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[David @defZA]

@imPenny2x Apostles had no personal Bible-no canon, chapters, or recently added verse numbers. Low literacy + rare manuscripts meant most Christians for 1500+ years heard Scripture in church. Walking by apostolic Tradition. You can be a faithful Christian the same way today.

[Handre @Handre]

If you live in South Africa, you need to read this. Your family might be in danger.

The South African government wants to hand criminals a comprehensive shopping list of every citizen who owns Bitcoin, gold, or other valuable assets.

This is not hyperbole. This is not paranoia about government overreach. This is what happens when bureaucrats create centralized databases of wealth while operating cybersecurity systems that cannot protect government servers from ransomware attacks, insider leaks, and just plain old corruption.

France provides the blueprint for disaster. So far in 2026, French criminals kidnap one crypto holder every two and a half days. Forty-one cases this year alone. One hundred and thirty-five incidents since 2023. The victims include an eleven-year-old boy kidnapped with his mother in Burgundy while criminals demanded four hundred thousand euros from the father's crypto holdings. David Balland, co-founder of hardware wallet company Ledger, lost a finger when kidnappers severed it and sent it to his associates as part of their ransom demand.

How do French criminals select their targets? Government data leaks.

A French tax official used government systems to identify wealthy crypto holders and sold that information directly to criminal networks. She worked inside the system designed to protect citizens and instead fed their personal data to the people who showed up at their homes with knives and demands for Bitcoin transfers.

Waltio, a French software company providing tax services, was hacked and exposed fifty thousand users' portfolio information on dark web marketplaces. Government employees selling data represents something far worse than mere cybersecurity incompetence. It reveals the inherent corruption that emerges when governments collect detailed wealth information about their citizens.

Pavel Durov warns that expanding government data collection on crypto holders expands the pool of kidnapping targets. Telegram's founder said the platform would rather exit the French market than hand private user data to French authorities.

South Africa's cybersecurity record makes France look competent by comparison. Hackers put 3.6 million Gauteng Provincial Government files up for sale on the dark web for twenty-five thousand dollars. Statistics South Africa suffered a breach in January 2026. Cell C leaked two terabytes of data belonging to 7.7 million customers. The Department of Justice lost control of over 1,200 confidential files in a ransomware attack that crippled systems for weeks.

These same people now demand that every South African declare their Bitcoin, gold, and alternative asset holdings within thirty days. Name, ID number, portfolio amounts. All stored in government databases operated by the same institutions that cannot even secure their own local servers.

The regulations extend beyond Bitcoin. Gold holders face the same mandatory disclosure requirements. Alternative investments fall under identical rules. The government wants comprehensive records of every citizen who owns assets outside the traditional banking system.

Free market economists understand why governments crave this information. Capital controls require detailed knowledge of citizen wealth. Currency restrictions need enforcement mechanisms. Confiscation demands target lists.

But the immediate threat comes from criminals. French kidnappers prove that government wealth databases become criminal targeting systems. The data will leak. Government employees will sell access. Hackers will breach the servers.

South African criminals will adapt French tactics to local conditions. Home invasions already plague wealthy neighborhoods. Adding detailed cryptocurrency and gold holdings data transforms random crime into precision targeting. Why rob houses blindly when government databases provide exact wealth information and home addresses?

The regulatory framework creates perverse incentives for corruption. Tax officials gain access to detailed wealth information about every compliant citizen. The temptation to monetize this data through criminal networks will prove irresistible for some percentage of government employees. France shows this corruption is inevitable, not theoretical.

Compliance rewards criminals while punishment awaits honest citizens. Those who declare their holdings create detailed target lists for kidnappers. Those who refuse face government penalties. The regulations trap law-abiding citizens between criminal violence and state punishment.

The solution involves rejecting the entire framework. No government database. No mandatory declarations. No centralized records of citizen wealth in Bitcoin, gold, or alternative assets. The French kidnapping epidemic demonstrates exactly why financial privacy matters for physical safety.

South African crypto holders should study French headlines carefully. Today's regulatory compliance becomes tomorrow's kidnapping victim list. The government promises protection while operating systems that guarantee data breaches.

Act now, or your family will be in danger.
https://t.co/o4xEomRIr2

[David @defZA]

@wonderofscience @LeeStrobel Just checking, did science make any of these?

It should be called "Wonder of God"

[David @defZA]

@RejoiceCC Rejoice always
Pray constantly
Exercise regularly
Go to Mass weekly
Deny yourself often
Don't scroll too much
Have a nightly bedtime
Serve others generously
Love others as Jesus loves you
Give thanks in all circumstances

The secret to life is the basic Christian teachings

[Collin Rugg @CollinRugg]

NEW: 13-year-old Australian boy swims for four hours in cold and dangerous waters to save his mom and siblings who were swept into the ocean, says God is who got him to shore.

The family was on kayaks & paddleboards when they were swept about 2.5 miles out to sea.

After a conversation with his mother, Austin Appelbee decided he would swim back to shore to find help.

Appelbee says he prayed throughout the four-hour swim and told God he would get baptized if he made it out alive.

"I don't think it was actually me [swimming]... It was God the whole time. I kept on praying, kept on praying. I said to God, 'I'll get baptized.'"

"The waves are massive, and I have no life jacket on… I just kept thinking 'just keep swimming, just keep swimming,'" he said.

"And then I finally made it to shore, and I hit the bottom of the beach, and I just collapsed."

Appelbee says when he got to shore, he had to sprint for about a mile to find help.

According to AP, the family drifted 9 miles from Quindalup and spent 10 hours in the water.

When he reached the shore, Appelbee alerted authorities, who then sent out a helicopter to find his mom, 12-year-old brother, and 8-year-old sister.

Austin's mother, Joanne Appelbee, said one of the hardest decisions of her life was sending her son to shore.

"One of the hardest decisions I ever had to make was to say to Austin: 'Try and get to shore and get some help. This could get really serious really quickly,'" she said.

What a remarkable kid.

Video: 7 News.

[The Mind Liberator⚕️ @TheMDLiberator]

Spirituality will solve 100% of your problems.

Not because everything will be perfect in your life.

But because no matter what your life looks like, you'll be okay inside.

[David @defZA]

@Leon_Schreib More IT systems don't solve the problem.
It just centralised the problem. So every branch across the country suffers together.
The "IT dept", or "IT provider", can at will, sabotage the entire system & no one understands it.
Or the staff can unplug something to get a day off.

[David @defZA]

@theistinthought @GoStros1 If the Bible’s canon was set in the 3rd/4th century, is it wrong?
Is there even "NT view" if the Canon wasn't set yet? Or is there some Pre NT knowledge?
Early Christians discerned texts over centuries, guided by tradition & councils, like their shift to churches post-313

[David @defZA]

@theistinthought @GoStros1 Who are these Christians you refer to that are saying this?
Was it the will of the people that decided? Or the Magisterium of the Church?
If it's the people, then they are also the ones who decided to build churches using their own skill and local money.

[David @defZA]

@theistinthought Persecution by the Roman Empire would have prevented it

[Jeremy Wayne Tate @JeremyTate41]

The most uncomfortable/courageous speech in history was given by a 4 ft 11 in Catholic nun at The National Prayer Breakfast in 1994.

The speaker, was Saint Mother Teresa. To her right were the Clinton’s. To her left the Gore’s.

Chilling quotes from her speech 🧵

[David @defZA]

@Jonathan_Witt You can't be robbed of all your cash because you can't carry it all. But you can be completely cleaned out of your digital cash online from fraud, your entire life savings.

I know way more people's money that has been stolen electronically than physically, it's not even close.

[David @defZA]

@mybroadband VAT is already 15%, by going cashless, it's effectively saying you are happy with 20% VAT, with another 5% going to a private multinational group.
Anyone promoting it has never run a business, and thinks their salary and EFT is how the world works

[David @defZA]

@AFRICANDEMOC Robert Duigan did say this is what happens: https://t.co/CAeTM4lJVA

[Robert Duigan @uMarhobane]

The many local acts of fraud can add up, and the one kind of electoral fraud that is easiest is to zero away small parties. It's happened before.

In such a panic election such as this, many people involved in the counting will be motivated to take risks in this regard.

[David @defZA]

@CAPGab_7 @Jasonegerton3 @GodPenuel @IECSouthAfrica Dunno, but I'm just referring to the name which is kinda misleading.

[David @defZA]

@Jasonegerton3 @GodPenuel @IECSouthAfrica So how are they called independent if they are funded?
Shouldn't the name then be the GFEC, Government Funded Electoral Commission?

[David @defZA]

@Limitless33_ "O Jesus, I surrender myself to You, take care of everything!”

"Loving God, you are so good that you gave me a Guardian Angel to protect my body and my soul. Help me to know and follow my angel so that, with their guidance, I will be worthy of being in Heaven with You!"

[David @defZA]

@theistinthought "all things are numbers" ~Pythagoras

Pythagoreanism

[David @defZA]

@karatademada @ZubyMusic Only Jesus

[David @defZA]

@theistinthought "Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church"