User:Basjoosten

I've used Wikipedia for quite some time now and made minor anonymous changes in the past. In my opinion, participating in talk pages should not be done anonymously. This is why I decided to make an account (in order to participate in talk pages).

About me
I'm male, live in Enschede, the Netherlands. I am born in 1985. I'm a student of physics. As a student I am interested in science, mathematics, algorithms. In my free time I fancy climbing, theater and some kinds of music. Feel free to contact me

My point of view
It is concidered good Wiki-practice to have a neutral point of view (NPOV) in articles. For some articles, what a NPOV is, will depend on the author. If I find out I have a certain point of view on something, knowing this will help me write my articles in a more neutral point of view. I might even decide not to edit an article because I feel like I am too biased. For you, knowing my point of view might help to understand, interpret and correct my articles. If you think I have a certain point of view on something that I am not aware of, be bold and add it using 3rd person form (i.e. 'Bas Joosten thinks ..' instead of 'I think ..').


 * I think science gives us a way to predict some future events based on past experiments (for example: the car will only start if I turn the key, or the sun will rise tomorrow) but science cannot tell us more than that (forces, additions, chemical reactions: they are models of reality, pieces of imagination, that happen to do a more than sufficient job in predicting the future)
 * I believe in free will: science can never predict what people will do with 100% certainty.
 * Patience, Honisty and 'be&iuml;ng nice' are the most important values
 * I believe in one God. I choose to use the Bible as a guide, rather than the Koran or the Torah, making me a Christian. I like most Catholic buildings and many Catholic traditions (making me more of a Catholic than a Protestant)
 * I believe in Logic: if I think something will lead to something else, and I see the something, I will conclude the something else.
 * Only if the government takes good care of it's people, the people will feel safe enough to stimulate the economy (giving me a left-centered opinion)
 * I totally dislike dance/trance music because I do not value repeating measures over and over again

I have a point of view on many subjects. If you feel uncertain about the objectivity of one of the articles I wrote or edited, please feel free to contact me. --Basjoosten 10:21, 1 February 2006 (UTC)