nature and
culture. Through meditayion one gets beyond the narrative to the
otherness. Otherness is the tree in which the narrative "I" has its
nest. Further, the other is not "out there." The other is within, it
is the life of our life.
T
////////////////////////A supervolcano is one that explodes in (natch) supereruptions. Definitions vary, but usually we're talking a magnitude-eight (M8) eruption: one trillion metric tons of ash and other debris filling at least 100 cubic miles, typically upchucked over the course of about a week. Picture 1,000 Mount Saint Helenses, or 8 Tamboras. Besides causing regional devastation, supereruptions affect global climate. An Indonesian super 74,000 years ago kicked off a thousand-year drought that some contend caused a human population crash. One shudders to think what a similar blow would do now.
Yellowstone is both a supervolcano and a hotspot; the two don't always go together. A hotspot is the business end of what's known as a mantle plume, a stream of magma that rises hundreds of miles through a channel in the earth’s crust like the blob in a lava lamp. The Yellowstone plume head, 50 miles underground, is several hundred miles wide. Over time, the hot head melts the overlying crust, forming a smaller magma chamber. Yellowstone's magma chamber is just a few miles down and contains partially melted granite viscous enough to trap gas, allowing pressure to build. Periodically the pressure cracks the surface, explosively ejecting gas and disintegrated rock into the surface world. After about a tenth of the chamber's contents have erupted, pressure falls and the show's over. Reheat and repeat.
For more, see:
www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2834/is-yellowstone-park-sitting-on-a-supervolcano-thats-about-to-blow
//////////////////What exactly causes ejaculation?
Perhaps surprisingly, that's a tough one -- the "exactly" part being the major sticking point. Scientists are pretty sure it has something to do with the spine and some muscles, but they're not sure how it all fits together. Part of the problem is a lack of careful research. Physiologist Roy Levin reviewed the literature in 2005 and discovered that, "of the four "e's" of male sexual function, excitation, erection, emission, and ejaculation, the mechanism that has been studied the least is the last." Standard Practice in Sexual Medicine (2006) says, "a detailed, non-disputed physio-anatomic description of the mechanism of human ejaculation has still to be produced." In other words, we don't know everything just yet -- we're still scratching our heads a bit. The fact that we don't know everything, of course, doesn't mean we know nothing.
For more, see:
www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2835/how-does-ejaculation-work
//////////////////////New Anti-cancer Components Of Extra-virgin Olive Oil Revealed (December 27, 2008) -- Good quality extra-virgin olive oil contains health-relevant chemicals, 'phytochemicals', that can trigger cancer cell death. New research sheds more light on the suspected association between olive oil-rich Mediterranean diets and reductions in breast cancer risk. ... > full story
///////////////////Women Double Fruit, Veggie Intake With Switch To Mediterranean Diet Plan (December 31, 2008) -- Women more than doubled their fruit and vegetable intakes and dramatically increased their consumption of 'good' fats when they were counseled by registered dietitians and provided with a list of guidelines on the amount of certain foods they should eat each day. ... > full story
//////////////////////Berry Compound Reduces Aging Effect (December 30, 2008) -- Aged laboratory animals that ate a diet rich in the berry and grape compound pterostilbene performed better than those in a group that did not eat the enriched diet, scientists with the Agricultural Research Service have reported. Pterostilbene reversed measurable negative effects of aging on brain function and behavioral performance. ... > full story
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