Was a member of the skeptics society?
Why was?
Skeptical of their beliefs?
I can tell you in good faith that I've seen and personally experienced shit that does not logically make sense.
Fuck the emotional crap that many seek to attach to it, analyse it upon a fact basis and if you, particularly after speaking to others, are unable to rationalise it,...
No being a member amounted to just paying for and receiving their publications which I simply stopped doing not because of any reason other than it was time to move on to my next obsession. Same as I will be moving on from here at seasons end.
Their basic philosophy is that unless anything can be proven by science then they don't believe. In other words science is god.
They had and still have an offer of around $100,000 I believe to any mind reader, fortune teller etc whose claims can be independently proven in a scientific test etc.
That money has never been able to be claimed to date for decades.
Funny how the people who can tell the future are not winning lotto each week etc but still need to charge you a fee for their service.
I also studied Astronomy at the Sydney Observatory and have a good understanding of the chances of making contact with intelligent species from another solar system/ galaxy are extremely thin due to the vast distances between them.
Also SETI projects have been ongoing since the 70's and have yet to pick up any proven signals etc from another species.
I'm not saying there is no other intelligent species in this universe or other possible multiple universes I just don't believe that Area 51 has UFO's or aliens hidden there or that people have made contact or an actual UFO has landed/crashed and has been recovered on Earth and will not believe until it can be proven scientifically .