User blog comment:NovaSims/A Thought/@comment-4843137-20140212195612

I have always wondered about this since I was very young, and I have always been into philosophy of this sort. It really makes you wonder if this is real, who's pulling our strings. Maybe we're just pawns in a map game of some universe above us, whatever incomprehensible form that may take. If so, I hope it finishes, and all will be well. For more on this, read Gunpowder Empire by Harry Turtledove.