You could succumb, and learn to love the game.
You'd be better off to solve that problem looking up what Minecraft is instead of asking here how you can show him that you understand. Just make him ask you "What is Minecraft". Then of course you explain to him by showing him you know what it is. And of course you can always play a game of it with him.
you can get minecraft mods and textures off the minecraft mods website.
You can set TNT off in Minecraft Beta by clicking it, or by triggering it with redstone.
you can get most minecraft mods off the minecraft mods website, or you can google.
not if you download it off the minecraft site. you can get mods for it but they can be a virus if its fake, but the chance of that is slim, and theres no chance that you can get a virus off a mod on the minecraft mods website.
Minecraft is a one off €19.95 payment.
Yes, they sell it on the official Minecraft website. As long as Minecraft is a beta, it's 25 % off :)
no.
That's largely what the game was based off of!
Download it off the minecraft forums. Then drag everything in the file into the minecraft jar on winrar, or 7zip.
you buy it off of minecraft.net
it does not do that