Man and Mystery v02 Questioning One's Belief by Pablo C Agsalud Jr Rev 06.pdf

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A collection of intriguing topics and fascinating stories
about the rare, the paranormal, and the strange
Questioning One’s Belief
Volume 2
Discover strange beliefs, customs, and taboos.
Take a peek at occult practices and divination.
Pablo C. Agsalud Jr.
Revision 6
Foreword
In the past, things like
television,
and words and
ideas like
advertising, capitalism, microwave
and
cancer
all seemed too strange for the ordinary
man.
As man walks towards the future, overloaded with
information, more mysteries have been solved
through the wonders of science. Although some
things remained too odd for science to reproduce
or disprove, man had placed them in the gray
areas between
truth
and
skepticism
and labeled
them with terminologies fit for the modern age.
But the truth is, as long as the strange and
unexplainable cases keep piling up, the more likely
it would seem normal or natural. Answers are
always elusive and far too fewer than questions.
And yet, behind all the wonderful and frightening
phenomena around us, it is possible that what we
call
mysterious
today won’t be too strange
tomorrow.
This book might encourage you to believe or refute
what lies beyond your own understanding.
Nonetheless, I hope it will keep you entertained
and astonished.
The content of this book remains believable for as
long as the sources and/or the references from the
specified sources exist and that the validity of the
information remains unchallenged.
Apocalyptic Predictions
Wikipedia.org
“The end is near!”
The following pages contain the list of failed apocalyptic predictions
and future predictions made by their respective claimants.
Past: Before Common Era
Date (BCE)
2800 - c.
Claimant
Assyrians
Description
An Assyrian clay tablet dating to
approximately 2800 BCE was unearthed
bearing the words "Our earth is
degenerate in these latter days. There are
signs that the world is speedily coming to
an end. Bribery and corruption are
common."
Many Romans feared that the city would
be destroyed in the 120th year of its
founding. There was a myth that 12
eagles had revealed to Romulus a
mystical number representing the lifetime
of Rome, and some early Romans
hypothesized that each eagle represented
10 years.
Some Romans believed that the mystical
number revealed to Romulus represented
the number of days in a year, so they
expected Rome to be destroyed around
365 AUC (389 BCE)
634
Romans
389
Romans
Past: Common Era
Date (CE)
66-70
Claimant
Essenes
Description
It is believed this sect of Jewish ascetics
saw the Jewish revolt against the Romans in
66-70 as the final end-time battle.
Members of the Montanist movement,
founded in 156, predicted that Jesus would
return sometime during their lifetimes.
The
Roman
government
dramatically
increased its persecution of Christians in
this year, so much so that many Christians
believed that the End had arrived.
Announced that the end would happen that
year.
Stated that the world would end before 400.
Writing ""There is no doubt that the
Antichrist has already been born. Firmly
established already in his early years, he
will, after reaching maturity, achieve
supreme power."
2nd century
Montanists
247
Various Christians
365
375-400
Hilary of Poitiers
Martin of Tours
500
Hippolytus of
Rome, Sextus
Julius Africanus,
Irenaeus
Beatus of Liébana
All three predicted Jesus would return in the
year 500.
793, Apr 6
The Spanish monk prophesied the second
coming of Christ and the end of the world
that day to a crowd of people.
Calculated the End occurring between 799
and 806.
Sextus Julius Africanus revised the date of
Doomsday to 800.
Declared that the world would end this year.
Good Friday coincided with the Feast of the
Annunciation; this had long been believed to
be the event that would bring forth the
Antichrist, and thus the end-times, within 3
years.
Various Christians in Europe had predicted
the end of the world on this date, including
Pope Sylvester II.
799-806
800
848
992-995
Gregory of Tours
Sextus Julius
Africanus
Thiota
Bernard of
Thuringia,
Various Christians
1000, Jan 1
Pope Sylvester II

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