21 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Genius or Fruitcake?, May 8, 2004
This review is from: Stewart Says... (Paperback)
"Stewart Says..." is a 136 page book that contains 52 short essays on various topics. The author, Stewart A. Swerdlow, covers the following topics: Angels, Anger, Art, Atlantis, Bible, Children, Colors, Communication, Crime, Crop Circles, Death, Exercise, Extraterrestrials, Family, Food, Friends/Enemies, Genetic Manipulation, Government, Happiness, Hate, Health/Illness, History, In-laws, Internet, Legal Profession, Lemuria, Love, Medical Profession, Meditation, Mind-Control & Programming, Mind-Patterns, Money, Nature, Neatness, Parents, Pets, Prayer, Protection, Religion, Responsibility, Sex, Spouses, Time, Tolerance, Travel, Truth, UFOs, Visualizations, Water, Weather, Weight, and Work.
One learns that he is a harsh critic of religions, the medical and legal professions, and encourages a non-traditional view of the family. Furthermore, he states: "Personally, I am not opposed to a single, global government. This would help dissipate wars and nationalism that breeds violence and hatred" (p. 54).
One is led to wonder what the difference is between Stewart Swerdlow and the New World Order ideology he is opposed to. Both want to normalize homosexuality, redefine the family, encourage mixed race marriages, see nothing wrong with a "One World Government," and have a revulsion to religion. I am sure there is some subtle nuance of difference, but overall, they seem more the same than different.
Although the author, to some extent, encourages people to find the truth for themselves and be free of mass-manipulation, Swerdlow finds little trouble in dictating what he thinks is true and how people should live their lives. The book is filled with the author's opinions on what he thinks is right. Because the book is full of advice, the author ends up overusing pronouns ("he/she" and "him/her"), which is annoying. If written in the plural, he would have avoided using any gender specific pronouns and still pleased the feminists that cry discrimination when only the pronoun "he" is used.
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13 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
LIFE-CHANGING INFORMATION RIGHT HERE!, May 17, 2004
By A Customer
This review is from: Stewart Says... (Paperback)
I carry this book around like a Bible it is so life-changing! Stewart makes sense in every way with his several short essays on a multitude of pertinent and very important spiritual and worldly topics. Anyone who carefully reads what he says would NOT be prejudice against alternative lifestyles because they'd know WHY these things exist. What I gleaned most from this book is it contains the answers for alot of life's puzzling questions. More importantly, Stewart always says that the answers to everything is inside yourself and to never believe anyone, including him, until you look inside yourself for the truth. I cannot say enough good things about this book because it changed my view of reality and I'm sure you'll also be changed because of it!
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Don't waste your money, September 3, 2010
This review is from: Stewart Says... (Paperback)
I ordered this and another book by him after reading Nichol's Montauk. I was expecting the same quality of information. This book is nothing short of ridiculous. He comments on EVERYTHING, not just the issues he may know something about. Even those are stated in a severely abreiveated manner that comes across as preachy. In many cases he just paraphrases the work of other people, from Edgar Cayce to Fitness guru's.
Some of his more bizarre ideas are just plain offensive. Take his comments on sex...Did you know gay men energize each other with sex while lesbians are forced to walk away unfulfilled because they don't have a man to "imprint them!! Also promiscuous women are driven mad by too much imprinting so heterosexual women who like to have a good time are also forced to suffer while men again, thrive. Not only is that very sexists but it gives me a dim view of anything else he has to say about women or sex or psychology in general. He goes on to talk about every imaginable topic admitting at times as he does with Art, that he knows nothing about them!!! He certainly is opinionated but has no more to share than you might get from the average Joe or Jane on the street... Medicine is all about money...History contains lots of lies...Fear is a bad thing....on and on it goes in mini chapters.
Mercifully each chapter of this pompous collection only requires you to endure about 2 pages. As you may guess those two pages have no footnotes or references to back them up or to give credit to sources. I don't doubt that the government did something to this man but they must have also "imprinted him" with a enormous ego to bother copyrighting this stuff and selling it for $15. He may be a guru in the UFO world but he certainly has not translated that into anything useful here, even though he peppers some of his tiny chapters with "New Age", they are all simplistic solutions you've heard before.
After reading this I regret buying not only this book but another by him that was ordered at the same time. I assume whatever he had to say has been said in an earlier book and he has not grown beyond his initial experiences enough to offer anything of value. Sometimes people make a life out of an event and hanging on to it becomes their life rather than just a part of it. I'm afraid that is what has happened here.
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