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Rat Race (2001)
IMDB rating: 6.30
Plot: A group of billionaires led by a Las Vegas casino owner (John Cleese) search for things to bet on. They decide to pull a group of six strangers together to race from Vegas to Silver City, New Mexico to retrieve $2 million hidden in a locker. First one there gets all of the money. The first team are two addled brothers (Seth Green and Vince Vieluf, who talks indecipherably because of a newly pierced tongue). When they cannot catch a plane, they plot to destroy an airport control tower in a very funny sequence. Their antics carry them into a hot air balloon chase that catches a cow with a dangling rope and into a monster truck competition. The second team is an estranged mother (Whoopi Goldberg) reunited with her daughter (Lanai Chapman), who is struggling to start a business. They face an insane squirrel-selling woman (Kathy Bates) and steal a rocket car scheduled for a land speed record attempt. A hated NFL referee (Cuba Gooding, Jr.) is stranded in the desert by an irate cabbie (Paul Rodriguez) and hijacks a busload of Lucille Ball look-alikes on the way to a convention. The Jewish family man (Jon Lovitz) on a family vacation joins the race without telling his wife (Kathy Najimy) why they are rushing across the country. When his daughter insists on stopping at a Barbie museum, it is without realization that it is the Klaus Barbie Nazi Museum. The escape from that location involves the theft of Hitler’s personal touring car and culminates with Lovitz having his tongue burned and accidentally crashing into a WWII Veteran’s convention. A narcoleptic Italian (Rowan Atkinson in his best Mr. Bean-like manner) gets a ride with an ambulance driver (Wayne Knight), who is carting a human heart for a transplant. Through various ineptitude, the heart ends up flying out of the truck’s window and the two have to recover it from a playful dog. The final race member (Breckin Meyer) is a straight-laced future lawyer who at first declines to participate in the race, but re-thinks his position after he meets a smart, beautiful woman (Amy Smart) who is flying a helicopter to New Mexico. He quickly finds out that she is unbalanced after she flies over her boy friend’s house and starts an attack on the boy friend when she sees him in the pool with an ex-girl friend. An air pursuit results in the crash of the helicopter. Dave Thomas also appears as Cleese’s humorless attorney.
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Directors: Zucker Jerry
Actors: Cleese John,Atkinson Rowan,Meyer Breckin,Smart Amy,Gooding Jr. Cuba,Haase Douglas,Myers Chris,Frazier Kevin,Green Seth,Vieluf Vince,Comedy,Adventure,
Christians, if you view life with jesus as true living, and more important than the physical life on earth?
Why do you even bother falling in love, having kids, going to school, working, travelling etc?
From what i’ve heard from christians, some have chosen god over their husbands, some have said if they ever had to make the choice that god/jesus would come before children, that life on earth is nothing compared to being in heaven etc.
So why do you bother doing what everyone else in the rat race is doing? As an atheist, (contrary to what you say) i actually see value in life on earth, because i see it as the only one we have. That is why like every other human being i strive to do as much, and experience as much as i can before i die.
But you put so little important on your earthly lives, i don’t understand why you don’t just sit in some cave and wait out your life till Jesus comes to save you, and let the rest of us get on with doing what is most important.
And as some of you like to end your posts with - no offence, god loves you.
I’m not one of those Christians that views life with Jesus as ‘true living’ in the manner you put it. I view being a Christian as one of the many fufilling aspects of my life.
Being a mother fufills the part of my life that wants to give love and wisdom to a future generation. Being a wife fufills the part of my life that aches for romantic human contact. Being a friend to as many people as possible fufills the part of my life that needs general human contact, levity, sharing, learning, etc etc.
I bother doing all of these things because they make me happy, and as you said, this is the only shot I have at this on this earth assuming reincarnation does not exist. I’m not sure why any Christian would sit in a cave and wait for their death when they have been given the glorious gift of life, and an opportunity to participate in it.
A Christian is called on to spread love, peace, mercy, and compassion with the rest of the world. And, if they just so happen to turn a few hearts towards love, peace, and mercy that is just an extra bonus. That’s not to say convert people and make everyone believe in God come hell or high water should be the be all end all of their existence, but they should participate and show appreciation for the life they have been given.
There is limitless value in my life, and the life of everyone else on this planet. It’s up to us to use it wisely.
U Shoulda bought a Fern instead | Jan 28, 2010
Because we are commanded in scripture to share God’s love with others. Did you know that God loves you and wants to be in communion with you? Just respond to God’s calling on your life and submit yourself to a life with Christ.
MDW | Jan 28, 2010
You have got this so wrong.
When we come to be redeemed by Christ, we live a fuller life than we could ever do without Him
When we say that we put Christ first, we don’t mean that we should love our spouses/family any LESS.
The Holy Spirit inside us, show us what it means TO love. A love that those who aren’t redeemed, can never know.
Our lives are fuller, because we have freely admitted that we cannot live the kind of lives that God wants us to live by ourselves.
THROUGH CHRIST-we CAN be all that God wants us to be-with family, with friends, with life.
Preacher's Neice | Jan 28, 2010
What an interesting question. You have a point to what you say and even I could never put God before my family. It is impossible for me to put God before my family because I don’t see him everyday like I do my family. He doesn’t speak to me, he doesn’t embrace me or say I love you. He doesn’t say that he’s proud of my accomplishments or that I did the right thing. My family does that, my parents especially. It’s difficult to put God in front of my family because I don’t know if he exists anymore.
Luna Winter | Jan 28, 2010
There is a huge contradiction in your statements…read them, think it through, figure it out, look at yourself in the mirror, and tell yourself again that youre a "smart atheist" like all atheists do.
clumsystuntmonkey | Jan 28, 2010
Simply put, we believe that the afterlife is our final destination of our journey of life, and others choose not to believe in a superior being and Heaven. We live in the world but not of it..
If you were an atheist, you would not need to question why Christians do things or not. God bless
bbq | Jan 28, 2010
Ah, this kind of question is a rare gem on Y!A
I’m atheist so I agree with your points completely. I have asked a similar question (though not so eloquently) to my Catholic friend. She responded (as far as I can remember) that she lived to do God’s work and make Him happy. And yes, she was the type to put God before her family, her lover, friends, etc. She told me that God would be happy as long as she was happy, and that for her to be happy she would live life loving, working at her dream career, seeing the world, etc.
Of course the problem with that was, I didn’t understand how she knew what God wanted - seeing as how she never talked with God (she never had any of those experiences others claim to have about talking with God and hearing him) But that’s another topic entirely.
Maui | Jan 28, 2010
because having all those things, kids, family, work etc are all part of life. they are to be enjoyed and savoured! life is for living-not just for waiting…
its called kingdom tension(theologically speaking) its the tension of wanting to be on earth and experience all that life brings and wanting to see God face to face and experience all that heaven will bring.
i dont really know what to say about christians you have spoken to and have chosen God over their spouses…relationships are deeply & spiritually linked. i have heard of a family who were missionaries in sudan. the parents were told to renounce their faith or they would shot their youngest son…they didnt and they lost their son. i would hate to be in a position like that but I do understand that faith is something that has personal depth and most def that family would of felt that loss but they made a choice to keep with their convictions. people make choices all the time, that relfect what they believe, not all think they are going to heaven though when they make that choice…
tayto | Jan 28, 2010
because God loves you and we love you. Jesus left us here as a light to the world. Please give it a thought! You were not born with these lusts that you very much crave and as it came, one day you will loose them. Why are you willing to perish forever for worldly pleasures?
Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us. (Isaiah 30:11)
My Answer | Jan 28, 2010
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