Tobias Petrus

About me

Gender	Male
Industry	Education
Location	Ithaca, New York, United States
Introduction	Midwesterner. Went to Marquette University (Go Warriors!) in Milwaukee, WI. Traditionalist Catholic.
Interests	Classics, religion, music, history, the Black Hawk War, Sen. Joe McCarthy, Father Leonard Feeney and the dogma "Outside the Church there is No Salvation, trends in American conservatism, Freemasonry, Judaism, conspiracy theories, trivia, the Sisyphean task of turning Wikipedia into a traditionalist Catholic website one edit at a time . . .
Favorite Movies	Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet, A Man for All Seasons, The Exorcist, Psycho, Taxi Driver, Paths of Glory, American Movie (some of these are for mature audiences only!)
Favorite Music	Beethoven's 9th Symphony, Holy God We Praise thy Name, Lo How a Rose E'er Blooming, bluegrass, Stephen Foster's songs, a bunch of music my traditionalist Catholic confreres would mock me for liking . . .
Favorite Books	The Little Prince, Moby Dick, Catullus (parts thereof), Crime and Punishment, the Aeneid, the Iliad . . . so many more

The squish of mud between your toes; how would you live your life as a frog?

If Siddhartha Gautama really isn't the "enlightened one," should we still be calling the guy "Buddha"?