d spread outwards. We have done all that we can on this rock and now it is time to move on to bigger and better things.Our lives may be meaningless as individuals (it is our own ego that makes us think we are important) but as a whole we do have some importance in the Grande scheme of things. If we could only overcome our ignorance based on cosmetic differences, the time that we spend on this festering piece of crap would be far more rewarding.Whether you believe in God, Allah, Buddha, atoms or gargoyles, it makes no difference. When you are dead, you are dead. You revert to where you originally came from, so don't try and fight it.We all have the choice to end our lives when we see fit, but suicide is just used as a means of escape for those of us too weak to continue. We get into a state of mind -- our brain is flooded with self-terminating chemicals that make us truly believe that now is the time to end things, when in fact it is just the lack of serotonin or other chemicals in our brain that makes us believe that we are doing what needs to be done. Suicide is useless unless you are 80 years old and dying of cancer.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 like something like the following:There would be:h 57 Asians h 21 Europeans h 14 from the Western Hemisphere, both North and South h 8 Africans h 52 would be female h 48 would be male h 70 would be nonwhite h 30 would be white h 70 would be non-Christian h 30 would be Christian h 89 would be heterosexual h 11 would be homosexual h 6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth h All 6 would be from the United States h 80 would live in substandard housing h 70 would be unable to read h 50 would suffer from malnutrition h 1 would be near death; h 1 would be near birth h 1 would have a college education h 1 would own a computer When one considers our world from such a co...
