[Host's Note: Lynette, you've hit right on the essential contradiction...
"Empowered" means you have the power, not me.
If I can empower you, then I can take it away and you are not "empowered."
Thus, the usual use, "I empower you to..." has a built-in contradiction.
...Rick]
--lrussell@baraboo.com (Lynette Russell)
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