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Earl Prignitz 92, Male
Richmond, IN, United States

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Hometown:
Richmond, IN 47374
Relationship Status:
Married
My personal story:
I am a retired Friends pastor - 92 years of age and a dedicated peace lover. I have been a pacifist for well over 70 years. I spent 39 years of my life in one form of ministry or another in 4 different states. I am now living in Friends Fellowship Community and have been for nearly 9 years after suffering from two strokes just prior to that. I am married for the second time to a lovely woman named Rosalie. My first wife died after we were married over 61 years from a fall that broke her neck. .
Why I want peace:
I want peace because as a followerer of Jesus Christ I cannot conceive of him approving of war anywhere with all of the loss of life and the destruction of goods and property that follow in its wake.
Birthday:
08/27/1915
Interests and activities:
Religion, sports, Computers and writing.
Something you didn't know about me:
I've not only been a minister, I've been a machinist, a carpenter, mason, an administrator and a printer.
How I found mepeace.org:
John Wilmerding invited me to join.
What I want to achieve here:
I would like to find some young person who would take up the mission of promoting the cause of peace.

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I Have A Dream!

Yes, dear friends, in the familiar words of Martin Luther King Jr. "I have a dream." My dream is that somewhere out there someone will emerge with the vision of a world living in harmony rather than always being at war. I have a dream that some young man or woman will come out of the woodwork who will have the creativity and imagination to see that the only way for our world to survive is to live in peace. I am ninety years old and have had this dream for many years but I have always been rebutt… Continue

Posted on April 21st, 2008 at 9:04pm — 6 Comments (Add)

War etc.

To be able to live with myself I must express my views on war and why we continue to have wars with all of their terrible consequences. Just why is that we continue to have these disastrous wars every few years? Some psychologists have argued that while human temperament allows wars to occur, they only do so when mentally unbalanced men are in control of a nation. This extreme school of thought argues leaders that seek war such as Napoleon, Hitler, and Stalin were mentally abnormal. Perhaps Pres… Continue

Posted on April 6th, 2008 at 8:55pm — No Comments (Add)

Why I Am A Pacifist

by Earl J. Prignitz For several hundred years following the death of Christ, there is absolutely no question that his followers were certain that he had forbidden war. As a result of many Christians refusal to participate in war they suffered the consequences of imprisonment and/or death. These facts are indisputable. A learned writer of the seventeenth century said, "It is as easy to obscure the sun at mid-day, as to deny that the primitive Christians renounced all revenge and war." There are… Continue

Posted on April 6th, 2008 at 7:59pm — No Comments (Add)

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At 6:46pm on May 30th, 2008, Rob Schrama said…
The ‘Big Hug’ and the future of Jerusalem

The sting of all problems between Israeli and Palestinians lays in the Old City of Jerusalem. Her status has to be solved in such a way, that all parties fighting for control over her can agree upon.

On June 24, the ‘Big Hug’ will be hold in Jerusalem. Light workers from Israel, Palestine and from all over the world, ‘Lovers of Jerusalem’, will come together to bring warmth and energy to this city, embracing holding hands the Old City. If we bundle all our positive energies and bring these to Jerusalem, we can create peace to this exceptional place.

We are organizing the Big Hug to make the people aware –especially the Israeli and Palestinian inhabitants of Jerusalem- that there is a very shaped perspective for the city of Jerusalem as a city of peace: a new, undivided Jerusalem, as the capital of Palestine, Israel and at large.

Let go of the conflict concerning her command and dedicate the city to the Omnipresent. The Old City as a whole is His Temple. To give the walled Old City free to God, as a "Status Apart”, as an independent city, will be the most feasible way to come out the current impasse.

The Old City of Jerusalem must become an open city; a House of Prayer for all the Peoples. This perspective is written down in the Holy Books, this is the perspective we, as ‘Lovers of Jerusalem’ embrace as well as solution. But how many people does already notice this hopeful point of view?

What I saw in Jerusalem and also everywhere else where I meet Islamic and Jewish people is, that not so many persons really think about a future for Jerusalem. Most of the time, they stick with old ideas that the Old City of Jerusalem will always remain a part of Israel, or in opposite, that it will be absolutely a part of a new Palestinian state, as stolen land that has to be given back. With these visions, a future Jerusalem will be a divided city with an East Palestinian and West Israeli part, with barbed wire and checkpoints in between, like the situation of the city from 1948-1967. Or, coming closer to an agreement, people suggest -like proposed in the “Geneva Accord” in 2003- to make a complicated dividing of the Old City in a Israeli and Palestinian part. That will mean that the small alleys will be split by walls and barriers too. The idea that a future Jerusalem will become a divided city, is something that we have to prevent.

There are living about 250.000 Palestinian and 500.000 Israeli rather close together in one city. Do they want to make a separation of Jerusalem in parts or do they choose, deep in their hearts, for unity? So my best friends, it is our task to inform the whole city that there is an alternative for the Jerusalem of today.

All lovers of a united Jerusalem will come together to encircle and embrace the Old City of Jerusalem with love and devotion. We have to encourage all inhabitants of Jerusalem to join the coming Big Hug, with the idea of a New Jerusalem that might be realized with their support.

Rob Schrama Phone:0031-646608660 www.loversofjerusalem.org
At 11:58am on April 30th, 2008, AYOUB said…
it is nice to meet you and it is honor for accept me as friend for peace
ayoub
At 10:29pm on April 5th, 2008, Mo'min said…
Dear Earl
First of all I would thank you about your email
Really I need more experiences about summer activities
My association now in west bank is arranging meeting and workshop
We need more idea and activities that help us to join and share with more and more youth and guys in Jenin & west bank
How you cold help us
What things we can do?
Did you have abstracts and reports about same things?
Thanks with best regards
Mo'min
At 12:08pm on April 5th, 2008, Saeed Az. said…
Dear Earl,

How are you? I hope you are ok. I would like to thank you for your support for peace. You have been seeing plenty of things during you life. It seems that you were (and still) witness on devastating wars. Peace is important to all peoles and religions. our religions are very peaceful. I think that the peacemakers should learn from you alot.

have a nice day

Saeed
At 4:12pm on March 26th, 2008, Mo'min said…
can you write to me your email or if we can talk here
thanks
At 3:56pm on March 26th, 2008, Mo'min said…
Dear Earl
hello ? how are you
i am gald to meet you and to talk with you
can we talk if you have time?
thanks
At 10:26pm on March 2nd, 2008, Eyal Raviv said…
Hi Earl, I just want to say hello. How are you? Are you following the news in Gaza in Israel? Are you concerned? How do you expect this to turn out?
At 1:37pm on March 1st, 2008, bassam aramin said…
thank you brother Earl, all of us must peove that there is adifferns between justice and revenge.
hope to contnue our mission to fight for peace for all of us, with love and peace we can make our world more better and save. thanks to all of you Donna and the others. my email is bassaam6@yahoo.com
At 6:22pm on February 22nd, 2008, Donna Qawasmi said…
Dear

thanks alot for your comment on my interview it means alot to me ,,, people like you and Eyal are giving me the strength to go on ...

peace

Donna Qawasmi
At 12:20pm on January 31st, 2008, israel said…
hi earl
how do u doing
israel
 
 

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