In the American legal system, if you are charged with a crime, you have an absolute right not to testify against yourself. It’s part of the understandings that we have in our judicial system in that you can’t be forced to incriminate yourself. The state has to prove its case against you. You are not required to aid them and assist them in their work to prove whatever it is they’re trying to prove about you. This, however, is not the case on the Day of Judgment.
There are records that are made of everything you’ve done your entire life, and they’re played back and you get to watch them as they’re played back. And you get to go through all that has happened over your entire existence. And you see the good, the bad, the indifferent, and the unbearable. You no longer can hide what is actually going on inside or outside.
Now, one of the interesting things about our life in this world is we can hide in plain sight. We can hide who we are, what we are, what we think, how we think, our opinions, our attitudes from everybody. We don’t have to tell them what we think, and nobody can force us to tell what we think. So, we harbor an entire amalgam of various opinions and points of view, and we don’t have anybody to temper necessarily those opinions or points of view because we don’t even let them out, especially things that we’re afraid to let others know. We hold them very close and very dear and don’t tell a person about it so that we are able to continue to involve ourselves with our own thoughts without any outside criticism.
