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+<!doctype html>
+<html lang="en">
+	<head>
+		<script src="/site.js"></script>
+		<script> head() </script>
+		<title>Arkian - About</title>
+		<script>
+'use strict';
+
+let content = {
+	intro: {
+		title: 'Introduction',
+		content: `\
+<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>
+
+<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>
+
+<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>
+
+<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>
+`		,
+		subs: {
+			eugenics: {
+				title: 'What is eugenics?',
+				content: `\
+<p>The Arkian idea is to form a eugenic intentional ethnicity.  Undoubtedly I have offended most readers already with this first sentence.  But should you judge terms like "eugenics" based on popular opinion or based on truth?  Clearly the starting point should be to define eugenics.</p>
+
+<p>Eugenics means "of good birth" and was invented by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Galton">Francis Galton</a> in the 1800s.  He was concerned about human genetics and wanted to make sure that people didn't decline in genetic quality.</p>
+
+<p>"Genetics" is another term that upsets some religious people.  They automatically assume that genetics assumes the idea of evolution.  But this is simply not true, and whether or not you believe in evolution is irrelevant to my arguments here.  Instead I would ask if you believe in breeding farm animals?  If you do, then you believe in genetics.  And if farm animals can be bred, why not people?  We know that just like with animals, human children inherit the traits of their parents.</p>
+
+<p>So now the question is do you support breeding people.  For example, we know that there are many genetic diseases.  If people with genetic diseases had many more children than healthy people, humanity would soon be overrun with genetic diseases.  Wouldn't it be reasonable to do something about this by encouraging healthy people to have more children than those with genetic diseases?  The current problem facing humanity isn't genetic diseases, but rather stupidity and bad morals.  Stupid people with bad morals are currently having many more children than smart people with good morals.</p>
+
+<p>But let me return to the history of eugenics and why it got such a bad reputation.  This is described in the book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01N45KKTH/">Eugenics: A Very Short Introduction</a>.  After Galton, eugenics quickly became a progressive movement that pushed government eugenics programs that included compulsory sterilization, racial planning, pushing contraception, and pushing feminism (considered to be eugenic).  Of course this contrasts with the current leftist position against eugenics, but this raises the fundamental question of what it really means to be progressive/leftist versus conservative/rightist.</p>
+
+<p>I think the core difference between progressives and conservatives isn't so much their positions on specific issues as it is their general approach to thinking about issues.  Progressives have infinite faith in human reason, so they have no problem using government programs and government coercion to pursue their "logical" goals.  Progressives tend to be reductionist and will reduce an issue to a set of causes and then act on those perceived causes.  In effect, progressives want Man to play God and to micromanage everything.  In contrast, conservatives are more humble and more skeptical about human reason.  Conservatives would rather trust what has proven to be true over time, and would rather trust God or the forces of nature than trust human management.</p>
+
+<p>Now let's apply this to eugenics.  Suppose you wanted to organize a running team.  How do you select members?  The progressive would study running in detail and find everything that may cause good runners, or at least what correlates with good runners.  They may notice, for example, that blacks are faster on average than whites, so they would select blacks.  They may look for genes that are found in fast runners and select people with these genes.  All this fits the progressive approach that I just described.  How would a conservative select team members?  A true conservative would just time candidates and select the fastest ones without worrying about any other factors.  The factors that cause fast runners can be left to God or nature, the conservative doesn't care and just wants fast runners.  Jesus well expressed this conservative view in <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=matthew+7%3A16-20&version=HCSB">Matthew 7:16-20</a>.</p>
+
+<p>We can take this one step further and ask how can one breed a population of fast runners.  The answers would again be like what I just described, with progressives using complex reductionist approaches, while conservatives would just add fast runners to the breeding group, and remove slow runners.</p>
+
+<p>I am purely a conservative and I detest the progressive approach to everything.  The general view on eugenics is that the Nazis ruined the reputation of eugenics and this is why it lost favor.  But my view is that the progressives had already ruined eugenics before the Nazis, and that the conservative opposition (especially Catholic opposition) to eugenics was based on eugenicists playing God.  I don't think these conservatives opposed animal breeding and I don't think they would have opposed a conservative form of eugenics which would be similar to animal breeding.</p>
+
+<p>But it was the Nazis who ultimately ruined the reputation of eugenic.  This is because of their cruel racist authoritarian progressive approach.  The Nazi approach was simply wrong and ineffective.  The Arkian approach is almost the exact opposite of the Nazi approach.  The Arkian approach is conservative with no compulsion.</p>
+`				,
+			},
+			nurture: {
+				title: 'Nature versus Nurture',
+				content: `\
+<p>An argument against eugenics is the position that nurture (environment) plays a much larger role than nature (genetics).  The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature_versus_nurture">nature versus nurture</a> debate is old, and I do not want to argue it here.  The Arkian idea doesn't depend on this debate.  The only assumption required for the Arkian idea to make sense is that children tend to have similar traits to their parents.  Whether these traits as passed from parents to children by genetics or by upbringing makes no difference.  So the nature versus nurture is only a debate about the means of transmission, not the question of whether a transmission from parents to children happens at all.</p>
+
+<p>Let's consider again the question of how to "breed" good runners.  Suppose that genetics plays no role in how fast people run.  The above conservative breeding plan of adding fast runners to a breeding group, and removing slow runners, would still work as long as parents pass on running skills to their children by raising them to be fast runners.  This breeding approach only fails if parents don't pass on running skill to their children by any means.</p>
+
+<p>In this case, why is Arkian described as "a eugenic intentional ethnicity"?  Because I think of it that way because I believe in genetics.  But if you don't believe in genetics, you can describe Arkian as "an intentional ethnicity of good breeding" where "good breeding" can cover either nature (genetics) or nurture (upbringing).</p>
+
+<p>The Arkian idea selects for intelligence and morality.  While I personally believe that genetics plays a role in these traits, I also believe upbringing plays a role.  Culture and religion are undoubtedly important factors.  The Arkian approach selects for these traits regardless of their source.</p>
+`				,
+			},
+			ethnicity: {
+				title: 'What is ethnicity?',
+				content: `\
+<p>Now I would like to discuss "ethnicity".  According to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_group">Wikipedia</a>:</p>
+
+<dd>An ethnic group or ethnicity is a grouping of people who identify with each other on the basis of shared attributes that distinguish them from other groups such as a common set of traditions, ancestry, language, history, society, culture, nation, religion or social treatment within their residing area.</dd>
+
+<p>This should contrasted with "race" which is only based on ancestry.  So race only means a genetic group.  This meaning of "race" is modern.  In the past, the terms "race" and "ethnicity" were more similar.  But the modern distinction is clear and useful.  The Arkian idea is not concerned with race, but only with ethnicity.</p>
+
+<p>For an ethnicity to form, the critical thing is for people to marry within the group.  This is how the shared attributes are passed to the next generation.  In general, any group that mostly marries within the group will become an ethnicity, while any group that mostly marries outside the group will not be an ethnicity.</p>
+`				,
+			},
+			idea: {
+				title: 'The Arkian Idea',
+				content: `\
+<p>The Arkian idea is to form a eugenic intentional ethnicity.  For what purpose?  To produce a group of people with high intelligence, religiousness, and ethnocentrism.</p>
+
+<p>It is my opinion that these traits are being rapidly lost in the general population.  The next section will go into details.  But generally I would ask you to name one single area that has improved since 2010.  I can't think of one.  In modern culture, everything only gets worse.  Areas that come to mind include music, art, movies, architecture, software, politics, conversation, science, customer service, etc.  The name "Arkian" comes from Noah's Ark with the idea being that the Arkian ethnicity is designed to be a refuge to preserve what is good about humanity in the face of a global dysgenic culture that is making almost all of humanity go bad.</p>
+
+<p>Most religions are independent of ethnicity and serve all ethnicities.  What religion wouldn't benefit from adding an ethnicity that is highly intelligent and religious?  This is the value that the Arkian idea has for religions.</p>
+`				,
+			},
+		},
+	},
+	problem: {
+		title: 'The Problem',
+		subs: {
+			culture: {
+				title: 'Cultural Decay',
+				content: `\
+<p>Here I will describe cultural decay but not its root cause.  One may say that children playing video games is a cause of decay, or a product of decay, or both.  So one can't call this a root cause.  It's confusing because cultural decay is like old age or a syndrome with many related factors.  So here I will just be descriptive.</p>
+
+<p>In <a href="fate.pdf">The Fate of Empires</a> Sir John Glubb gives an excellent summary of the life cycle of empires.  And he points out that the lifespan of empires is typically 200 to 300 years.  But anyone who has a serious interest in understanding how cultures rise and fall must read original source material from history.  From this, it soon becomes clear that one usually can identify from the style of writing what phase of the civilization that writing came from.  Writings from decaying cultures are generally stupid or reject reality.  Writings from rising cultures are direct and try to address real-world problems.</p>
+
+<p>Since the topic here is specifically cultural decay, I will mention some relevant descriptive writing from other cultures.  The Old Testament does a great job in describing the decay of Israel/Judah from the beginning under King Solomon to the final fall of Judah to Babylon.  Decaying Athens is well described in the comedies of Aristophanes. The beginning of Roman decay is described by Juvenal.  Late Rome is described by Ammianus Marcellinus who I discussed <a href="https://saidit.net/s/nonmorons/comments/9e6y/the_antony_option/">here</a>.</p>
+
+<p>One common feature of all decaying cultures is feminism and family instability.  This is related to promiscuity and I will discuss the dysgenic effect of promiscuity later.  For now I will just describe what happens.  Once punishment for adultery (sex between a married woman and man other than her husband) becomes reduced, it becomes in women's genetic interest to become promiscuous.  I discuss why below in <a href="#dysgenics">Genetic Decay - Dysgenics</a> and also in my post <a href="https://mikraite.arkian.net/In-Defense-of-Feminism-tp570.html">In Defense of Feminism</a>.  But the result is feminism which is essentially a slut power movement.  This feminist degeneracy is described in many decaying cultures.  The Old Testament describes it in decaying Israel, Aristophanes in decaying Athens, Juvenal and Apuleius in decaying Rome, and <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Secret-History-Penguin-Classics/dp/0140455280/">Procopius</a> in Byzantium.</p>
+
+<p>Beside the dysgenic effect, feminism causes family instability which harms the raising of children.  So this directly harms the culture.  Also men without stable wives are less committed to their society and so less likely to contribute to society.  So feminism is an example of both a cause of decay and a product of decay.  It is a product of deteriorating religion which results in lessening punishment for adultery which results in feminism.  And it is a cause as I described.</p>
+
+<p>Decaying culture can be viewed through the lens of whatever field interests you whether art or architecture or literature or whatever.  In all fields, one can see good work produced as a culture rises, and bad work produced as a culture falls.  I would like to discuss historical cosmology and modern programming as examples.</p>
+
+<p>In the 200s BC <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristarchus_of_Samos">Aristarchus of Samos</a> invented <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliocentrism">heliocentric cosmology</a> which was simple and accurate.  But this was rejected by the people of his time.  Why?</p>
+
+<p>The story of Greek science begins with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagoras">Pythagoras</a> who lived in the 500s BC.  He was the first person to recognize the power of math to describe the world, and he applied math to many things.  This inspired Greek astronomers to try to describe cosmology in simple mathematical terms.  This was during the time that Greeks were a rising culture.  They were highly intelligent people who respected reality.</p>
+
+<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato">Plato</a> lived in the 300s BC by which time Greece was in decline.  Plato was an ideologue who was in love with his own ideas and had no interest in reality.  Plato insisted on a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geocentric_model">geocentric model</a> of cosmology based purely on circles.  Why?  Just because this was the idea that appealed to him.  Reality was irrelevant.  Aristotle backed him up, and so this became orthodoxy.  By the time Aristarchus came along with his heliocentric cosmology, he was violating orthodox ideas so the people of his time just ignored him.  Then in the 100s BC Ptolemy created <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geocentric_model#Ptolemaic_system">a horrible overcomplicated geocentric model</a> based on the circles that Plato required.  This became the standard for the next 1700 years.</p>
+
+<p>Cosmology only changed again when <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolaus_Copernicus">Copernicus</a> revived the ideas of Aristarchus.  Why did it take so long?  Because this is when the next culture that was as good as the Ancient Greeks developed, namely the culture of Reformation Europe.  It is no accident that Copernicus lived around the time of Martin Luther.</p>
+
+<p>Today's West is like the decaying Greeks.  The programmers in Silicon Valley are like Ptolemy, able to construct and maintain horrible overcomplicated monstrosities, but totally unable to innovate at a fundamental level.  All good programming ideas are rejected because they don't fit into current programming ideologies.  Any programmer like Aristarchus who comes up with a good programming idea will be rejected and ridiculed for violating orthodoxy.  Modern programmers are in love with their own ideas and love complexity.  They hate simplicity and anything that violates their ideologies.</p>
+
+<p>In Matthew 7:6 Jesus said "Do not give what is holy to dogs, and do not throw your pearls before swine, or they will trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces."  Jesus lived in decaying Rome and this is excellent advice for anyone living in a decaying culture.  Members of decaying culture hate everything that is good.  And of course modern culture is a decaying culture.  So if you create anything good, you will be hated for it.  In my case as a programmer, my software is pearls and modern programmers are swine, so I am only attacked when I present my software.  And it isn't just my software, all good software is hated by modern programmers.  I wrote more about this on my other website <a href="https://www.reactionary.software/">Reactionary Software</a>.</p>
+
+<p>In this chapter I just tried to describe decaying cultures including modern culture, and what practical impact decaying culture has on life.  Next I will describe some of the possible causes of cultural decay.</p>
+`				,
+			},
+			religion: {
+				title: 'Religious Decay',
+				content: `\
+<p>The correlation between the decline of cultures and the decline or corruption of the culture's founding religion is obvious to anyone who knows history.  But the religion declines first, and there is a long lag between the decline of religion and the outward decline of society.  As a result, cultures peak in outward output after their religion has failed, giving the mistaken impression that secular societies are most productive.</p>
+
+<p>The sequence is roughly this:  Religion declines which causes morality to decline including a decline in effective prevention of adultery and this causes feminism and cultural decline which in turn is dysgenic and causes genetic decay.  This long sequence explains the lag.  This happened in Ancient Israel, Ancient Athens, Rome, Early Islam, and is now happening in the West.</p>
+
+<p>Why does religion decline in successful societies?  One can only speculate.  I gave one possible explanation in my post <a href="https://mikraite.arkian.net/Why-Religions-Fail-tp2257.html">Why Religions Fail</a> but here I will give another.  When society is poor then people feel a need for religion and intelligent people tend to go into religion as the only escape from the chaos of their world.  Once a society becomes successful, regular people don't feel as much need for religion.  But even more important is that intelligent people have many other options in a successful society besides religion, so religion attracts far fewer intelligent people.  Some of these intelligent people become degenerates and attack religion.  Since religion doesn't have enough intelligent people to defend itself, it either conforms to the degeneracy of its time or it simply closes its collective mind and becomes fundamentalist and rejects all reason.  This happened most clearly in Islam where the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mu%CA%BFtazila">Muʿtazila</a> became degenerate in response to challenges from philosophy, and then there was a fundamentalist backlash led by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanbali">Hanbali</a>.  Muslims have been fundamentalists ever since which is why they never produced anything comparable to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_Golden_Age">Islamic Golden Age</a> again.  Christianity is now going through a similar process.  The end result is a loss of religious understanding as I described in my post <a href="https://mikraite.arkian.net/Understanding-tp6.html">Understanding</a>.</p>
+
+<p>As far as I know, the only Christians who retain a good understanding of their religion is the <a href="https://saidit.net/s/nonmorons/comments/9e6z/please_visit_a_mennonite_church/">Conservative Mennonites</a>.  One can see the beginning of the process of religious decay in the <a href="http://forum.mennonet.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=4641">Mexican Mennonites</a>.  Most of modern Christianity is too far gone to even be interesting.  Modern Islam is closed-minded but still retains the potential for a reformation that could make it a good religion again.</p>
+
+<p>One last point is the relationship between religion and science.  Science only conflicts with fundamentalist religion, and in fact science depends on good religion, particularly good monotheism.  I discussed this in my post <a href="https://mikraite.arkian.net/Science-Requires-Monotheism-tp2014.html">Science Requires Monotheism</a>.</p>
+`				,
+			},
+			dysgenics: {
+				title: 'Genetic Decay - Dysgenics',
+				content: `\
+<p>The best introduction to the idea of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysgenics">dysgenics</a> is the <a href="https://youtu.be/gJDcoqrh1ac">introduction</a> of the movie <a href="https://archive.org/details/Idiocracy_201507">Idiocracy</a>.  <a href="https://youtu.be/gJDcoqrh1ac">Edward Dutton</a> has studied this issue and <a href="https://www.bitchute.com/video/PEoRIWdzXYzo/">commented on Idiocracy</a>.  I agree with his criticisms and I think <a href="https://youtu.be/ZRuSS0iiFyo">modern Liberia</a> is a better model for the future of the West.  His book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07M8NG2CN/">At Our Wits' End: Why We're Becoming Less Intelligent and What it Means for the Future</a> gives hard evidence for declining intelligence in the West.  His reasoning really doesn't add much beyond what is in the introduction to Idiocracy.  But he makes the point that this pattern has likely repeated throughout history, and that when selection pressure is eugenic then cultures rise, and that success tends to cause dysgenic pressure and so as intelligence declines the culture fails.</p>
+
+<p>The widely held opinion on the cause of dysgenics is what is described in the introduction to Idiocracy.  But I believe that there is another even more dysgenic force in decaying cultures which I will describe in some detail because it is a new idea.  My idea is that female <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_selection">sexual selection</a> in a promiscuous culture is dysgenic and leads to selection that favors stupidity and immorality.
+
+<p>Consider how male peacocks got their bright feathers.  These bright feathers have no benefit for survival.  In fact they are harmful for survival, being heavy and easy for predators to see.  So let's start by imagining peacocks before they had big bright feathers.  Since females can only have a limited number of children, females tend to be selective about which males they mate with.  They should prefer healthy "good-looking" males since their children will inherit the male's genes.  Those males with dull feathers may well have been poorly nourished and unhealthy.  Bright feathers were probably a good indication of a healthy male.  So females evolved to prefer males with bright feathers.  But now it becomes in the male's interest to have bright feathers because if he doesn't, females will reject him and he won't be able to reproduce.  So males evolved to have bigger and brighter feathers, not for survival, but for the sexual advantage that allowed males to have more children.  At some point these bigger brighter feathers were no longer an indication of good health.  So why didn't the females stop preferring such males?  This is explained by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexy_son_hypothesis">sexy son hypothesis</a>.  If the female mates with a male who is popular with other females, then her sons will likely inherit the male's traits that made the father popular and so her sons will also be popular and will have many children with many females.  This will spread not only the father's genes but also the mother's genes.  So those females who are attracted to popular males have an advantage.  At this point in the story, male peacocks with big bright feathers are popular with females, so it is to each female's advantage to mate with males with big bright feathers.  This is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisherian_runaway">Fisherian runaway selection</a>, a story of natural selection gone wild, and not doing what is in the best interest of the species.</p>
+
+<p>It is in the genetic interest of females to mate with the best type of male for the current environment.  Because this is so important, one can reasonably assume that a significant part of a woman's brain is dedicated to this issue.  This means that women can intuitively determine which men are genetically "good" much better than men can using analytical reasoning.  In other words, men have no right to doubt women's mating choices in terms of genetic suitability.  When a woman says that a man is "hot", she is unquestionably correct that he is a good genetic choice in her current environment.  And when a woman says that a man is a (genetic) loser, she is also unquestionably correct in her current environment.</p>
+
+<p>So what type of man is optimal in a promiscuous culture?  The answer is stupid immoral men.  Immoral because that means that they will have sex with any women without restraint - other men's wives, underage girls, etc.  Stupid because this means that they won't use birth control in the process.  Such men can have a huge number of children, so these are the type of men that women are attracted to in a promiscuous culture.  The political expression of this desire of women to be sluts chasing bad men is called "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminism">feminism</a>".</p>
+
+<p>This type of sexual selection in promiscuous cultures is far more dysgenic than the usual explanation of the lower classes reproducing faster than the upper classes.  This force means that decent men will find it almost impossible to reproduce with women from their culture, but that the most stupid and evil men will have a huge number of children.</p>
+
+<p>Now the question arises why this force didn't destroy humanity long ago.  The answer is that human culture has generally punished promiscuity, and that those that didn't either remained as primitive weak tribes or quickly collapsed as a culture.  In the book <a href="https://mikraite.arkian.net/Sex-and-Culture-book-tp437.html">Sex and Culture</a> anthropologist Unwin analyzes the correlation between female premarital chastity and the level of development in all known isolated tribes of his time.  He finds that female premarital chastity perfectly correlates to the level of development, absolutely without exception.  Unwin then turns to history and studies rising and falling cultures.  Again he finds that all rising cultures require strict female premarital chastity (virgin wives) and that declining cultures typically don't enforce female premarital chastity.  So it should be no surprise that all religious texts oppose promiscuity, particularly <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Iliad-Penguin-Classics-Homer/dp/0140447946/">The Iliad</a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Odyssey-Penguin-Classics-Homer/dp/0140449116/">The Odyssey</a>, the <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1433603640/">Bible</a>, and the <a href="https://dar-us-salam.com/quran/noble-qurans/q03g-noble-quran-english-only-medium-green.html">Quran</a>.  Religion has been the primary force in enforcing female chastity and thereby preventing dysgenic decay.  But successful cultures tend to become less religious and this causes an increase in promiscuity which results in dysgenic decay.  Any solution to the problem of human decay must address this issue.</p>
+
+<p>This chapter is based on my earlier posts <a href="https://mikraite.arkian.net/Human-Evolution-tp17.html">Human Evolution</a> and <a href="https://mikraite.arkian.net/In-Defense-of-Feminism-tp570.html">In Defense of Feminism</a> which go into more depth on this topic, and this is well summarized in the post <a href="http://www.happierabroad.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=20929">The reproductive superiority of stupid assholes</a>.</p>
+`				,
+			},
+		},
+	},
+	solutions: {
+		title: 'Other Solutions',
+		content: `\
+<p>Here I will consider other possible solutions besides the Arkian solution.  A solution means a sustainable group, and this requires that the group maintain the culture and genetics needed for its surivival.</p>
+`		,
+		subs: {
+			religious: {
+				title: 'Religious Communities',
+				content: `\
+<p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01KUCY7XI/">The Benedict Option</a> is a recent proposal to form Christian communities.  This proposal has two flaws.  First, it has no standards, as I commented in <a href="https://www.amazon.com/review/RTR9K4PGGEICZ/">my review</a> of this book.  This means that it will not be able to resist the surrounding culture in the long run.  And second, it makes no attempt to form a coherent genetic group, so it can never advance genetically.</p>
+
+<p>These issues are intrinsic to the nature of earlier Christianity.  Before Constantine, Christianity was just a religious movement.  After Constantine, it became a centralized religion in the forms of the Catholic Church and Orthodox Church.  These centralized structures fundamentally didn't allow for meaningful communities to develop.  The closest was the monasteries themselves which did have strict standards, but clearly couldn't become a genetic group.</p>
+
+<p>Only after the Reformation decentralized Christianity did strong communities become possible.  Early American towns were typically dominated by one church that set the moral standards for the town.  This was early Protestantism, but Protestantism became increasingly individualistic over time until it became too individualistic to form meaningful communities.  The Reformation movement that still has the capacity to form meaningful communities is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anabaptism">Anabaptism</a>.  Of the Anabaptist groups, the one I know best is the conservative Mennonites.</p>
+
+<p>Conservative Mennonite groups have clear standards for membership.  And they mostly marry within their group, so they form a coherent genetic group.  This is one of the most promising possible solutions to the problem of human decay.  Whether it will work in the long run, I really can't judge.  But obviously it can only work for people who accept Mennonite beliefs.  As a non-Christian, I would prefer a solution that works for all intelligent religious people regardless of their beliefs.</p>
+
+<p>Orthodox Jewish groups have much in common with Anabaptist groups.  They have standards and they form coherent genetic groups as subsets of Jews.  But ultimately they are Jews which takes precedence over their religious community, so everything discussed in the next section on the Jews applies to them.</p> 
+`				,
+			},
+			jews: {
+				title: 'Jews',
+				content: `\
+<p>Jews are an ethnicity, not a religion or race.  I discussed the difference between <a href="#ethnicity">ethnicity</a> and race.  A convert to Judaism like Ivanka Trump is Jewish.  This conversion is like immigration into the Jewish people.  The immigration process is through the religion, but a Jew doesn't have to follow the religion.  Plenty of Jews are atheist and don't follow Judaism at all, but they are still considered completely Jewish.  So Jews are purely an ethnicity.</p>
+
+<p>The historical process that produced the Jews is described in the Old Testament.  First there were the Hebrews who were a clan/tribe.  They were defined by family relations.  The Israelites began when they left Egypt as a "mixed multitude" of Hebrews and others.  They were defined by religion.  And then finally the Jews were defined as an ethnicity by Ezra.</p>
+
+<p>Many would dispute what I just said, so I will provide evidence that Ezra fundamentally changed the nature of the group.  Ezra introduced meaningful genetic separation by making it more difficult to intermarry with outsiders.  Some would argue that Deuteronomy 7:3 already did this with "Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,".  But Deuteronomy 7:4 continues and explains "because they will turn your sons away from Me to worship other gods.".  So the point here isn't ethnicity, but rather religion.  This is a prohibition against marrying people from bad religions, not other ethnicities.  And then there are Moses's wives.  His first wife was Zipporah, a Midianite (not Israelite).  And his second wife was a Cushite (Ethiopian).  This is discussed at length in Numbers 12.  And finally we have the conversion story of Ruth who joined the Israelites fairly easily after accepting their religion.  Ezra overturned all this by sending away all the foreign wives who hadn't gone through a formal conversion/immigration process.</p>
+
+<p>I used to be against Ezra, and I believed that a religious community is best.  But the Old Testament itself describes how badly the Israelites failed as a religious community.  It is very difficult to keep a whole nation unified based on religion since religious differences and degeneration will inevitably occur.  It is better to unify people based on ethnicity and then hope that a good religion has a positive impact on the people.</p>
+
+<p>On the plus side, Ezra created a group (Jews) that has managed to survive a very long time under different conditions.  On the minus side, this group has had and caused many problems.  I believe that what Ezra did wrong was to fail to define a sensible immigration policy, and so this was left to religion.  And as the religion decayed, the quality of "immigrants" also decayed.  The most productive group of Jews where the Ashkenazi Jews in Europe.  But their genetic improvements in areas like intelligence were largely the result of luck, of the selection pressures the European society imposed on these Jews.  This lucky circumstance is now over, and so Jews are in rapid genetic decline.  The decline in Jewish intellect in recent years is obvious and is even <a href="https://www.aish.com/jw/s/Endangered-Jewish-Genius.html">discussed on a Jewish website</a>.  I will continue with the history of the Jews since Ezra until I reach the present.</p>
+
+<p>After Ezra, Alexander the Great conquered Israel.  This brought in the thinking of Plato.  The Jews rejected the idea of absolute truth but embraced the idea of debate based on deductive reason.  The ultimate result of this is <a href="https://www.sacred-texts.com/jud/talmud.htm">the Talmud</a> which has the most twisted reasoning I have ever seen.  Talmudic thinking is compared to the Old Testament <a href="https://youtu.be/tddCNY6U77Y">here</a> and is criticized from a humanitarian perspective <a href="https://youtu.be/YSy6ENVAJlY">here</a>.  So now the original Old Testament religion was lost and replaced by insane rationalizing of whatever the rabbis wanted to rationalize.  When Israel was under Roman control there were a number of Jewish sects.  The Talmudic sect won out simply because it was the most ethnocentric.  As the winners, they could determine the conditions for becoming a Jew which basically was following Talmudic nonsense for a few years.</p>
+
+<p>After Rome fell, the Jews in Europe aligned with the aristocracy against the people.  This is well documented in the book <a href="https://ifamericansknew.org/cur_sit/shahak.html">Jewish History, Jewish Religion: The Weight of Three Thousand Years</a>.  But this didn't involve most Jews.  People against the Jews point to Jewish bankers and Jewish rabbis who were generally evil.  But the average Jew was typically involved in some basic trade and wasn't necessarily evil.  Because monogamy was enforced by Ashkenazi rabbis and conditions were harsh, there was strong natural selection which increased Ashkenazi intelligence.  An intelligent Jew of this time probably would have realized that the Talmud and the rabbis are insane, but he would have put up with them because this is still better than becoming a serf.  So intelligent Jews remained Jews.</p>
+
+<p>Jews lived in their own districts until Napoleon freed them to live wherever they liked.  But this change was gradual.  Europe had now left the dark ages and entered the Enlightenment.  At this point European culture was much more attractive to an intelligent Jew than Talmudic insanity was.  So Jews began to assimilate into European culture, but they generally did not intermarry with Europeans, so remained a separate gene pool.</p>
+
+<p>After WW2, most Jews left Europe.  The obvious choice for any intelligent Jew was to move to America.  But in America, intermarriage was accepted.  So basically what happened is that all the decent intelligent Jews rejected the Talmudic nonsense and assimilated into America.  My family background is Hungarian Jews, specifically scientists known as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Martians_(scientists)">the Martians</a>.  These people were assimilated into Hungarian culture, and rejected Judaism.  Once they moved to America, they also genetically assimilated because their children (like me) did not marry Jews.</p>
+
+<p>By now all decent intelligent Jews have stopped being Jews.  The Jews that remain Jews are either stupid or they like the evil Talmudic nonsense.  This is why today's Jews are generally evil.  This is why Jewish intellect declined so rapidly.  And this is why Israel implemented a covid vaccine holocaust on their own population, because modern Jews are too stupid to know any better and too evil to allow dissent.</p>
+
+<p>I have described the Jews at such length because, in spite of their flaws, they are the closest to a general working solution to the problem of mass human decay.  The flaws in the Jewish system may condemn them to be evil and stupid in the near future, but they are still likely to survive as a group.  Since they are an ethnicity, they do not have the religious inflexibility of the Mennonites, so they can evolve as needed to survive, and anyone who is committed can join regardless of their beliefs.  Their rules of genetic separation ensure that they will remain a coherent genetic group distinct from the doomed masses.  The Arkian idea is inspired by the Jewish model, but is an attempt to do it right and avoid evil and stupidity.</p>
+`				,
+			},
+			communities: {
+				title: 'Intentional Communities',
+				content: `\
+<p>After the South lost the American civil war, a number of Southerners (Confederates) set up communities in Latin America, particularly Brazil.  What happened to them?  According to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederados#Descendants_of_the_immigrants">Wikipedia</a>:</p>
+
+<blockquote>The first generation of Confederados remained an insular community. As is typical, by the third generation, most of the families had intermarried with native Brazilians or immigrants of other origins. Descendants of the Confederados increasingly spoke the Portuguese language and identified themselves as Brazilians. As the area around Santa Bárbara d'Oeste and Americana turned to the production of sugar cane and society became more mobile, the Confederados moved to cities for urban jobs. Today, only a few descendant families still live on land owned by their ancestors. The descendants of the Confederados are mostly scattered throughout Brazil.</blockquote>
+
+<p><a href="https://youtu.be/D93o3kItF-E">Here</a> is this community today.</p>
+
+<p>This story is an example of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intentional_community">intentional communities</a>.  Intentional communities generally don't last long.  They have no natural immunity to the surrounding culture, so they get absorbed by it.  It makes no difference what the founding ideology is because there is nothing to ensure that future generations will keep that ideology.</p>
+`				,
+			},
+			race: {
+				title: 'Racial Separation',
+				content: `\
+<p>Some may blame the outcome of the story of the Southerners in <a href="#communities">Intentional Communities</a> on their genetically mixing with the local population, arguing that mixing with inferior races brings down the genetic quality of the population.  They may argue that if they had practiced racial separation, they would have been spared this fate.  Here I will argue that this is not the case.  Racial separation may slow down genetic decline but does not prevent it.  As <a href="#ethnicity">discussed</a>, race is not ethnicity.</p>
+
+<p>Now I will enumerate the problems with racial separation.  The first problem is that the gene pool of a race is not static even if it is isolated.  The genetic composition of any group will change based on selection pressure.  In modern societies, the main pressure is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_selection">sexual selection</a> and this is largely determined by culture.  So if a community is genetically isolated but not culturally isolated, then the surrounding culture will seep in and this will result in the same evolutionary pressures being applied to the group.  And this will slowly change the genetics of the group to resemble the people around them.  Note that modern culture is highly dysgenic, so any isolated gene pool that has modern culture will genetically decline rapidly.</p>
+
+<p>The next problem is the failure to attract good genes from outside the group.  Successful ethnicities typically allow limited immigration which selects for high quality people who improve the gene pool.  The racist may argue that members of lower races can never improve the gene pool.  They often use the difference between animals as an analogy.  But this analogy fails because for any important human characteristic, the average member of the best race is inferior to the best member of the worst race.  This is not true for differences between animals.  The point is that the differences between races is smaller than the differences within a race.  Therefore attracting the best members of any race will improve the gene pool.</p>
+
+<p>A related point is that a race must maintain enough genetic diversity to be able to adapt as conditions change.  Limited immigration guarantees this genetic diversity, while genetic isolation threatens it.</p>
+
+<p>The fundamental point here is that genetic selection is the key to success, not genetic isolation.  I don't know of any historical examples where racial separation worked in producing a highly successful population, so besides the logical arguments I presented here, there is no empirical evidence to support racial separation.  All of the remaining suggested solutions will have some form of genetic selection.</p>
+
+<p>Finally, I would like to comment on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt-right">alt-right</a>.  This group is the major modern proponent of racial separation, and they are complete losers.  I will leave it to white ethno-nationalist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varg_Vikernes">Varg</a> to comment on the alt-right <a href="https://www.bitchute.com/video/3oGSkoDevWc/">here</a> and <a href="https://www.bitchute.com/video/yBmMc6h_znM/">here</a>.  Note that Varg is primarily focused on ethnicity, not race, because he values religion and culture, not just genetics.</p>
+`				,
+			},
+			modern_eugenics: {
+				title: 'Modern Eugenics',
+				content: `\
+<p>The most recent proposal to reverse the decline in human quality is modern eugenics using embryo selection based on genetics.  This is clearly a progressive approach as descibed above in <a href="#eugenics">What is eugenics?</a>.  It suffers from reductionism and is extremely open to abuse.  Conservatives shouldn't play God, and should only use natural selection based on results.  This is the Arkian approach.</p>
+`				,
+			},
+		},
+	},
+	arkian: {
+		title: 'The Arkian Solution',
+		content: `\
+<p>The Arkian solution to escaping from human decay is to form a new ethnicity whose <a href="/requirements.html">membership requirements</a> will select for high quality people.  In particular, we want people who have traditional religious morals, who are intelligent and persistent, and who are ethnocentric.  I will start by explaining the reasoning for the requirements.</p>
+`		,
+		subs: {
+			scripture: {
+				title: 'Scripture Test',
+				content: `\
+<p>The first requirement is passing a test on scripture.  We currently only have an <a href="/test.html">Old Testament test</a> (for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karaite_Judaism">Karaites</a> and others who follow the Old Testament).  If a Christian becomes Arkian, he can add a full Bible test.  And we will add a Quran test if a Muslim is seriously interested in joining.</p>
+
+<p>The Bible and Quran are the fundamental religious texts of western culture.  Knowledge of either book shows at least willingness to learn religion, but quite possibly is a result of some commitment to religion.  Why not other scriptures?  Because only these scriptures produced successful cultures in the West.  But if someone provides a strong argument to add another scripture, we would consider it.</p>
+
+<p>Note that this is a test of knowledge, not of faith.  Since Arkians are an ethnicity, not a religion, there should be no requirements of belief.  Passing this test just proves that one isn't ignorant of religion.  But what conclusions one reaches from one's religious knowledge is a personal matter.</p>
+
+<p>One may argue that an immoral person can pass this test by studying.  But why would he bother?  What motivation would an immoral person have to go through all this trouble to become Arkian?  A moral religious person would probably already have most of the knowledge needed for him to pass, and he should have more of a reason to become Arkian, so I think this test is an effective means of selecting for religious morality.</p>
+`				,
+			},
+			go: {
+				title: 'Go Test',
+				content: `\
+<p>The second requirement is passing a <a href="/go.html">Go</a> test.  I was a fairly good chess player and I know most traditional games of skill, and Go is by far the best.  Go tests for intelligence, judgement, perseverance to build a skill, and ability to prioritize.  The typical modern person will not have the self-discipline to develop skill in Go, so this test eliminates such people.  And of course the intelligence aspect of Go ensures eugenic selection to produce an intelligent population.</p>
+
+<p>But Go is about more than intelligence.  For critical thinking, intelligence is not enough.  One must learn to be critical of all ideas including one's own ideas.  This is only developed by experiencing the failure of ideas.  Things like math and puzzles don't provide this.  But competitive games are optimal for providing negative feedback for bad ideas, through losing the game.  This forces skepticism of ideas which is required for critical thinking.</p>
+
+<p>For such games, one can also read books to learn strategies.  And playing games allows one to learn how to apply what one reads.  This is another critical skill, learning how to apply what one learns passively in an active environment.</p>
+
+<p>While this isn't a requirement, I would hope that Arkian parents teach their children Go.  Video games generally destroy children's ability to concentrate while Go increases the ability to concentrate.  I think Go is the best mental exercise for children, and would result in more intelligent adults.</p>
+
+<p>In the Old Testament, Amos 5:15 says "Hate evil and love good, and establish judgement in the gate.".  Hating evil and loving good are not enough.  One needs to have the judgement to distinguish between the two.  The game of Go is fundamentally about developing judgement using analysis, experience, and study.  The reason that children play games is to develop skills, and the skill that Go teaches is the skill of developing judgement.  I believe that judgement is critical for correctly understanding and applying religion, so children who play Go will have a better understanding of their religion as adults.</p>
+
+<p>Most Go resources advocate playing Go for all ages.  I personally do not.  I think games are mostly for children, while adults should focus on more practical things.  So then why have a Go test for adults to become Arkian?  Because the Go test just isn't that hard.  A reasonably intelligent adult should be able to study Go and pass the test after a few weeks of serious study.  Passing the test proves that he is serious about joining and that he is reasonably intelligent.  Once he passes the test, he can forget about Go except for teaching it to his children.</p>
+`				,
+			},
+			parents: {
+				title: 'Have Arkian Parents',
+				content: `\
+<p>The previous two tests are to become Arkian.  But one can also be born Arkian if one is born from an Arkian couple.</p>
+
+<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>
+
+<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>
+
+<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>
+`				,
+			},
+			ulul_albab: {
+				title: 'Muslim Arkians are Ulul Albab',
+				content: `\
+<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>
+
+<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>
+
+<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>
+`				,
+			},
+			implementation: {
+				title: 'Implementation Through Religion',
+				content: `\
+<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>
+
+<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>
+`				,
+			},
+			why: {
+				title: 'Why would a church or mosque do this?',
+				content: `\
+<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>
+
+<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>
+
+<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>
+`				,
+			},
+			individual: {
+				title: 'Why would an individual become Arkian?',
+				content: `\
+<p>The obvious benefit of becoming Arkian is that your descendants have a chance of escaping genetic decay.  Given the current dysgenic culture, you can be sure that your descendants will decay genetically if they remain in the general gene pool.  The only way to avoid this is to join a separate gene pool like Anabaptists, Jews, or Arkians.  Of these options, only becoming Arkian allows you to keep your current religion.  You can continue attending your church or mosque for a good religious community.</p>
+
+<p>How would this work in practice?  Your children should be Arkian either through the tests or by birth.  You should explain to them the importance of them marrying Arkians.  They can either marry a current Arkian or someone willing to join.  The Arkian tests ensure that they will marry quality people.  So this is a good filter to help your children marry good people.  And hopefully the same process will continue throughout the generations of your descendants.</p>
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+		},
+	},
+};
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+			<h1><a href="about.html">Arkians - A Eugenic Intentional Ethnicity</a></h1>
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+			<h2>Contents</h2>
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+			<p>I would love to discuss the Arkian idea further with anyone who is interested.  My email is <a href="mailto:fschmidt@gmail.com">fschmidt@gmail.com</a>.</p>
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+		<title>Arkian - About</title>
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+
+let content = {
+	intro: {
+		title: 'Introduction',
+		content: `\
+<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 ethnicity is designed to be a refuge to preserve what is good about humanity in the face of a global dysgenic culture that is making almost all of humanity go bad.</p>
+
+<p>Those who don't recognize the current declining quality of people probably shouldn't bother to read this.  This is for those who do recognize this problem and are interested in finding a solution.  But you may recognize decline in some areas but not others.  In this case, I would ask you to name one single area that has improved since 2010.  I can't think of one.  In modern culture, everything only gets worse.  Areas that come to mind include music, art, movies, architecture, software, politics, conversation, science, customer service, etc.  There are several possible causes for this decline and I will discuss these in detail.</p>
+
+<p>There are a number of possible solutions to consider including intentional communities, racial communities, religious communities, the Jewish approach, and eugenics.  I will discuss these in detail before getting to the Arkian solution.</p>
+
+<p>Briefly stated, the Arkian solution is to form an ethnicity with <a href="/requirements.html">these membership requirements</a>.  These requirements are meant to select for certain traits including intelligence, religiousness, and ethnocentrism.  The goal is to produce an ethnicity with the selected-for traits.</p>
+`		,
+	},
+	problem: {
+		title: 'The Problem',
+		subs: {
+			culture: {
+				title: 'Cultural Decay',
+				content: `\
+<p>Here I will describe cultural decay but not its causes.  One may say that children playing video games is a cause of decay, or a product of decay, or both.  It's confusing because cultural decay is like old age or a syndrome with many related factors.  So here I will just be descriptive.</p>
+
+<p>In <a href="fate.pdf">The Fate of Empires</a> Sir John Glubb gives an excellent summary of the life cycle of empires.  And he points out that the lifespan of empires is typically 200 to 300 years.  But anyone who has a serious interest in understanding how cultures rise and fall must read original source material from history.  From this, it soon becomes clear that one usually can identify from the style of writing what phase of the civilization that writing came from.  Writings from decaying cultures are generally stupid or reject reality.  Writings from rising cultures are direct and try to address real-world problems.</p>
+
+<p>Since the topic here is specifically cultural decay, I will mention some relevant descriptive writing from other cultures.  The Old Testament does a great job in describing the decay of Israel/Judah from the beginning under King Solomon to the final fall of Judah to Babylon.  Decaying Athens is well described in the comedies of Aristophanes. The beginning of Roman decay is described by Juvenal.  Late Rome is described by Ammianus Marcellinus who I discussed <a href="https://saidit.net/s/nonmorons/comments/9e6y/the_antony_option/">here</a>.</p>
+
+<p>One common feature of all decaying cultures is feminism and family instability.  This is related to promiscuity and I will discuss the dysgenic effect of promiscuity later.  For now I will just describe what happens.  Once punishment for adultery (sex between a married woman and man other than her husband) becomes reduced, it becomes in women's evolutionary interest to become promiscuous.  I discuss why below in <a href="#dysgenics">Genetic Decay - Dysgenics</a> and also in my post <a href="https://mikraite.arkian.net/In-Defense-of-Feminism-tp570.html">In Defense of Feminism</a>.  But the result is feminism which is essentially a slut power movement.  This feminist degeneracy is described in many decaying cultures.  The Old Testament describes it in decaying Israel, Aristophanes in decaying Athens, Juvenal and Apuleius in decaying Rome, and <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Secret-History-Penguin-Classics/dp/0140455280/">Procopius</a> in Byzantium.</p>
+
+<p>Beside the dysgenic effect, feminism causes family instability which harms the raising of children.  So this directly harms the culture.  Also men without stable wives are less committed to their society and so less likely to contribute to society.  So feminism is an example of both a cause of decay and a product of decay.  It is a product of deteriorating religion which results in lessening punishment for adultery which results in feminism.  And it is a cause as I described.</p>
+
+<p>Decaying culture can be viewed through the lens of whatever field interests you whether art or architecture or literature or whatever.  In all fields, one can see good work produced as a culture rises, and bad work produced as a culture falls.  I would like to discuss historical cosmology and modern programming as examples.</p>
+
+<p>In the 200s BC <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristarchus_of_Samos">Aristarchus of Samos</a> invented <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliocentrism">heliocentric cosmology</a> which was simple and accurate.  But this was rejected by the people of his time.  Why?</p>
+
+<p>The story of Greek science begins with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagoras">Pythagoras</a> who lived in the 500s BC.  He was the first person to recognize the power of math to describe the world, and he applied math to many things.  This inspired Greek astronomers to try to describe cosmology in simple mathematical terms.  This was during the time that Greeks were a rising culture.  They were highly intelligent people who respected reality.</p>
+
+<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato">Plato</a> lived in the 300s BC by which time Greece was in decline.  Plato was an ideologue who was in love with his own ideas and had no interest in reality.  Plato insisted on a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geocentric_model">geocentric model</a> of cosmology based purely on circles.  Why?  Just because this was the idea that appealed to him.  Reality was irrelevant.  Aristotle backed him up, and so this became orthodoxy.  By the time Aristarchus came along with his heliocentric cosmology, he was violating orthodox ideas so the people of his time just ignored him.  Then in the 100s BC Ptolemy created <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geocentric_model#Ptolemaic_system">a horrible overcomplicated geocentric model</a> based on the circles that Plato required.  This became the standard for the next 1700 years.</p>
+
+<p>Cosmology only changed again when <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolaus_Copernicus">Copernicus</a> revived the ideas of Aristarchus.  Why did it take so long?  Because this is when the next culture that was as good as the Ancient Greeks developed, namely the culture of Reformation Europe.  It is no accident that Copernicus lived around the time of Martin Luther.</p>
+
+<p>Today's West is like the decaying Greeks.  The programmers in Silicon Valley are like Ptolemy, able to construct and maintain horrible overcomplicated monstrosities, but totally unable to innovate at a fundamental level.  All good programming ideas are rejected because they don't fit into current programming ideologies.  Any programmer like Aristarchus who comes up with a good programming idea will be rejected and ridiculed for violating orthodoxy.  Modern programmers are in love with their own ideas and love complexity.  They hate simplicity and anything that violates their ideologies.</p>
+
+<p>In Matthew 7:6 Jesus said "Do not give what is holy to dogs, and do not throw your pearls before swine, or they will trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces."  Jesus lived in decaying Rome and this is excellent advice for anyone living in a decaying culture.  Members of decaying culture hate everything that is good.  And of course modern culture is a decaying culture.  So if you create anything good, you will be hated for it.  In my case as a programmer, my software is pearls and modern programmers are swine, so I am only attacked when I present my software.  And it isn't just my software, all good software is hated by modern programmers.  I wrote more about this on my other website <a href="https://www.reactionary.software/">Reactionary Software</a>.</p>
+
+<p>In this chapter I just tried to describe decaying cultures including modern culture, and what practical impact decaying culture has on life.  Next I will describe some of the possible causes of cultural decay.</p>
+`				,
+			},
+			religion: {
+				title: 'Religious Decay',
+				content: `\
+<p>The correlation between the decline of cultures and the decline or corruption of the culture's founding religion is obvious to anyone who knows history.  But the religion declines first, and there is a long lag between the decline of religion and the outward decline of society.  As a result, cultures peak in outward output after their religion has failed, giving the mistaken impression that secular societies are most productive.</p>
+
+<p>The sequence is roughly this:  Religion declines which causes morality to decline including a decline in effective prevention of adultery and this causes feminism and cultural decline which in turn is dysgenic and causes genetic decay.  This long sequence explains the lag.  This happened in Ancient Israel, Ancient Athens, Rome, Early Islam, and is now happening in the West.</p>
+
+<p>Why does religion decline in successful societies?  One can only speculate.  I gave one possible explanation in my post <a href="https://mikraite.arkian.net/Why-Religions-Fail-tp2257.html">Why Religions Fail</a> but here I will give another.  When society is poor then people feel a need for religion and intelligent people tend to go into religion as the only escape from the chaos of their world.  Once a society becomes successful, regular people don't feel as much need for religion.  But even more important is that intelligent people have many other options in a successful society besides religion, so religion attracts far fewer intelligent people.  Some of these intelligent people become degenerates and attack religion.  Since religion doesn't have enough intelligent people to defend itself, it either conforms to the degeneracy of its time or it simply closes its collective mind and becomes fundamentalist and rejects all reason.  This happened most clearly in Islam where the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mu%CA%BFtazila">Muʿtazila</a> became degenerate in response to challenges from philosophy, and then there was a fundamentalist backlash led by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanbali">Hanbali</a>.  Muslims have been closed-minded fundamentalists ever since which is why they never produced anything comparable to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_Golden_Age">Islamic Golden Age</a> again.  Christianity is now going through a similar process.  The end result is a loss of religious understanding as I described in my post <a href="https://mikraite.arkian.net/Understanding-tp6.html">Understanding</a>.</p>
+
+<p>As far as I know, the only Christians who retain a good understanding of their religion is the <a href="https://saidit.net/s/nonmorons/comments/9e6z/please_visit_a_mennonite_church/">Conservative Mennonites</a>.  One can see the beginning of the process of religious decay in the <a href="http://forum.mennonet.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=4641">Mexican Mennonites</a>.  Most of modern Christianity is too far gone to even be interesting.  Modern Islam is closed-minded but still retains the potential for a reformation that could make it a good religion again.</p>
+
+<p>One last point is the relationship between religion and science.  Science only conflicts with fundamentalist religion, and in fact science depends on good religion, particularly good monotheism.  I discussed this in my post <a href="https://mikraite.arkian.net/Science-Requires-Monotheism-tp2014.html">Science Requires Monotheism</a>.</p>
+`				,
+			},
+			dysgenics: {
+				title: 'Genetic Decay - Dysgenics',
+				content: `\
+<p>The best introduction to the idea of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysgenics">dysgenics</a> is the <a href="https://youtu.be/gJDcoqrh1ac">introduction</a> of the movie <a href="https://archive.org/details/Idiocracy_201507">Idiocracy</a>.  <a href="https://youtu.be/gJDcoqrh1ac">Edward Dutton</a> has studied this issue and <a href="https://www.bitchute.com/video/PEoRIWdzXYzo/">commented on Idiocracy</a>.  I agree with his criticisms and I think <a href="https://youtu.be/ZRuSS0iiFyo">modern Liberia</a> is a better model for the future of the West.  His book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07M8NG2CN/">At Our Wits' End: Why We're Becoming Less Intelligent and What it Means for the Future</a> gives hard evidence for declining intelligence in the West.  His reasoning really doesn't add much beyond what is in the introduction to Idiocracy.  But he makes the point that this pattern has likely repeated throughout history, and that when selection pressure is eugenic then cultures rise, and that success tends to cause dysgenic pressure and so as intelligence declines the culture fails.  This basic idea of dysgenics is not new and originated with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Galton">Francis Galton</a> in the 1800s.  At that time Galton saw dysgenics as a possible threat, but today anyone with sense sees the results of dysgenics manifested in the population.</p>
+
+<p>The widely held opinion on the cause of dysgenics is what is described in the introduction to Idiocracy.  But I believe that there is another even more dysgenic force in decaying cultures which I will describe in some detail because it is a new idea.  My idea is that female <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_selection">sexual selection</a> in a promiscuous culture is dysgenic and leads to selection that favors stupidity and immorality.
+
+<p>Consider how male peacocks got their bright feathers.  These bright feathers have no benefit for survival.  In fact they are harmful for survival, being heavy and easy for predators to see.  So let's start by imagining peacocks before they had big bright feathers.  Since females can only have a limited number of children, females tend to be selective about which males they mate with.  They should prefer healthy "good-looking" males since their children will inherit the male's genes.  Those males with dull feathers may well have been poorly nourished and unhealthy.  Bright feathers were probably a good indication of a healthy male.  So females evolved to prefer males with bright feathers.  But now it becomes in the male's interest to have bright feathers because if he doesn't, females will reject him and he won't be able to reproduce.  So males evolved to have bigger and brighter feathers, not for survival, but for the sexual advantage that allowed males to have more children.  At some point these bigger brighter feathers were no longer an indication of good health.  So why didn't the females stop preferring such males?  This is explained by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexy_son_hypothesis">sexy son hypothesis</a>.  If the female mates with a male who is popular with other females, then her sons will likely inherit the male's traits that made the father popular and so her sons will also be popular and will have many children with many females.  This will spread not only the father's genes but also the mother's genes.  So those females who are attracted to popular males have an advantage.  At this point in the story, male peacocks with big bright feathers are popular with females, so it is to each female's advantage to mate with males with big bright feathers.  This is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisherian_runaway">Fisherian runaway selection</a>, a story of evolution gone wild, of evolution not doing what is in the best interest of the species.</p>
+
+<p>It is in the evolutionary interest of females to mate with the best type of male for the current environment.  Because this is so important, one can reasonably assume that a significant part of a woman's brain is dedicated to this issue.  This means that women can intuitively determine which men are genetically "good" much better than men can using analytical reasoning.  In other words, men have no right to doubt women's mating choices in terms of genetic suitability.  When a woman says that a man is "hot", she is unquestionably correct that he is a good genetic choice in her current environment.  And when a woman says that a man is a (genetic) loser, she is also unquestionably correct in her current environment.</p>
+
+<p>So what type of man is optimal in a promiscuous culture?  The answer is stupid immoral men.  Immoral because that means that they will have sex with any women without restraint - other men's wives, underage girls, etc.  Stupid because this means that they won't use birth control in the process.  Such men can have a huge number of children, so these are the type of men that women are attracted to in a promiscuous culture.  The political expression of this desire of women to be sluts chasing bad men is called "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminism">feminism</a>".</p>
+
+<p>This type of sexual selection in promiscuous cultures is far more dysgenic than the usual explanation of the lower classes reproducing faster than the upper classes.  This force means that decent men will find it almost impossible to reproduce with women from their culture, but that the most stupid and evil men will have a huge number of children.</p>
+
+<p>Now the question arises why this force didn't destroy humanity long ago.  The answer is that human culture has generally punished promiscuity, and that those that didn't either remained as primitive weak tribes or quickly collapsed as a culture.  In the book <a href="https://mikraite.arkian.net/Sex-and-Culture-book-tp437.html">Sex and Culture</a> anthropologist Unwin analyzes the correlation between female premarital chastity and the level of development in all known isolated tribes of his time.  He finds that female premarital chastity perfectly correlates to the level of development, absolutely without exception.  Unwin then turns to history and studies rising and falling cultures.  Again he finds that all rising cultures require strict female premarital chastity (virgin wives) and that declining cultures typically don't enforce female premarital chastity.  So it should be no surprise that all religious texts oppose promiscuity, particularly <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Iliad-Penguin-Classics-Homer/dp/0140447946/">The Iliad</a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Odyssey-Penguin-Classics-Homer/dp/0140449116/">The Odyssey</a>, the <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1433603640/">Bible</a>, and the <a href="https://dar-us-salam.com/quran/noble-qurans/q03g-noble-quran-english-only-medium-green.html">Quran</a>.  Religion has been the primary force in enforcing female chastity and thereby preventing dysgenic decay.  But successful cultures tend to become less religious and this causes an increase in promiscuity which results in dysgenic decay.  Any solution to the problem of human decay must address this issue.</p>
+
+<p>This chapter is based on my earlier posts <a href="https://mikraite.arkian.net/Human-Evolution-tp17.html">Human Evolution</a> and <a href="https://mikraite.arkian.net/In-Defense-of-Feminism-tp570.html">In Defense of Feminism</a> which go into more depth on this topic, and this is well summarized in the post <a href="http://www.happierabroad.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=20929">The reproductive superiority of stupid assholes</a>.</p>
+`				,
+			},
+		},
+	},
+	solutions: {
+		title: 'Other Solutions',
+		content: `\
+<p>Here I will consider other possible solutions besides the Arkian solution.  A solution means a sustainable group, and this requires that the group maintain the culture and genetics needed for its surivival.</p>
+`		,
+		subs: {
+			communities: {
+				title: 'Intentional Communities',
+				content: `\
+<p>After the South lost the American civil war, a number of Southerners (Confederates) set up communities in Latin America, particularly Brazil.  What happened to them?  According to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederados#Descendants_of_the_immigrants">Wikipedia</a>:</p>
+
+<blockquote>The first generation of Confederados remained an insular community. As is typical, by the third generation, most of the families had intermarried with native Brazilians or immigrants of other origins. Descendants of the Confederados increasingly spoke the Portuguese language and identified themselves as Brazilians. As the area around Santa Bárbara d'Oeste and Americana turned to the production of sugar cane and society became more mobile, the Confederados moved to cities for urban jobs. Today, only a few descendant families still live on land owned by their ancestors. The descendants of the Confederados are mostly scattered throughout Brazil.</blockquote>
+
+<p><a href="https://youtu.be/D93o3kItF-E">Here</a> is this community today.</p>
+
+<p>This story is an example of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intentional_community">intentional communities</a>.  Intentional communities generally don't last long.  They have no natural immunity to the surrounding culture, so they get absorbed by it.  It makes no difference what the founding ideology is because there is nothing to ensure that future generations will keep that ideology.</p>
+`				,
+			},
+			race: {
+				title: 'Racial Separation',
+				content: `\
+<p>Some may blame the outcome of the story of the Southerners in <a href="#communities">Intentional Communities</a> on their genetically mixing with the local population, arguing that mixing with inferior races brings down the genetic quality of the population.  They may argue that if they had practiced racial separation, they would have been spared this fate.  Here I will argue that this is not the case.  Racial separation may slow down genetic decline but does not prevent it.</p>
+
+<p>Before discussing race, it is important to clarify the distinction between race and ethnicity.  According to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_group">Wikipedia</a>:</p>
+
+<dd>An ethnic group or ethnicity is a grouping of people who identify with each other on the basis of shared attributes that distinguish them from other groups such as a common set of traditions, ancestry, language, history, society, culture, nation, religion or social treatment within their residing area.</dd>
+
+<p>In contrast, race only means a genetic group.  This meaning of "race" is modern.  In the past, the terms "race" and "ethnicity" were more similar.  But the modern distinction is clear and useful.</p>
+
+<p>Now I will enumerate the problems with racial separation.  The first problem is that the gene pool of a race is not static even if it is isolated.  The genetic composition of any group will change based on selection pressure.  In modern societies, the main pressure is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_selection">sexual selection</a> and this is largely determined by culture.  So if a community is genetically isolated but not culturally isolated, then the surrounding culture will seep in and this will result in the same evolutionary pressures being applied to the group.  And this will slowly change the genetics of the group to resemble the people around them.  Note that modern culture is highly dysgenic, so any isolated gene pool that has modern culture will genetically decline rapidly.</p>
+
+<p>The next problem is the failure to attract good genes from outside the group.  Successful ethnicities typically allow limited immigration which selects for high quality people who improve the gene pool.  The racist may argue that members of lower races can never improve the gene pool.  They often use the difference between animals as an analogy.  But this analogy fails because for any important human characteristic, the average member of the best race is inferior to the best member of the worst race.  This is not true for differences between animals.  The point is that the differences between races is smaller than the differences within a race.  Therefore attracting the best members of any race will improve the gene pool.</p>
+
+<p>A related point is that a race must maintain enough genetic diversity to be able to adapt as conditions change.  Limited immigration guarantees this genetic diversity, while genetic isolation threatens it.</p>
+
+<p>The fundamental point here is that genetic selection is the key to success, not genetic isolation.  I don't know of any historical examples where racial separation worked in producing a highly successful population, so besides the logical arguments I presented here, there is no empirical evidence to support racial separation.  All of the remaining suggested solutions will have some form of genetic selection.</p>
+
+<p>Finally, I would like to comment on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt-right">alt-right</a>.  This group is the major modern proponent of racial separation, and they are complete losers.  I will leave it to white ethno-nationalist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varg_Vikernes">Varg</a> to comment on the alt-right <a href="https://www.bitchute.com/video/3oGSkoDevWc/">here</a> and <a href="https://www.bitchute.com/video/yBmMc6h_znM/">here</a>.  Note that Varg is primarily focused on ethnicity, not race, because he values religion and culture, not just genetics.</p>
+`				,
+			},
+			religious: {
+				title: 'Religious Communities',
+				content: `\
+<p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01KUCY7XI/">The Benedict Option</a> is a recent proposal to form Christian communities.  This proposal has two flaws.  First, it has no standards, as I commented in <a href="https://www.amazon.com/review/RTR9K4PGGEICZ/">my review</a> of this book.  This means that it suffers from the same problem as <a href="#communities">intentional communities</a>, namely that it will not be able to resist the surrounding culture in the long run.  And second, it makes no attempt to form a coherent genetic group, so it can never advance genetically.</p>
+
+<p>These issues are intrinsic to the nature of earlier Christianity.  Before Constantine, Christianity was just a religious movement.  After Constantine, it became a centralized religion in the forms of the Catholic Church and Orthodox Church.  These centralized structures fundamentally didn't allow for meaningful communities to develop.  The closest was the monasteries themselves which did have strict standards, but clearly couldn't become a genetic group.</p>
+
+<p>Only after the Reformation decentralized Christianity did strong communities become possible.  Early American towns were typically dominated by one church that set the moral standards for the town.  This was early Protestantism, but Protestantism became increasingly individualistic over time until it became too individualistic to form meaningful communities.  The Reformation movement that still has the capacity to form meaningful communities is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anabaptism">Anabaptism</a>.  Of the Anabaptist groups, the one I know best is the conservative Mennonites and I will discuss this in some detail.</p>
+
+<p>The book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Old-Order-Conservative-Mennonite/dp/1561481017/">An Introduction to Old Order and Conservative Mennonite Groups</a> gives a good overview of conservative Mennonites.  After reading it, I recommend visiting a conservative Mennonite church.  You can find one using this <a href="https://www.pilgrimministry.org/congregations/map">Church Finder</a>.  I recommend Eastern Pennsylvania Mennonite Churches and the Nationwide Fellowship Churches since I have visited these and can vouch for them.  After church, you will be invited to have lunch with one of the Mennonite families.  There you can ask questions and learn about the Mennonites.  Here is <a href="https://youtu.be/BRty645Iis8">a preview</a> of what you can expect in their service.</p>
+
+<p>Conservative Mennonite groups have clear standards for membership.  And they mostly marry within their group, so they form a coherent genetic group.  This is one of the most promising possible solutions to the problem of human decay.  Whether it will work in the long run, I really can't judge.  But I will describe possible weaknesses to the conservative Mennonite approach.</p>
+
+<p>Religious groups select members based on their beliefs, and this is the basic weakness of conservative Mennonites.  Requiring uniform beliefs results in inflexibility.  If some beliefs cause a problem then the group is unlikely to be able to adjust its beliefs to solve the problem.  In the case of Mennonites, their belief in nonviolence could easily cause big problems if the world becomes more violent.  Another widespread problem of Christianity is their insistence on loving everyone.  This is a big problem when people are horrible and loving them at close range risks exposing Christians to their horrible values.  Mennonites solve this by living in remote rural areas where they can love the horrible masses at a safe distance.  A final problem with requiring uniform beliefs is that this will tend to exclude highly intelligent people since intelligent people often have unconventional interpretations of religion.</p>
+
+<p>Orthodox Jewish groups have much in common with Anabaptist groups.  They have standards and they form coherent genetic groups as subsets of Jews.  But ultimately they are Jews which takes precedence over their religious community, so everything discussed in the next section on the Jews applies to them.</p> 
+`				,
+			},
+			jews: {
+				title: 'Jews',
+				content: `\
+<p>Jews are an ethnicity, not a religion or race.  I discussed the difference between ethnicity and race in <a href="#race">Racial Separation</a>.  A convert to Judaism like Ivanka Trump is Jewish.  This conversion is like immigration into the Jewish people.  The immigration process is through the religion, but a Jew doesn't have to follow the religion.  Plenty of Jews are atheist and don't follow Judaism at all, but they are still considered completely Jewish.  So Jews are purely an ethnicity.</p>
+
+<p>The historical process that produced the Jews is described in the Old Testament.  First there were the Hebrews who were a clan/tribe.  They were defined by family relations.  The Israelites began when they left Egypt as a "mixed multitude" of Hebrews and others.  They were defined by religion.  And then finally the Jews were defined as an ethnicity by Ezra.</p>
+
+<p>Many would dispute what I just said, so I will provide evidence that Ezra fundamentally changed the nature of the group.  Ezra introduced meaningful genetic separation by making it more difficult to intermarry with outsiders.  Some would argue that Deuteronomy 7:3 already did this with "Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,".  But Deuteronomy 7:4 continues and explains "because they will turn your sons away from Me to worship other gods.".  So the point here isn't ethnicity, but rather religion.  This is a prohibition against marrying people from bad religions, not other ethnicities.  And then there are Moses's wives.  His first wife was Zipporah, a Midianite (not Israelite).  And his second wife was a Cushite (Ethiopian).  This is discussed at length in Numbers 12.  And finally we have the conversion story of Ruth who joined the Israelites fairly easily after accepting their religion.  Ezra overturned all this by sending away all the foreign wives who hadn't gone through a formal conversion/immigration process.</p>
+
+<p>I used to be against Ezra, and I believed that a religious community is best.  But the Old Testament itself describes how badly the Israelites failed as a religious community.  It is very difficult to keep a whole nation unified based on religion since religious differences and degeneration will inevitably occur.  It is better to unify people based on ethnicity and then hope that a good religion has a positive impact on the people.</p>
+
+<p>On the plus side, Ezra created a group (Jews) that has managed to survive a very long time under different conditions.  On the minus side, this group has had and caused many problems.  I believe that what Ezra did wrong was to fail to define a sensible immigration policy, and so this was left to religion.  And as the religion decayed, the quality of "immigrants" also decayed.  The most productive group of Jews where the Ashkenazi Jews in Europe.  But their genetic improvements in areas like intelligence were largely the result of luck, of the selection pressures the European society imposed on these Jews.  This lucky circumstance is now over, and so Jews are in rapid genetic decline.  The decline in Jewish intellect in recent years is obvious and is even <a href="https://www.aish.com/jw/s/Endangered-Jewish-Genius.html">discussed on a Jewish website</a>.  I will continue with the history of the Jews since Ezra until I reach the present.</p>
+
+<p>After Ezra, Alexander the Great conquered Israel.  This brought in the thinking of Plato.  The Jews rejected the idea of absolute truth but embraced the idea of debate based on deductive reason.  The ultimate result of this is <a href="https://www.sacred-texts.com/jud/talmud.htm">the Talmud</a> which has the most twisted reasoning I have ever seen.  Talmudic thinking is compared to the Old Testament <a href="https://youtu.be/tddCNY6U77Y">here</a> and is criticized from a humanitarian perspective <a href="https://youtu.be/YSy6ENVAJlY">here</a>.  So now the original Old Testament religion was lost and replaced by insane rationalizing of whatever the rabbis wanted to rationalize.  When Israel was under Roman control there were a number of Jewish sects.  The Talmudic sect won out simply because it was the most ethnocentric.  As the winners, they could determine the conditions for becoming a Jew which basically was following Talmudic nonsense for a few years.</p>
+
+<p>After Rome fell, the Jews in Europe aligned with the aristocracy against the people.  This is well documented in the book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Jewish-History-Religion-Thousand-Political-ebook/dp/B00GGOEL4A/">Jewish History, Jewish Religion: The Weight of Three Thousand Years</a>.  But this didn't involve most Jews.  People against the Jews point to Jewish bankers and Jewish rabbis who were generally evil.  But the average Jew was typically involved in some basic trade and wasn't necessarily evil.  Because monogamy was enforced by Ashkenazi rabbis and conditions were harsh, there was strong natural selection which increased Ashkenazi intelligence.  An intelligent Jew of this time probably would have realized that the Talmud and the rabbis are insane, but he would have put up with them because this is still better than becoming a serf.  So intelligent Jews remained Jews.</p>
+
+<p>Jews lived in their own districts until Napoleon freed them to live wherever they liked.  But this change was gradual.  Europe had now left the dark ages and entered the Enlightenment.  At this point European culture was much more attractive to an intelligent Jew than Talmudic insanity was.  So Jews began to assimilate into European culture, but they generally did not intermarry with Europeans, so remained a separate gene pool.</p>
+
+<p>After WW2, most Jews left Europe.  The obvious choice for any intelligent Jew was to move to America.  But in America, intermarriage was accepted.  So basically what happened is that all the decent intelligent Jews rejected the Talmudic nonsense and assimilated into America.  My family background is Hungarian Jews, specifically scientists known as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Martians_(scientists)">the Martians</a>.  These people were assimilated into Hungarian culture, and rejected Judaism.  Once they moved to America, they also genetically assimilated because their children (like me) did not marry Jews.</p>
+
+<p>By now all decent intelligent Jews have stopped being Jews.  The Jews that remain Jews are either stupid or they like the evil Talmudic nonsense.  This is why today's Jews are almost universally scum.  This is why Jewish intellect declined so rapidly.  And this is why Israel implemented a covid vaccine holocaust on their own population, because modern Jews are too stupid to know any better and too evil to allow dissent.</p>
+
+<p>I have described the Jews at such length because, in spite of their flaws, they are the closest to a working solution to the problem of mass human decay.  The flaws in the Jewish system may condemn them to be evil and stupid in the near future, but they are still likely to survive as a group.  Since they are an ethnicity, they do not suffer from the religious inflexibility of the Mennonites, so they can evolve as needed to survive.  Their rules of genetic separation ensure that they will remain a coherent genetic group distinct from the doomed masses.  The Arkian idea is inspired by the Jewish model, but is an attempt to do it right and avoid evil and stupidity.</p>
+`				,
+			},
+			eugenics: {
+				title: 'Eugenics',
+				content: `\
+<p>The most recent proposal to reverse the decline in human quality is eugenics.  To gain an understanding of this, I read <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01N45KKTH/">Eugenics: A Very Short Introduction</a> on the history of eugenics.  The surprising thing I learned is that eugenics was basically a progressive movement which was opposed by religious conservatives.  But after thinking about what progressive and conservative really mean, this now makes sense to me.</p>
+
+<p>Eugenics began with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Galton#Heredity_and_eugenics">Francis Galton</a>.  His view seems quite reasonable, focusing on breeding better people.  Eugenics quickly became politically popular and progressives pushed government eugenics programs that included compulsory sterilization, racial planning, pushing contraception, and pushing feminism (considered to be eugenic).  Of course this contrasts with the current leftist position against eugenics, but this raises the fundamental question of what it really means to be progressive/leftist versus conservative/rightist.</p>
+
+<p>I think the core difference between progressives and conservatives isn't so much their positions on specific issues as it is their general approach to thinking about issues.  Progressives have infinite faith in human reason, so they have no problem using government programs and government coercion to pursue their "logical" goals.  Progressives tend to be reductionist and will reduce an issue to a set of causes and then act on those perceived causes.  In effect, progressives want Man to play God and to micromanage everything.  In contrast, conservatives are more humble and more skeptical about human reason.  Conservatives would rather trust what has proven to be true over time, and would rather trust God or the forces of nature than trust human management.</p>
+
+<p>Now let's apply this to eugenics.  Suppose you wanted to organize a running team.  How do you select members?  The progressive would study running in detail and find everything that may cause good runners, or at least what correlates with good runners.  They may notice, for example, that blacks are faster on average than whites, so they would select blacks.  They may look for genes that are found in fast runners and select people with these genes.  All this fits the progressive approach that I just described.  How would a conservative select team members?  A true conservative would just time candidates and select the fastest ones without worrying about any other factors.  The factors that cause fast runners can be left to God or nature, the conservative doesn't care and just wants fast runners.  Jesus well expressed this conservative view in <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=matthew+7%3A16-20&version=HCSB">Matthew 7:16-20</a>.</p>
+
+<p>We can take this one step further and ask how can one breed a population of fast runners.  The answers would again be like what I just described, with progressives using complex reductionist approaches, while conservatives would just add fast runners to the breeding group, and remove slow runners.</p>
+
+<p>I am purely a conservative and I detest the progressive approach to everything.  The general view on eugenics is that the Nazis ruined the reputation of eugenics and this is why it lost favor.  But my view is that the progressives had already ruined eugenics before the Nazis, and that the conservative opposition (especially Catholic opposition) to eugenics was based on eugenicists playing God.  I don't think these conservatives opposed animal breeding and I don't think they would have opposed a conservative form of eugenics which would be similar to animal breeding.</p>
+
+<p>The Arkian ethnicity idea is essentially an intentional eugenic ethnicity.  Its eugenic methods are extremely conservative, more conservative than any other eugenic proposal that I have seen.  These methods involve no coercion and try to avoid reductionism as much as possible.  One example of avoiding reductionism is not using IQ tests for selection.  IQ was very popular among eugenicists but is flawed exactly because it only tests one factor.  Real natural selection always tests whether a combination of factors can produce the desired result.  This why the Arkian approach uses <a href="/go.html">Go</a> as a test instead of IQ, because Go tests for intelligence and many other traits in combination to judge how mentally effective a person is overall.  The other two selection criteria test for religiousness and ethnocentrism which are critical factors for members of such a group.  Of course, like the runners example above, the Arkian approach ignores race and individual genes.</p>
+
+<p>Those few people left who support eugenics tend to focus on genetic engineering or race, neither of which will work.  Today's conservatives tend to accept modern idiocracy as the will of God, and they tend to be idiots themselves.  The only good news is that the Arkian idea would only need a very few people to work, and this would produce a eugenic group that could escape idiocracy.</p>
+`				,
+			},
+		},
+	},
+	arkian: {
+		title: 'The Arkian Solution',
+		content: `\
+<p>The Arkian solution to escaping from human decay is to form a new ethnicity whose <a href="/requirements.html">membership requirements</a> will select for high quality people.  In particular, we want people who have traditional religious morals, who are intelligent and persistent, and who are ethnocentric.  I will start by explaining the reasoning for the requirements.</p>
+`		,
+		subs: {
+			scripture: {
+				title: 'Scripture Test',
+				content: `\
+<p>The first requirement is passing a test on the Bible or Quran.  We currently only have an <a href="/test.html">Bible test</a>.  We will add a Quran test if a Muslim is seriously interested in joining.</p>
+
+<p>These two scriptures are the fundamental religious texts of western culture.  Knowledge of either book shows at least willingness to learn religion, but quite possibly is a result of some commitment to religion.  Why not other scriptures?  Because only these scriptures produced successful cultures in the West.  But if someone provides a strong argument to add another scripture, we would consider it.</p>
+
+<p>Note that this is a test of knowledge, not of faith.  Since Arkians are an ethnicity, not a religion, there should be no requirements of belief.  Passing this test just proves that one isn't ignorant of religion.  But what conclusions one reaches from one's religious knowledge is a personal matter.</p>
+
+<p>One may argue that an immoral person can pass this test by studying.  But why would he bother?  What motivation would an immoral person have to go through all this trouble to become Arkian?  A moral religious person would probably already have most of the knowledge needed for him to pass, and he should have more of a reason to become Arkian, so I think this test is an effective means of selecting for religious morality.</p>
+`				,
+			},
+			go: {
+				title: 'Go Test',
+				content: `\
+<p>The second requirement is passing a <a href="/go.html">Go</a> test.  I was a fairly good chess player and I know most traditional games of skill, and Go is by far the best.  Go tests for intelligence, judgement, perseverance to build a skill, and ability to prioritize.  The typical modern person will not have the self-discipline to develop skill in Go, so this test eliminates such people.  And of course the intelligence aspect of Go ensures eugenic selection to produce an intelligent population.</p>
+
+<p>While this isn't a requirement, I would hope that Arkian parents teach their children Go.  Video games generally destroy children's ability to concentrate while Go increases the ability to concentrate.  I think Go is the best mental exercise for children, and would result in more intelligent adults.</p>
+`				,
+			},
+			parents: {
+				title: 'Have Arkian Parents',
+				content: `\
+<p>The previous two tests are to become Arkian.  But one can also be born Arkian if one is born from an Arkian couple.</p>
+
+<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>
+
+<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>
+
+<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 (bastards) are not automatically Arkian.</p>
+`				,
+			},
+			benefits: {
+				title: 'The Benefits of Becoming Arkian',
+				content: `\
+<p>The obvious benefit of becoming Arkian is that your descendants have a chance of escaping genetic decay.  Given the current dysgenic culture, you can be sure that your descendants will be worthless morons if they remain in the general gene pool.  The only way to avoid this is to join a separate gene pool like Anabaptists, Jews, or Arkians.</p>
+
+<p>The other benefit of being Arkian is as a means of finding other reasonable people.  Arkians should be much better than the general population, so they should be easier to get along with for reasonable people.</p>
+`				,
+			},
+			prospects: {
+				title: 'Prospects of Success',
+				content: `\
+<p>If someone had offered to help Noah build the ark to be allowed on, I doubt Noah would have turned him down.  But of course this didn't happen because all of humanity was worthless.  Is this the situation today?  This Arkian project will answer this question.</p>
+
+<p>It is true that there are alternatives to the Arkian option, namely joining the Anabaptists or Jews.  But these are not suitable options for most people because most people simply wouldn't fit in with these groups.  The Arkian option can work for any good person who wants to escape the coming flood of human stupidity and evil.  But are there any good people left?  I don't know the answer to this question, but I have created this website to find out.</p>
+
+<p>If there are no good people left in this world (outside of Anabaptists and Jews) then this Arkian project will work in exactly the same way as Noah's Ark did.  My children are Arkian and I can write my will to only give my wealth to them if they marry Arkians.  This would be the equivalent of Genesis 6:18 "you will enter the ark with your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives".  Of course I hope that there are still good people left in this world, but given my recent experiences with people I am not going to count on it.</p>
+
+<p>Of course I wrote this in the hope that there are good people left who will become Arkian.  Feel free to ask questions in one of our <a href="/discussion.html">discussions</a>.</p>
+`				,
+			},
+		},
+	},
+};
+		</script>
+	</head>
+	<body>
+		<script> header() </script>
+		<div content>
+			<h1><a href="about.html">Arkians - A Eugenic Intentional Ethnicity (old)</a></h1>
+			<hr>
+			<h2>Contents</h2>
+			<div toc>
+			<script> showToc(content) </script>
+			</div>
+			<hr>
+			<script> showContent(content,2) </script>
+		</div>
+	</body>
+</html>
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+<!doctype html>
+<html lang="en">
+	<head>
+		<script src="/site.js"></script>
+		<script> head() </script>
+		<title>Arkian - Discussion</title>
+	</head>
+	<body>
+		<script> header() </script>
+		<div content>
+			<h1>Discussion</h1>
+			<ul links>
+				<li><a href="https://mikraite.arkian.net/">Mikraite Forum</a></li>
+				<li>Email: <a href="mailto:fschmidt@gmail.com">fschmidt@gmail.com</a></li>
+			</ul>
+		</div>
+	</body>
+</html>
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+<!doctype html>
+<html lang="en">
+	<head>
+		<script src="/site.js"></script>
+		<script> head() </script>
+		<title>Arkian - Go Resources</title>
+	</head>
+	<body>
+		<script> header() </script>
+		<div content>
+			<h1>Go Resources</h1>
+			<h3>About Go</h3>
+			<ul>
+				<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(game)">Go on Wikipedia</a></li>
+				<li><a href="https://youtu.be/RRBjN8empIs">Entertaining video about Go</a></li>
+				<li><a href="https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Go/Why_should_I_learn_to_play_Go%3F">Why should I learn to play Go?</a></li>
+				<li><a href="http://go.arkian.net/">Milt's Go Page</a></li>
+				<li><a href="http://go.arkian.net/agf.html">The American Go Foundation</a></li>
+			</ul>
+			<h3>Play Go</h3>
+			<ul>
+				<li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Yellow-Mountain-Imports-Playing-Beechwood/dp/B001KK6O18">Go 9x9 board</a></li>
+				<li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Yellow-Mountain-Imports-Etched-Bamboo/dp/B00J7GMIS0">Go 19x19 / 13x13 board</a></li>
+				<li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Yellow-Mountain-Imports-Melamine-Millimeters/dp/B0019HDXNO">Go stones</a></li>
+				<li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0394733312/">Go book</a></li>
+				<li><a href="https://www.remi-coulom.fr/CrazyStone/">Go app</a></li>
+				<li><a href="https://www.cosumi.net/en/">Go website</a></li>
+			</ul>
+		</div>
+	</body>
+</html>
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+<!doctype html>
+<html lang="en">
+	<head>
+		<script src="/site.js"></script>
+		<script> head() </script>
+		<title>Arkian</title>
+		<style>
+			h1 {
+				margin-bottom: 0;
+			}
+			h3 {
+				margin-top: 8px;
+			}
+		</style>
+	</head>
+	<body>
+		<script> header() </script>
+		<div content>
+			<h1>Arkian</h1>
+			<h3>A Eugenic Intentional Ethnicity</h3>
+			<ul links>
+				<li><a href="/about.html">About</a></li>
+				<li><a href="/requirements.html">Membership Requirements</a></li>
+				<li><a href="/discussion.html">Discussion</a></li>
+			</ul>
+		</div>
+	</body>
+</html>
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+local Hosted = require "luan:host/Hosted.luan"
+
+Hosted.set_https and Hosted.set_https(true)
+
+return true
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+'use strict';
+
+let allQuestions = [
+	{
+		"q": "The Old Testament was written in what language?",
+		"a": [
+			"Hebrew",
+			"Dutch",
+			"Middle English",
+			"Coptic"
+		]
+	},
+	{
+		"q": "On which day of creation in the book of Genesis did God create man?",
+		"a": [
+			"The sixth day",
+			"The first day",
+			"The 12th day",
+			"The fifth day"
+		]
+	},
+	{
+		"q": "In which Bible book can you find this verse: \"Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth\"?",
+		"a": [
+			"Genesis",
+			"Nehemiah",
+			"Joshua",
+			"Revelation"
+		]
+	},
+	{
+		"q": "What is the first thing that God said to people?",
+		"a": [
+			"Be fruitful and multiply",
+			"Fear Yehovah your God",
+			"Love Yehovah your God with all your heart",
+			"You are free to eat from any tree of the garden, but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil"
+		]
+	},
+	{
+		"q": "On what day did God rest during creation?",
+		"a": [
+			"The seventh day",
+			"The first day",
+			"God never rested.",
+			"The 12th day"
+		]
+	},
+	{
+		"q": "From which part of Adam's body did God create Eve?",
+		"a": [
+			"Adam's rib",
+			"Adam's thumb",
+			"Adam's shoulder",
+			"Adam's forearm"
+		]
+	},
+	{
+		"q": "Why did Adam eat the forbidden fruit?",
+		"a": [
+			"Because Eve gave him some",
+			"Because the serpent told him to",
+			"Because he was curious to try it",
+			"Because he was hungry"
+		]
+	},
+	{
+		"q": "What is the name of Abel's brother in the book of Genesis?",
+		"a": [
+			"Cain",
+			"Joseph",
+			"Isaac",
+			"Ham"
+		]
+	},
+	{
+		"q": "What did Cain offer as a sacrifice to God?",
+		"a": [
+			"Crops",
+			"Sheep",
+			"Cheese",
+			"Nothing"
+		]
+	},
+	{
+		"q": "What did Abel offer as a sacrifice to God?",
+		"a": [
+			"Sheep",
+			"Crops",
+			"Cheese",
+			"Nothing"
+		]
+	},
+	{
+		"q": "Why does Cain kill his brother Abel?",
+		"a": [
+			"Because God is more pleased by Abel’s sacrifice than by Cain’s",
+			"Because the serpent tells him to",
+			"Because Abel teases Cain",
+			"Because Adam loves Abel more"
+		]
+	},
+	{
+		"q": "Who was not one of Noah's sons?",
+		"a": [
+			"David",
+			"Shem",
+			"Japheth",
+			"Ham"
+		]
+	},
+	{
+		"q": "Why did God flood the world at the time of Noah?",
+		"a": [
+			"Because the earth was filled with wickedness",
+			"Because people had stopped believing in God",
+			"Because people worshipped other gods",
+			"Because the earth was filled with Nephilim"
+		]
+	},
+	{
+		"q": "In which book can you find the following scripture: \"And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female.\"",
+		"a": [
+			"Genesis",
+			"Lamentations",
+			"John",
+			"Romans"
+		]
+	},
+	{
+		"q": "According to the book of Genesis, in what state did Ham discover Noah?",
+		"a": [
+			"Drunk and naked",
+			"Fearful of his son",
+			"Crying hysterically",
+			"Laughing uncontrollably"
+		]
+	},
+	{
+		"q": "In Genesis, what did God say was the reason that people in Babylon had too much power?",
+		"a": [
+			"They shared one language.",
+			"They were arrogant.",
+			"They were a large empire.",
+			"They worshipped Satan."
+		]
+	},
+	{
+		"q": "What did Abraham do when he went to Egypt to avoid being killed?",
+		"a": [
+			"He told his wife to say that she is his sister.",
+			"He prayed to God.",
+			"He kept out of sight.",
+			"He gave gifts to the Pharaoh."
+		]
+	},
+	{
+		"q": "How did Abraham avoid conflict with Lot?",
+		"a": [
+			"They went their separate ways.",
+			"They agreed to live in peace.",
+			"Abraham asked God to prevent conflict.",
+			"Abraham married Lot's sister."
+		]
+	},
+	{
+		"q": "Who was the mother of Abraham's first son?",
+		"a": [
+			"Hagar",
+			"Sarah",
+			"Rebekah",
+			"Rachel"
+		]
+	},
+	{
+		"q": "What is the name of Abraham's first son?",
+		"a": [
+			"Ishmael",
+			"Isaac",
+			"Moses",
+			"Ham"
+		]
+	},
+	{
+		"q": "What did God's covenant with Abraham require of him and his descendants?",
+		"a": [
+			"Circumcision",
+			"Keeping the Sabbath",
+			"Remaining faithful to God",
+			"Keeping the Ten Commandments"
+		]
+	},
+	{
+		"q": "What did Abraham do when God warned him about Sodom and Gomorrah?",
+		"a": [
+			"Abraham questioned God.",
+			"Abraham was silent.",
+			"Abraham prayed for the people of Sodom and Gomorrah.",
+			"Abraham warned Lot."
+		]
+	},
+	{
+		"q": "What did the angels tell Lot to do in Sodom?",
+		"a": [
+			"Leave",
+			"Pray",
+			"Warn the people",
+			"Love his neighbors"
+		]
+	},
+	{
+		"q": "What reason did the angels give Lot for planning to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah?",
+		"a": [
+			"Because the outcry against its people was so great",
+			"Because they had homosexuality",
+			"Because they worshipped idols",
+			"Because they insulted God"
+		]
+	},
+	{
+		"q": "How did God destroy Sodom and Gomorrah?",
+		"a": [
+			"With brimstone and fire",
+			"With a torrential downpour",
+			"With a swarm of locusts",
+			"With an earthquake"
+		]
+	},
+	{
+		"q": "Why did Lot's wife become a pillar of salt?",
+		"a": [
+			"Because she looked back at Sodom",
+			"Because she didn't leave Sodom",
+			"Because she worshipped idols",
+			"Because she insulted God"
+		]
+	},
+	{
+		"q": "Which book of the Bible tells the story of Lot's wife?",
+		"a": [
+			"Genesis",
+			"Titus",
+			"Lot",
+			"Ruth"
+		]
+	},
+	{
+		"q": "Who was the father of Lot's daughter's child?",
+		"a": [
+			"Lot",
+			"Her husband",
+			"A man from the local village",
+			"Abraham"
+		]
+	},
+	{
+		"q": "Which of the following is not a sign of God’s covenant, or promise, with Abraham?",
+		"a": [
+			"God destroying the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah",
+			"The rite of circumcision",
+			"God renaming Abraham and his wife Sarah",
+			"God providing Sarah with a son, Isaac"
+		]
+	},
+	{
+		"q": "Why did Hagar leave Abraham?",
+		"a": [
+			"Because Sarah asked Abraham to make her leave",
+			"Because Sarah threatened Hagar",
+			"Because Hagar wanted to return to her people",
+			"Because God commanded Hagar to leave"
+		]
+	},
+	{
+		"q": "God instructed Abraham to sacrifice what?",
+		"a": [
+			"His son, Isaac",
+			"His wife, Sarah",
+			"A serpent",
+			"His concubine, Hagar"
+		]
+	},
+	{
+		"q": "Who was Isaac's wife?",
+		"a": [
+			"Rebekah",
+			"Sarah",
+			"Rachel",
+			"Leah"
+		]
+	},
+	{
+		"q": "How did Isaac find his wife?",
+		"a": [
+			"Abraham sent his servant to find her",
+			"Isaac went to Abraham's family to find her",
+			"Abraham arranged the marriage",
+			"Isaac found her among the local people"
+		]
+	},
+	{
+		"q": "Who was Jacob's father?",
+		"a": [
+			"Isaac",
+			"Abraham",
+			"Noah",
+			"Joseph"
+		]
+	},
+	{
+		"q": "Who was Isaac's first son?",
+		"a": [
+			"Esau",
+			"Jacob",
+			"Joseph",
+			"Abraham"
+		]
+	},
+	{
+		"q": "What happened to Esau's birthright?",
+		"a": [
+			"He sold it for food",
+			"He kept it.",
+			"He gave it away.",
+			"He was forced to sell it."
+		]
+	},
+	{
+		"q": "How does Jacob steal his brother Esau’s inheritance rights?",
+		"a": [
+			"By tricking his father with the help of his mother",
+			"By killing his brother",
+			"By sleeping with his mother",
+			"By exposing Esau’s plan to murder his father"
+		]
+	},
+	{
+		"q": "Who was Jacob's first wife?",
+		"a": [
+			"Leah",
+			"Rachel",
+			"Rebekah",
+			"Sarah"
+		]
+	},
+	{
+		"q": "How many wives did Jacob have?",
+		"a": [
+			"2",
+			"1",
+			"3",
+			"4"
+		]
+	},
+	{
+		"q": "Who was Jacob's father-in-law?",
+		"a": [
+			"Laban",
+			"Noah",
+			"Moses",
+			"Isaac"
+		]
+	},
+	{
+		"q": "What is Jacob’s alternate name?",
+		"a": [
+			"Israel",
+			"Judah",
+			"Isaac",
+			"Ishmael"
+		]
+	},
+	{
+		"q": "What happened when Dinah was defiled?",
+		"a": [
+			"Her brothers slaughtered the men of the town of the defiler.",
+			"God punished the defiler.",
+			"The defiler was punished by his own community.",
+			"The defiler was forced to marry Dinah."
+		]
+	},
+	{
+		"q": "How many sons does Jacob have?",
+		"a": [
+			"Twelve",
+			"Three",
+			"Four",
+			"Ten"
+		]
+	},
+	{
+		"q": "Why did Joseph leave his family?",
+		"a": [
+			"Because his brothers sold him into slavery",
+			"Because he left looking for a wife",
+			"Because there was famine where he lived",
+			"Because God instructed him to leave"
+		]
+	},
+	{
+		"q": "Who was the father of Tamar's (Judah's daugher-in-law's) children?",
+		"a": [
+			"Judah",
+			"Her husband",
+			"Her brother-in-law",
+			"Joseph"
+		]
+	},
+	{
+		"q": "Where did Joseph go when he left his family?",
+		"a": [
+			"Egypt",
+			"Israel",
+			"Babylon",
+			"Ur"
+		]
+	},
+	{
+		"q": "Why did Joseph leave Potiphar's house?",
+		"a": [
+			"Because he was sent to prison",
+			"Because the Pharaoh hired him",
+			"Because he escaped from servitude",
+			"Because he had a dream which warned him to leave"
+		]
+	},
+	{
+		"q": "How did Joseph become an administrator under Pharaoh?",
+		"a": [
+			"By interpreting his dreams",
+			"By performing miracles",
+			"Because God told Pharaoh to select him",
+			"By being recommended by Pharaoh's advisors"
+		]
+	},
+	{
+		"q": "What did Joseph do as administrator of Egypt?",
+		"a": [
+			"Gather and store food",
+			"Increase the rights of the Egyptians",
+			"Promote worship of God",
+			"Free the slaves"
+		]
+	},
+	{
+		"q": "From which catastrophe does Joseph save Egypt?",
+		"a": [
+			"Famine",
+			"A plague",
+			"Military invasion",
+			"A flood"
+		]
+	},
+	{
+		"q": "Why did Joseph's brothers go to Egypt?",
+		"a": [
+			"To buy food",
+			"To visit Joseph",
+			"Because the Pharaoh invited them",
+			"Because they were captured by the Egyptians"
+		]
+	},
+	{
+		"q": "What happened when Joseph's brothers first met Joseph in Egypt?",
+		"a": [
+			"Joseph recognized them but they didn't recognize him.",
+			"They were glad to be together again.",
+			"They didn't recognize each other.",
+			"They thanked God for being reunited."
+		]
+	},
+	{
+		"q": "What did Joseph do when the Egyptians ran out of food?",
+		"a": [
+			"Made them sell their land and themselves into slavery",
+			"Gave them the food he had saved as charity",
+			"Let them starve because of their lack of foresight",
+			"Made them pledge allegiance to the Pharaoh in exchange for food"
+		]
+	},
+	{
+		"q": "How many tribes of Israel does the Old Testament mention?",
+		"a": [
+			"12",
+			"35",
+			"66",
+			"Three"
+		]
+	},
+	{
+		"q": "Where did Pharaoh's daughter discover baby Moses?",
+		"a": [
+			"In an ark of bulrushes",
+			"Up in a tree",
+			"Hidden among rocks",
+			"Protected by wolves"
+		]
+	},
+	{
+		"q": "Why did Moses first leave Egypt?",
+		"a": [
+			"Because he was wanted for murder",
+			"Because God commanded Moses to leave",
+			"Because Pharaoh felt threatened by Moses",
+			"Because the Hebrews were persecuted in Egypt"
+		]
+	},
+	{
+		"q": "Who was Moses's first wife?",
+		"a": [
+			"A Midianite",
+			"A Levite",
+			"An Egyptian",
+			"A Hebrew"
+		]
+	},
+	{
+		"q": "How does God first appear to Moses?",
+		"a": [
+			"As a burning bush",
+			"As a group of three men",
+			"As an angel",
+			"As a flaming sword"
+		]
+	},
+	{
+		"q": "What object that God gives Moses allows him to perform signs and wonders?",
+		"a": [
+			"A wooden staff",
+			"The stone tablets",
+			"A colorful robe",
+			"A golden censer"
+		]
+	},
+	{
+		"q": "According to the book of Exodus, when Moses and Aaron went unto Pharaoh, Aaron cast down his rod which turned into what?",
+		"a": [
+			"A Serpent",
+			"A Bible",
+			"Dust",
+			"A pillar of salt"
+		]
+	},
+	{
+		"q": "What was the last plague on Egypt before the Israelites left?",
+		"a": [
+			"Death of firstborn males",
+			"Plague of locusts",
+			"Hail",
+			"Water turned to blood"
+		]
+	},
+	{
+		"q": "What did the Israelites in Egypt do to be passed over (unharmed) in the last plague?",
+		"a": [
+			"Put animal blood on their doorposts",
+			"Notify Moses that they should be passed over",
+			"Pray that they are not affected",
+			"Leave their homes before the plague"
+		]
+	},
+	{
+		"q": "Which holiday commemorates the Israelites leaving Egypt?",
+		"a": [
+			"Passover",
+			"Yom Kippur",
+			"Purim",
+			"Hanukkah"
+		]
+	},
+	{
+		"q": "What is prohibited during Passover?",
+		"a": [
+			"Eating leavened bread",
+			"Travel",
+			"Eating meat",
+			"Drinking alcohol"
+		]
+	},
+	{
+		"q": "What body of water did Moses part so that the children of Israel could escape the Egyptians?",
+		"a": [
+			"The Red Sea",
+			"The Arctic Ocean",
+			"The Sea of Galilee",
+			"The Indian Ocean"
+		]
+	},
+	{
+		"q": "What happened to the Egyptian forces that pursued the Israelites when they left Egypt?",
+		"a": [
+			"They drowned.",
+			"They had to stop because the water blocked them.",
+			"They couldn't catch up to the Israelites, so they turned back.",
+			"They stopped when God warned them to stop."
+		]
+	},
+	{
+		"q": "How does God feed the Israelites in the desert?",
+		"a": [
+			"By a strange bread-like substance from heaven",
+			"By miraculously providing fish from the Red Sea",
+			"By food produced from Moses’s staff",
+			"By an endless supply of produce from Egypt"
+		]
+	},
+	{
+		"q": "What is the name of the place where Moses received the Ten Commandments from God?",
+		"a": [
+			"Mount Sinai",
+			"Mount Moriah",
+			"Mount Everest",
+			"Mount Fuji"
+		]
+	},
+	{
+		"q": "Which of these is not one of the Ten Commandments?",
+		"a": [
+			"Do not question God.",
+			"Do not worship other gods.",
+			"Do not worship idols.",
+			"Do not misuse God's name."
+		]
+	},
+	{
+		"q": "Which of these is not one of the Ten Commandments?",
+		"a": [
+			"Do not hate your neighbor.",
+			"Do not murder.",
+			"Do not commit adultery.",
+			"Do not steal."
+		]
+	},
+	{
+		"q": "According to the Old Testament, when is the Sabbath?",
+		"a": [
+			"On the seventh day",
+			"On the first day",
+			"On Saturday",
+			"On Sunday"
+		]
+	},
+	{
+		"q": "What is the Old Testament rule about lending money?",
+		"a": [
+			"You cannot charge interest to another Israelite.",
+			"You cannot charge interest to anyone.",
+			"You cannot charge unreasonable interest.",
+			"You cannot charge interest to the poor."
+		]
+	},
+	{
+		"q": "What were the Israelites required to do with the Canaanites in Israel?",
+		"a": [
+			"Drive them out",
+			"Tolerate them as long as they did no harm",
+			"Convert them to believe in God",
+			"Make them slaves"
+		]
+	},
+	{
+		"q": "What did the Israelites do while Moses went up Mount Sinai to get the inscribed tablets with the Ten Commandments?",
+		"a": [
+			"Aaron made a golden calf and the Israelites worshipped it.",
+			"They waited patiently and prayed for Moses's safe return.",
+			"They suggested making a golden calf but Aaron stopped them.",
+			"The Israelites made a golden calf in spite of Aaron's objections."
+		]
+	},
+	{
+		"q": "Why does Moses break the stone tablets inscribed with God’s commandments at Mount Sinai?",
+		"a": [
+			"Because the people are worshipping a golden idol",
+			"Because he trips walking down the mountain",
+			"Because God commands him to",
+			"Because Moses refuses to lead the people any longer"
+		]
+	},
+	{
+		"q": "What did Moses do after discovering that the Israelites worshipped a golden calf?",
+		"a": [
+			"Had those on the side of God slaughter the rest",
+			"Forced everyone to repent",
+			"Prayed for the salvation of the Israelites",
+			"Forgave the Israelites for what they had done"
+		]
+	},
+	{
+		"q": "What is not explicitly prohibited to eat in the Old Testament?",
+		"a": [
+			"Meat and dairy together",
+			"Pork",
+			"Shellfish",
+			"Dog meat"
+		]
+	},
+	{
+		"q": "What is not prohibited in the Old Testament",
+		"a": [
+			"Prostitution",
+			"Tattoos",
+			"Divination",
+			"Eating food with blood in it"
+		]
+	},
+	{
+		"q": "What wive(s) did Moses have?",
+		"a": [
+			"2 non-Hebrew wives",
+			"2 Hebrew wives",
+			"1 Hebrew wife and 1 non-Hebrew wife",
+			"1 Hebrew wife"
+		]
+	},
+	{
+		"q": "Why does God curse the Israelites to wander the desert for forty years before entering the promised land?",
+		"a": [
+			"Because a group of Israelite spies incites an uprising to return to Egypt",
+			"Because the Israelites incorrectly perform the ritual sacrifice",
+			"Because the Israelites vote down Moses as their leader",
+			"Because the Israelites worship golden idols"
+		]
+	},
+	{
+		"q": "What happened when the daughters of Zelophehad complained about Moses's inheritance law?",
+		"a": [
+			"Moses changed the law.",
+			"Moses explained to them why they are wrong.",
+			"Moses made an exception in their case.",
+			"God changed their heart to accept the law."
+		]
+	},
+	{
+		"q": "What did Moses say to the Israelites when they killed all the Midianite men and captured the Midianite women and children?",
+		"a": [
+			"Kill all the boys and the non-virgin women.",
+			"You should have spared the civilians.",
+			"You did the right thing.",
+			"Pray to God to forgive this slaughter."
+		]
+	},
+	{
+		"q": "Which tribe of Israel was a tribe of priests in the Old Testament?",
+		"a": [
+			"Levi",
+			"Gad",
+			"Philippians",
+			"Benjamin"
+		]
+	},
+	{
+		"q": "What do Moses and Joshua forbid the Israelites to do in the promised land?",
+		"a": [
+			"Intermarry with the native inhabitants",
+			"Conquer the cities of the region",
+			"Divide the land amongst the twelve tribes",
+			"Bathe in the Jordan River"
+		]
+	},
+	{
+		"q": "Which of these is not described as punishable by death in the Old Testament?",
+		"a": [
+			"A married man having sex outside of marriage.",
+			"A married woman having sex outside of marriage.",
+			"A man having sex with a woman engaged to another man.",
+			"A woman misrepresenting her virginity before marriage."
+		]
+	},
+	{
+		"q": "What reward does Moses say God will give for following God's commandments?",
+		"a": [
+			"Earthly success",
+			"Salvation",
+			"Going to heaven",
+			"No reward without faith"
+		]
+	},
+	{
+		"q": "Who did Moses appoint to take over after him?",
+		"a": [
+			"Joshua",
+			"Isaiah",
+			"Jeremiah",
+			"Jacob"
+		]
+	},
+	{
+		"q": "What did Joshua do?",
+		"a": [
+			"Conquer the land of Israel",
+			"Build the temple in Jerusalem",
+			"Lead the people out of Egypt",
+			"Defend Israel against Babylon"
+		]
+	},
+	{
+		"q": "What was Samson's gift?",
+		"a": [
+			"Physical strength",
+			"Wisdom",
+			"God's guidance",
+			"Charisma"
+		]
+	},
+	{
+		"q": "What is not true about Ruth?",
+		"a": [
+			"Ruth was converted by priests.",
+			"Ruth was a Moabite.",
+			"David is a descendant of Ruth.",
+			"Ruth immigrated to Israel."
+		]
+	},
+	{
+		"q": "Who was the first king of Israel?",
+		"a": [
+			"Saul",
+			"Samuel",
+			"David",
+			"Solomon"
+		]
+	},
+	{
+		"q": "What weapon did David use to defeat Goliath?",
+		"a": [
+			"A sling and a stone",
+			"A gun",
+			"A knife",
+			"A saw"
+		]
+	},
+	{
+		"q": "Why does the prophet Nathan rebuke David?",
+		"a": [
+			"David commits adultery with Bathsheba.",
+			"David fails to build the Temple to God.",
+			"David curses God inadvertently.",
+			"David allows one of his sons to rape his stepsister."
+		]
+	},
+	{
+		"q": "Who was King Solomon's father?",
+		"a": [
+			"David",
+			"Saul",
+			"Moses",
+			"Samuel"
+		]
+	},
+	{
+		"q": "What does King Solomon do in Israel?",
+		"a": [
+			"He builds a grand temple in Jerusalem.",
+			"He introduces animal sacrifices.",
+			"He bans the cult of Baal worship in Israel.",
+			"He forms a legendary round table of leaders and priests."
+		]
+	},
+	{
+		"q": "What did Ezra do?",
+		"a": [
+			"Send away the foreign wives",
+			"Rebuild the walls of Jerusalem",
+			"Build the grand temple in Jerusalem",
+			"Lead the people out of Egypt"
+		]
+	},
+	{
+		"q": "What did Nehemiah do?",
+		"a": [
+			"Rebuild the walls of Jerusalem",
+			"Send away the foreign wives",
+			"Build the grand temple in Jerusalem",
+			"Lead the people out of Egypt"
+		]
+	},
+	{
+		"q": "Esther was queen of what country?",
+		"a": [
+			"Persia",
+			"Egypt",
+			"Israel",
+			"Babylon"
+		]
+	},
+	{
+		"q": "What does Ecclesiastes not say about death?",
+		"a": [
+			"God judges people after death.",
+			"The dead return to dust.",
+			"The fate of people and animals in death is the same.",
+			"We don't know if the spirit of people go to heaven."
+		]
+	},
+	{
+		"q": "Who was thrown into the lion's den?",
+		"a": [
+			"Daniel",
+			"Noah",
+			"Jeremiah",
+			"Jonah"
+		]
+	},
+	{
+		"q": "The animal that swallowed Jonah whole in the book of Jonah is described as what?",
+		"a": [
+			"A great fish",
+			"A roaring lion",
+			"A little mouse",
+			"A soaring sparrow"
+		]
+	}
+]
diff -r 000000000000 -r 45a3989c3447 src/requirements.html
--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
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+<!doctype html>
+<html lang="en">
+	<head>
+		<script src="/site.js"></script>
+		<script> head() </script>
+		<title>Arkian - Membership Requirements</title>
+	</head>
+	<body>
+		<script> header() </script>
+		<div content>
+			<h1>Membership Requirements</h1>
+			<p>These are the requirements to be Arkian.</p>
+			<p>
+				Either:
+				<ul>
+					<li>Pass a test on scripture.  We currently only have an <a href="/test.html">Old Testament test</a>.  We plan to add a full Bible test (half OT and half NT) and a Quran test.  To pass, you must get all questions correct.</li>
+					<li>Pass a test on <a href="/go.html">Go</a> skill.  The test is to beat <a href="https://www.remi-coulom.fr/CrazyStone/">this app</a> with board size 9X9 with komi 5.5 at level 14k using either color.</li>
+				</ul>
+				Or:
+				<ul>
+					<li>Be born from an Arkian couple.  Both parents should be Arkian and should be married to each other at the time of birth.  Marriage just means that the parents publicly consider themselves married to each other, legal status is irrelevant.</li>
+				</ul>
+			</p>
+			<p>You can take the tests multiple times until you pass.</p>
+		</div>
+	</body>
+</html>
diff -r 000000000000 -r 45a3989c3447 src/site.css
--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/src/site.css	Thu Sep 11 15:26:39 2025 -0600
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+* {
+ 	box-sizing: border-box;
+}
+
+body {
+	font-family: Sans-Serif;
+	margin: 0;
+}
+
+a {
+	text-decoration: none;
+}
+a:hover {
+	text-decoration: underline;
+}
+
+div[header] {
+	font-size: 14px;
+	background-color: #ddd;
+	padding: 8px 3%;
+	display: flex;
+	justify-content: space-between;
+}
+
+[content] {
+	margin-left: 3%;
+	margin-right: 3%;
+	margin-bottom: 2em;
+}
+
+ul[links] {
+	margin-top: 32px;
+	list-style-type: none;
+	padding-left: 0;
+}
+ul[links] li {
+	margin: 12px 0;
+}
+
+input[type="radio"], 
+input[type="submit"],
+[clickable] {
+	cursor: pointer;
+}
+
+
+div[toc] ul {
+	list-style-type: none;
+}
+div[toc] > ul {
+	padding-left: 0;
+}
+div[toc] > ul > li {
+	margin-bottom: 16px;
+}
+div[heading] {
+	display: flex;
+	justify-content: space-between;
+	margin-top: 36px;
+}
+div[heading] > * {
+	margin: 0;
+}
+div[heading] > a {
+	font-size: 14px;
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diff -r 000000000000 -r 45a3989c3447 src/site.js
--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/src/site.js	Thu Sep 11 15:26:39 2025 -0600
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+'use strict';
+
+function head() {
+	document.write(`\
+		<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
+		<style>
+			@import "/site.css";
+		</style>
+`	);
+}
+
+function header() {
+	document.write(`\
+		<div header>
+			<span breadcrumbs>
+				<a href="/">Arkian</a>
+			</span>
+			<span>by <a href="https://linkmy.style/fschmidt">fschmidt</a></span>
+		</div>
+`	);
+}
+
+function showToc(content) {
+	document.writeln('<ul>');
+	for( let id in content ) {
+		let info = content[id];
+		document.writeln(`<li><a id="c_${id}" href="#${id}">${info.title}</a>`);
+		let subs = info.subs;
+		if( subs ) {
+			showToc(subs);
+		}
+		document.writeln('</li>');
+	}
+	document.writeln('</ul>');
+}
+
+function showContent(content,h) {
+	for( let id in content ) {
+		let info = content[id];
+		document.write(`\
+			<div heading>
+				<h${h}><a id="${id}" href="#${id}">${info.title}</a></h${h}>
+				<a href="#c_${id}">contents</a>
+			</div>
+`		);
+		if( info.content )
+			document.write(info.content);
+		let subs = info.subs;
+		if( subs ) {
+			showContent(subs,h+1)
+		}
+	}
+}
diff -r 000000000000 -r 45a3989c3447 src/test.html
--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/src/test.html	Thu Sep 11 15:26:39 2025 -0600
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+<!doctype html>
+<html lang="en">
+	<head>
+		<script src="/site.js"></script>
+		<script src="/ot.js"></script>
+		<script src="/test.js"></script>
+		<script> head() </script>
+		<title>Arkian - Old Testament Test</title>
+		<style>
+			h4 {
+				margin-bottom: 8px;
+			}
+			span[correct]:before {
+				content: "✓";
+				color: green;
+			}
+			span[wrong]:before {
+				content: "x";
+				color: red;
+			}
+		</style>
+	</head>
+	<body>
+		<script> header() </script>
+		<form content action="javascript:checkTest()">
+			<h1>Old Testament Test</h1>
+			<script>
+	for( let p of questions ) {
+		document.write(`\
+			<div q="${p.i}">
+				<h4>${p.q}</h4>
+`		);
+		for( let j=0; j<p.a.length; j++ ) {
+			a = p.a[j];
+			a = htmlEncode(a);
+			document.write(`\
+				<label clickable><input type=radio required name="a${p.i}" value="${a}"> ${a}</label><br>
+`			);
+		}
+		document.write(`\
+			</div>
+`		);
+	}
+			</script>
+			<div end>
+				<p><input type=submit></p>
+			</div>
+		</form>
+	</body>
+</html>
diff -r 000000000000 -r 45a3989c3447 src/test.js
--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/src/test.js	Thu Sep 11 15:26:39 2025 -0600
@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+// must load ot.js first
+
+'use strict';
+
+let nQuestions = 10;
+
+for( let i=0; i<allQuestions.length; i++ ) {
+	allQuestions[i].i = i;
+}
+
+console.log(`using ${nQuestions} out of ${allQuestions.length} questions`)
+
+
+function remove(a,i) {
+	return a.splice(i,1)[0];
+}
+
+function removeRandom(a) {
+	let i = Math.floor( Math.random() * a.length );
+	return remove(a,i);
+}
+
+let questions = [];
+let allQuestions2 = JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(allQuestions));
+for( let i=0; i<nQuestions; i++ ) {
+	let p = removeRandom(allQuestions2);
+	let a = [];
+	while( p.a.length > 0 ) {
+		a.push( removeRandom(p.a) );
+	}
+	p.a = a;
+	questions.push(p);
+}
+
+let encoder = document.createElement('span');
+
+function htmlEncode(s) {
+	encoder.textContent = s;
+	return encoder.innerHTML;
+}
+
+function checkTest() {
+	let divs = document.querySelectorAll('div[q]');
+	let nCorrect = 0;
+	for( let div of divs ) {
+		let answer = allQuestions[div.getAttribute('q')].a[0];
+		let selected = div.querySelector('input[type=radio]:checked');
+		if( selected.value === answer ) {
+			selected.parentNode.insertAdjacentHTML( 'afterend', ' <span correct></span>' );
+			nCorrect++;
+		} else {
+			selected.parentNode.insertAdjacentHTML( 'afterend', ' <span wrong></span>' );
+			let correct = div.querySelector(`input[type=radio][value="${htmlEncode(answer)}"]`);
+			correct.parentNode.insertAdjacentHTML( 'afterend', ' <span correct></span>' );
+		}
+	}
+	document.querySelector('div[end]').innerHTML = `\
+		<p>${nCorrect} of ${divs.length} correct</p>
+		<p><a href="/test.html">Try again</a></p>
+`	;
+}