Note: (added on July, 04, 2015) This video is the best description of my poem, “Brackets”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfPeprQ7oGc Watch this video and then read my poem Brackets. Then you will realize the real potential of mankind for the very nature of pursuit of education is the deletion of a bracket. However, it is ironic to observe that it is this same nature of education that also creates brackets, like destruction of a forest because mankind has learned how to create and use machines. All of this is possible since the nature of mankind is flawed and so are all of their observations and movements. There is a verse in Quran that states that mankind is created deficient. I feel that the verse is referring to this paradox.
And the video does not discuss the biggest bracket mankind have experienced, namely God. What makes me think that the observer himself/herself is altered by God? Isn’t God like that parameter that we are not able to fully see and isn’t that’s why many humans feel baffled by arguments about the existence of God?
Brackets…
Of within
and without
Of consciousness
and unconsciousness
Of the self
and the non-self
Of thoughts
and actions
Of sanity
and insanity
Of policies
and politics
Of determinism
and indeterminism
Of finite
and infinite
Of kismet
and karishma
Of the gamma
and the quark
Of the universe
and oblivion
Of known
and the unknown
There are brackets
[ ]
{ }
( )
Of varying kinds
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