Raphaela Cassandra:
CLASS OF 2010
St. John's CollegeClass of 2010
Annapolis, MD
Raphaela's Story
Raphaela is from Garden City, New York. Raphaela later attended Anne Arundel Community College (Mathematics) , St. John's College (Liberal Arts) . Raphaela works(ed) at United States Naval Academy, United States Naval Observatory, The Epigenesis Program.
Music Raphaela likes includes Jonathan Badger, Keb' Mo', Things 4 Strings. Books Raphaela likes include I judge you when you use poor grammar., To Kill a Mockingbird, The Phantom Tollbooth. Movies Raphaela likes include Amelie, To Kill a Mockingbird, Casablanca. TV shows Raphaela likes include Full House Reviewed, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Parks and Recreation.
One of Raphaela's favorite quotes is:""Now he knew why he loved her so. Without ever leaving the ground, she could fly."
"Oh for a life of sensations, rather than thoughts"
"Flying is the art of throwing yourself at the ground and missing"
"You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star..."
"Believing:
I'll return again,
As a snake or a raucous bird,
Or, with luck, as a lion."
"Why, what could she have done being what she is?
Was there another Troy for her to burn?"
"Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past."
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing"
There's just one thing: how can I make a compact with the earth evermore? I don't kiss the earth,...Expand for more
I don't tear open her bosom; what should I do, become a peasant or a shepherd? I keep going, and I don't know: have I gotten into stench and shame, or into light and joy? That's the whole trouble, because everything on earth is a riddle. And whenever I happened to sink into the deepest, the very deepest shame of depravity (and that's all I ever happened to do), I always read that poem about Ceres and man. Did it set me right? Never! Because I'm a Karamazov. Because when I fall into the abyss, I go straight into it, head down and heels up, and I'm even pleased that I'm falling in just such a humiliating position, and for me I find it beautiful.
Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mindbogglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as the final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God. The argument goes something like this:
"I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing."
"But," says Man, "The Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED."
"Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't thought of that," and promptly vanished in a puff of logic.
"Oh, that was easy," says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing.".
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