1 00:00:01,919 --> 00:00:06,320 As I drove home from work in the middle of the night, a crying 2 00:00:06,400 --> 00:00:12,359 woman covered in blood came running out of the forest. I saw her only 3 00:00:12,400 --> 00:00:17,160 milliseconds before she left the thick grove of trees on my right. Her eyes 4 00:00:17,160 --> 00:00:22,640 were wide and uncomprehending, her mouth open in a perpetual shriek. Her clothes 5 00:00:22,760 --> 00:00:31,000 taunted rags, but otherwise she was beautiful and young. I only saw the 6 00:00:31,039 --> 00:00:36,320 merest glimpse of her slender white leg before I instinctively turn the steering wheel all 7 00:00:36,359 --> 00:00:41,320 the way to the left, trying not to hit her. At the speed 8 00:00:41,359 --> 00:00:44,840 I was going, and with a constant rain falling down from the sky, 9 00:00:46,039 --> 00:00:52,079 I quickly lost control of the car. I missed her by mere inches as 10 00:00:52,079 --> 00:00:58,640 I swerved into the oncoming lane, where thankfully no cars were coming. In 11 00:00:58,719 --> 00:01:03,280 slow motion, I saw the road pass by and then start to rise up 12 00:01:03,320 --> 00:01:07,799 to meet me. As the car began to flip, I felt like I 13 00:01:07,840 --> 00:01:12,000 was in the air for minutes, but in reality it was likely only fractions 14 00:01:12,040 --> 00:01:19,319 of a second. Then the car landed the black pavement, rushing up to 15 00:01:19,319 --> 00:01:25,400 meet me, and my vision turned to blackness. I woke up suddenly in 16 00:01:25,439 --> 00:01:30,280 a white room. The walls seeming to be made of high intensity led lights. 17 00:01:30,959 --> 00:01:34,359 It was so bright and white that it almost heard to look at them. 18 00:01:36,560 --> 00:01:40,519 I squinted my eyes slightly, and they slowly began to adjust to the 19 00:01:40,640 --> 00:01:46,879 overwhelming white light surrounding me. I stood up and looked around, rising off 20 00:01:46,879 --> 00:01:52,480 a bed made of the same kind of light. Where am I? I 21 00:01:52,560 --> 00:01:57,920 asked? No one answered. I began to walk forward, and a building 22 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:02,760 began to materialize around me. Suddenly, the white light all draining out of 23 00:02:02,799 --> 00:02:09,039 the room, like water running down a drain. I was in a castle, 24 00:02:09,960 --> 00:02:16,240 in the entryway, looking out massive black gated doors. I looked behind 25 00:02:16,240 --> 00:02:22,120 me and saw the bed was just a bench with flat pillows inscribed with roses 26 00:02:22,159 --> 00:02:28,120 and cherubs. The castle seemed to stretch forever in a straight line, hallways 27 00:02:28,159 --> 00:02:34,000 with endless mahogany doors, disappearing to a point in the horizon. No one 28 00:02:34,080 --> 00:02:40,039 moved in the rooms or hallways Outside. Birds chirped pleasantly, and a tropical, 29 00:02:40,240 --> 00:02:46,199 sweet smelling breeze blew past me. I turned my attention back to the 30 00:02:46,240 --> 00:02:51,879 front gate, deciding to go outside. As soon as I stepped outside the 31 00:02:51,879 --> 00:02:57,479 shade of the castle, a blazing sun warmed me. I instinctively put my 32 00:02:57,599 --> 00:03:02,719 arm above my eyes the dim the summer light. As my pupils constricted and 33 00:03:02,800 --> 00:03:07,080 I was able to see better, I realized that the light of her head 34 00:03:07,879 --> 00:03:13,400 was not coming from the sun, but many eyes looking down at me from 35 00:03:13,400 --> 00:03:19,000 the sky. They all sent out some light of their own, brighter than 36 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:23,360 a full moon, but far dimmer than the actual sun. I could look 37 00:03:23,400 --> 00:03:29,719 up at them and see them moving, their pupils, dilating and constricting as 38 00:03:29,759 --> 00:03:35,400 each eye focused on something new. They stayed in constant motion, and there 39 00:03:35,400 --> 00:03:39,520 were thousands of them, covering the sky with white sclare, gray, purple 40 00:03:39,599 --> 00:03:45,560 and green irises, and constantly flicking pupils. As far as my eye could 41 00:03:45,560 --> 00:03:52,159 see, those are the eyes of God. A voice behind me said, 42 00:03:53,759 --> 00:03:58,520 I turned and saw a beautiful woman there, holding out her hands towards me, 43 00:04:00,120 --> 00:04:03,879 green eyes that shone like emeralds, and a sweet, melodic voice that 44 00:04:04,080 --> 00:04:11,960 instantly calmed me, you are in heaven. You did it, you beautiful 45 00:04:12,039 --> 00:04:17,560 child. She came over and put a hand on my cheek. It burned 46 00:04:17,560 --> 00:04:23,920 with a touch, sending waves of happiness through my body. As I looked 47 00:04:23,920 --> 00:04:30,199 closer, I realized she had on platinum armor and a scabbard with an obsidian 48 00:04:30,199 --> 00:04:35,040 sword handle sticking out of the top. Tiny diamonds and emeralds decorated both the 49 00:04:35,120 --> 00:04:42,639 scabbard and the handle. This isn't like I imagined heaven to be, I 50 00:04:42,720 --> 00:04:47,199 said, looking at the trees all around us. They were covered in silver 51 00:04:47,279 --> 00:04:53,319 and gold, rising up hundreds of feet in the sky. They stood like 52 00:04:53,360 --> 00:04:59,360 skyscrapers, swaying slightly to and fro as the tropical breeze blew the smell of 53 00:04:59,360 --> 00:05:03,639 fruit and oce through the air. At the top, I saw what looked 54 00:05:03,639 --> 00:05:10,199 like people moving around, flying, even but they were so high up I 55 00:05:10,199 --> 00:05:15,680 could barely make them out even when I squinted. Well, the truth is, 56 00:05:16,800 --> 00:05:21,920 she said, her smile widening from ear to ear, showing dozens of 57 00:05:23,040 --> 00:05:28,800 sharpened, blood soaked teeth, her voice deepening and turning into a hissing gurgle. 58 00:05:30,560 --> 00:05:35,839 God killed himself to make this world, in your world and everything in 59 00:05:35,920 --> 00:05:42,480 between. She brought her other hand up, and now the waves of pleasure 60 00:05:42,560 --> 00:05:47,480 I had felt were replaced with burning pain as she scratched me with huge talons 61 00:05:47,759 --> 00:05:53,839 that had suddenly exploded out of her fingers. Her skin began to blacken, 62 00:05:54,720 --> 00:06:00,360 with the eyes stayed green, expanding into circles of luminescent, very dissent light 63 00:06:00,800 --> 00:06:06,639 between folds of black rotted skin. Massive black wings unfolded behind her, squirming 64 00:06:06,680 --> 00:06:13,040 with millions of maggots that constantly fell to the ground, writhing as they tried 65 00:06:13,079 --> 00:06:17,199 to return home. The smell of the wings made me gag, reminding me 66 00:06:17,519 --> 00:06:26,879 of a combination of burning rubber and rotting roadkill. I screamed, clutching my 67 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:31,040 cheek and feeling blood running down it in rivlets. I turned, running away 68 00:06:31,040 --> 00:06:35,079 from this monster as fast as I could. The eyes above me seemed to 69 00:06:35,160 --> 00:06:41,920 move faster, as if they had been agitated. At that moment, four 70 00:06:41,959 --> 00:06:46,160 people rushed down from the forest, waving swords and crossbows. They barely seemed 71 00:06:46,160 --> 00:06:51,800 to notice me, focusing entirely on the female shape shifter behind me. She 72 00:06:51,959 --> 00:06:57,560 hissed at them like a snake, sending her long forked tongue flicking out of 73 00:06:57,600 --> 00:07:02,040 her mouth and pulling her glowing sword from its scabbard with a battle cry that 74 00:07:02,160 --> 00:07:06,120 made my ears ring. She rushed forward, slicing off the head of the 75 00:07:06,160 --> 00:07:10,920 man in front of me. I saw it fly across the air in slow 76 00:07:10,959 --> 00:07:15,360 motion. The man's body falling to its knees. He still had a look 77 00:07:15,399 --> 00:07:19,120 of surprise in his eyes when his head landed a few feet to the left 78 00:07:19,120 --> 00:07:25,879 of his body and the tropical white sands of the ground. The others wasted 79 00:07:25,879 --> 00:07:30,680 no time, using the distraction with the front sword wilding man to attack a 80 00:07:30,800 --> 00:07:34,959 ferociously. One shot her in the neck with a crossbow, the bolt piercing 81 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:41,680 through and reminding me ludicrously of the bolts on the neck of Frankenstein's monster. 82 00:07:43,120 --> 00:07:46,639 She screamed with rage and pain as another rushed her from the left, swinging 83 00:07:46,680 --> 00:07:51,639 a massive broadsword at a jaw. Time seemed to slow down as the sword 84 00:07:51,639 --> 00:07:58,319 connected, cutting through the skin of the monster easily. As it penetrated deeper, 85 00:07:58,839 --> 00:08:03,040 sickly green light began to shoot out of the wound, and by the 86 00:08:03,079 --> 00:08:07,839 time he had fully decapitated her, the light was so blinding. I could 87 00:08:07,839 --> 00:08:13,199 no longer look. We have to go, a woman screamed, pointing up 88 00:08:13,240 --> 00:08:16,959 to the tops of the massive trees. Looking up, I saw dozens of 89 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:22,480 flying specks, looking like an agitated hornet's nest. As they regrouped and began 90 00:08:22,519 --> 00:08:28,480 to approach, I squinted my eyes. I realized they were more of the 91 00:08:28,519 --> 00:08:33,799 black skinned monstrosities coming to the aid of the one this group of humans had 92 00:08:33,840 --> 00:08:39,919 just killed. I doubted whether they would be able to help her, as 93 00:08:39,960 --> 00:08:43,519 one glance at her body showed me her head hung on only by the spine 94 00:08:43,919 --> 00:08:50,039 and the associated ligaments and flesh in the back of the neck. She didn't 95 00:08:50,080 --> 00:08:54,720 move any more, and the sickening green light had all evaporated. The maggots 96 00:08:54,720 --> 00:09:00,440 still swarmed, however, and voraciously began to move from the wings to the 97 00:09:00,480 --> 00:09:05,000 rest of the body. The woman grabbed my arm, forcing me to run 98 00:09:05,039 --> 00:09:09,679 it into the forest with her. The rest of the group was ahead of 99 00:09:09,759 --> 00:09:13,840 us. I heard the shrill battle cry of the flying monsters landing behind us, 100 00:09:15,440 --> 00:09:18,120 where the woods were growing thicker, and the constant sharp turns of the 101 00:09:18,200 --> 00:09:24,360 leading members of our group would make it harder to find us. After a 102 00:09:24,399 --> 00:09:30,080 couple of minutes of running, the shrieking and screaming, falling further and further 103 00:09:30,120 --> 00:09:35,039 behind us, the man in front stopped. Suddenly, he opened up a 104 00:09:35,080 --> 00:09:39,559 camouflage tunnel, pushing aside some with the silver leaves that covered the top of 105 00:09:39,600 --> 00:09:43,279 it. The rest of the group jumped down. Then the man gestured for 106 00:09:43,360 --> 00:09:48,080 me to jump down. The fall was only a few feet, and I 107 00:09:48,120 --> 00:09:54,480 realized there were torches burning in a cramped tunnel. I walked forward, hearing 108 00:09:54,480 --> 00:09:58,919 the man close the door and land just behind me, pushing me forward. 109 00:10:01,200 --> 00:10:05,120 We quickly came to a round room with a massive, long table down the 110 00:10:05,159 --> 00:10:11,360 middle of it. Dozens of swords, crossbows, daggers, and tridents covered 111 00:10:11,399 --> 00:10:16,799 it. All seemed to glow with their own soft silver light. At the 112 00:10:16,879 --> 00:10:20,679 nearest end, the table was cleared and chairs were set up around a steaming 113 00:10:20,720 --> 00:10:26,240 pot. A chubby man ladled out bowls of delicious smelling stew, smelling of 114 00:10:26,320 --> 00:10:31,080 mint, rosemary, potatoes and beef. He motioned for us to come sit 115 00:10:31,159 --> 00:10:39,399 down and eat. I hadn't realized it until then, but I was absolutely 116 00:10:39,559 --> 00:10:46,559 ravenous. They introduced themselves and we sat down to eat. They poured delicious 117 00:10:46,559 --> 00:10:50,279 smelling wines from crystal pictures, and I ate the beef stew and drank red 118 00:10:50,320 --> 00:10:58,960 wine as they told me everything. This is heaven, the chubby man said, 119 00:11:00,399 --> 00:11:03,200 sitting down on the bench across from me and pouring himself a glass of 120 00:11:03,240 --> 00:11:09,159 the wine. Or at least it used to be. This isn't heaven like 121 00:11:09,200 --> 00:11:13,759 most people think of it any more. Remember, I don't know all of 122 00:11:13,759 --> 00:11:18,159 this absolutely, but have heard most of it from the angels and the others 123 00:11:18,159 --> 00:11:22,639 who have been here a long time, so at least most of it is 124 00:11:22,679 --> 00:11:28,399 true. You mean that shape shifting monster, I began. He nodded. 125 00:11:30,440 --> 00:11:35,039 Those are the angels. They have become rabid and evil over the last few 126 00:11:35,080 --> 00:11:43,639 billion years. But I'm getting ahead of myself. Nearly fourteen billion years ago, 127 00:11:43,159 --> 00:11:48,559 God killed himself to create the universe. He cut himself open and let 128 00:11:48,679 --> 00:11:54,919 eternal amounts of mass, energy and consciousness pour out of his body, an 129 00:11:54,960 --> 00:12:01,120 action which became known to us as the Big Bang. All of this matter 130 00:12:01,440 --> 00:12:07,279 had nowhere to go within God's body, so it created our universe instead. 131 00:12:07,840 --> 00:12:13,360 Now God dying isn't like you or me dying. You understand. God dies 132 00:12:13,600 --> 00:12:18,519 very very slowly. It is like has been bleeding out this entire time. 133 00:12:18,679 --> 00:12:26,480 But now he is truly close to death in our universe's time line, maybe 134 00:12:26,480 --> 00:12:31,840 another thousand years at most, and he will be gone. Once he goes, 135 00:12:31,399 --> 00:12:37,399 the entire universe as we know it will go too. It'll instantly turn 136 00:12:37,480 --> 00:12:41,360 into blackness once the light of his consciousness no longer lights the stars and worlds 137 00:12:41,360 --> 00:12:46,879 of our universe. These angels here. They got an idea that if they 138 00:12:46,960 --> 00:12:52,840 fed the human souls in heaven to God's mouth, he would live slightly longer. 139 00:12:52,840 --> 00:12:56,960 And it seems to be working. Every time they feed him a few 140 00:12:58,000 --> 00:13:05,759 thousand souls, the heel slightly, but he is still dying. At most, 141 00:13:05,039 --> 00:13:09,960 they might delay the end by a few centuries, but even that seems 142 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:16,960 doubtful. The man shook his face, his jaws shaking slightly. You can't 143 00:13:18,159 --> 00:13:22,639 really die in heaven. Even if you get your head cut off, it'll 144 00:13:22,679 --> 00:13:26,200 go back after a couple hours. But if they feed you to God's mouth, 145 00:13:28,440 --> 00:13:33,440 then you do, in essence die. Your consciousness is digested by God, 146 00:13:35,039 --> 00:13:39,799 and had is fed throughout his body, dissipating into the eternity within him. 147 00:13:41,399 --> 00:13:46,080 So where is God's mouth? I asked, And all the people in 148 00:13:46,120 --> 00:13:52,759 the room looked at each other, a sour expression on their faces. It 149 00:13:52,840 --> 00:13:56,480 is at the end of heaven, the chubby man said, his eyes downcast. 150 00:13:58,639 --> 00:14:03,879 It is a horrible thing to behold, trillions of gnashing teeth, endless 151 00:14:03,919 --> 00:14:09,559 insects infesting it and screaming in unison. Since his body began to fall apart, 152 00:14:11,159 --> 00:14:16,080 the insects of heaven have really begun to consume his flesh. I think 153 00:14:16,159 --> 00:14:20,799 it is driving God insane. A lot of the terrible things in our world 154 00:14:20,200 --> 00:14:26,159 might be arising from his insanity and dying, the wars, the mass killings, 155 00:14:26,279 --> 00:14:33,399 but that is just speculation. I don't know that for sure. At 156 00:14:33,440 --> 00:14:39,360 that moment, I heard a loud crash outside. Shouts and running from above 157 00:14:39,440 --> 00:14:45,879 us made everyone deathly silent. Then the hidden trap door leading down here was 158 00:14:45,919 --> 00:14:50,440 flung open, and angels began pouring down the opening, carrying glowing swords and 159 00:14:50,480 --> 00:14:58,559 crossbows. They instantly attacked dozens more coming from behind them. They slashed that 160 00:14:58,679 --> 00:15:01,759 the chef. He absurdly raised his wineglass in front of him, as if 161 00:15:01,759 --> 00:15:07,159 that would stop the sword flying down towards his skull, but instead he cleaved 162 00:15:07,200 --> 00:15:13,440 his face in two and he fell backwards. Within seconds, everyone except me 163 00:15:13,639 --> 00:15:18,799 was moaning, dead or dying on the ground. I instinctively picked up my 164 00:15:18,840 --> 00:15:24,919 wooden bowl, spilling stew all over myself on the floor. The angels began 165 00:15:24,960 --> 00:15:28,120 to pull the hagged up bodies of the others they had murdered out, then 166 00:15:28,639 --> 00:15:35,240 approached me. They're dead, black eyes, staring daggers at me as I 167 00:15:35,320 --> 00:15:41,519 backed against the dirt wall on the hidden shelter, just as they had surrounded 168 00:15:41,559 --> 00:15:46,200 me and one was raising his sword to cut me open. I began hearing 169 00:15:46,320 --> 00:15:56,240 sounds that didn't fit clear again, he's waking up. As the sword came 170 00:15:56,279 --> 00:16:03,080 down to my face, they suddenly opened my eyes my other eyes. Feeling 171 00:16:03,120 --> 00:16:10,720 the cold, damp pavement beneath my body. I looked around and saw myself 172 00:16:10,759 --> 00:16:15,639 surrounded by paramedics, a life style helicopter loudly descending one hundred feet further down 173 00:16:15,639 --> 00:16:19,279 the road, I saw the woman who had run out in front of my 174 00:16:19,360 --> 00:16:25,000 car in the back of an ambulance. I looked down and saw the wooden 175 00:16:25,039 --> 00:16:30,600 bowl in my hands, still cleaved into by a sword, remnants of herbs 176 00:16:30,639 --> 00:16:36,799 and source still clinging to the inside of it. Then I closed my eyes 177 00:16:37,320 --> 00:16:44,279 and fell back asleep. The doctors at the hospital told me I had been 178 00:16:44,320 --> 00:16:49,600 clinically dead for five minutes. Apparently the woman I had almost hit was the 179 00:16:49,679 --> 00:16:55,799 latest victim of a serial killer. She had escaped from him and ran blindly 180 00:16:55,960 --> 00:17:00,399 into the road out of mortal terror. I didn't blame her in the least 181 00:17:02,440 --> 00:17:07,319 and was simply glad I hadn't hit her. I still have the wooden bowl 182 00:17:07,400 --> 00:17:11,119 I brought back with me, and the slices of my cheek from that thing 183 00:17:11,200 --> 00:17:17,359 I encountered. Once I get out of here, I want to send the 184 00:17:17,400 --> 00:17:22,400 remnants of the bowl to a scientific institute to see what it is truly made 185 00:17:22,440 --> 00:17:26,480 out of. I have a feeling it is not a kind of wood anyone 186 00:17:26,519 --> 00:17:33,119 on earth has ever seen before the vision of heaven I had received was the 187 00:17:33,160 --> 00:17:41,680 most disturbing thing of the entire experience. It truly changed my life, and 188 00:17:41,839 --> 00:17:48,880 not for the better. I wasn't afraid of dying before, but I certainly 189 00:17:48,440 --> 00:18:00,920 am now.