Reddit mentions of On Human Nature: Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition, With a New Preface

I have tried twice to reply, and reddit somehow vaporized the post both times. Hopefully this one will work.

Two things stand out in your comments. 1. You seem exceptionally comfortable in your assumptions, and 2. Your knowledge gaps are huge. I make these observations not condescendingly, but matter of factly.

As mentioned prior, you seem an individual who is comfortable believing what you want to believe -- as opposed to the type of individual willing to pursue truth at all costs, even at the cost of comfort or happiness.

Placing comfort over truth is not necessarily a disastrous life choice; because there is no higher arbiter, happiness is the paramount thing. Many people can (and do) live happily ever after while embracing basic falsehoods as truths. Wisdom is not a prerequisite for happiness; indeed, in some cases it may even be an impediment to it.

With that said, IF you are interested in truth -- and in filling in your knowledge gaps -- I would suggest the following books:

• Misquoting Jesus by Bart Ehrman
  
• On Human Nature by E.O. Wilson (everyone in the world should read this book)
  
• The True Believer by Eric Hoffer
  
  Also, on the subject of hell, you may find this article interesting: http://bible-truths.com/lake5.html
  
  It was written by a committed Xian (as you seem to be), and as I once was many years ago. The bible is like the sweater in Weezer's sweater song; if you yank on any of the loose threads with brutal honesty, and have the doggedness to keep yanking, it is only a matter of time before the sweater comes undone.
  
  As Morpheus offered Neo, one might say that truth is the red pill and comfort is the blue pill. Which you swallow, and where your life goes from here, is up to you. As mentioned, I was a deeply committed Xian myself at one time -- but many years ago I chose the red pill, and many years later I can say I did not regret it.
  
  Good luck on your journey...

I think it is an evolved response. According to attached, this is just an activated attachment system.

On Human Nature

[Pair-Bonding, Romantic Love, and Evolution](http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1745691614561683
Attached

Handbook to Attachment Theory

The Fantasy Bond

Not so much a general psychology book, but I enjoyed this one from one of my forensic psychology courses.
Measure of Madness
http://www.amazon.com/The-Measure-Madness-Disturbed-Disturbing/dp/0806531053

BTW, it you are going to be a psych major understand that you are going to graduate school if you want to make any money in the field.


edit: here is another one that I was supposed to read but never got around to. I hear it is good

On Human Nature
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0674016386/ref=oh_details_o08_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

edit edit: another one that came to mind, good short read

Letters to a Young Therapist
http://www.amazon.com/Letters-Young-Therapist-Art-Mentoring/dp/0465057675/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1374088838&sr=1-1&keywords=letters+to+a+young+therapist

https://www.amazon.com/Human-Nature-new-Preface-Revised/dp/0674016386

https://www.amazon.com/Sociobiology-New-Synthesis-Twenty-Fifth-Anniversary/dp/0674002350

https://www.amazon.com/Blank-Slate-Modern-Denial-Nature/dp/1501264338

https://www.amazon.com/Open-Society-Its-Enemies/dp/0691158134

Here's a start. All these were instrumental in dismantling communist ideology.