Hi ... my name is Michael. I live in Sydney - from L.A. I work with low income people. I' m a psychologist/case manager.
I had a problem with an anal person who wondered how I could be a psychologist in AU and a psychotherapist in the US... different countries.

If we're going to chat we're invevitably going to reach a point where we get into heavy subject matter - that's why I say I'm heavy. I eminate lots of gravity (not fat). I dig into discussions like my pet huntsman spider digs into his prey - remorselessly. I want to understand consciousness, the small, the ephemeral, the larger, larger, and incomprehensible. My meanderings into relationships have led me to some thoughts about them ... one is; do we continue them? To put it another way - when we have a 2 hour conversation on a topic - do we have that discussion again? I hope not, I hope we can continue from where we left off ... and build a higher or deeper chasm. Redundancy annoys me.

Things I dislike:

1. People with affectations 2. Frauds 3. People who name-drop 4. Hippies 5. People who can't hold up their end of an argument they started. 6. Chickens. 7. The masses yearning for freedom. 8. Cowardice. 9. Lack of empathy. 10. Cruelty toward the weak.

Things I like.

1. Inner Strength 2. Film/Painting/Expression 3. Cognitive Science 4. Philosophy 5. Twiddling 6. Trying new things. 7. Theme parks, people who are like kids. 8. Meditating using my own methodology. 9. Flirting ... 10. Smiles.

Working as a psychotherapist.

Done with my masters.

Doing therapy work.

Coaching kids chess (year 5,6,7)

Awaiting publication of my work... that is if the Academic plagiarists at OkStupid haven't published it first.

What an elegant concept worthy of note in the archives of debauchery: Let's let other people fill up a website with content; then let's obtain intellectual property rights over that marketing material and creative reservoir forever. Let's not recognize people who draw in new users; let's show amalgamations of images of 20 somethings making minimum and pretend they're running the website.

I'm a rated chess master ...
I paint with acrylics, I will post some pictures.

Hablando Espanol.

Being funny.
Being Naively Exploited by Glorified Nigerian Scam artists.

I can range from good looking to attractive to homily. My skin and hair can change color ... I slouch, but I look better when I stand straight. I walk like a priest. Dad says not to do that.

Dante's Inferno - Hence my nickname.
Once Upon a Time in the West
Total Recall - Phillip K Dick (others [or others'] also)
Albert Ellis' 60+ works on REBT therapy.
Chicken nuggets; if I'm in the US ... then ...
Carl's Jr (west coast people), double bacon cheeseburger ...
Taco Bell, Junk Food - recently I've only been eating slim shakes

Smashing Pumpkins

James Brown

I've been identifying more with Johnny Cash ...

Philosophy above all else, especially Wittgenstein, sedona, Beck (not the musician), Bronfenbrenner, Vygotsky, Russell, Spinoza, too many psychologists and social psychologists to name mischel, Czeksentmehi, Michael White, Dante, Hume, Descartes, Newton, Niels Bohr, all of the brave souls who went forth to reconstruct the framework of mankind's scientific legacy from burnt down buildings and ashen books left by Religious holy men.

Classical Music

Binaural Beat music, electronic music, industrial, jazz.

Too much here to discuss - I've seen every film known to man

and read most of the books in the library.

Sexual disinterest.
Taking this off. (censored)
Gatorade.
Memories of my cat tinkerbell.
Carri.

Which of the existing conceptual frameworks offers the most pragmatic explanation for consciousness; Why nature evolved self recognition; why would it be on a list of potential attributes? I could seek a hook in the forehead or a second penis but not self awareness, that's just cruel and irrational and contrary to natural common sense.

Timespace ... singularities, the edge of biopsychosociological sanity. The constant, secretly agreed upon rules of social negotiation.

Crunking with Samoan's after the NRL game.

Changing continents - I've finally gotten into cricket and ruggers.

What does the question seek? A skin disease? Ok, I had acne in my teen years. I took accutane and the side effects forced me to quit basketball.

The cysts went away though and my beautiful even toned skin went on not attracting females.

I want a loyal, long term friend.