ps: i agree completely about tom cruise. there's a scientology place near my college, they have a thing where outside their shopfront (and it's definitely a shop rather than anything even remotely spiritual), they have a big advert going "FREE STRESS TEST!!!" and they invite you to come in for this test, and presumably they find that everyone is pretty stressed (this is central london, it goes without saying!), and hey presto, they have the miracle cure which involves a chat, a conversion and a large *ahem* "donation".

most of me finds this quite repellent, but every time i walk past (6 times a week, minimum, to and from lectures at uni), a little part of me would *love* to sit down and say "ok, give me the stress test" and then proceed to explain i'm bipolar and so on and ask them how they can justify not believing in mental health issues or psychiatry. i'm pretty sure i could verbally out do them - i'm pretty good at stating my case in a debate - and it wouldn't be an argument, i'd not let my anger get the better of me and would just quietly and firmly wreck all their stupid ideas. well, in theory, anyway - more likely i'd get really angry and yell at them. but...

i'm very very tempted....