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12 title: 'Introduction', 12 title: 'Introduction',
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14 <p>Imagine an ideal religious town where people follow God perfectly. This would be a utopia. Now imagine that something goes wrong with the water system in town and this poisons the brains of the people and makes them go insane. Because they are insane, they no longer understand religion well. A visitor to the town may see that they don't understand religion well, and assume that this is the problem, and that they just need to be taught religion better. But of course this is nonsense. The only solution is to fix the water system because this is the cause of the problem. Religion cannot fix this problem.</p> 14 <p>The Arkian view is that humanity has decayed to an intolerable degree and that becoming Arkian is the best solution to this problem. I will explain the problem, namely human decay, and then I will consider possible solutions, and then I will discuss the Arkian solution in detail. The name "Arkian" comes from Noah's Ark with the idea being that the Arkian plan is designed to be a refuge to preserve good families in the face of a global dysgenic culture that is making almost all of humanity go bad.</p>
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16 <p>Adding to the story, a few people in town feel inspired by God to move out of town and they dig their own wells. So they recover and become sane. But they believe that their sanity comes from their religion when in fact it comes not drinking bad water. Living rurally, they don't deal with townspeople much and don't realize how completely crazy they are. Someone comes to these rural people and proposes promoting a water filtration system for the town, but these people reject the idea because they believe that the problem in town is bad religion.</p> 16 <p>This web page has two target audiences. First are people who already recognize what a horror modern culture is, and want a way to deal with this. Second are relatives of Arkians who may need some convincing of the value of the Arkian idea. Everyone else should stop reading and leave. In particular, anyone who isn't related to an Arkian and thinks that modern culture is fine should just go away.</p>
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18 <p>This story is an analogy to what we face today. Instead of bad water, the problem is bad culture and bad genetics. Religion cannot directly fix these problems. But some religious groups have managed to avoid these problems by avoiding modern culture and not intermarrying with the dysgenic mainstream. And I expect that some religious groups will reject nonreligious solutions because they mistakenly believe that religion is the only thing that matters.</p>
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20 <p>The Arkian idea is a general solution to these problems, a filtration system that filters people rather than water. This system can work for anyone wherever they live and whatever they believe. It does not change religion because religion isn't the issue. But it does need the support of religious communities to implement it because they are the only groups who can do it. Everyone else is just too insane.</p>
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273 <p>An ethnicity must have shared attributes including things like genetics and culture. This is achieved by marrying within the group and so passing on attributes to the next generation. This is why it is very important to have an incentive for an Arkian to marry another Arkian. Most ethnicities are land-based, so they marry within the group naturally. But when an ethnicity becomes too successful and so attracts many immigrants, they have a problem. Pericles solved this for Ancient Athens by <a href="https://www.stoa.org/demos/article_women_and_family@page=all&greekEncoding=UnicodeC.html#section_4">requiring</a> that both parents are Athenian citizens for the child to be an Athenian citizen. This is the source of my idea on this. Judaism is not optimal in only requiring one parent (mother for Talmudic, father for Karaite) because this allows untested genes into the gene pool.</p> 269 <p>An ethnicity must have shared attributes including things like genetics and culture. This is achieved by marrying within the group and so passing on attributes to the next generation. This is why it is very important to have an incentive for an Arkian to marry another Arkian. Most ethnicities are land-based, so they marry within the group naturally. But when an ethnicity becomes too successful and so attracts many immigrants, they have a problem. Pericles solved this for Ancient Athens by <a href="https://www.stoa.org/demos/article_women_and_family@page=all&greekEncoding=UnicodeC.html#section_4">requiring</a> that both parents are Athenian citizens for the child to be an Athenian citizen. This is the source of my idea on this. Judaism is not optimal in only requiring one parent (mother for Talmudic, father for Karaite) because this allows untested genes into the gene pool.</p>
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275 <p>One other central reason for this criteria is that it selects for ethnocentrism. An ethnicity that doesn't have its own land must be strongly ethnocentric to survive. Those who are not strongly ethnocentric must leave. Someone who is ethnocentric will try to marry within the group. I think Jews have benefited a lot by selecting for ethnocentrism. Since I am racially Jewish, I think I inherited a strong ethnocentric instinct but unfortunately there is no current ethnicity (including Jews) worthy of being ethnocentric towards. Arkians should be a worthy ethnicity with a strongly ethnocentric population.</p> 271 <p>One other central reason for this criteria is that it selects for ethnocentrism. An ethnicity that doesn't have its own land must be strongly ethnocentric to survive. Those who are not strongly ethnocentric must leave. Someone who is ethnocentric will try to marry within the group. I think Jews have benefited a lot by selecting for ethnocentrism. Since I am racially Jewish, I think I inherited a strong ethnocentric instinct but unfortunately there is no current ethnicity (including Jews) worthy of being ethnocentric towards. Arkians should be a worthy ethnicity with a strongly ethnocentric population.</p>
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277 <p>Also note that the parents must be married for the child to be born Arkian. This is to select for monogamous traits and to select against promiscuity. Children born outside outside of marriage are not automatically Arkian.</p> 273 <p>Also note that the parents must be married for the child to be born Arkian. This is to select for monogamous traits and to select against promiscuity. Children born outside outside of marriage are not automatically Arkian.</p>
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281 title: 'Muslim Arkians are Ulul Albab',
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283 <p>Ulul Albab are people of intellect as described <a href="https://youtu.be/IaJzuTly6eI">here</a>, <a href="https://aboutislam.net/reading-islam/understanding-islam/who-are-the-ulul-albab-the-people-of-intellect-in-the-quran/">here</a>, and <a href="http://teachings-in-islam.blogspot.com/2017/04/who-are-ulul-albaab-synthesis-of-iman.html">here</a>. The whole point of the Arkian idea is to produce people of intellect or Ulul Albab.</p>
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285 <p>I assume that the primary identity of Muslim Arkians would be Muslim, not Arkian. But being Arkian would be a secondary identity, just as one's profession could be a secondary identity.</p>
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287 <p>The Muslim community needs Ulul Albab to help guide them. As intelligence drops throughout humanity, including among Muslims, the number of Ulul Albab is dropping, and this is a serious problem. This means that Muslims are likely to be poorly guided. Muslim Arkians could solve this problem.</p>
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291 title: 'Implementation Through Religion',
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293 <p>Everything I have written so far is just theory. How can the Arkian idea be implemented? Certainly it cannot be implemented by secular people. Only religious people can implement the Arkian idea.</p>
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295 <p>A religious community, church or mosque, should already have half of the Arkian requirement covered. A church should teach the Bible and a mosque should teach the Quran. What is missing is learning the game of Go. The solution is to offer Go classes in the church or mosque. This would mostly be aimed at children, and I would expect that children are the best prospects for becoming Arkian. I personally hope to move to an area where there would be a number of churches and mosques that may be interested in this, in which case I could teach the classes myself.</p>
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299 title: 'Why would a church or mosque do this?',
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301 <p>I have already mentioned the long term benefit, namely adding an ethnicity that is highly intelligent and religious. But this is largely speculative, not an immediate benefit. So what is the immediate benefit?</p>
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303 <p>The only immediate change would be adding the Go class. And this has the immediate benefit of being an additional service that the church or mosque can offer for its members. This service is of high value because it will make the children more intelligent which will raise their grades and generally make them more successful in life. This is something that members of the church or mosque will appreciate.</p>
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305 <p>I think that an additional benefit is that raising the intelligence of children will give them a deeper understanding of scripture (Bible or Quran). And this will make them more resistant to the bad influences of modern culture.</p>
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