*Not looking for relationship. Not looking for sex. Just looking for friends.*

I prefer people with open minds and burning convictions. I thrive on intellectual stimulation and debate, always seeking new things to inspire growth. I look for knowledge and find it in challenge.

It would be excellent to find a mind similarly aspected, also with a philosophical bent. Plato's 'The Republic', 'Nicomachean Ethics' by Aristotle, with a healthy dose of that Le Bon guy's 'The Crowd'. Also, if you can find strong symmetry between Rumi, Frank O'Hara, and Louis CK, you and I will get along famously.

My sense of justice and politics are important to me, but I'm not the zealous firebrand I used to be. I probably identify best as a democratic socialist libertarian eco-feminist wookie love muffin. I lean Left quite hard on most things, but I've found it more important in the past few years to pull myself into understanding and companionship with people who hold perspectives opposite mine. Since I finally broke down and bought a new pair of glasses, I very much prefer doddering around the old dusty rooms and dark corners of the mind (any mind), and happily sharing that space and a coffee with any other brain that's as interested in poking bears as I am.

I'm quite a relaxed person, but I do not believe in going with the flow. "Going with the flow" all the time only ensures that your life will be dictated by the world around you. So, even if relaxed, whatever your path, be conscious and proactive about it!

If just seeing me on a typical day, what I am is a simple man with a big mind. I enjoy a relatively geeky lifestyle: comics, video games, mathematics for fun, etc. I have new ideas and inventions every day and seek out how to implement them or people who can make it happen. I am hopelessly attracted to innovation and deep conversation, and I am raw in my approach to others. So let's dispense with the being guarded and talk about ideas and invention!

I have been many things in my life. I'm currently a massage therapist and briefly an actor and second assistant director (whatever that is), who is sometimes a writer, and am developing a life in adventure, the arts, and activism. I'm completely guilty of doing what I love for a living, but at this point in economic history, I wouldn't mind going back to something else that pays a little better. Or creating a new medium for old theatre that would make me incredibly famous. Or working on a beet farm. Okay, maybe not the latter.

Putting ideas together. I'm told I'm a great friend and have recently started believing it, too. Totally awesome at making sense of complex things and endlessly fucking up the simple. I am also good at eating and breathing.

Eyes are so cliche, aren't they? Well, that's what people notice. I'm not sure if it's their fault for being so uncreative as to not come up with something better, or my fault for not having something better to look at.

Yes, my eyes. The nearly black pits of unadulterated soul-crushing teddy bear love. Prepare to be skelped.

I like everything, not gonna lie, but if you sat me down with The Office, a Terry Pratchett novel, Breakfast at Tiffany's to watch later, the XX playing in the background, and a platter full of tacos, you'd be my favorite person ever.

Air, food, water, and the internet. That's the four elements of life.

That leaves two more things, but I am not a greedy man. I'll give those two things to someone else so they can have 8 things they couldn't do without.

how I'm going to take over the world, and then save it, and then take it over some more.

Reading, relaxing, and preparing my being for busy weekends. I am exceedingly diurnal.

I'm an introvert. That means social situations tend to drain me rather than energize. Don't take this to mean that I don't like being out and about. I do. I just can't do it as long as others.

I'm also pretty rough around the edges. Uncouth, even, but not mean. I'm deaf, dumb, and blind to social graces, so I'll require a bit of taming when we hang out.

play D&D, read comics, and can speak of the metaphors your favorite fiction is about.

I'd like to spend my time with people who might just be as off the cuff, geeky, and intensely passionate as I am. Give me fervor, or resign me to a life of corporate accounts payable nina speaking, just a moment.

I'm really not looking for a romantic commitment. I'm slow to that kind of thing, and with events that have transpired this year, my mind is growing increasingly focused on taking care of me. What I'm really interested in is building deep, reliable, responsible friendships with people who are interested in knowing me and knowing themselves and knowing what's created whenever we're hanging around. Compliments and flirtations are nice, but I'm far more flattered and endeared by a shared existence that was brought upon by genuine mutuality instead of teased into being by seduction.

Please message me if you recognize that love is more than a social construct ignited by the paired brute forces of attraction and expectation, and that love isn't exclusive to people who are "in a relationship", and that friends are sometimes the greatest romantic loves of all.

Hi, I'm Nathan. And you just lost The Game.