the fifth Church numerology astrology
fortune-telling occultism magic and the
paranormal these concepts have existed
amongst humanity for thousands of years
and human life in general has pursued
the idea of explaining the inexplicable
and knowing the unknowable the SCP
universe of course operates as a world
where the paranormal is undoubtedly real
and continually breaks into the lives of
ordinary people the fifth church is a
group of people that know more than most
and have borne witness to things beyond
the ordinary although this video is
titled the fifth church we're really
going to be discussing fifth ism in
general as it manifests in many
different ways I highly recommend first
viewing my video on SCP 1425 star
signals to give you a basic idea of the
fifth Church fifth ISM as a concept is
extremely hard to broadly define and so
of course we'll be looking at a couple
specific examples to give us a better
idea
it obviously revolves around the number
five in a lot of ways but there isn't
one singular set of beliefs for those
that follow fifth ISM since I'll assume
you're familiar with SCP 1425 that was
an example of how the group called the
fifth Church operates a new-age cult
with extensive connections throughout
Hollywood in the media the fifth church
are believers in fifth ISM but there are
other fifth East as well it's believed
of course that there are always five
manifestations of fifth s in existence
at one time when one group dissipates
another will replace it
different fitness groups worship in
different ways and believe in different
things and while this occasionally comes
in the specific form of a church such as
SCP 1982 a southern church that turns
people into smoking tobacco it more
often does not West Coast v SR focused
around music and lyrics taken form of
musicians and songwriters a much more
grassroots operation than the fifth
church with its celebrity endorsements
the usual core concepts seen in v s/s
cps however relate to smoke stars and
the number 5 SCP 1958 is a 1950s
Volkswagen bus currently orbiting our
Sun with no significant damage to its
structure prior to its current orbit the
bus was moving away from our solar
system at a constant speed of 140 km/h
before the foundation intervened the
phrases starmobile and Alpha Centauri or
bust are spray-painted on its side and
the foundation has calculated that at
its prior trajectory it would have
reached Alpha Centauri in 30 7.2 million
years there have been a number of
modifications done to the bus including
making the interior airtight replacing
the windows with a shatterproof acrylic
and treating the exterior surfaces with
an unknown substance that has made them
impervious to space debris the gas tank
has been replaced with a futuristic fuel
cell based on theories only developed
decades after the bus left earth a large
number of objects were found inside the
bus when first recovered by the
foundation an adult male human skeleton
identified as a missing college student
named William from the 50s and a female
cat skeleton for bed rolls and pillows a
supply of 1950s era clothing a partially
exhausted supply of dehydrated food
enough to feed for adults for three
months a chemical toilet and water
filtration system
an atmospheric scrubbing system for
removing carbon dioxide and introducing
oxygen a seed bank a water pipe with
cannabis residue a heroin syringe and
vile blueprints of the modifications to
the bus engine guitar and bongo drums a
set of star charts and a number of books
books include various poetry collections
song books science fiction novels
Dianetics by l ron hubbard
and a handwritten diary william was
described after his disappearance by
friends and relatives as a beatnik who
was active in counterculture movements
and dabbled with several religious
movements including the first v church
of san francisco the remainder of the
article consists of excerpts from
Williams diary he says that the fifth
Church kicked out him and a few others
for heresy as they apparently believe
that there is magic up in space and they
plan to go reach it themselves there's
really no explanation for how they
managed to achieve Space Flight but you
probably shouldn't have expected one as
they cruise away from Earth
William writes that the group believes
they will reach Alpha Centauri in three
weeks four tops five days after liftoff
they run out of beer but aren't too
concerned as they plan to grow some
barley when they land twelve days after
liftoff one of the group dies after
going outside of the bus in a spacesuit
and getting knocked away by some debris
the rest of the group managed to turn
the bus around and reach him but he was
already dead but they continue on as
they believe they are halfway there
three days later the dead man's
girlfriend commits suicide by overdosing
on heroin the remaining two put her body
out the airlock and continue on
over six weeks after takeoff William
begins to suspect something is wrong as
he hasn't even seen Alpha Centauri out
the window he wonders if they're going
the wrong way since he can't make sense
of the star charts and they seem to be
growing very ill determined by the
foundation to be the effects of scurvy
another few weeks go by and William
notes that they can see the moon out of
the side window and they must have
screwed up the math he realizes that
they won't make it to Alpha Centauri and
they can't make it home now either five
days later
William is the only passenger remaining
having to push his last friend out of
the airlock after he died and noting
that there won't be anyone left to push
him out the final entry written four
months after they left Earth as William
commenting on how beautiful the stars
are out here it's a rather sad they'll
be a somewhat silly story and it doesn't
provide a huge amount of insight to v s
beliefs but it does highlight a very
important element of those that adhere
to v ISM and that is conviction v s
carry an unwavering conviction in their
beliefs whether that comes in the form
of religion philosophy occultism or
anything else a group of college
students capable of futuristically
modifying a bus to achieve space travel
certainly should have known how far away
Alpha Centauri is but they each were
entrenched in their conviction that they
would easily reach distant stars this
concept of unshaken anomalous conviction
is highlighted in SCP 35:19 a mimetic
contagion that managed to infect the
minds of practically everyone in the
world the contagion was basically pretty
simple it infected people with the
belief that the world will end on March
5th 2019 and that suicide prior to that
date is desirable
the infection spread through print
visual and auditory media and caused
people to believe despite the lack of
evidence although the date was the same
for all the actual apocalyptic event
buried for different individuals such as
an astronomical event environmental
collapse technological singularity or
the arrival of a messianic religious
figure the foundation concluded however
that March 5th held the same probability
of the world ending as any other day the
main threat here however was the
inclination towards suicide either as a
better option than going through the
event or as a way to transcend this
existence no known infected person
survived more than 40 days containment
of 35:19 turned out to be extremely
difficult as it spread so easily an
interview broadcasted on CNN featured a
panel discussing the prediction in which
presidential counselor Kellyanne Conway
remarked that the White House considered
the prediction to be highly credible
neil degrasse tyson responds by saying
that march 5th is going to be a day like
any other day comparing the panic to the
Mayan apocalypse in 2012 a screen shows
a tweet from the president saying that
an Aztec envoy told him the world is
ending on March 5th connecting two SCP
21:55 also related to the fifth is an
invitation sent out on February 12th for
the last dance on earth discuss is
celebrating one final Valentine's Day
before committing mass suicide in a pool
an email discusses the idea that our
existence is a simulation and perhaps
everyone is been convinced to commit
suicide because the people running the
simulation need everyone off line before
they switch to a new program
we are finally given a timeline of
events from the Foundation's perspective
about the months leading up to March 5th
the first notice of 35:19 comes from a
radio broadcast in Georgia on December
5th called
50 days a show marked as having
significant fifth church influence the
broadcast is initially ignored due to
the large number of apocalyptic
scenarios that the show typically
broadcasts a few weeks later the
congregation of the Church of the
Andromeda star in the same town as the
broadcast commits mass suicide news
begins spreading of the cult suicide
with an unusually sympathetic tone on
December 30th 300 people in India commit
suicide in a case linked to SCP 3519
2,600 people across 17 countries commit
suicide over the next few days and the
infection is designated by the
foundation two weeks later the
foundation has had no luck containing
35:19 and by January 19th 1% of the
global population has died due to 35:19
infection Pope Francis attempts to issue
a papal dispensation for suicides
relating to the March 5th belief but GOC
agents managed to detain him the next
day however infected GOC agents leaked
that information to the press by
February 1st 2% of the global population
has committed suicide and the number of
homicides related to 35:19 increase
especially of children by February 6th
the number of suicides is believed to be
at least 250 million with an additional
100 million dead or dying from disease
or loss of essential services
the Foundation has lost 10% of its
personnel by this point
On February 19th there was a limited
nuclear exchange between Israel and Iran
and global thermonuclear war was only
averted due to the GOC using anomalous
means to coerce the UN the foundation
has been working on a counter meme to
fight against the infection but it
ultimately never gets finished due to
infection amongst the foundation by
February 26th the global media is mostly
silent and the number of foundation
sites fail to report in several sapient
contained anomalies managed to kill
themselves as well on the 27th the
project to stop 35:19 has moved to an
isolated cabin to escape the breakdown
at the previous site on the 28th a
junior researcher is promoted to the
head of that project and on the 29th as
part of an automated protocol he is
promoted to the rank of oh five by March
4th he is the only foundation member
alive and likely one of only a handful
of isolated humans left the final entry
on March 6th reads it's a beautiful day
presumably scp-2000 is used to
repopulate the earth
this is undoubtedly the most successful
operation carried out by the 5th church
and we're left with only guesses of
their motivations or goals ultimately
you're really going to end this video
without a much better understanding of
fitness and that's okay
mainly v ism is a vague concept which
means that writers can be flexible when
working with it
SCP 3005 is a malfunctioning Scranton
reality anchor that is connected to both
our reality and the fifth world SCP
35:12 is about another weird v this book
much like star signals but this time
about how to pick up women SCP 26 78 is
called the vore hold and I'll have to
save that explanation for another video
v ism is among the most vague concepts
in the SCP universe by design but really
it comes down to an alternate way of
thinking and believing it's a group of
individuals that through different means
embrace this alternate way of thinking
and believe that there's something
deeply esoteric and transcended beyond
our existence what form the fifth world
takes that they seem to seek what causes
fifth ism to spread so vehemently and
why there is so much focus on the number
five our mystery is known only to 5th s
there is something deeply Lovecraftian
here but it's repackaged and kept behind
a different kind of veil really though I
just want this video to serve as a
springboard for your own research and
for a few future videos I have in mind
at the end of the day v ism is just a
whole lot of weird stuff without many
explanations and that's what makes the
SCP universe so fun
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what we've seen about the beauty of
within a short time here one day
eventually and when we're gone they'll
look up you see you're screening ear to
ear the father was too so infinitely
greater something that surpasses
and I wanna be there with you but don't
wait for me darling
there's nothing left to fear I'm out
here dancing dancing
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me vessels on an open sea you me I wanna
be there you see it all within you
becoming a part of everything you and me
vessels on an open sea
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and me I wanna be there with you to see
you
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