That is Orange in pop songs. You are talking about Western party sub-culture, which is Orange.
Vegas, Miami, NYC, LA nightlife. This is all highly Orange and then they sing songs about it and for it.
Pop songs are by Orange for Orange. Rap is by Red for Red and Orange who thinks Red is edgy and cool.

Yup. Life is unfair.

That is technically true.
You can do a lot of evil with no discipline. But you can do even more evil with some discipline in the right areas.

This is explained by discipline and evil coming in many degrees and domains.
For example, Trump is disciplined to a certain sense that he shows up every day, he isn't sitting at home smoking weed and jerking off to porn. But Trump is very undisciplined epistemically, intellectually, morally, health-wise, verbally, spiritually, sexually, financially, etc.
There are many different lines and domains of discipline. You can be disciplined in taking cold showers every day and epistemically undisciplined in spreading conspiracy theories every day.
Discipline cannot be viewed as a single axis. That is why my original quote mentioned four key areas of discipline that people suck at that leads to evil.
Yes, Hitler was disciplined, but not in those 4 key areas. Hence the evil.

The thing that surpised me about this story the most is that anyone would want to sleep with Ethan. He is so shabby looking.

Most people on the right are just racists.
It ain't that complicated.

@James123 You are God but you love to keep denying it.

Immigration needs to have stronger expectations for assimilation into the national culture. And better systems to fasciliate that.
Immigration without assimilation is a problem, yes.

No, they are racists.

That's a good start. It won't be enough, but a good start.
You need to really appreciate the seriousness of your goal.

This exercise was only for forgiving people who hurt you. It was not an exercise to removal all possible childhood trauma. That would be a much bigger project.

@Hello1 you seem to be doing all the right things.
How was your relationship with your parents? Many times we repeat in our romantic relationships the traumas we inherited from childhood.

Being conservative is all about survival.
Kids are survival.

If by sorcery you mean bullshit, then yes.

Yes, bullshit.

Best to avoid sexual humor with women. It comes off creepy and makes her feel you only want to use her for sex.
Stop trying to talk about sex with women. That entire attitude is wrong.
If you have the urge to talk about sex, fix that.
Talking about sex will lose you women.

Kanye is more mentally unhinged than Trump.

@Ramanujan There's no point in being upset with women, they are just surviving, like you. You have needs, they have needs. Everyone tries to satisfy one's needs as best as they are able.
The idea that women have it easy is an illusion. Women a have problems you don't even know are problems.

Generally success is more heavily influenced by like persistence, hard work, emotional intelligence, social skills .. 
And there's way harsher problems in life than mediocre IQ
Leo & others have dismissed IQ as culturally biased & perhaps even just wrong, arguing for multiple intelligences theory & different brain types. 
However I'm pretty sure G, (general intelligence) is a solid fact of life. People are normally either good at most things, or bad at most things. 
If your brain generally functions smoothly & process information quickly, then you will probably be good (and a fast learner) in most domains. 
If you have down syndrome, you might be an awsome banjo player or something specific, but generally you will suck at most things in life & not be on the same plane as most others.
You cannot increase IQ & it genetic unless reduced e.g due to stunted development (which I'm pretty sure you can't just undo the damage 20 years later?)
So If I was exposed to toxins & mercury from a young age, and that stunted my brain development, it's unlikely I will be able to get that back. 
Leo claims the ACC ritual boosted his cognition but his cognition was clearly pretty good in the first place & then got worse but his brain had already developed. He was clearly able to think well even with an atrocious diet as a teen & was philospohically inclined. 
My claim is that probably, brain toxin - induced brain damage from a young age, unless treated early on, is unfixable, there is permanent damage or stunting that one must accept because look, if you devoid a plant of sunlight & nutrition or trample on it, it's not gonna miracously recover or reach it's full growth potential later on if you add some healing ritual. 
As for the Productive side of this question : Should I give up on all heavy learning based pursuits & accept that it is not for me?  Why play to my weakness or listen to leo unless it's about dumb stuff like pickup, I am not mentally competent so am I better off doubling down on simple stuff like social intelligence, business, hard work, & giving up more intellectual. 
Apologies, this topic is waffly & slightly anti personal development, I recognize there's more to life than IQ, But I had this fantasy in my head that detoxing myself of toxins would "Raise my IQ back to average intelligence or above "where I was meant to be all along" ", but now I'm trying to avoid dissapointment & considering that probably, I was dealt bad hands genetically or exposed to too much that stunted me as a kid, different to leos situation whereby he developed cognitive decline due to environmental factors but his brain structure had already been formed in a sufficient manner. 
some people born tall handsome & others deformed midgets, so why not like this in cognitive capacities. A midget can never become 6 foot tall yet leo claims intelligence is something you can cultivate. 
 
 

Depends on the reason. Girls will cry for the silliest reasons. Or it can be a serious reason.
Ignore the silly and take the serious seriously.

The one who's sympathy is asked for.
In the context of this thread, the man.
You are welcome to cry all you want by yourself.
But if you want others to take it seriously, that requires a valid reason.
Children are clever little devils who know how to use tears to manipulate and avoid responsibility.

Lexus is a great upper end car. You really don't need anything fancier.
Toyota and Telsa designs are nothing alike. Tesla is minimalist and Toyota has a bunch of busy, cheap, needless lines. Toyota is making some of ugliest cars today.

Religion is God for people with very low IQ.

@Angelite What does that have to do with retreats?
When doing a retreat, be crystal clear about what you're doing and what the parameters are.
Don't be jerking off in your Mom's basement and calling that a retreat. A retreat is when you're meditating/inquiring 24/7. Or in the case of psychedelic retreats it's back to back days of deep tripping.

Sure. I don't deny that. At the lowest level you enjoy torturing others. This is sadism. Sadism is peak selfishness though.