Otienokubende

I am a Farmer | Health and Safety Officer | Fitness coach | Martial artist @Amerix Disciple.

[Eric @amerix]

One day, you will pay school fees, hospital bills, and salaries.

You will stay awake calculating figures while others sleep peacefully.

It is the day you will realize your father carried a weight you never understood.

Now it is your turn,

The burden is heavy, but it is SACRED.

Your FATHER carried it, now carry it for your son.

[Eric @amerix]

A man's end month:

"Daddy, new shoes for church. Mummy said the one I wanted was 2,000."

"Hello dear, also, don't forget to deposit Ray's fees tomorrow. It is 18,000 for Grade 5 pupils."

"Hello Dad, the WiFi isn't working. I have an online lesson for Research Writing this evening. Send 6,500 to pay for its reconnection."

"Hello parents, the Grade 10 Yellow will be going for a Mathematics trip to the Museum of Illusion, Nairobi. The cost of the trip per student is 15,000."

"Boss, the tree on the lower side fell on the cowshed. Fundi repaired it. Send 4,000."

"Hello, dear, my dad's monthly diabetes clinic is tomorrow. Send me 7,000 to fuel the car."

"Baba Ray, good afternoon. Ray took three bunches of bananas for cooking yesterday. The Bill is 1500."

"Bro, the vet treated mum's cow. I paid 100, the balance is 2,900."

"Boss, the balance on the previous repair of the sockets and bulbs was 6,000. Please send me so that I can pay the electrical shop."

"Bro, my husband was severely injured last night after a fight. We are fundraising for his head surgery. As my elder bro, send 3,000."

"Hello, sir, James, the janitor in the maintenance department, lost his wife. We are fundraising. Send 1,000."

"Boss, I will not be there on Wednesday, so bring your car for service tomorrow morning. The bill is 8,000."

"Hello, cousin, I was called for an interview but I don't have fare. Please send me 1,000 for fare and lunch."

"Praise God, brethren, Kevin's wedding committee will sit tomorrow. As the chairman, you will kickstart the fundraising with 25,000."

"Good evening, your gym subscription will end tomorrow. Please pay 2,500 to continue with your fitness classes without interruption. Thank you."

"Hi, I need a favour. My gas went off when I had just put the veggies on cooker. Please send me 3,000. I will refund you tomorrow."

To be a MAN is to bear responsibility for all things.
#MasculinitySaturday

[Otienokubende @dalmuso]

The Father, walked in.
Amen.

[ARÁKÙNRIN ÌYÈLỌLÁ 👷🏡 @IyelolaIge]

A woman sitting in front of me in church today could not control her son.

The boy was standing. Shouting. Disturbing the entire program.

She beat him. Twisted his ear.

Nothing worked.

Then the father walked in.

The moment that boy spotted his father from across the church he sat down immediately. Adjusted himself. Straightened up.

Quiet for the rest of the program.

The mother finally brought out her notepad and started jotting.

She looked so relieved.

I sat there watching all of this.

Never underestimate the presence of a father in a child's life.

Nobody said a word to that boy.

His father just walked in.

[BRAVIN YURI @BravinYuri]

There is something I have been observing for a long time now and the more I watch society evolve, the more the pattern keeps revealing itself.

We once lived in a world where paper was central to knowledge. Libraries existed everywhere, shelves were filled with books, newspapers circulated freely, and people physically owned information.

You could hold knowledge in your hands, store it in your house, pass it down to your children, underline pages, revisit ideas decades later, and no one could alter what was written on your copy unless they physically took it from you.

Then industries like Pan Paper collapsed and slowly, the foundation of paper culture began weakening.

Next came the rapid rise of technology. Audiobooks emerged. PDFs became common. Soft copies became the norm. Social media shortened attention spans. Video replaced reading. Entire generations began consuming information in fragments rather than in depth.

Today, many people barely read complete books anymore. A headline, a short clip, or a summarized thread is enough to shape opinions.

Technology then pushed deeper into schools. Notes became digital. Assignments moved online. Tablets and screens started replacing exercise books in some places. And if you remember in Kenya we were even scammed under the laptop project. Saitan! Cloud storage has become more important than physical archives. Step by step, society is normalizing the idea that knowledge no longer needs to physically exist.

Then came the global climate change push. Save trees. Reduce paper usage. Digitize systems. Go green. And while environmental conservation is important, I cannot ignore the direction this pattern seems to be taking.

What happens when environmental arguments, technological dependence, and policy-making eventually merge into one?

I believe a time may come when governments and institutions will begin pushing directives, much like the Type C charger transition for iPhone, where physical books are gradually phased out in the name of efficiency, modernization, and environmental conservation. It will sound progressive. It will sound necessary. It will sound responsible.

At first, people will celebrate the convenience.

“Why carry books when everything is online?”

“Why cut trees for paper?”

“Why print when a tablet can store thousands of books?”

But convenience often hides dependency. Because once society fully depends on digital access for knowledge, ownership of information changes completely. You no longer truly own knowledge. You merely access it through systems controlled by corporations, governments, internet providers, and digital platforms.

A physical book in your house cannot suddenly disappear because someone changed a server policy. A printed page cannot be remotely edited overnight. But digital information can be altered silently, restricted instantly, or erased completely without most people even noticing.

And that is where my concern deepens.

A future where hard-copy books become rare is also a future where access to information becomes conditional. To read, you may need subscriptions. To research, you may need internet access. To learn history, you may need approval from centralized platforms. Knowledge slowly stops being a right and starts becoming a controlled service.

Then comes the most dangerous part of all: the rewriting of history.

History has always been shaped by those with power, but physical archives created resistance against total manipulation because old books, newspapers, and documents remained scattered across homes, libraries, and institutions worldwide. They became evidence that could not easily be erased.

But in a fully digital world, information becomes fluid. Edits become invisible. Narratives can be adjusted gradually. Uncomfortable truths can disappear from search engines. Entire generations may grow up only knowing the version of reality that algorithms choose to prioritize.

[Eric @amerix]

When a MAN falls, don't celebrate.

Don't mock their struggles.

Sit. Pause. Learn.

Men learn through other men's experiences. Wins and losses are vital lessons.

Listen. Learn. Live.

[Eric @amerix]

Most of the time,

You will hear people say,

"I am eating fruits because they have natural sugar."

It is at this point that you realise we have been brainwashed so much by the crappy food industry and adulterated nutrition education.

There is nothing like "natural sugar" or "artificial sugar",

We only have natural and artificial SOURCES of sugar.

Sugar is just sugar.

There are two commonly known types of simple sugars,

• Glucose

• Fructose

• Galactose (this is a simple sugar too, but it is a lesson for another day.)

These simple sugars are biologically known as MONOSACCHARIDES.

Their molecular formula is C₆H₁₂O₆.

But the difference is in their structural arrangement. Glucose is a six-membered ring (aldohexose) that serves as the primary fuel, while fructose is a five-membered ring (ketohexose) found in fruit and metabolized only in the liver.

So, when the sugar comes from the fruit, the body doesn't say,

"Oh well, this is not an enemy, go slow on him,"

Or, if it comes from Sodas, Juices or Energy Drinks, the body doesn't say,

"Shit, man! Get the swords and the guns, the enemy has arrived."

NO.

The body deals with FRUCTOSE from fruits the same way it does with FRUCTOSE from sodas.

FRUCTOSE follows one pathway called THE FRUCTOKINASE PATHWAY in the liver.

The biggest problem with fructose, apart from being insanely sweet, is that, in the liver, it accumulates into fatty acids and triglycerides. This accumulation leads to:

• Insulin Resistance and Diabetes

• Oxidative stress

• Chronic Inflammation

• Elevated uric acid levels leading to GOUT

• Hypertension

Therefore, if you are focusing on recovering from a fatty liver, a fat stomach or losing weight, then avoid eating these fruits.

It is ridiculous when you see people carrying fruits to patients admitted in hospitals because of chronic ailments, and yet hospital nutritionists act dumb, and feign ignorance.

They even tell patients to eat fruit and drink juices like Ribena and Del Monte to "Regain Energy."

This is madness and functional illiteracy.

Link to read: FRUCTOSE and THE LIVER (https://t.co/c7QdUy8tti).

#BetterTogether

[Athenaeum Book Club @athenaeumbc]

Did you know C.S. Lewis predicted the modern obsession with “being nice” would destroy the soul?

In The Abolition of Man, Lewis argues that when a society stops believing in objective virtue, it doesn’t become tolerant… it becomes manipulable.

He calls the result “men without chests.”

People with appetites and intellects, but no courage, no honor, no trained moral instincts. They can calculate everything and defend nothing.

Lewis saw that once we reject inherited moral law, we don’t become free. We become raw material… easily shaped by propaganda, pleasure, and fear.

Modern man prides himself on compassion while quietly surrendering every standard that once gave compassion meaning.

Lewis’s insight is brutal: a civilization that educates clever cowards will eventually be ruled by tyrants or technicians.

Because when nothing is worth dying for, everything becomes negotiable… including human dignity.

[Thirsty Kipsoiwet 🇰🇪 🇳🇱 @Makiadi_]

I have realized that there is a downside to being overexposed. In the village, people are happy and start families with the little they have. For others, especially those from the city, good education, a mansion, a good job, and so on are still not enough to settle down. It’s like we are constantly chasing the wind; an illusion of a perfect life that, in reality, may never come to pass.

[Otienokubende @dalmuso]

@CSakwah Eeeeish!!

Was this even necessary.

I know you're sure she'll not even get it,

Yes, what you meant.

_but she's a Dr.

Hahahaha.

[Otienokubende @dalmuso]

@cooltechtipz What of a MAN'S doctor name?

[Otienokubende @dalmuso]

@HumansNoContext Right on point.

This is the only true thing

_ I've seen on the net after a long time.

[Claire Nasike Akello @MissNasike]

We won the seed court case in Kenya.

For God and my country.

Seed sovereignty reigns in Kenya.

[Eric @amerix]

A man's life is built on a system.

The system is built on five Japanese philosophies:

Ikigai – Your reason for waking up.

Kaizen – Microscopic daily improvement.

Hara hachi bu – Disciplined abstinence.

Wabi-sabi – Failure is fuel.

Gambaru – Masculine endurance.

[Otienokubende @dalmuso]

@amerix Thank you Doc.

[Shubhvani @shubhvanii]

A man becomes a slave to anything he can't walk away from.

This goes for pleasure, women, and bad habits.

Conquer yourself first before the world.

[Otienokubende @dalmuso]

@AimePatrickIra1 The Gates man.

[🧬Maxpein🧬 @maximumpain333]

Didn’t See That Coming. 😂🤣

[Nelson Amenya @amenya_nelson]

Nobody will kill you for being a dictator in Africa but they will not hesitate to finish you for spreading the idea of a United States of Africa. A border less Africa.

[Eric @amerix]

FERMENTED BEANS:

I have the most difficult task on earth,

Reintroducing forgotten traditional culinary ideas to a population that has been misled that traditional cookery is unsavoury.

In 2020, I reintroduced and reinforced sauerkraut (Fermented cabbage) to my followers and the backlash was chaotic.

"Rotten cabbage"

"It is unhealthy"

"It is unscientific"

"You are misleading"

Today, I see sauerkraut is sold all over including in supermarket. The most effective cure for gut inflammation.

Here now are fermented beans.

The best way to detoxify phytic acid, make the few amino acids in beans bioavailable for absorption and get maximum nutrition benefits from beans is by:

- Soaking them for 24 hours.

- Then boil them for 5 - 6 hours.

- Then ferment them in glass jars or ceramic pots for 4 - 7 days.

Enjoy!

[Otienokubende @dalmuso]

@KursedIn @earthcurated This wasn't the intention of Yah Shua for mankind.

They lied to US,

_so we forget who we really are.

I AM WHOM I AM.

WE are like Him and can do what he can do.

WHY should we die to SELF?

We just need to be still and know that He is God.