What would have happened

lol, 3 reasons, ES. :p

I have enjoyed greatly reading everyone's responses in this, even though I am late in joining. :rolleyes:

Also, something to go along with what ITW said about teaching the Narnians right from wrong as they are a new country and new creatures...

in MN, after Aslan has sung and called everything into Being, and the creatures and everyone come out and respond to him:

"Narnia, Narnia, Narnia, awake. Love. Think. Speak. Be walking trees. Be talking beasts. Be divine waters."

"Hail, Aslan. We hear and obey. We are awake. We love. We think. We speak. We know."

this was said: "But, please, we don't know very much yet."

:) So indeed, Aslan telling Digory what would have happened had he erred also acted as a lesson for the Narnians, who "don't know very much yet."
 
if you know someone that has never think 'what would have happened', please, tell me to congratulate him :D

i don't know if it has some relation, but after i read all posts i remember the scene in LWW, where Aslan says to the pevensies that it didn't worth it talk about edmund's betrayal.

maybe Aslan knew if they talked about edmund, all of them could try to imagine the different end that would happen. and, after all, it would'nt change it.. or worse, it would worse the things between them. (just imagining what would have happened :D)
 
To me the explanation is that it won't do any good to know what might have been. Reason being, it won't change things. If perhaps Lucy and her sister and brothers had still been in Narnia when the telemarines first invaded, killing all their friends like Mr. Tumnus and the beavers they could have stopped it, or they could have been killed like everyone else.

In my opinion, Aslan is saying that knowing what could have happened won't change what did happen. If Lucy had been told she could have saved Mr. Tumnus if they had stayed in Narnia she would have probably felt very guilty that she couldn't save him and that might have stuck with her for the rest of her life.
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MrBob said:
When Aslan talks to Lucy, it is always about her actions. She wonders what would have happened if she had gone without her family and trumpkin, she wonders what would have happened if she hadn't eavesdropped on her friend. What Aslan is trying to impress into Lucy is that one can't know what would have been. It would drive the person crazy to know that an alternative course would have been much better.

In Digory's case, it was not actions that they were talking about but the nature of the apple. They had already been warned at the entrance of the gates of the garden about entering through the gates and not stealing of the fruit. Digory and Polly merely asked about what happens if someone does eat of it unbidden. Aslan explained why and how it would work for Jadis and that it always works that way when eaten in that way.

You can always know the nature of things and what could happen if you take a course of action, but you can never know what would have happened had you deviated from a course of action that you already took.

MrBob
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Best reply. Thanks.
 
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