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If we could reduce the world’s population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all existing human ratios remaining the same, the demographics would look something like this:

-60 Asians
-12 Europeans
-5 US Americans and Canadians
-8 Latin Americans
-14 Africans

-49 would be female
-51 would be male

-82 would be non-white
-18 white

-89 heterosexual
-11 homosexual

-33 would be Christian
-67 would be non-Christian

-5 would control 32% of the entire world’s wealth, and all of them would be US citizens

-80 would live in substandard housing

-24 would not have any electricity

-67 would be unable to read...

Peace is your natural state. It is the mind that obstructs the natural state.~~Ramana Maharshi

This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.~~Leonard Bernstien

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful. ~~Friedrich Von Schiller

Nonviolence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being. ~~Mahatma Gandhi

The peace makers shall be called the children of God. ~~Bible

Making peace, i have found, is much harder than making war. ~~Gerry Adams

One can always win a...

Why do we have something as stupid and pointless as war. Of all the things to create. A mother tells a child to stop fighting, yet calls a killer a hero. "Defend Our Country" yeah right. Defending means holding back someone who is trying to hurt you. It does not mean that if someone doesn't do what you tell them, you go into a country and kill their people. And if you have a quarrl with someone, why don't you settle it yourself instead of killing a bunch of innocent soliders who think they're doing what's right. Are we so primitive that we resolve to such matters? Have they ever thought of...