MY biggest breakthrough in life came when I applied Pragmatism to religion and spirituality and to making a living

Before this I was sort of flailing. I had been to college and first studied computer Programming and computer operations. This was okay but it didn't address all the things going on inside of me.

I was ill prepared for the world the way it really was (The fairy tales people told me on every level just were not survivable at least for someone as intelligent as I was).

So, at Palomar College this first breakthrough came when I opened up a Psychology Today magazine and realized just how at war I was with myself.

I realized that unless I applied pragmatism to my life in a whole new way I wasn't going to live to even be 25.

So, I dumped everything that was preventing me from staying alive in a body here on earth.

Many young people then simply died because they were not capable of doing this in the early 1970s like I was. Also, many young people died in Viet Nam, through Drugs, racing cars or you name it.

So, this college breakthrough actually showed me how to engineer my life forward so I might have a chance to live past age 25.

So, by re-parenting myself (yes this is possible) and re-engineering myself for survival (in the world as it is rather than in some fantasy) I was slowly able to move forward to where I was pretty happy in my life by age 30 because I had personally re-engineered my life to actually work for me rather than committing suicide either directly or indirectly. 

So, first Philosophy helped me learn to ask the right questions, then Psychology taught me to dump everything not keeping me alive. Then Anthropology taught me that most people are animals who believe often in Fairy tales to keep their kids and themselves alive.

Then comparative Religion (comparing all religions on earth) taught me that all religions are basically designed to prevent children from running screaming off a cliff the first time their best friend or lover or parent dies.

So, religion is definitely a part of population expansion here on earth towards human extinction.

This was a hard fact to realize too. 

However, this is also true.

So, could one say that religions are not usually pragmatic?

I think it really depends upon how people practice their religions because everyone is different.

However, I don't think there is any useful argument at all regarding how religions create overpopulation and bring about eventually human extinction unless something else happens like Global Climate changes or wars.

So, applying pragmatism at times breaks your heart but in the end it can keep you alive to live and to love another day.

By God's Grace