The things we learned that came true.

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sambolino44@reddit

I learned from Jean-Paul Sartre that hell is other people.

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I learned from T.S. Eliot that is oneself. Hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections. There is nothing to escape from and nothing to escape to. One is always alone. Stephen King's truly terrifying short story "The Jaunt" reinforced that belief. Solitary confinement drives men mad. Imagine that forever.

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nudistinclothes@reddit

I hope you’re doing ok. I’m sorry that you’re carrying around a portable Hell. Sending love and acceptance your way

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IAmAWretchedSinner@reddit

Thank you.

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son_of_yacketycat@reddit

I've learned from just interacting with other people, especially for the past decade or so.

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sambolino44@reddit

i learned from Pat Benatar that hell is for children, BTW.

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Timesperfume@reddit

And also learned that Love is a Battlefield

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tragiquepossum@reddit

I'm going to No Exit this weekend!

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sambolino44@reddit

I wonder if the Allman brothers named their music publishing company after that play, or after a road sign.

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tragiquepossum@reddit

Not well enough acquainted with them to conjecture 🙂

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Strangewhine88@reddit

Drugs are for escaping pain. Take care of your teeth or they will go away. We did become our parents, apoarently.

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eventualguide0@reddit

Absolutely not.

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blaspheminCapn@reddit

I'm no boomer, thank you

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texas_godfather830@reddit

I learned that my Grandfather wasn’t full of it, I can actually tell if it’s going to rain or be cold by the way my knees ache!!!!

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ArsenicWallpaper99@reddit

As a migraine sufferer, I've had that skill since I was 10 years old.

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Jaralith@reddit

Mine came with Meniere's in my 30s. This is not the weather magic my YA books told me it would be...

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KgoodMIL@reddit

When I was a stupid teenager, I tried to do a parkour type jump and fell. I snapped one bone in my forearm and bent the other. I *always* know when the weather is changing now!

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rraattbbooyy@reddit

Happens to me too. Turns out small changes in air pressure that precede bad weather can affect the fluid contained inside knee joints and cause stiffness or pain.

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IAmAWretchedSinner@reddit

Roger that. My sinuses always warn me.

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QueenPeggyOlsen@reddit

Joints took on an entirely different meaning.

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tellMyBossHesWrong@reddit

We really didn’t start the fire.

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septembr12@reddit

It was Ryan. Ryan started the fire.

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eventualguide0@reddit

No, but our generation added fucking fuel to it by voting red.

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Simple-Purpose-899@reddit

I 100% did.

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tellMyBossHesWrong@reddit

I didn’t.

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eventualguide0@reddit

I didn’t either but a fuck ton of us did.

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sett7373@reddit

Sadly, two of the bands you listed didn't preach for fighting the system, Pearljam always fought for leftist causes, and so did Rage for the leftist machine, I was an Anarchist growing up and I will die a Anarchist.

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PanchamMaestro@reddit

Old man still edgelording.

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LachlanGurr@reddit

Blade runner, Terminator and Mad Max are all documentaries from the future.

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tvieno@reddit

Not a GenX movie but I think Idiocracy is a more accurate documentary from the future.

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PanchamMaestro@reddit

Idiocracy and Handmaids Tale the more accurate tellers of the present and future.

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Auferstehen78@reddit

Tried watching that yesterday it was too close to the truth I couldn't finish it.

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Cool_Dark_Place@reddit

You like money *and* sex? We should hang out!

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Suspicious-Yogurt480@reddit

That was 2006 and it was meant to be a warning I think

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LachlanGurr@reddit

Your mean the present??😂😭

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Weekly-Batman@reddit (OP)

The Road Warrior & Thunderdome shaped my view of the future - almost there? Not sure because I’ve always felt like we’re almost there but we’re not so I don’t know.

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MommaBear354@reddit

Skynet is real

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lllllllllllllllll5@reddit

And we built it.

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RolandOfGilead@reddit

All I've ever learned from love was how to shoot at someone who outdrew you.

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UncleSoOOom@reddit

There are no friendly civilians.

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Timesperfume@reddit

I learned that Donald Trump still sucks

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FecklessScribbler@reddit

Mulder was right.

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Timesperfume@reddit

He always was

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DukePooler@reddit

I learned from Eric Draven the it can't rain all the time.

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Donmexico666@reddit

google the movie Runaway with Tom selleck. very prophetic.

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scorpious09@reddit

Smoking cigarettes really were bad for you, every celebrity that got plastic surgery ended up looking worse than before, vinyl WAS the best way to listen to music

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game_over__man@reddit

This is a world destruction. Your life ain’t nothing. The human race is becoming a disgrace. The rich get richer. The poor are getting poorer. Fascist, chauvinistic government fools. -Time Zone 1984

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bodhi471@reddit

My kids just roll their eyes when I play this.

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eventualguide0@reddit

Going to put the 12” single right now.

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game_over__man@reddit

Love that 12” so much!

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HarveyMushman72@reddit

The hippyish hillbilly conspiracy theorist Silent Gen couple I rented a room from while working out of town from in the 90s were right about everything.

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WileyCoyote7@reddit

From Bill & Ted, that “All we are, is dust in the wind dude.”

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catrules618@reddit

I learned from Billy Joel that we didn't start the fire. And then a bunch of other nonsense.

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a_nona_mouse@reddit

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. Douglas Adams also XFiles taught me Trust No One

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Colorful_Wayfinder@reddit

I also learned not to trust anyone, but from the Godfather.

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themerovingian80@reddit

The internet was gonna become a thing in our lifetime.

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ohnodamo@reddit

Never trust AI!

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Sufficient_Stop8381@reddit

I wanted to see Samantha Fox’s boobies. And then I got that poster.

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DooDooCat@reddit

We didn’t need Nostradamus, we had The Simpsons

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Weekly-Batman@reddit (OP)

Agreed! It’s funny to hear people talk about the Simpsons who weren’t there for the beginning. South Park a little bit the same. It’s been a long time for people to appreciate how things hit when they did. Michael Jackson premiered videos after Simpsons!

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RealisticTear3719@reddit

I remember the Simpsons on the Tracey Ullman Show. That was a long time ago! Yikes.

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BizRec@reddit

simpsons did it.

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FM-848484@reddit

David Lee Roth taught me my teacher may try to bang me

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Designer-Mirror-7995@reddit

Monsters are real, and quite often look exactly like people you know and are "supposed to" respect and trust.

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HiWille@reddit

Trickle down doesn't fucking work.

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AnyaSatana@reddit

The only thing trickling down is warm and smells funny.

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worrymon@reddit

It didn't work in the 19th century when it was called 'horse and sparrow economics,' either.

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IntlDogOfMystery@reddit

We learned from Clive Barker that pain can be exquisite.

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Weekly-Batman@reddit (OP)

I don’t think everyone learned that one unfortunately

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sugarlump858@reddit

I learned that telenovella plots can really happen in real life.

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Weekly-Batman@reddit (OP)

True!

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sweet_ned_kromosome@reddit

Libertarianism=Bears + garbage everywhere

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Suspicious-Pea2833@reddit

Eating a whole bag of candy really does make your belly hurt.

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Lots_of_Trouble@reddit

Everybody knows the war is over Everybody knows the good guys lost Everybody knows the fight was fixed The poor stay poor, the rich get rich That's how it goes Everybody knows

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bearonpcp@reddit

Video actually did kill the Radio Star.

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tallulahtaffy@reddit

And then Tiktok killed the Video Star

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77tassells@reddit

Then it was still a hungry hungry zombie that came for everyone’s brains

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Weekly-Batman@reddit (OP)

Prophetic music, and we all knew it.

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MrDeviantish@reddit

And the keyboardist went on to big things.

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SpyCats@reddit

I learned from punk rock that the US was at risk of becoming an authoritarian fascist state.

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son_of_yacketycat@reddit

And then we were the ones that made it happen.

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SpyCats@reddit

Too many of us, yes. 😔

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Strangewhine88@reddit

In the 1980’s.

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SpyCats@reddit

Exactly. 1984 or thereabouts

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sebthelodge@reddit

Knock knock on your front door

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PoeJam@reddit

Here come the world with the look in its eye Future uncertain, but certainly slight

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Sovereigntree369@reddit

They Live is an accurate assessment of capitalism

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FakenFrugenFrokkels@reddit

Goddamn cinematic genius that movie was.

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southernrail@reddit

I learned this is your brain on drugs 🥚

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handsomeape95@reddit

Grizzly Adams did have a beard.

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Cautious_Rain2129@reddit

Experts mostly fake it.

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kckitty71@reddit

A lot of women are experts.

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Cautious_Rain2129@reddit

Touche pu pu pu pussy cat.

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kckitty71@reddit

At least you got the joke. The downvotes didn’t get it. ![gif](giphy|fH0qVzNDENc8lObHKs|downsized)

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QueenPeggyOlsen@reddit

😄 there's a difference between getting it and liking it.

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Weekly-Batman@reddit (OP)

And consultants are gravy trains

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TheHouIeigan@reddit

Public Enemy - Fight the Power!

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Mottinthesouth@reddit

Friends are forever, boyfriends come and go.

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johngreenink@reddit

I learned that there are many people and things that I miss, "Like the deserts mid the rain".

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Heated_Throw_away@reddit

Uncle Ted's Manifesto https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/6054976.Theodore_J_Kaczynski

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Weekly-Batman@reddit (OP)

I’m having too good a time tonight to click on the unabombers manifesto but I definitely appreciate this response and will check this out in due time!

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worrymon@reddit

How about [Uncle Charile and his dog Teddy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqdDgQhjoe8)?

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godleymama@reddit

My mom was right about EVERYTHING!!!

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Peace_Love_Karma@reddit

Jimi Hendrix was right. Maniac Depression really is a frustrating mess.

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Appropriatelylazy@reddit

I learned from William Gibson that the world has turned in much different directions than we envisioned, and the only sane response is intense and purposeful attention to the details.

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Weekly-Batman@reddit (OP)

Words that have been prescient since the early 90’s personally, that’s when the world turned for me. Still hasn’t turned back.

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