FAQ

No.  Read the Q&A below titled, "Why are you doing Apparel & Music?" to get the big picture.  Evil doesn't need to destroy good to win a battle.  It need only distract good people from being great and divide good people so great unity is not made...hence the social divisions you see and feel worldwide as social and entertainment tech advances.  I believe in unity and effort ("he that is not against us is for us") and the other details are important and intimately between you and your Maker (Matt 12:30) who seeks after us all one by one.  So, while there are a few very specific Christian based items I felt impressed to make as a Christian, the overall invitation is to ALL HUMANS WHO are willing to step up.  We want you!  Help show the seekers how to SUASU.  

STRIPLING is an inwardly action-based lifestyle, not an outwardly religious battleground platform.  

The war over the mind of men/husbands/fathers/patriarchs today is massive and intense.  

In the Men’s line, each of the 52 designs created by Eli_Mak uses Black (darkness), White (truth and hope), Gray (color contrast), and Blood Red (sacrifice).

The designs are meant to be visceral, raw, and edgy while portraying personal ability and responsibility to reach our greatest potential… as God sees it.

I started brainstorming the initial designs of The Men's Line in July 2024 because that's what I felt inspired by heaven to do.  The process took just over a year for 50 designs and I am awaiting inspiration for the last 2 designs as of April 2026.

For me, to be STRIPLING is to discover and live to your highest potential.

It is an obsolete Old English word used to describe an adolescent becoming an adult, and is used only once in the Holy Bible (KJV) in reference to David after he steps away from king Saul to go slay Goliath.  The army was afraid and dismayed despite their declarations of belief: they were adults in years but weak in heart.  David was a "stripling" in years, but strong, mature, and STRIPLING in heart.  His belief showed in his actions.

3 slashes: simultaneously symbolizing a “W” for Warrior as well as a warriors lion-like lifestyle through effort.

Delta triangle: symbolizes the power of change (a symbol used in the sciences indicating change or difference).

Circle: symbolizes your life and our world.

After the men’s line takes off sufficiently:  
We will have kids shirts imagined by kids for kids and professionally designed.
We will create an elegant and bold line for ladies.  
We will create a third party print on demand shop, but only for items of respectable quality (something they cannot do with apparel!).  

Can you handle the truth?  If you need to put a sub $50 item on a line of credit, then you’re not yet ready to live this lifestyle!  Get yourself out of the theoretical hospital and join us when you are ready for the gym.

Perhaps, but not often.  If it happens, jump on it!!

There is a discount on tees when you buy 4 or more at a time if you enter the code at checkout.

We also don’t do limited supplies or timed drops to trigger you to buy on anxiety.  We don’t function that way.  When you are ready, we are here!

You’ll understand after owning a few for a while!  

They quickly become a fav in your closet lineup.  

The quality is high, the feel amazing, and the impact potential to those with open hearts and minds is priceless!

Proceeds help feed my family while I focus on song production for Stripling Radio, and travel for interviews for the growing library of STRIPLING STORIES.

Beyond that, we don’t cut corners.  

We buy, print, and ship all from USA brands: 

• quality songs with deep resounding messages

• quality prints on quality items by quality employees.  

1. FOCUS:  The action-based images (like the songs) give realistic and visceral definitions to the ideas the Western world professes to believe and anchors these good actions in God to the best of my understanding to promote a grand scale social paradigm shift.  
2. SHIFT: I enjoy driving manual cars.  1st gear is movement.  6th gear is higher potential...I loved my drives on the Autobahn while stationed in Germany! Messages for good or evil shift and accelerate or decelerate mindsets.  We are changing social focus in both direction and action, and upshifting gears for broader impact.

3. IMPACT: A single human reaching ever higher potential as God knows it is the most effective influencer for Truth and can lead to higher thinking and social unity.

4. UNITY: Definitions control words; words control messages; messages control civilizations.  By defining words on our apparel and in our songs, we build unity in a world powered by division.

So, we invite you to BUY - BE - BUILD - BLESS

I am Bruce, born in 1977. My mother was ill with cancer before I was conceived. She had a strong passion as a daughter of God and a mother of children… and as an artist of pastels, painting, and singing.  My parents taught me while still in the womb, and have never wavered.  Mom died when I was 8.  Dad remains exemplary and steadfast.  I sometimes feel my mother’s angelic help and love.  My step mom is another angel in my life, albeit mortal.  I feel God has prepared me for the times we live in to be one of many worldwide influencers and leaders who will accept and share Light by invitation to strengthen the world and prepare it for the second coming of Jesus Christ. I believe God has helped me to become a dentist so I could afford to create this brand and everything attached to it. The first song I started writing took me 45 minutes in 2022 to scribble on paper and years to fine-tune lyrically as I experienced life and contemplated my own thoughts within the song. It’s meant to be a rap song that ranges between 15-17 minutes, and is called “DuhMerica."  With 8 kids, two other small businesses, DIY home remodeling, and community involvement, I could not afford to produce the song, but I've always understood and fully appreciated the powerful social impact of music worldwide.  So, publishing this song and more has been a long standing hope.  My wife and most kids play instruments.  Music and God have been abundant in my heart my entire life, yet I've only ever played...the radio!  In half a decade, I've watched tech impact humanity for good and for evil, according to our demands and its supply.  The inventor of television, Philo Farnsworth, envisioned it as a tool for education and communication. Yet, humanity has used it very little for its intended purpose.  Tech, just as with the future generally, is what we make of it.  I feel the advent of AI for music is a great blessing to humanity, and I greatly understand most sides of debate people generally take.  All my songs published under STRIPLING, STRIPLING.LIFE, and for STRIPLING RADIO stem from my own thoughts, hopes, worries, joys, fears, struggles, ambitions, etc. as I learn, investigate, live, learn, love, and lead.  Some songs are co-created with friends of all ages, and what they feel would be their wisdom for humanity.  I prayerfully consider what to make songs about, how to write them, and what genres to create them with.  Music is a powerful tool that will strengthen or destroy humanity: I am in favor of strength and unity and hope!  When I discovered a tool was available to impact the world for good, I immediatly took action utilizing it to bless and inspire listeners.  I make all songs with the assistance of various AI musically and often lyrically as well, though never entirely.  It's not yet great with plot, rhyme, or lyrics, so that is ultimately on me.   Many people are scared of or hate AI based on the opinions they form from the perspective they gain socially.  I respect that.  As with my children, I suggest everyone consider two questions with everything: 

-"What is the intent?"

-"Is the end result worth it?"

FWIW: this business will die when I die.  My mission with it will be over.  Until then, I will fight the good fight, and I will use every tool within my reach to build bridges, to help humans have hope, and to prepare the world for the Second Coming of Christ our Lord.

For Him, Bruce

(Written 3/18/2026)