Actually not all that much will happen to Opus Dei in Belgium. It is a public secret that the Belgian Royal family is a member of Opus Dei. Films have been made and books have been written about this "secret", all very interesting.
To make a long story short; because of the strong historic links between the monarchy and the high ranked courts (aristocratic past etc.) the prosecution or whatever of such an organization would be highly unlikely. They'll put it on some kind of list, but they'll never touch the actual religious group.
However this is not the case with the CoS. I hope they proceed with this thing, cause this is absolutely not a regular religious group.
Ermm... i think you need to read the comment you were replying to again.
Scientology never claimed 10 million members, Belgium has a population of 10 million.
Give this man some Foucault so he can understand what discourse means. At the same time he might be helped with Kuhn too, the man who defined the paradigm in scientific revolutions.
He needs to understand that without a the dichotomic thinking process, there wouldn't be much science to talk about at all.
That does seem to be a problem with native French-speakers.
I made an anonymous comment earlier about DrDitto's travel experience (haden't signed up for an account yet).
I live in the Flemish part of Belgium. I'm 27 years old now. We were forced to learn French at age 10.
Back then there was no such thing on the other side of the country. Things have changed a bit now. Allthough a French speaking person is not likely (as in 99%) to speak Dutch when he is in a Flemish part of the country or in the company of a Dutch speaking person.
As far as I can tell there is only one active Belgian politician who speaks very good Dutch. The other ones do speak the language, or at least understand it, but not what you would call decent.
All this just to say that French-speakers are not likely to speak another language. Why? I guess they do still feel superior, since it was the language of aristocratic Europe for centuries.
You could however say the same thing about English. How many Americans or Britts speak a second language in a decent fashion? English isn't the dominant language in the world, but still i'm doing my best to type this in English...
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Actually not all that much will happen to Opus Dei in Belgium. It is a public secret that the Belgian Royal family is a member of Opus Dei. Films have been made and books have been written about this "secret", all very interesting. To make a long story short; because of the strong historic links between the monarchy and the high ranked courts (aristocratic past etc.) the prosecution or whatever of such an organization would be highly unlikely. They'll put it on some kind of list, but they'll never touch the actual religious group. However this is not the case with the CoS. I hope they proceed with this thing, cause this is absolutely not a regular religious group.
Ermm ... i think you need to read the comment you were replying to again.
Scientology never claimed 10 million members, Belgium has a population of 10 million.
Give this man some Foucault so he can understand what discourse means. At the same time he might be helped with Kuhn too, the man who defined the paradigm in scientific revolutions. He needs to understand that without a the dichotomic thinking process, there wouldn't be much science to talk about at all.
That does seem to be a problem with native French-speakers. I made an anonymous comment earlier about DrDitto's travel experience (haden't signed up for an account yet). I live in the Flemish part of Belgium. I'm 27 years old now. We were forced to learn French at age 10. Back then there was no such thing on the other side of the country. Things have changed a bit now. Allthough a French speaking person is not likely (as in 99%) to speak Dutch when he is in a Flemish part of the country or in the company of a Dutch speaking person. As far as I can tell there is only one active Belgian politician who speaks very good Dutch. The other ones do speak the language, or at least understand it, but not what you would call decent. All this just to say that French-speakers are not likely to speak another language. Why? I guess they do still feel superior, since it was the language of aristocratic Europe for centuries. You could however say the same thing about English. How many Americans or Britts speak a second language in a decent fashion? English isn't the dominant language in the world, but still i'm doing my best to type this in English ...