If he's a reader, and Easton Press leatherbound edition of one of his favorite books is always a good choice.

I think you're interesting, I enjoy talking to people, and im bored.

I don't do it often, only when I misread trolling as a serious discussion 🥸...and reading is my primary hobby. I love the Horus Heresy, but I haven't read them in several years.

I mock ideas, people not so much. Unless they are assholes to someone who can't defend themselves. But yes, I do enjoy a good argument over semantics, I wouldn't have engaged with you to begin with otherwise.

This may, perhaps, merely be a semantic argument, but by definition anything mainstream, regardless of the topic, can not be occult.

Being awkward around people in social situations usually makes other people uncomfortable. If people choose to interact with me, my awkwardness is not something which is going to change, so it's something they are going to have to learn to deal with.

I don't understand it either

Indeed