Jordan Hall
Role: Tech Entrepreneur, Philosopher, Christian Convert
Location: Black Mountain, North Carolina
Background: Co-founder of DivX, Meta-crisis theorist, Game B movement participant
What Motivated His Devotion to Christ
Jordan Hall's arc toward Christianity evolved over the past few years, marked by a thoughtful shift from a secular, systems-oriented worldview to open religious commitment as a Christian. Formerly identifying as a tech pioneer, philosopher, and key figure in the Game B and "meta-crisis" discourse, Hall underwent a significant personal transformation that he publicly described as "shocking" even to himself, given his previous skepticism about religion.
His journey began not from cultural conditioning but through rigorous philosophical inquiry and mystical experience. After business failures left his family "quasi-homeless," they landed in Black Mountain, NC, where he was invited to a simple country church in Swannanoa. There he had what he describes as a "psychedelic" realization: "Holy shit, that's the thing. This is actually the thing in the right order."
What followed was an intensive research period to reconcile intellectual integrity with faith, during which he discovered his profound ignorance about core Christian concepts (faith, Trinity, crucifixion). His conversion wasn't based on cultural inheritance but on genuine seeking that led to finding.
How He's Thriving While Keeping God First
Professional Background:
- Co-founded DivX, revolutionizing online digital video
- Early employee at MP3.com, helping shape digital music distribution
- Raised over $150M for DivX, led $600M IPO
- Angel investor and technologist post-exit
- Key voice in "Game B" movement (alternative civilization models)
- Meta-crisis theorist and complex systems thinker
Current Christian Practice:
- Attends Sunday service and Wednesday house church
- Testifies openly about past experiences (psychedelics, polyamory, etc.)
- Experiences divine guidance in practical interactions
- Wife is pregnant, part of thriving family-oriented community
- Applies complex systems thinking to Christian theology and practice
Revolutionary Theological Framework: Hall has developed sophisticated models integrating network theory with Christian practice:
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Network Topology Applications: Maps the three fundamental network topologies (centralized, decentralized, distributed) onto Christian denominations - Catholics as primarily centralized (Petrine), Orthodox as decentralized (apostolic), and Protestants as distributed (Pentecostal)
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The Three Tyrannies of Modernity: Identifies chronological tyranny (Kronos time), propositional tyranny (abstract facts over lived experience), and third-person tyranny (dissociation from presence) as fundamentally "antichrist"
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Faith Redefined: "When I say faith I do not mean maximally unevidenced belief... That is a defamation. That is in fact a lie... Faith is the boundary between the unconscious and the conscious threshold when properly ordered."
Core Teachings & Insights
On the Meta-Crisis:
"Categorically the heart of the metacrisis is in fact a religious crisis... you keep going down the stack when you get to the bottom of the stack you're like oh that's actually where it is."
On Faith vs. Reason:
"Religion is not where you ask the deepest questions. It's where you participate in the deepest life, which is a deeper place than asking questions."
On Divine Guidance:
"Learn how to listen to God and do what he tells you to do... this is a categorical solution to the complexity of the meta crisis... you need infinity. But infinity is online. He wants to talk to you."
On Game B and Christianity (2025):
"Game B is just a very nerdy way of trying to get to Christianity. Game A is what we might call this world and game B is the kingdom."
On Truth and the Logos:
"The logos is that which brings together multiplicity into relationship where they come into a new form of unity... When Christ says I am the truth, one of the ways of understanding what he's saying is I am that which enables relationships of multiplicity to come together into a unity."
On Spiritual Warfare as Reality:
"Everything matters. Every choice you make, every action you take, every breath, every word is ultimately laden with consequence. It's either towards God or away from God. There is no neutral and there is no irrelevant."
On the AI Crisis:
"You will be consumed body mind and soul by AI if you are not able to cleave utterly to Christ... There is very little choice left but to fully commit yourself to discipleship."
On Strategic Action vs Divine Obedience:
"The instant, the moment that you endeavor to strategize, to plan, you insert your will for his will, then you're done... The second you imagine that you can read the tea leaves and go, 'oh, God wants me to be a pacifist, therefore I'm gonna be a pacifist,' you've already gotten off."
On Becoming God's Instrument:
"You must become the blade, not the swordsman... You must act with absolute committed integrity. You must become exactly what he is holding you into. And you must have zero will other than to do precisely, and exactly, and completely what it is he is wielding you to do."
Theological Perspectives
Participatory vs. Propositional Truth: Hall emphasizes living faith over abstract doctrine, focusing on agapic love with both horizontal (community) and vertical (divine) dimensions. He critiques the church's "propositional tyranny" and advocates for "open and convicting" rather than "open and affirming."
The Divine Economy Vision: Hall envisions a post-crisis culture where people "take their orders from God" rather than operating strategically. This approach represents the practical embodiment of authentic Christian community scaled up.
Educational Revolution: He argues education must return entirely to the church as holistic formation in communion, outlining three developmental stages (0-7: embodiment, 7-14: community formation, 14-21: vocational calling) all centered on cultivating "whole humans in right relationship with God."
Anti-Strategic Approach: Hall completely rejects strategic approaches to evangelism or cultural change, advocating only authentic witness and obedience to divine guidance: "There is no selling. Okay. Um there is only telling the truth as best you can... showing up are you try to show up as you are called by God."
On Good Faith Dialogue:
"Good faith dialogue... We are gathering together as image bearers. Our faith, our intent, our good intent, is to come into a quality of relationship that is harmonious, that is curious, that is open, but most importantly, that is well-tuned such that our relationship begins to embody itself and we can now support him, support spirit coming into us."
On Rectification of Names:
"At the beginning of the next civilizational cycle, one of the things that occurs is the restoration of meaning to words... Mythology is a kind of story where the line between the natural and the supernatural is dissolved. It's a kind of story that talks about reality in its largest sense."
On the Profanity of Modern Life:
"We are willing to trade things that are qualitatively irreplaceable in exchange for things that are quantitatively measurable... What happens in the current environment of the profane is Satan doesn't kill you. He turns it sideways. He says, you're actually going to trade life for survival."
Recent Developments (2025)
Fifth Generation Warfare Theory: Hall connects modern warfare evolution to spiritual reality, arguing that as warfare has become more sophisticated, it has become "isomorphic with spiritual warfare." The enemy operates through confusion about values and meaning rather than direct violence.
Generational Analysis: He identifies Gen X as the "Moses generation" who can see the promised land but won't enter it, while Millennials/Gen Z are the "Joshua generation" called to cross over through spiritual warfare.
Forest Landry Collaboration: Ongoing deep engagement with philosopher Forest Landry on Immanent Domain Metaphysics and its applications to understanding the Trinity, representing cutting-edge work on transcendent logic and participatory knowing.
Church as Total Institution: Hall envisions churches recovering their medieval role as governors of the commons, providing housing, economic context, and education for members in a "profound revival."
On Institutions vs Instruments vs Icons:
"An institution is something that moves into becoming an idol. It terminates on itself... An instrument sits in this middle zone... the icon is the invisible ground of orientation that allows the instrument to be and to stay an instrument. If you cleave the icon piece of it, then the instrument will collapse to become an institution."
On the Three Competing Narratives (2025): Hall identifies three primary narratives competing for the post-collapse future:
- Transhumanist/Accelerationist - "When you detach liberalism from constraint, it becomes nihilistic transhumanism... a version of Gnostic collapse."
- Ethno-Paganism - "A reassertion of a real deep commitment to the spirit, but where the spirit is ultimately the nations."
- Transcendent Spiritual - "Some universal spirit that transcends ethnic boundaries, of which there's like two. There's Allah, and there's the Trinitarian God."
On Navigating the Meta-Crisis:
"Move at the speed of the Holy Spirit. And that's it. And by the way, stuff may break. Stuff may be healed. Stuff can be created. That's irrelevant to your point of view. Move at the speed of the Holy Spirit."
Legacy & Learn More
Jordan Hall represents a unique case study in authentic intellectual conversion—approaching Christianity through rigorous philosophical inquiry rather than cultural conditioning. His combination of tech entrepreneurship, meta-crisis thinking, and genuine Christian faith makes him a distinctive voice for addressing the spiritual dimensions of civilizational challenges.
Key Contributions:
- Intellectual Integration - Demonstrates serious engagement with Christianity leading to genuine conversion
- Systems Theology - Applies complex systems thinking to Christian practice and community
- Cultural Bridge - Credibility with both secular intellectuals and religious communities
- Anti-Strategic Witness - Models authentic faith over strategic evangelism
- Prophetic Voice - Understanding digital-age challenges through Christian lens
Lasting Lesson: The meta-crisis is fundamentally a religious crisis requiring spiritual rather than technical solutions. Hall's emphasis on "participatory truth" over "propositional truth" offers a pathway for authentic Christian community in a fragmented world.
On Religion and Fruitfulness:
"Religion is the collective version of spirituality... If your church is growing, but it's losing faith in the sense that we're talking about, if the fertility of the ground for the spirit is beginning to be diluted or confused or less reliable, then your multiplying is overwhelming your fruitfulness. Center on fruitfulness."
On the Insidious Holocaust:
"I've actually called this the insidious Holocaust... I'm not going to round up your kids. I'm going to leave them where they are and I'm not going to kill them. I'm letting you do that... I'm going to inject you with a whole false image of what life is... so that you're more and more likely to trade life for the simulation of life."
On the Body of Christ:
"The task is not my faith. The task is our faith. The task is how do we become the true body of Christ?... Every person you add into the body increases the potential, decreases the actual until the actual comes back into coherence and then fills that larger body of potential, but then it can do more."
"We are reaching post literacy... A new image will emerge... We're working at something that is going to be much more like the medieval mind than it is like the modern mind."
Current Focus: Living out Christian discipleship in rural North Carolina, raising family in faith-centered community, developing practical applications of divine guidance, and bridging Game B community with authentic Christianity.