it was a Thursday when God revealed himself to all of humanity the day started ordinary enough but sometime in the afternoon I felt a presence in my chest and a voice in my ear I have returned the voice said as it just so happened that everybody had heard that voice every everyone felt that presence and soon everybody stepped out of their dwellings and looked up at the sky and saw the clouds that disappear and a brilliant light shine for just an instant a moment a light so brilliant that it couldn't have belonged to the sun
and it had to have been something else and it was clear the feeling in our hearts was certain the Lord was real and he was here what happened next was likely what you would have expected the world became Kinder and more compassionate not by virtue of an intrinsic force of goodness overtaking us but rather the fear of Retribution you didn't want to fight didn't want to insult didn't want to judge because you didn't know what would happen when you did a safe life with the recent Supernatural developments was one that contained a bit more charity
a bit more turning in the other cheek and a bit more fainted Gra Grace fake it till you make it after all I watched for signs of what would change next we were all under the watchful eye but it at least felt incorrectly we would realize that the almighty's interventions had been minimal so far everyone found out at their own pace that death had become a thing of the past some knew immediately when their loved ones in Hospice Care saw remarkable turnarounds in MTH others missed the memo until Mass consensus had been established one scientists
and statisticians alike revealed that by every know metric natural disasters car crashes heart attacks the number of daily reported deaths had plummeted from an average of 160,000 to zero life went on and as it did I started hearing whispers of what worship was depending on who you talk to online or at the water cooler you would hear a different rumor a different interpretation it wasn't until my mom was called upon that I knew what it was I remember it vividly 7:00 after dinner mom got up from her seats in the living room and got ready
da her coat and stepped towards the shoe rack where you heading Han my father had asked her I've been summoned I'm sorry the Lord has summoned me for worship I I remember just how odd the moment felt life had been tinged with a certain unreality since the grand question was blown wide open seeing mom head for the door both did and didn't make any sense had it been any other year we would have thought that she was doing a bit did you um need a ride my dad asked confusedly the Lord would like me to
walk she responded and then she turned the knob and went outside I was 17 at the time my brother was 20 and we both asked Dad if we should follow her he told us to stay home and that he would accompany her and figure out what was going on he didn't return until the next evening we rushed downstairs when we heard the front door open hoping that we would catch both of our parents entering instead it was just him disheveled we a muted expression on his face I'll never forget the way that he looked at
us she's standing in a field he said and then there are other people there too four months passed since Mom was first called To Worship during that time we learned something more about God's interventions the new Commandments as I had termed them in my brain were panning out as the following Thou shalt not die v disease natural disasters Etc Thou shalt be called to worship at a random time now I'll admit that neither of those are as catchy as the OG Commandments this is after all not the official word of the Lord merely just my
reading of the tea leaves commandment 3 came to me in a dream kidding it came to me in a YouTube video it was your usual street fighting video two guys on a sidewalk corner for reasons unknown exchanging blows until the bigger of the two got the upper hand and started wailing and wailing and then secured a knife and like a light bulb went off in his head he stopped lifted himself from his rival the guy getting his butt handed to him stood up also and then both of them just walked single file empty Expressions on
their faces men cheering candidate stuff so so if thou attempt to kill another Thou shalt immediately be summoned to worship was the takeaway but what pray tell was worship really my visited my mom one afternoon to understand better the spot that she had journeyed to was an hour's drive from home so she must to have trct for hours that first night I arrived at the field to the sight of thousands of people standing evenly spaced 3 ft apart in every direction they all faced the same way head tilted slightly Towards the Sky perfectly still no
movement I maneuvered the rose for what felt like an endless amount of time when I finally found her it genuinely felt like I just got lucky it was my first time seeing her since she had been gone I had mentally convinced myself that there was no need for me to come out here after all she would be coming home home any day now Mom I'll admit I was a bit emotional to my surprise despite her fixed posture and eyes tilted up her mouth moved hi sweetheart how are you I'm well I am in worship she
wasn't totally being herself Mom are you able to move I am in worship she repeated but do you want to come home home the softness in her tone didn't change but it did seem like she was imbuing her words with some kind of subtext trying to say something more I can't love and then enunciated even clearer I think that you should go home perhaps before you're forced to stay too but home get going now dear I told her that I loved her and then departed through the G Gathering of worshippers all of them laid out
so absolutely perfectly like a chessboard everybody had their spot and there was plenty plenty of land to go so much so that I had to wonder what spots myself my friends a dad older brother and everybody that I had ever loved would potentially occupy one day in route I spotted a few other visitors they looked more morose than I was they whispered words of affirmation and love to the respected persons hearing responses sure but said responses from the corner of their loved ones mouths seeming light quiet Curt God Centric like they were standing at someone's
grave site albe it more a statue than a grave a commemoration of someone long gone but no one was really gone mom hadn't left worship would be over soon it had to be maybe another couple of weeks a couple of months at most and then she would be back home and the Lord would call someone else to take her place when thou art in worship thou shal not age commandment 4 became common knowledge a year later the amount of folks called To Worship had steadily gone up during this time this was Global of course so
anyone curious could at any time look up a live stream of the designated worship areas around the world to see people standing uniformly fro perfectly spaced in Parks beaches City squares you name it every town every city had its place my place I supposed would be the same field where my mom was unless it filled up by the time that it was my turn in which case it could very well have been somewhere completely random and unknown the no agian Revelation was again something discerned by the ever decreasing amount of practicing scientists on the planet
outside of worship life was still progressing normally more or less except for that final tricky death step worship grief was a real term now the experience of losing someone to God essentially not yet coined was the secret counterpart buried in all our brains that God knows literally we weren't brave enough to speak worship fear I tried my best to keep my thoughts pure I couldn't help but assume that thoughts of blasphemy contained with Within These 17 or so cm of my brain were fair game for our omnipotent ruler to scrutinize it was a nice fantasy
though the idea that there might be a spot a street corner without Gods a CCTV camera somewhere that you could just be you without fear that your insubordination would expedite the ticket to your special place on God's canvas support groups existed and so I joined one and that's where the no aging element of worship was first pitched to me as one of the many pros of the whole construction I didn't find commandment for comforting but I smiled and nodded and nonetheless the world was still the world but less so I would take the train to
work and noticed that the average of people's Expressions had gone from tired and cranky to subtly mortified I only once saw a woman break down and start crying and I can almost swear that she said under her breath I don't want to go or maybe I was just projecting nightmares weren't the same anymore the worst dream that I could have now wasn't one where I was being chased by a murderer or caught in a storm rather the one where I would stop in place while I was doing something mundane I would hear a voice in
my head the voice would say Mew have been summoned my feet would start walking on their own and I would know exactly where I was going KN even if I didn't know where it was I would jolt awaken my bed as sweating praying as funny as it were that I still had executive function that in the little moments where I would feel a random twitch or spasm in my leg those were the killers and then four years passed and it must to have been close to 30% of the global population than in worship my dad
was an unfortunate addition into that communion my brother and I never got a chance to see him exit stage left into the crowd the day that he was called upon he was out and about I believed he had gone to see the mechanic and maybe had a physio appointment on the docket afterwards too that didn't matter now we held out hope until the third day of him being gone the field where Mom stood was full now and at this point our city had quite a few landmarks for congregation my brother and I took turns visiting
these different areas to see if we could maybe catch your dad standing amongst the crowd no luck around then I started coming around to what the fifth commandment might have been again this was just me spitballing but getting any sense of rules or structure during this time was oddly a place of comfort it was nice to know what if any parameters there were to this it was a redundant rule really and I'm sure you'll understand once I spell it out clearly the thought came to me when I would see people standing at top highrises right
close to the edge as if they were about to leap and then they would just turn around or when I would spot people on the bridge walking alongside the cars I'll be it robotically and I would wonder if I was just being a cynic or if maybe some of the pedestrian strolling alongside traffic had originally arrived with ulterior motives with my brother's mistake it all became clear I walked into his room one day to catch him sitting at his desk a gun pressed to his Temple his hand trembling the barrel shaking finger resting on the
trigger I froze in place until admit I had the following thought oh please please God let the bullet pass through his skull and let him die but instead the gun fell to the ground his hand ceased quaking he stood up from his chair walked to his closet and grabbed his coat and put it on Marcus I asked I'm just going to head out he said two worship he said matter ofly I've been called upon he headed for the front door and I trailed Marcus I said again he ignored me I don't listen I'm uh only
asking out of curiosity I tried to not sign my own release form with my words are you able to control your body at all even a little bit no and I'm going to worship you can't even if you were feeling the call it would be clear to you too and now I need to go he grabbed his shoes I walked him the whole way there 5 hours until he took his spot in the cleared out parking lot of an now defunct amusement park alongside thousands of men women and children he didn't say anything to me
on the trk there though to be fair I didn't say much to him either if thou attempt to take thine own life you guessed it Thou shalt immediately be summoned to worship Gallows humor the world coped with Gallows humor 70% of the world after all give or take was in the worship State now I tried my best to not think about it standing still head turned towards the sky body frozen for weeks monor in the case of my mom and dad years on end it was selfish but I would struggle to visit my mother when
I did go it would be for a quick side hug a quick I love you and then a hasty exit I would always wish that she were in a deep Trans State too out of it to return the greeting but she was instead consistently Lucid love you too sweetheart she would say way too presently it made me uncomfortable to be that awake that aware of what was going on I didn't like it the head cannon that I was trying to run with was that worship would be a blissful effortless dreamlike stage all of the evidence
was to the contrary and to God's credit it seemed like we could talk about worship fear quite openly certainly all of these support groups online communities and such were reflecting a different more honest state for Man YouTube videos and Tik Tock Clips talking about a Surefire way to escape tactics to reality shift out of this timeline to another deep states of meditation that would allow you to pass peacefully without being summoned to one of gods of many Gathering Grounds and of course all too many video essays scrutinizing the Lord complaining about the state of things
calling for revolution Madness really there were two moments that stuck with me moments that really captured the spirit of things the first was the final video of that guy who was planning an elaborate rubbe Goldberg esque escaped from his physical body dowed himself in his room in gasoline had a string tied to a blade suspended above his head had a timer with an explosion counting down I commended the heck out of his effort the moment hit he tossed a match from his seat to the corner flames ignited and he pulled the string and then the
fire fizzled as soon as it had reached them the blade froze in m a the explosion never happened thank goodness really as the camera footage eventually discovered and uploaded was gold and then our friend got up from his seat still dripping inflammable and walked out of frame commandment 5 my friend commandment 5 the other was the video of that big streamer who kept faking that he had been summoned while live on Twitch his face would go blank and he would get up from his seat and he would mechanically step out of his room he had
done the fake out so many times that when it was the real thing Chad was in denial for hours hilariously horrifying people still worked still clung to routine but it was pretty fruitless I would see Street Preachers with a megaphone telling us that our time was soon yeah no kidding my guy Apple despite most of their Workforce having clocked out permanently still managed to come out with new products somehow the streaming was mainly reruns however it's probably hard to commit to a full season of material when your director lead actor lead writer and everybody else
on set could step out at a moment's notice and never come back less workers everywhere that you went but hey it made sense less customers and all I picked up a coffee from the Starbucks in my area that's still had employees and I went off to see my brother here it had been two 2 years his was the hardest one for me after all I knew that deep down he wouldn't have wanted me to have pity on him but holy crap did I I returned to the parking lot it was much busier with people now
at capacity it seemed I maneuvered the gaps and I finally got to him hey I said hi he said how is it I saw his chest expand and contract with his steady ass head lifted eyes angled up how is it I asked again I'm in worship he said and it'll probably be my time soon too I said help me prepare again he said nothing bro I said it took him a while to find me speak you know he said the thought that I think about the most is that some random bullet could be flying around
somehow just a random R bullet fired from hundreds of miles away and it gets past God's radar and it catches me in the back of the head and it all goes black for me it's my favorite thought it's the dream that keeps me going I didn't say anything I couldn't say anything there's a feeling in my chest auress this isn't going to stop I felt trapped it's going to go on for eternity no heat death just this I put my hand on his shoulder an empty gesture really I think I just needed something to help
keep me upright please find a way to kill me he said and then I had to go I think I heard him say please stay I need conversation or maybe I imagined it or maybe I heard it bang on clear but I didn't want to think about it because it made me feel a survivorship bias is a really strange feeling to have when you're still on the sinking Titanic sure your section of the ship isn't submerged yet but you would be there soon enough with Leo and the Gang whoever was keeping track had stopped counting
almost everyone was gone it was dumb luck pure and simple dumb luck that I hadn't been called upon yet my soft research started the moment that Dad disappeared but you can be sure that it escalated after the conversation with my brother I approached everything with an open mind and tried anything that I could specific meditations incantations prayers to the Lord for the global worship session to end I went to specific coordinates in towns where rumor had it people could actually die my trips were immeasurably disappointing no death to to be found anywhere the old constants
death and taxes the new constants immortality and worship I was in route to my 80th or so desperate attempt to find Salvation see Annihilation a picture of a flyer that was shared to one of the many holy crap we need to die ASAP groups that I was a part of detailed the church that won Reverend Lucien f was practicing at he made lofty promises about his support group that I was sure he wouldn't be able to deliver on the bottom of the flyer reading much like a pyramid's game join a community with a Surefire solution
to worship fear no testimonials because we have a 100% success rate come and see the miracle for yourself but at desperate times and all that nonsense I made the 4-Hour Drive in the way spotting some of the many many many new landmarks of people gathered perfectly spaced apart facing the same direction head slanted upwards Locked In Perpetual admiration for the Lord it felt like my time was closing in like I had stopped the car at any moment now step out walk along the side of the road until I reached my place I arrived at the
destination the church looked desolate from the outside looking long abandoned no clue what Reverend Lucien was running here but hey if it was just a prank well then he got me I stepped inside and then I felt it the lack the lack of the feeling of the Lord in my chest I felt like my bond with the Creator had been severed by the entrance there was a table with a sign in form and a pan I scribbled my name in the time the interior stretched quite long I took a seat in the pews there were
a few others seated in the rows and they looked like they had been waiting for quite some time after a little while a man came out on the stage just going to be a couple more hours but he should be seen to all of you soon he said I felt like I was at the doctor's office for an appointment he didn't reappear for quite some time as promised time Stood Still I heard the tick tick tick of the clock my hands on my legs don't move inventar he came out called somebody else's name Thomas Gilmore
is Thomas Gilmore here and sure enough Thomas got up from his seat and followed the man to the back tick tick tick Eve Merit Eve that's me her hand shut up that's me and off she went to the back tick tick tick I really truly didn't know how much time I had left ninja says Lily here he said eye in the sheet Lily oh she's in the bathroom another stranger said all right we'll take her when she gets back and then the sun was going down how long would this support session run for her I
couldn't wait for them to close up shop for the evening I couldn't come back tomorrow I couldn't wait I couldn't all right um got a Jake Miller here Jake me I shouted immediately I stood up from my seat and I had the horrific thought that my body would turn itself around I would leave the church and walk right into the sunset but instead my footsteps made their way up the aisle and then I was standing right in front of him to the back he said and I followed him there a rather confused and in twisting
pathway past closed doors boxes mess and hallways until we got there to a confessional booth in there I asked them in there he said I entered the booth there was blood on the seat blood what a novel sight man take a seat don't worry about the dyem you know it's fine fine you'll be good sit said who I presumed was the priest sitting on the other side of the partition I did as he requested Reverend Lucien I asked it took him a second to respond to register uh yeah yes Reverend Lucien sure um I continued
I haven't really done this um confessional thing before but I guess are you supposed to ask me to confess something yes please confess whatever is on your mind I took a second to gather my thoughts right yes so I heard the sound of something being cleaned by a cloth followed by a deliberate and echoing snap was he eating right so I I saw your ad and found your ad rather and um yeah I suffer from worship fear I guess I don't want to um commit blasphemy against the Lord or anything but I heard the echo
of another bite Jesus a little rude man but um yeah not sure if I want to stand in a field for a 100 years and um worship I guess it's not 100 years he said at chewing loudly it's forever eternity that was his little project his little what now heaven on Earth he eternity that was always the plan for all of you to become one with the Lord for the rest of time cuz he wanted to show up when there was the most people right he sad crunching and like probably he stifled a laugh probably
less exciting when it's a caveman right billions of people or 10,000 cavemen which would you choose I'm sorry what does this have to do with anything no nothing nothing sorry please continue right I said Gathering and um I mean no I guess that was it it said that you have a Surefire Solution on your ad yeah he said I can kill you you can kill me yeah right here right now of course if you need time to think about it it's a no and if you step out of the church God will summon you right
then and you'll be a part of the flock that's what how do you know that what's your answer there are people waiting and I'm a busy guy a busy busy Reverend I I mean the answer would be yes but that would be a violation of commandment 3 um sorry I guess you don't know what that is basically I've been trying to keep track of everything and commandment 3 is my short hand for the whole if you try to suddenly the partition fell swiftly came the knife into my jugular I couldn't believe it blood spilled onto
my shirt my legs I gagged my vision blurring as I tried to focus on the man who had delivered the blow the man who had a knife in one hand half eaten Apple in the other the Lord and I have an agreement he said he has his space and I have mine how be it this one is much smaller than what I'm used to I felt my head lower involuntarily my eyes acclimated to the final shot myself drenched in red you're welcome I think I heard him say and then it all went black a miracle
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