Trump doesn't really have a life purpose. His only purpose is to puff up his ego and create illusions of success.

A typical Vegas summer day.
There is a pine forest on a mountaintop 45 mins drive from Vegas where the weather is perfect room temperate in the summer. I go there to hike and hang out. It's perfect.

There are many factors.
Mental illness is a big factor.
Misuse of the mind is a big factor.
Bad childhood and parenting is a big factor.
Bad life choices is a big factor.
Health is a big factor.
Lack of socialization is a big factor.

Nonsense

When I lived in Dallas I would go out from 11pm-1:30am.
My doctor friend in Vegas goes out 11pm-12:30am and only collects phone numbers because he has to work in the mornings.

We have suicidal people on this forum. Plenty of them in the mental health sub-forum. It's sad and I hope they seek out face-to-face help because a forum is not enough to fix that.
I have spoken to some of them and they are very stuck. Unfortunately I don't have the time nor skill to coach every one of them.
I've gone through very difficult health problems so I understand how hopeless and miserable life can get.

Google Kino Escalation Ladder. Read it, then practice it every night you go out. It's easy. You just need balls and practice.

The day you realize EVERYTHING is literally awesome.
You got it

Day13: 
veggie mix, mango, beans, red lentils, tomatoes, coconut milk, brown rice, sardines  

Bernie's radicalness is what makes him authentic, which makes him appealing over everyone else who is just a group-thinking corporate stooge.
Focusing on practical working class issues is exactly what makes you radical. Because the radical is the one who is a real threat to power. And power is business as usual and exploitation as usual.

The trick is to suffer and not care.

Bias. Americans are brainwashed with consumer American culture and live in an American bubble. They don't travel. They aren't educated. They have the same level of development as Trump or Bush so they see him as one of their own.
To be fair, other countries and cultures are also stupid in this way. They all fall for nationalist vibes and strongmen. China, India, Hungary, Russia, France, UK, Italy, Brazil, etc.
Remember those C and D students from high school who were ignorant and lazy and sloppy and didn't even try for excellence? Well, there are 100+ million of them and guess who they will be voting for? They couldn't find China on a map if you gave them a million dollars. These people live like animals. They do not think or develop themsleves, they run on group-think. They haven't sat down to contemplate a damn thing in their lives. They do what church or boss or friends tell them. Friends drink, they drink. Like monkeys. This is your average voter. So what can you expect? They have zero understanding of how government works. All they understand is vibes. Own those gay pedo Libs! That is the level of thinking that we're dealing with.
The #1 predictor of whether you will vote for Trump is simply your education level. The more ignorant you are the more appealing Trump appears.
And if you were highly intelligent you would see that Trump is a dangerous degenerate within 5 minutes of hearing him. But of course, no one wants to admit that they are that ignorant. It's too painful, so instead excuses are made for why Trump seems appealing or reasonable.
But the simple truth is that Trump's entire political movement is pure idiocy and depravity. No better than Hitler's relative to his time.

I won't go so far as to call him a con-artist. I think he genuinely believes in what he's doing. It's just that he lives in one of those tech-bro bubbles with too much money and no deeper values or purpose.

All that means is that he has good genetics.
He didn't create it for himself. In fact, all of his success is built atop that foundation of solid health, which he assumes everyone who follows him also has, but they don't.
You cannot bluster and bullshit your way into good health. You use good health to bluster and bullshit. This is what the entire health industry is built upon: people with great genetics singing about how healthy they are and how you can be like them when in fact you can't unless you got good genetics too.
Taking mushroom supplements and New Age herbs is not going to give you Owen's level of health. He's just fooled himself on that point because he takes his own health for granted.
Just to be able to do pickup consistently requires good health. Because it demands so much energy. All this is taken for granted within the community.
This doesn't mean Owen lying, his worldview just takes certain things for granted because he is not focus on truth, he is focused on selling you a dream of success.

Gym rats gonna gym rat.
Going to the gym to get girls is stupid.

Most adults are just children.

@VictorB02 You gotta learn the lesson that phone numbers don't mean shit. They give them out 30 times a week. You're one of 30 dudes she gave it to.
Girls give you a phone number just to get rid of you.

Everyone knows what a dream is. You have them every night.
Now just expand that notion into a more crystalized dream, which you call your life.
If your night dream was coherent and lasted 80 years you would just call it life.
That's because there is no other, more realer reality.

@OBEler I won't lose it.
And what really matters in that domain is not whether I have it but whether you find it for yourself.

That's for later.
People need help with more human things first. Teaching overly advanced stuff leads people astray.
Alien Consciousnes is not going to do anything for your human life. You will still have all the human shit to deal with.

You don't use text to build rapport. You use it to invite her to a fun social event.
"My friends and I are going out to the club on Friday. Will be much fun. Come with us."

That's the rub.
Hard to get laid when you aren't around humans.
The real solution here is to change your lifestyle to be more social. Rather than trying to drag a girl back to your crypt.

I told you that there are no gaurantees.
You keep wanting them. Then don't take any risk. You will achieve nothing but you will be safe from any failure.
If you are asking such questions then you have already failed at success.

Depends on what you consider to be the function of philosophy. Many people consider it to be the study of ideas of old dead men. So in that case yes.
You can spend the next 2 years reading Hegel and still not understand what his actual view was. Or you can just go to Wikipedia and read about monism and idealism and make more progress in 20 minutes than you did in 2 years.
Again, what is it you actually want out of being a philosopher?

I have said nothing against their truthfulness.
My health does not allow me to use psychedelics any more. But my health situation is pretty unique, so you should not draw too many conclusions from that.