Recently, in comments on “A Note From Your Volunteer Managing Editor”, some of your fellow skeptics expressed an interest in reading more about people’s skeptical conversion stories. How did you become a skeptic? Do you have skeptical role models that helped shape your skeptical views? If you were always a skeptic, share stories of your upbringing and the influences that helped you grow up skeptical.
It’s easy for new members to get the impression that the rest of us have always been critical thinkers. The fact is that many of us had some kind of non-skeptical belief in our past. Part of my own story is included in “A Note From Your Volunteer Managing Editor” if you would like to get an idea of where I came from. With The Amazing Meeting! coming up next month, this is a good time to remember that all of us started somewhere.
I invite you to email your stories to me at maria [at] randi.org and once a week we’ll publish a new one.
Thank you and I look forward to reading your submissions.