Took a while to realize this but from reading a lot of information on this site and slowly churning and twisting it in my mind, I've come up with a scenario that makes sense to me.
We are like toy soldiers in a giant sandbox, playing away and minding our own business, unaware of the giant lurking about with his magnifying glass, waiting to melt us down to nothing.
I wish more people could see life like this. We are basically a grand experiment of the cosmos, the toy soldiers in the sandbox created by an advanced race.