I think one of the most difficult things for “modern people” to get used to about Heaven is the fact that law is personal.
Here, people separated the lawmakers, the laws, the judges and the executors in order to prevent abuse, because their assumption is that any single person will get corrupt and abuse the system, and so the solution is to disperse everything across as many people as possible, thinking this will solve the problem. What it did instead is created an enormous machine that devours people.
God had a different approach. Instead of appointing fallible people and preventing abuse by splitting duties across a huge bureaucracy, He appointed perfect people and gave them unlimited authority. This means a Judge is completely trusted, and is basically allowed to do anything. There is no written law to constrain their actions. They are the law.
This means that the Judge is the most important person you will meet. If a Judge likes you, they can decide to spend lots of time teaching you, explaining things, going through your memories with a fine tooth comb, explaining what something actually was, why some event was important, what you understood wrong, what opportunities you missed, and so on. They can be the best psychotherapist you could possibly imagine. And yet, people antagonise them, annoy them, insult them, and play Karen with them every day, demanding to “see the manager” because they are “too important” to talk to some “doorman”. Christians come convinced that they are “saved”, “washed clean by the blood of Christ”. I can’t even imagine what they must have seen.
There is no court of appeal. The only way to see the “higher-ups” is if a Judge wants to introduce you to them. If they like you, they can open all sorts of doors for you. However, if they don’t like you, and that’s going to be the result of your character, they don’t have to put up with you. They can throw you to hell, or disintegrate you outright.
So, you think, if someone there doesn’t like me, they can kill me and there’s no recourse for me to take? That’s how the law works?
Yes, that’s exactly how the law works. You will be looked at by someone with immense knowledge and insight, with incredibly pure nature and character, who’s there because they are trusted by God. You can’t even imagine what kind of a person you need to be to be trusted by God in this way. Basically, imagine God putting a family member or his best friend on the task because He trusts them to do as well as He would. No constraints. Yes, they can call for help if someone is really difficult, or if someone is really wonderful, or if it’s something they never saw before.
You, however, don’t get to call for anyone. Your only job is not to be an asshole, not annoy the Judge with your arrogance or your poor attitude in general. They are not there because they’re the lowly doorman. They are there because they are God’s trusted friend. They are someone God will occasionally ask for advice on something. Sometimes, they are literally a Person of God. They are always trusted with ultimate authority over you. Sometimes, people they meet in the “reception room” become their friends, or more. There are cases when someone so holy and wise dies, that the Judges are in shock, and it quickly becomes something more like family reunion than judgment. That’s what it means that the Judge has the ultimate authority. If they like you, they can introduce you to their parents and friends, and you become family. They will like you or not based on your actual quality as a person. Their subjective opinion is a transparent and accurate reaction to your objective truth, and there isn’t really a difference between the two. And, considering the horrible condition of consciousness of most humans, they have to deal with all sorts of nonsense.
If you’re traumatised and messed up, cry for help. Beg. Pray for mercy and forgiveness. Ask for explanations because you are ignorant. Don’t play power games, because there’s no way for you to win those. Don’t pretend to be in better shape than you are. The Judge will know everything about you anyway, and they like sincerity. They don’t like arrogance, because it reeks of Satan, and they know Satan very well; being something that reminds them of him is a bad thing. They also don’t like filth. A feminist shitting on men, a Christian shitting on “non-believers”, a Muslim asking for his virgins. A filthy person projecting their filth outwards. All sorts of playing victim and finding someone to blame instead of owning up to your shit. That kind of filth.
If you’re a woman and you get a male judge, and you start with some feminist bullshit with him, something like “you men…”, your story will come to a bad ending. If you get a female judge and start that shit with her, something like “those men…”, you won’t fare any better. You see, a female Judge has male family members and friends she adores. A male Judge has female family members and friends he adores. Generalizing things in ways that would offend them is a great way to make the Judge decide you’re a terrible person that is so indoctrinated by Satanism that they don’t want to deal with that shit at all, and will throw you into some hellhole, and then someone like myself might come, wipe that hole clean and throw it away.
Also, trying to play some group identity thing there would be a bad idea. If you’re a Christian, and you try the “only through Christ can there be salvation” thing, the best outcome will be that the Judge will laugh. Worst case, you come off as an arrogant idiot. What the fuck do you even know about salvation, or what problems required what solutions? Rather, be humble and ask the Judge for knowledge, because, unlike you, they actually have it. A Christian saint you’re talking to might have a wife who used to be a Buddhist nun on Earth, and Christ himself might pray to someone you speak of condescendingly. Tread lightly, because you are ignorant, prejudiced and a fool. If you speak condescendingly about some deity of some other religion to a Judge, you might be offending his mom, or his wife’s dad, or his childhood hero. Don’t do that. They don’t actually have a reason to put up with your shit.
You don’t get to keep the stupid shit you got indoctrinated into here, in Satan’s den. All your ideas about what’s right and wrong have been contaminated. A lot of it, like identity politics, social justice, equality, rights, is outright satanic ideology. You don’t have rights. The Judge, however, does. And don’t ever ask them “who even gave you the right to…”, because the answer would be “God personally did”. Yes, God gave them the right and the authority, in person. They are allowed to do literally anything to you. They can throw you into a pit of doom, or they can introduce you to their family, or they can explain things to you for as long as it takes, or they can disperse you into particles, and nobody is going to bat an eyelash at them over it, because they are trusted. If they chose to do something, it was right.
Don’t play ego games, because you will lose. Don’t be a Karen, because you will lose. Be humble, be honest, and believe them when they tell you something. Ask if you don’t know. Ask even if you think you know. Don’t presume. Make the Judge want to save you and keep you. Don’t make them regret that you exist, because they are in a position to do something about it. If you expected St. Peter, and your Judge is a former Buddhist nun, use that as an opportunity to learn. If you’re an atheist or a Hindu, and your Judge is a former Christian bishop, also use this as an opportunity to learn. Allow them to teach you, to rid you of your silly preconceptions. They have endless encyclopedic knowledge where you have question marks or nonsense. Give them a reason to want to share things with you.
Most people spend their life here thinking of justifications they are going to give, and telling their version of the story. Some are aware of it, some are not. It’s not going to work, regardless. The Judge is going to access reality itself. They don’t need your version. Sometimes your version would actually condemn you, because you blame yourself for something that’s actually not your fault, and they will show you. Sometimes, you are trying to blame someone else for your sins, and reality will condemn you. In any case, it’s better if you did the Judge’s job beforehand, and faced reality yourself first.