Tinnitus Support Group

Thank you very much. I found some very interesting articles.

Sue

OMG, you’re worse than a used car salesman Dainis. Why not just say you’re handing out the key for a free test drive and when you’re done we can talk about membership? Some of the BS you say on your site baffle me. To paraphrase you, you say you’re appalled to have spent time with a person suffering with tinnitus due to the lack of interest and time they spend at your site if they’re there for a free ride, as apposed to those who pay your monthly fee. You also prefix this statement with another line of BS that states “…..a fair financial exchange is very healthy for a person with tinnitus.” Hell, it sounds like one of the promises that come with tithing Father Dainis. I was here when you were a regular at DS then bid your farewell to help other fellow T suffers. I don’t think you’ve ever had tinnitus. I think you used us and this site to build a marketing model from the start of your DS membership until the time you left. If you were a T sufferer you’d know how difficult it is for some of us to focus and/or concentrate for long periods of time. To segregate the freeloaders from the paying customers along with your other statement says it all. It’s dripping with the subliminal message that if you want to be healed -- pay me. Where you lose all credibility Father Dainis is with your Urine Therapy Community website. It proves you’ll fake any ailment, make any promise and say/do whatever it takes to pick the pockets of people in need. I wonder how may urine therapy sites you were a member of before you bid farewell to them. You’re a parasite Father Dainis except you prey on the sick rather than on little children. I’ve posted a link to your Urine Therapy link below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpdD...

Now I hope that nailed the coffin shut for good S.

I am with you Seattlelite. I think you are right, and it is a sad thing that someone would take a site like this, and use it for his own gains.

. This is a rip off scam.

You are welcome to post your questions and tinnitus situations for discussion on our 22nd Cure Tinnitus Show tomorrow. The link is here:

http://www.curetinnitus.org/cure-ti...

For people taking the "advice" of anonymous web posters, I'd like to remind you that my business phone number is available at CureTinnitus.org. It is 317 713 1177, that's the same 24/7 line I use for our tinnitus question line.

Also, I'm the only Dainis W. Michel on this little green earth of ours. Other tinnitus authors use pseudonyms. I don't.

Seattlelite's post is basically one fallacy after the other. There really has been a technical glitch because of which I've had to make the whole site public temporarily.

Here is a bit of my tech support process:


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Art: Hello. How can I help?
you: hey,
you: just got this from a WP plugin tech support crew
you: Hello Dainis, The issue on your host is very unique, I tried adding some paramater to your php.ini but seem you host do not accept custom php.ini please kindly ask you host how we can add following line to your host php.ini cgi.force_redirect = 0 cgi.fix_pathinfo = 1 We should see the result in http://www.curetinnitus.org/phpinfo... Please update me the result. One more question do you have another WLM on your other sites on SAME host? if so how they work? and what is the WLM version? Thank you Andy
Art: Here's an article that will allow you to create your own php.ini file and make changes to it:
Art: http://wiki.dreamhost.com/PHP.ini
you: so, can what they've asked me to do be done?
you: what are the consequences?
you: why isn't it "already" that way?
you: and can you just do it for me now?
Art: We have a standard php.ini file we use for all our customers. So we don't allow our customers to change that file. But we do allow our customers to create their own and customize the one they create.
Art: Because it's a custom job, we don't get involved.
you: Is the change WLMember is advocating even necessary, and why would it be?
you: Why would it keep their plugin from working?
Art: The customization they require is not something we allow system wide. But you can use it for your own space.
you: what does it do?
Art: does some sorting of your paths used by the plugin from what I'm reading.
you: sounds unpredictable
you: and the plugin worked b4
you: what do you suggest i do?
Art: Send them this article:
Art: http://wiki.dreamhost.com/PHP.ini
Art: And they can customize the php.ini file the way they want it
you: does it have to be for all of my domains?
you: and also...can it be for all of my domains, since most of my sites use this plugin
you: so a) how2 for just one domain
you: and b) how2 for my whole PS
you: and c) is this a set it and forget it thing, or will this turn into some kind of nightmare?
Art: a) one domain = http://wiki.dreamhost.com/PHP.ini
you: k
Art: b) whole ps = add an admin user, set the php.ini config to unmanaged, then edit /etc/php5/php.ini or /etc/php5/cgi/php.ini
Art: c) it's mostly set and forget, but if a new version of PHP is rolled out, it may break some things (just as is always true with custom config's)
you: cool!
you: ok
you: so when a new version of PHP comes out, then i have to watch out for this again...or i may need to...
Art: Correct.
Art: But it could be some time before php6 is launched.
you: and DH does not "automatically" upgrade PHP right?
you: It'll be like "a thing" and I'd have to go in and upgrade and la la and yada yadah right?
Art: We give our customers a couple weeks.
Art: at the least a couple weeks warning.
you: ahh
you: so you do upgrade automatically?
you: anyway, likely the plugin won't need any customization of php.ini by that time...they're smart folks and a good team...
you: but you do auto-upgrade?
Art: not instantly.
Art: We wait a couple weeks.
you: ok thanks
Art: A few weeks after the release actually.
you: any last things you want me to know?
Art: To make sure it's stable on our network.
you: k

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Seattlelite: Yes, it is appalling when people send me messages pleading to be "let in" to CureTinnitus.org and when I do, they don't use the resources at all. My actual policy is, if anyone asks, I always say yes. I can't actually "deal with" the possibility of neglecting any sincere person who desires help.

Yet offering that help comes at a GREAT cost. If you think a service like CureTinnitus.org can be operated for a dollar a month, then please, do so. Create a better site and make it free. Free free free free. Maybe you'll succeed. Let us all know your name, gather people who've cured themselves, fly around the world, spend spend spend spend and ask for nothing in return...maybe you'll do better than I did. I couldn't do all that and ask for nothing in return…I literally ran out of money while on my "quest" to heal from tinnitus…and I honestly do feel it is therapeutically valuable to pay for the help you need to get better.

Would you let us know your real name Seattlelite?

For you to not think I ever had tinnitus...well...it indicates that you may be suffering from paranoia. It's OK if you are. Tinnitus and paranoia can be linked. We were planning to do a segment on it at CureTinnitus.org. From what I'm reading, I recommend you get the psychotherapeutic help you need to come out of a paranoid state of anxiety, lack of concentration, and overwhelm...and into a state of well being. It really is a helpful and friendly process.

I intentionally don't recommend urine therapy at curetinnitus.org for a reason. I feel it would lessen my ability to help people with tinnitus. Urine therapy isn't "necessary" to first manage, then get better from tinnitus. However, regarding urine therapy itself, I can say, "good enough for Mahatma Gandhi, good enough for me."

Regarding CureTinnitus.org, can you justify calling something that costs one dollar for the first month...and you can even get a refund of that dollar...a rip off scam? Can you explain your reasoning behind that?

Members allow their membership dues to process only if they are completely happy with what you've received. Period.

Does that sound like a scam? Any medications out there have a money back guarantee? Any doctors or ENT visits allow you to pay $1 now and if you're not happy, you get your dollar back?

You and anyone else can read whatever you want into my past, my intentions, you can question whether I ever had tinnitus, you can equate me to a used car salesperson, and "worse" if you like. (BTW that's actually pretty mean to anyone who may be a used car salesperson).

However, the integrity of what I've put together at CureTinnitus.org stands for itself. Instead of studying illness, I studied and researched health. I found and interviewed people who've healed themselves and I found and interviewed the therapists who've helped their patients heal themselves.

That just makes well...good old fashioned sense.

And good old fashioned "good sense" happens to be very scientific because it follows "what works."

Now, I guess I still "bother" with answering these kinds of posts…which I have avoided for a while…and well…tadaaa…why don't I come around here anymore?

Anyway, if you check this out:
http://www.curetinnitus.org/the-ame...

…I mean…is there even a whiff of scam there? Even the faintest little odor of scam? What you see there is an ongoing re-write of the Roadmap to a Cure presented by the American Tinnitus Association. Likely, within a year or two, we will have our own roadmap which the ATA can review and test, if they like…

and this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-R5Z... I mean, honestly, is there anything but sincerity, honesty, integrity, and kindness there?

I meditate and pray regularly and place a lot of worth on cultivating an excellent character. For me the definition of integrity is: consistent honesty and kindness.

What are your life values? I am living them here, in public, with my real name. Are you?

If you have any tinnitus related issues or questions and can get them in before we run our show tomorrow, feel free to post here:

http://www.curetinnitus.org/cure-ti...

Best,
Dainis

actually, there was one person i said no to who requested access to CureTinnitus.org, he wrote a letter about how expensive private school was for his 3 daughters, his house, his car, his wife's spending, etc., and I was running a special for 1 cent for the first month and $17 per month thereafter. thousands spent on "everyone else," and he couldn't spend one cent for the first month. i did say no to that person.

Mmmmm Dainis, your rambling post reads like you’re suffering from schizophrenia. Thanks for your Dr. Phil diagnoses but I’ll pass on your intentional plug for the site. lol – you just can’t stop selling can you.

My mention and post to the link of your urine therapy site had nothing to do with your tinnitus site, but had everything to do with your integrity.

As for my name? There’s only one Seattleite "on this little green earth of ours."

hmmm: let's go further, why do you find that my post reads like I'm suffering from schizophrenia?

You mention Dr. Phil, is he suffering from schizophrenia too...or just me? What reasons would you offer?

My reasons for mentioning paranoia in your case are 1) you mention that you don't think I ever had tinnitus 2) you use projections and unverified assumptions as if they were fact 3) you name call and define "others" (me) without allowing me to define myself (leading to name calling and verbal abuse) 4) you equate sound experience with "sales techniques" and talk about "subliminal messages" in my communications

... and there are likely other reasons ...

Just one of those, like you thinking I never had tinnitus, is enough to urge you to get psychological help. In this case, the objective reality is different from your perceived reality.

Your reasoning "If you were a T sufferer you’d know how difficult it is for some of us to focus and/or concentrate for long periods of time" basically says "if you really had tinnitus, you'd do what I think you'd do, and since you're not doing what I would do, you could not have had tinnitus."

Take some time examining that logic. It isn't sound. Examine it from other levels like the emotional level. Is it true that people respond to the same event in the same way?

Odd in a way, maybe because I have so little tinnitus left, and because I'm not suffering at all with the condition anymore, and because I have no concentration issues at all...maybe that leads me to be a bit more clear regarding what people with tinnitus would do well to investigate, but really, you are speaking for me...and you aren't "me."

We could go on, but those are some of the reasons I mention paranoia as useful to alleviate in your situation.

That's a bit on "what's wrong," and what's right is actually pretty simple. It's a state of well being. Enter into well being and your tinnitus will diminish.

Tell me about your sense of integrity and how my urine therapy website violates it. Does that mean that Mahatma Gandhi lacked integrity?

As for there only being one Seattleite on earth, I went ahead and googled Seattleite and found: http://www.urbandictionary.com/defi...

Are you saying that you are the only person living in Seattle? That I can look up your phone number with that name?

ok...so obviously Seattleite is a web tag, you aren't the only Seattleite on earth, and I am up front and honest, and I've exposed areas where you would do very well to get appropriate therapy.

That's what members at CureTinnitus.org do. They get appropriate help including body-based and mental/emotional counseling/psychotherapy. They get better because they get the help they need. They learn from people who've already healed themselves, and that makes sense.

So again, tell me about your sense of integrity. What does integrity include?

Examine. Allow yourself to filter what's right and wrong, what is a projection and a false assumption, and what is true...allow yourself to let others speak for themselves and learn about them first before condemning and judging...try investigating things before discarding them...these kinds of things...healthy things...healthy thoughts...healthy actions...maybe try them on for size...see how they feel...

I’ve been around salesman all my life Dainis. It runs deep in family and friends so I know how the game is played. I won’t be put on the defensive and digress. You can call me paranoid; you can rant; you can challenge me to your hearts content. I’m comfortable with who and what I am and, unlike you, don’t feel the need to defend myself. I did what I thought was right and that was to warn others. My warning stands. We try to take care of one another here and I really don’t give a hoot what you think.

As for googling Seattleite. Really Dainis? It took an urban dictionary for you to figure out what a Seattleite is? Lol….

This is my last response.